Note 458 — Chapter VIII · THE INDIAN UTOPIA

For an excellent description of the scenes attending a typical treaty see Latrobe, Rambler in North America, II, chap. xi.

[459] There is practically no limit to the number of sources which might be cited in support of this statement. See for example Latrobe, op. cit., II, chap. xi. At the second Treaty of Greenville, July, 1814, the government agents seem to have deliberately adopted the policy of intoxicating the Indians in order to bend them to their wishes (Dillon, "The National Decline of the Miami Indians," in Indiana Historical Society, Publications, I, 136-37).

[460] American State Papers, Indian Affairs, I, 795-96.