Dakota tawaxitku kin, or, The Dakota friend. [volume], December 01, 1850, Image 3

About Dakota tawaxitku kin, or, The Dakota friend. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1850-1852

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ehantauhan tarinca 1 (JO opawingu sanpawi
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i \n\n Rev. E. D. Neill, of St. Paul, will re
ceive' subscriptions and payments for the
Dakota Friend.
(cpr The Dakota and Knglish reading, on
the inside of the present number will be found
on opposite pages. Those articles which
are the same in substance in both languages,
may be recognized by the character which
stands at the head. 1
A Word to the Sympathetic.
The Dakota Friend has struggled thro' its
natal agonies, a 1
iving ihfant. 11 is thought by
some, to be a premature birth. He this
as it may, it has an unmistakable liv
ing existence. Many have looked into its
face, and can testily that it breathes. We
indulge the faint hope that it may survive the
infantine state, and gruic up to youth, and
even manhood. Let its mixed nature not
excite againstdts innocent self, the withering
prejudice of tliiose who have been favored
with a higher parentage. The meaner it is,
so much the more it needs the aid of the ele
vating influence of the more noble. It is but
half civilized. Who can tell, but that with
|)ro[er_treatment and such assistance as it
mav receive from the kind hearted coinmu
jnity, it will increase and at no distant period,
ibecome a "strong man armed" to do suc
cessful battle for humanity and religion.—
(.Alexander once lay helpless in his mother's
[arms. The mighty oak, is in the acorn.
Will the friends of the Dakota Friend in
dulge, and nurture it for the present
lis is all we ask—this we expect. As for
|us, our eyes fill with tears while we gaze, in
almost an agony of anxiety upon the -Dakota
[Friend. What will bo its destiny !.
In embarking in. this enterprise, we have
struck out into the deep, altogether uncer
tain whether we "sink or swim,"' so far as
kpends upon our own abilities, but confi
lent that liod, (if this little paper is nece-s^
v to the accomplishment of his merciful
iHirposes towards the benighted Dakotas.)
ifrnot suffer the friends of civilization, of
vood morals, and of religion, to look on with
fold indifference while we struggle, and per
ils sink..
W ill flot Sabbath School children love to
•ok once a month, at this half-civil, half-sav
ge Dakota Taicaxitkin Kin.
i: Provisions for tlrwaka.ntois^ an",
Some of the bands ofthe Mdewakantomvan
Iribe of Dakotas, who plant on the .Minneso
ta river bottom near its iftouth, lost their crops
pv the Hoods of last summer. Through the
iindness of the agents of their Great Father,
•he President, they have been furnished with
5 000 worth of pork, flour, and corn, which.
rether with the proceeds of their hunts,
ill subsist them comfortably through the
vinter. Without this timely aid, many of
Ihem would have suffered severely.
The first snow of any consequence this
|t?ason, fell to the depth of three inches on
Junday l^st.
Hereafter, the Dakota Friend will be issued
pgiilarly on or about the first of each month.
An Indian War Prophet* Thoughts.
The other day we called on an old Indian
war prophet, and the few words which he
spoke were so significant of the general
thoughts of this qlass of men, that we re
cord them.
As the long bearded old man was sitring
on the ground shaping into a pipe, a block
of red stone, which he held in his feet and left
hand, we approached him from the roar, and
giving him a gentle tap on the head with a
small switch, inquired what lie was doing.
The old prophet, straightening himself up
and accompanying his words with significant!
Gestures, in deep and apparent astonishment I
exelaimed-r—'"You are a missionary and yet
the gods gave you a little war-club The
gods gave me a war-club, and inspired by
them, with it I walk the earth without fear.
When 1 am hungry I satiate myself on the
flesh of the *Thick-lips. The wind blows
from four points, and with equal fredMom 1
tread the wide-world. With mij war-club I
strike, and th/? effect is terror and death, li
supplies me with food so nutritious, that my
appetite but seldom returns. Death agonies
are music to the gods by whom 1 am in
spired."
Truth crushed to earth shall rise anairi.
In ,1:his conncction we will give the same
old man's views concerning the origin of the
numerous mounds found in Minnesota. It
may be he is not correct.
