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Crows, Bloody Chief—Dr. White's Code—Its Acceptance—Election of a High Chief—Advice to the Nez Perces—Spalding's Report—Talk of the Cayuses—A Council Appointed—Return of White to The Dalles—Trouble at Clatsop—Fresh Alarms in the Spring of 1843—Brewer's Letter—White's Embarrassment—Memorial Against Dr. McLoughlin—How he Repaid the Memorialists—Complaints of The Dalles Indians—White Proceeds to Waiilatpu—Effect of His Visit—The Cayuses Show Him Their Farms—White Goes to Lapwai—Nez Perces Received Into the Church—Joseph Welcomes Ellis—Effect on Their Guests—Lawyer—The Nez Perces Accompany White to Waiilatpu—Grand Reception—Council—Speeches of the Chiefs—Laws Accepted—White Returns to The Dalles to Teach the Indians—Mrs. Whitman Leaves Waiilatpu |
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Two Important Events—White's Caution to the Immigrants—Pilots of 1843—Indians Troublesome—Trading for Cattle—The Dalles Mission Abandoned—Misbehavior of Chief Cockstock—The Affairs at Oregon City—Cockstock and Two Americans Killed—Hunger and Thieving in the Wallamet Valley—The Oregon Rangers and Their Exploits—The Indian Cattle Company—Killing of Elijah Hedding—Alarm in Oregon—White's Departure for Washington—Peu-peu-mox-mox in California in 1846—New Indian Agent—Immigration of 1845—Road Making—Politics and the Southern Route—Immigration of 1846—Treatment of the Indians by the Colonists—Immigration of 1847—Neglect of Oregon by the Government—Threats of Independence—Apprehensions—The Blow Falls |
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Causes of the Cayuse Hostilities—Dr. Whitman Warned—Immigration of 1847—Americans at Waiilatpu—Arrival of Catholic Priests—Whitman's Fears—Sickness Among the Indians—Whitman and Spalding at Umatilla—The Massacre at Waiilatpu—Death of Dr. and Mrs. Whitman and Seven Others—Escapes, and Captives—Rev. J. B. A. Brouillet—Escape of Mr. Spalding—Canfield Reaches Lapwai—Courage of Mrs. Spalding—Conduct of the Nez Perces—Spalding's Letter to Brouillet—A Council Held at the Catholic Mission—Indian Manifesto—Ogden's Arrival at Fort Walla Walla—Another Council—Ransom Paid for the Captives—Anxiety of Ogden—Departure for Vancouver—Horrors of the Captivity—Suspicions and Mistakes of Captives—Subsequent Controversies—Ogden Delivers the Released Americans to Governor Abernethy—Endless Discussion of Causes—The Real Cause |
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The Legislature of 1847–8—Recepit of the News of the Massacre at Waiilatpu—Letter of McBean—Letter of James Douglas—Message of Governor Abernethy—Condition of the Treasury of the Provisional Government—Efforts to Procure the Means to Put Troops in the Field—The Hudson's Bay Company Decline to Furnish Money—Commissioners Borrow a Small Amount on the Faith of the Oregon Government—The Legislature Authorizes the Raising and Equipping of a Regiment of Riflemen—Officers Appointed—A Messenger Dispatched to Washington, and Another to California—Failure of the Latter |
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