[13]. See Appendix, Art. XIII.
[14]. Report of the Secretary of the Interior for 1873.
[15]. Witness the murder of Big Snake on the Ponca Reservation, Indian Territory, in the summer of 1879.
[16]. Annual Report of the Indian Commissioner for 1878, p. 69.
[17]. Annual Report of the Indian Commissioner for 1878, p. 33.
[18]. Same Report, p. 34.
[19]. Treaty of Prairie du Chien.
[20]. For this relinquishment the Government gave to the Lower Sioux presents to the amount of $400, and to the upper bands $530 in goods.
[21]. Never ratified.
[22]. "Chrysostom was of opinion, and not without reason, that, in contracts, as often as we strive earnestly to buy anything for less than it is worth, or to have more than our just measure or weight, there was in that fact a kind of theft."—Grotius on Contracts.