Wisconsin Historical Collections, Volume XIII (1895)

              1832 narrative of spoon decorah 45 1 we feared that the sacs might come into our territory for there was some fear of the sacs all the while although we had been told of their friendliness they knew that some of our people were with the americans we felt that if the sacs were driven into our hunting grounds they might be revengeful and then it would go hard with our hunting parties unless we were prepared for attack so when the spaniard came and told us that the sacs were really headed our way we were much afraid he told us that the center of attack would be portage we had left many of our old people and women here so we at once returned to portage the other hunt ing parties to which runners had also been sent out did so too this was a few days before the battle on the sauk bluffs wisconsin heights our party camped on the rise of ground just back of what is now the city end of the wisconsin river bridge in portage nearly the whole tribe was camped about port age there were three large camps on both sides of the river about where the bridge now is the principal chiefs in these camps were black wolf,1 his son dandy,2 tahneekseeickseega fond of tobacco white eagle white crow,3 and ahsheeshka broken arm black wolf was 1 wau bun p 89 black wolf's village was on the west shore of lake winnebago south of the site of oshkosh he served under the british in the war of 1812-15 being at the captures of mackinaw and prairie du chien he died at portage previous to 1848 — ed 2 wau bun p 91 3kaukishkaka white crow a winnebago chief who had but one eye and something of a reputation as an orator his village which com prised about 1,200 persons housed in tepees covered with red-cedar bark appears to have been situated about where is now the little vil lage of pheasant branch at the west end of lake mendota dane county the paper city of the four lakes was to have occupied about the same ground a few years after the black hawk war major henry dodge held a council with white crow at the latter's village may 25 1832 9 and secured his promise to be friendly to the whites or at least neutral june 3 white crow brought in the hall girls to blue mounds and re stored them to indian agent henry gratiot having been actuated by a reward offered for their recovery he had purchased their release