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Show MALLEBT.] DAKOTA WINTER COUNTS, 1786- 1793. 101 1789-' 90.- No. I. Two Mandans killed by Minneconjous. The peculiar arrangement of the hair distinguishes the tribe. The Mandans were in the last century one of the most numerous and civilized tribes of the Siouan stock. Lewis and Clarke, in 1804, say that the Mandans settled forty years before, t". e., 1764, in nine villages, 80 miles below their then site ( north of Knife River), seven villages on the west, and two on the east side of the Missouri. Two villages, being destroyed by the small- pox and the Dakotas, united and moved up opposite to the Arickaras, who probably occupied the same site as exhibited in the counts for the year 1823-, 24. Battiste Good says: " Killed- two- Gros- Ventres- on- the ice winter." 1790-' 91.- No. I. The first United States flag in the country brought by United States troops. So said the interpreter. No special occasion or expedition is noted. Battiste Good says: u Carried- flag- about- with- them winter," and explains ; they went to all the surrounding tribes with the flag, but for what purpose is unknown. White- Cow- Killer says: " All- the- Indians- seethe- flag winter." 1791-' 92.- No. I. A Mandan and a Dakota met in the middle of the Missouri; each swimming half way across, they shook hands, and made peace. Mulligan, post interpreter at Fort Buford, says that this was at Fort Berthold, and is an historic fact; also that the same Mandan, long afterwards, killed the same Dakota. Cloud- Shield says: The Sioux and Omahas made peace. 1792-' 93.- No. I. Dakotas and Bees meet in camp together, and are at peace. The two styles of dwellings, viz., the tipiof the Dakotas, and the earth lodge of the Arickaras, are apparently depicted. Battiste Good says: " Camp- near- the- Gros- Ventres winter," and adds: " They were engaged in a constant warfare during this time." The Gros Ventres' dirt- lodge, with the entry in front, is depicted in Battiste Good's figure, and on its roof is the head of a Gros Ventre. See Cloud- Shields's explanations of his figure for this year, page 133. 1793-' 94.- No. I. Thin- Face, a noted Dakota chief, was killed by Bees. Battiste Good says : " Killeda- long- haired- man- at- Baw- Hide- Butte winter," adding that the Dakotas attacked a village of fifty- eight lodges, of a tribe [ called by a correspondent the Cheyennes],. and killed every soul in it. After the fight they found the body of a mau whose hair was done up with deer- hide in large rolls, and on cutting them open, found it was all real hair, very thick, and as long as a lodge- pole. ( Mem.: Catlin tells of a Crow called1 Long- Hair, whose hair, by actual measurement, was 10 feet 7 inches long.) The fight was at Baw- Hide Butte, now so- called by the whites, which they named Buffalo- Hide Butte because they found so many buffalo hides in the lodges. According to Cloud- Shield, Long- Hair was killed in 1786-' 87; and, |
