31/41 Hutchins (who accompanied Bouquet), Smythe, Pike, various reports of the U.S.Indian Commissioners, etc, etc. I base this number on a careful examination of the tribes named above, discarding such of the northern bands of the Chippewas, for instance, as were unlikely at that time to have been drawn into war with us. The expressions generally used by them in sending their war talks and peace talks to one another or the whites. Hundreds of copies of these "talks" are preserved at Washington. |