Indian treaties: commissioners to be appointed from Indian officials, 94; price of, 101; with Chippeways (1837), 80; with Sioux (1837), 80; abortive with Sioux (1849), 92; with Sioux (1851), 95; with Chippeways (1854, etc.), 111; with Sioux (1858), 169.
Indian tribes of Minnesota, account of, 94.
Inkpaduta: murders by, 146; rescue of captives, 146; fruitless efforts to capture, 147; effect of failure to capture, 193.
Internal improvement lands, devoted to redemption of bonds, 331.
Ireland, Archbishop, chaplain of Fifth Minnesota, at Corinth, 186; speaks at celebration of two hundredth anniversary of discovery of falls of St. Anthony, 325.
Iron ore of Minnesota: nature of, 359; ranges, discovery and location, 358; marketable, amount of, 359; properties, valuation for taxation, 360; land of state,—royalties, 360; lands excepted from mineral laws of United States, 360.
Itasca, Lake, discovered, 76; making of the word, 76.
Jennison, Lieut.-Colonel, wounded at Nashville, 245.
Joliet, on Lake Superior (1669), 14; at convocation (1671), 15; discovers the Mississippi (1673), 16.
Jones, John, sergeant, in charge of artillery at Fort Ridgely, 205.
Keating, Prof. William H., geologist and historian of Long’s expedition, 7.
Kiehle, David L., state superintendent of public instruction (1881-1893), 337; works out plan for school of agriculture, 355.
Kingsbury, W. W., not recognized as delegate from the rump of Minnesota, 154.
Kittson, N. W., trades at Pembina, 112; an associate for purchase of Saint Paul and Pacific, 309.
Knox, H. M., first public examiner, 314; his administration commended, 314.
La Framboise, Joseph, rescues whites at upper agency, 201.
La Perrière, Sieur de, builds Fort Beauharnois (1727), 26.
La Salle, in Canada (1663), 17; authorized to explore, 17; at Peoria, Ill. (1680), 18; plans expedition to upper Mississippi, 18; at the mouth of the Mississippi (1682), 22.
Lea, Luke, commissioner for Sioux treaties of 1851, 94.
Leavenworth, Lieutenant-Colonel Henry, leads troops to St. Peter’s, 55; appoints officers of Crawford County, Mich., 58.
Legislative sessions, limited by constitutional amendment, 346.
Legislature, first, doubtful status, 150.
Lester, Henry A., colonel of the Third Minnesota, 182; surrenders, 182; dismissed, 184.