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SIOUX INDIANS KILLED. 



expressed an opinion, that a Catholic could not 

 be present, even as a witness, " sine culpa" * 

 when I performed the marriage ceremony, 

 " inter Catholicos et Hcereticos."^ 



The locusts which had begun the work of 

 destruction at my leaving the Colony for York 

 Factory, had completely destroyed the crops ; 

 and during my absence, a party of Sioux 

 Indians, came to Fort Douglas, in expectation, 

 it was said, of receiving presents from the 

 stores. It was thought advisable to promise 

 them some goods, on their returning peaceably 

 to their own country, and they manifested no 

 other than a peaceable disposition to all parties. 

 The Saulteaux Indians, however, of Red River, 

 between whom and the Sioux nation, a hostile 

 feeling has existed from time immemorial, 

 became very irritable; and a small party of 

 them fired upon a straggling party of the 

 Sioux, in a garden on the Point below the 

 Colony Fort ; they killed two, and wounded a 

 third ; and fled with such precipitation by 

 swimming the river, and running through the 

 willows, as to escape the vengeance, and 

 almost the view of those who survived. It is 



* Without blame. 



t Between Catholics and Heritics. 



