Post by fonddulac on Dec 26, 2023 1:12:24 GMT -5
The Chippewa/Ojibwa are not included on the list of tribes on this website though there seems to a good number of Ojibwa images. If one's ancestry is important to this site I am not indigenous. I edit on Wikipedia as a member of the Military History Project. I had another editor ask me to review the Dakota War and that put me off on this tangent.
Ebay laterally dropped an 1862 Chicago Times on my tablet and I have attached what that lead to. As soon as I read that newspaper I suspected there was more. With Google it came so fast and there was so much I created the sandbox on Wikipedia to keep track of it all. The history is: two Chiefs of the Wisconsin Fond du Lac band of Chippewa sent a letter to Minnesota Gov. Ramsey to be forwarded to President Lincoln offering to Fight the Sioux and rid Minnesota of their evil. It's what they wrote. Within a week, Mille Lacs Chiefs lead 750 warriors of the Mille Lacs, Sandy Lake, Snake river and Chippewa River bands to Fort Ripley. They showed up beating drums waving American and native flags They offered to protect the Fort and fight the Sioux. While there, the townspeople of Little Falls , Mn requested Chippewa protection. War Chief Mou-zoo-mau-nee sent 150 warriors. Another Mille Lacs Chief went to St. Cloud, MN with another offer to fight for the government. A week later Gov. Ramsey and a commission went to the Crow Wing Agency to hear grievances of Chief Hole-in-the-Day. Instead they were met by 10 chiefs of the Pillager and Mississippi bands offering to fight the Sioux. A week later the Chiefs of 22 bands of Chippewa came to St Paul at Ramsey's invitation thinking they were going to war.
Prior to the Uprising at the Lower Sioux Agency the Bureau of Indian Affairs was in the process of making a treaty with the Pembina(Turtle Mountain) and Red Lake bands of Chippewa. Treaty goods and cattle were in the process of being sent to Red River treaty site. They all were diverted to Fort Abercrombie for safe keeping. At the Upper Sioux Agency Lt. Sheehan and his troop had completed their assignment. They were heading back to Fort Ripley to escort the Treaty commission to meet the Chippewa when they got word they were needed at Fort Ridgely. In the north a Sisseton war party raided all the cattle and horses at Abercrombie. Later when the Red Lake Chiefs learned why their treaty didn't happen and that the Sioux had their cattle they also offered to defend the northern frontier. At some point during all the the Chippewa Warrior Princess and her warriors are supposed to have come over from Wisconsin and engaged the Santee Sioux. Another footnote is that there were Chippewa in G Company 9th Minnesota that assisted in defeating the first attack on Fort Abercrombie.
Back to the Fond du Lac letter. What is known is Lincoln did not accept their offer. When the 22 Chiefs came to St Paul Major Gen. Pope turned down their services as "not good public policy'. It is not known if those were his words or if he was repeating something Lincoln wrote him. Another known is that had Lincoln accepted, his "Ok" would have spread to the other bands of Ojibwa. At that point the situation likely would have been out of Lincoln's oversight. The Fond du Lac specifically asked to use their Rules of War not the Governments. The Mdewakanton force would have been outnumbered over 3/1. The Dacotah would not have surrendered to the Chippewa/Ojibwa. No surrender means there would not have been any trials or hangings. What would have happened is conjecture, but it likely would have been very different from 38 hangings.
I came here solely to share the Chippewa/Ojibwa history. The Fond du Lac Letter needs to be known, it made national news in 1862. Another footnote is that Hole-in-the-Day had two sons that the newspapers say attended College. In indigenous history that has to place them amongst the first to do that. It had to be in the 1870s or 1880s.
Thank you for allowing me to share.
Lost Chippewa History
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mcb133aco/sandbox2
: User:Mcb133aco/sandbox2 - Wikipedia
Ebay laterally dropped an 1862 Chicago Times on my tablet and I have attached what that lead to. As soon as I read that newspaper I suspected there was more. With Google it came so fast and there was so much I created the sandbox on Wikipedia to keep track of it all. The history is: two Chiefs of the Wisconsin Fond du Lac band of Chippewa sent a letter to Minnesota Gov. Ramsey to be forwarded to President Lincoln offering to Fight the Sioux and rid Minnesota of their evil. It's what they wrote. Within a week, Mille Lacs Chiefs lead 750 warriors of the Mille Lacs, Sandy Lake, Snake river and Chippewa River bands to Fort Ripley. They showed up beating drums waving American and native flags They offered to protect the Fort and fight the Sioux. While there, the townspeople of Little Falls , Mn requested Chippewa protection. War Chief Mou-zoo-mau-nee sent 150 warriors. Another Mille Lacs Chief went to St. Cloud, MN with another offer to fight for the government. A week later Gov. Ramsey and a commission went to the Crow Wing Agency to hear grievances of Chief Hole-in-the-Day. Instead they were met by 10 chiefs of the Pillager and Mississippi bands offering to fight the Sioux. A week later the Chiefs of 22 bands of Chippewa came to St Paul at Ramsey's invitation thinking they were going to war.
Prior to the Uprising at the Lower Sioux Agency the Bureau of Indian Affairs was in the process of making a treaty with the Pembina(Turtle Mountain) and Red Lake bands of Chippewa. Treaty goods and cattle were in the process of being sent to Red River treaty site. They all were diverted to Fort Abercrombie for safe keeping. At the Upper Sioux Agency Lt. Sheehan and his troop had completed their assignment. They were heading back to Fort Ripley to escort the Treaty commission to meet the Chippewa when they got word they were needed at Fort Ridgely. In the north a Sisseton war party raided all the cattle and horses at Abercrombie. Later when the Red Lake Chiefs learned why their treaty didn't happen and that the Sioux had their cattle they also offered to defend the northern frontier. At some point during all the the Chippewa Warrior Princess and her warriors are supposed to have come over from Wisconsin and engaged the Santee Sioux. Another footnote is that there were Chippewa in G Company 9th Minnesota that assisted in defeating the first attack on Fort Abercrombie.
Back to the Fond du Lac letter. What is known is Lincoln did not accept their offer. When the 22 Chiefs came to St Paul Major Gen. Pope turned down their services as "not good public policy'. It is not known if those were his words or if he was repeating something Lincoln wrote him. Another known is that had Lincoln accepted, his "Ok" would have spread to the other bands of Ojibwa. At that point the situation likely would have been out of Lincoln's oversight. The Fond du Lac specifically asked to use their Rules of War not the Governments. The Mdewakanton force would have been outnumbered over 3/1. The Dacotah would not have surrendered to the Chippewa/Ojibwa. No surrender means there would not have been any trials or hangings. What would have happened is conjecture, but it likely would have been very different from 38 hangings.
I came here solely to share the Chippewa/Ojibwa history. The Fond du Lac Letter needs to be known, it made national news in 1862. Another footnote is that Hole-in-the-Day had two sons that the newspapers say attended College. In indigenous history that has to place them amongst the first to do that. It had to be in the 1870s or 1880s.
Thank you for allowing me to share.
Lost Chippewa History
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mcb133aco/sandbox2
: User:Mcb133aco/sandbox2 - Wikipedia