VIEWS OF LOUISIANA., 
MINDA WAR-GASTON, 
The only Sioux band which attends to the cultivation of the 
earth ; but this not to any great extent. They live on the Mis¬ 
sissippi above the river St. Peters. Their country is represent¬ 
ed as tolerably fertile, and well watered. 
WAH-FA-COO-LA, 
On the S. W. side of the river St. Peters, from a place cal¬ 
led Hardwood, to the Yellow Medicine river, some traffic with 
the Yanktons and Tetons west of them 
SESSATONE, 
On the upper part of Red river and the St. Peters. This 
country abounds with small lakes, and is valuable for animals, 
beaver, otter, muskrat, martin, &c. They meet the Tetons, &c. 
on the riviere a Jaque, about the months of May and June to trade. 
They supply the Yanktons with articles of European manufac¬ 
ture, and receive in return, horses, &c. 
TETONS, BOIS BRULE, ARKANDADA, MINI KlNIAD-ZA, SA HONE. 
These are the pirates or marauders of the Missouri, their 
country without timber, and not good for hunting, except as to 
the buffaloe, they have therefore hardly any thing but buffaloe 
robes to trade. 
The Sioux bands claim as follows; « beginning at the conflu¬ 
ence of the riviere des Moines and the Mississippi, thence to the 
river St. Peters, thence on both sides of the Mississippi to Crow 
Wing river, and upwards with that stream, including the waters 
of the upper part of Red river of lake Winipec, and down to 
the Pemberton river; thence a 3 W. course to intersect the 
Missouri, at or near the Mandans,and with that stream, down to 
the Warricon river, thence, crossing the Missouri, it goes to in¬ 
clude the lower part of the Chienne river, all the waters of 
White river, and Teton river, including the lower portion of the 
Qui Courre, and returns with that stream downward to the Mis¬ 
souri, thence eastward to the beginning.” 
