1864 Delegations

 

President in 1864:  Abraham Lincoln

Commissioner of Indian Affairs in 1864:  William P. Dole

 

Jan. 29, 1864:  Alexandria Gazette:  [Miami]

            A delegation of five chiefs of the Miami tribe of Indians, from Southern Kansas, have arrived in Washington on business with the Indian Bureau.

 

Jan. 29, 1864:  Evening Union:  [Miami]

            Miami Indians.--A delegation of five chiefs of the Miami tribe of Indians, from Southern Kansas, have arrived here on business with the Indian Bureau.  They will have an interview with Commissioner dole to-morrow.

 

March 22, 1864:  Evening Union:  [Chippewa]

            The Chippewa Delegation.--some thirty Chippewa chiefs are here, under charge of Superintendent Thompson, who introduced them to the "father."  Commissioner Dole subsequently took them to several of the public buildings.  They are the chiefs of the region lying upon the Red river of the North, through which passes the great trad[e?] trains between the British Hudson's Bay Company and St. Paul's, Minnesota.  By treaty negotiated with Governor Ramsey, they relinquished for [a] moderate consideration the region in question, and therefore have ceased to enforce their alleged right to tax persons and things that were in transit there.  It was stipulated that the chiefs should visit the great father at Washington at public expense.

 

March 23, 1864:  Daily National Intelligencer:  [Chippewa]

            Arrival of Chippewa Indians--A delegation of about thirty Indians of the Chippewa tribe, from Crow Wing, Minnesota, are in this city.  The delegation is under the leadership of the celebrated Hole-in-the-Day.  They visit Washington to make a treaty with the Government in regard to their tribe.  There has been some misunderstanding existing heretofore with the Government agents, and it is with a view to settle their difficulties they now visit Washington.  They have had an unofficial interview with the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in the course of which they expressed the most friendly feelings towards the National Government.  They have an idea that a treaty made in their own country would not be binding.

 

March 23, 1864:  Alexandria Gazette:  [Chippewa]

            Twenty-five Chippewa chiefs and braves, of the Red Lake, Pembina, and Mississippi bands, have just arrived in Washington.  They are under the charge of colonel Clark w. Thompson, the superintendent of Indian affairs in the Northern department, and are accompanied by eight interpreters and agents.

 

March 26, 1864:  Easton Gazette [Easton, Md.]:  [Chippewa]

            [Copy of March 23 DNI story]

 

April 27, 1864:  Alexandria Gazette: [Chippewa]

            Two of the Chippewa Indian chiefs-Hole-in-the-day and Look-around, now in Washington, had a desperate fight at the United States Hotel, in that city yesterday, while under the influence of liquor, cutting and shooting each other.

 

 

[May 7, 1864:  Treaty signed in Washington, D.C. with Chippewa of Mississippi,             Pillager and

                                    Lake Winnibigoshish bands.]