[9] Royce's _Indian Land Cessions in the United States_ in the _Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology_, Part II, pp. 710-712, 726; Kappler's _Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties_, Vol. II, pp. 250-255, 305-310.

[11] Royce's _Indian Land Cessions_, p. 736; Kappler's _Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties_, Vol. II, p. 346.

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[12] Royce's _Indian Land Cessions_, p. 737.

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[13] Royce's _Indian Land Cessions_, pp. 736, 737, 762, 763, 766-768, 778, 779; Kappler's _Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties_, Vol. II, pp. 349, 474-477, 495, 546-549.

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[14] Royce's _Indian Land Cessions_, pp. 768, 772; Kappler's _Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties_, Vol. II, pp. 500, 518.

[15] Royce's _Indian Land Cessions_, p. 778; Kappler's _Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties_, Vol. II, pp. 557-560.

[16] In exchange for all lands claimed by the Sioux in northwestern Iowa and southwestern Minnesota they were granted a reservation as follows: "all that tract of country on either side of the Minnesota River, from the western boundary of the lands herein ceded, east, to the Tchay-tam-bay River on the north, and to Yellow Medicine River on the south side, to extend, on each side, a distance of not less than 10 miles from the general course of said river; the boundaries of said tract to be marked out by as straight lines as practicable".--Kappler's _Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties_, Vol. II, p. 590; Hughes's _The Treaty of Traverse des Sioux in 1851_ in the _Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society_, Vol. X, Pt. I, pp. 112, 113.

[17] Royce's _Indian Land Cessions_, p. 784; Kappler's _Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties_, Vol. II, pp. 591-593.

[18] "It was with great reluctance that the Sioux Indians consented to surrender this favorite hunting and camping ground to the whites, as they did by the treaty of 1851."--Gue's _History of Iowa_, Vol. I, p. 288.

[19] The Indian Chief Jagmani said of this treaty: "The Indians sold their lands at Traverse des Sioux. I say what we were told. For fifty years they were to be paid $50,000 per annum. We were also promised $300,000 that we have not seen."--Bryant and Murch's _A History of the Great Massacre by the Sioux Indians, in Minnesota_, pp. 34, 35. See _House Executive Documents_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Vol. II, Pt. I, p. 401.