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New England Religious Herald
Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut
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Ongoing conflict between Chippewa and Sioux tribes: Sioux recently murdered 14 Chippewas, leading to Chippewa retaliation killing 2 Sioux and capturing 3. Sioux pursued the killers and returned through St. Paul on the 15th with one man's corpse in a boxed canoe covered by a red pall, heading sadly to their village down the river.
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-The Sioux having recently murdered fourteen Chippewas, the latter have retorted by killing two Sioux and taking three others prisoners. On hearing of this the party of Sioux immediately started in pursuit of the murderers: on the same day, the 15th, they returned through St. Paul with the corpse of one man, whom they had in a canoe, nailed up in a box, covered with a red pall. Just at dark they left the lower landing in sadness, with their canoes, for their village, four miles down the river.
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Primary Location
St. Paul
Event Date
The 15th
Outcome
sioux murdered 14 chippewas; chippewas killed 2 sioux and took 3 prisoners; sioux pursuit resulted in one man's death, body returned in boxed canoe.
Event Details
Sioux recently murdered fourteen Chippewas, prompting Chippewas to kill two Sioux and take three prisoners. Sioux party pursued the murderers and on the same day, the 15th, returned through St. Paul with the corpse of one man in a canoe, nailed up in a box covered with a red pall, then left at dark for their village four miles down the river.