."Previous to the occupancy of this coun
try by the-Dakotas, it was in the possession
of a race ofgiants, whose customs resembled
our own. In planting the seed ofthe squash
they drew the earth together, forming a hil
lock, on the summit of which they deposited is changed to x, when the syllable is repeated,
the seeds. These mounds are
nf .'hone squash hills. Thc-so
Hie remain*
giants Ions
A arood
since pjassed off to the .South
speciii/en of Indian speculation
Men- npt that human thigh lone, which was
saiy to be found in the bank of the iiver in
Koaitucky, six times the size .that oj an
o/dinary man, be indeed a thigh bono of one
of thc_former inhabitants of .Minnesota
[a] Only those who have had experience. the Ind:n .s broke the arm of a white man,
in numbering Indians can have any adequate and did some other mischief.
idea of the difficulties which are to be en- Seven of the Indians we re apprehended
countered. It seems that these difficulties and confuted in the guard house at l'ort
arc not peculiar to the Dakotas. Tiie'de- Snelling, where, until about the middle o!
sire, on the part ofthe Indians, to augment November, they were kept steadily at work,
their number, is the chief cause.— A white man. who was said to be, in some
The Winnebago Indians, it is said, manner
.implicated, was confined wiih them
carried the matter so far, that on one occa
sion they were shut up in a yard having a
single outlet at which the agent. Gen.—r
stationed himself and numbered them as they Croix. They -say that since they went out a
came out one at a time. Hut even this was a little more than a month, they have killed
found to be insufficient. In addition, says HjOdeer. 1 he ehiel says they will not move
our informant, it was found neccssary to- bfick till after New car s day.
place sentinels in the rear, to prevent indi-^
viduals from-climbing in and'making a sec":
ond egress. Such conduct on the partof
the Indians is exceedingly annoying to the
a e n s o e o v e n e n w o a e a e
with the Indian affairs.
Each Indian endeavors to obtain as large isvile, Ky.. their final res-iing-place.
a share in the annuities as possible, and even
some of the leading men arc not sufficiently
sensible of the fact, that if some obtain more,
others must of necessity receive less than
their due.
A partial exhibition of the Dakota verb
YUKSA to break or he breakw.
Sing. Sing.
Mil ilk
5a, liuksa,
1 l.-rfak tioii litr-akc-sl
To lirrak ly irikins or choying
W'aknksa. yakaksa,
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ak I y s.v.viug or saw in uvn
!awaki. k-.\ak.-a.
To lircak l.
limvr. k-., Imvaks:
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To I.leak I'V a lull jamb, or :all
Wajiaksa, japakt-a, jiak-:
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To l'rrak witli ti.o loot
Xawaks-i, nayaksa, i.ak
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To lirrak u all U.i* mouth or trolh
Mriaksa, ilaksa. yak-a..
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ing of" breaking things which are different
I their nature, of which a few cxamph s ap
given, viz:
1. To l.rrak a foril, AI'PSAK
rod of Iron, woml, oi alone. V I \\"M.A.
i. rartlicn or jlass u'dt
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When there is a repetition of tina11 l«.
that is, when the thing is broken in several
places, or wli-n several things of the same
kind are broken, it is expressed by a repeti
tion of that syllable which is the root,. Iron
i which the verb is derived, Lxamples.
1. To lirrak sr'vrra! -.'*. or t!:(• -ame
rord .-cvt rai tinirs, l'SA l'f A
ftVc mi mi -i -oi aW. VI"VVI-:IJU-k« A.
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link.-A.
Different words are required when spcak-
ing refused, they resolved to serve themselves,
when a sort of tight ensued. It is said thaf
[e] Some have come in from where Little
Crow's band, Kapoja are hunting on the St.
ti. Din CU'I X\V'l.\ A.
The careful observer will see, lh it in the
repetitions just given, the letter /. in
and g, to in Miwoga. There are many
instances of similar ehnnges of letters in the.
Unkt'iu language.
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Iii the month of .lulv last, at Sauk Rapid--,
a small company of Winnebago Indians,
who had already, in direct violation of law,
been made partially drunk, applied for more
liquor at the store of one Mr. Potter. ()n be-
ESeuioval «k' tin? Presidents I£emu ia».
The remains ofthe late President of the*
S. A., have been removed from Washing-
ton. by his brother and son-in-law^ to Lou-