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He intended to have all the talking to himself, to arrange matters according to his own ideas; but he did it with the utmost condescension, and his warriors were satisfied. Besides being an orator, Shah-co-pee is a beggar, and one of a high order too, for he will neither take offence nor a refusal.
"We are the children of our great Father, the President of the United States; look upon us, for we are your children too. You are placed here to see that the Dahcotahs are protected, that their rights are not infringed upon." While the Indians cried Ho! ho! with great emphasis, Shah-co-pee shook hands all round again, and then resumed his place and speech.
She hesitated a little, but not long; and when Shah-co-pee returned to his teepee his young wife was gone no one had seen her depart no one knew where to seek for her. When the old man heard that Red Stone was gone too, his rage knew no bounds. He beat his two wives almost to death, and would have given his handsomest pipe-stem to have seen the faithless one again.
Shah-co-pee and two of his warriors were seen coming down the hill, the chief making an animated appeal to some one on board the boat; and as he reached the shore he gave us to understand that his business was concluded, and that he would like to go with us. But it was very evident that he considered his company a favor.
"Old John," after a hearty stretch, joins them too, and now the fumes of the pipe ascend, and mix with the odor of the sweet-scented prairie grass that the young girls are braiding. But neither Shah-co-pee the chief, nor old John the medicine man, could find out the secret; they coaxed and threatened in turns but all in vain, for their curiosity was not gratified.
We borrowed each other's knives and forks too, and etiquette, that petty tyrant of society, retired from the scene. Shah-co-pee found his way to the cabin, where he manifested strong symptoms of shaking hands over again; in order to keep him quiet, we gave him plenty to eat.
But sorrow mingles with the remembrance of that bright day. One of those who contributed most to its pleasures is gone from us one whom all esteemed and many loved, and justly, for never beat a kinder or a nobler heart. Shah-co-pee has looked rather grave lately. There is trouble in the wigwam. The old chief is the husband of three wives, and they and their children are always fighting.
We object to the Winnebagoes passing through our country; but if it is too late to prevent this, then we demand a thousand dollars for every village they shall pass." Ho! cried the Indians again; and Shah-co-pee, after shaking hands once more, took his seat. I doubt if you will ever get the thousand dollars a village, Shah-co-pee; but I like the spirit that induces you to demand it.
Shah-co-pee has great influence among the Dahcotahs, and he was to come to Fort Snelling to be present at the council of peace. Early in the morning he and about twenty warriors left their village on the banks of the St. Peters, for the Fort.
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