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Show 106 PICTOGRAPHS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. No. II. Bed- Goat, a chief, was killed. The figure shows the red coat pierced by two arrows, with blood dropping from the wounds. No. III. Uncpapa Dakota, named Red- Shirt, killed by Eee Indians. Battiste Good says: " Came and- killed- man- with- red- shirt- on winter." White Cow- Killer calls it " Bed- shirt- killed winter." Mato Sapa says: Red- shirt, an Uncpapa Dakota, was killed by Bees. Major Bush same as last. *• 1808-' 09.- No. I. Broken- Leg ( Dakota) killed by Bees. No. II. The Dakota who had killed the Bee shown in this record for 1806-' 07 was himself killed by the Bees. He is represented running, and shot with two arrows; blood dripping. These two figures, taken in connection, afford a good illustration of the method pursued in the chart, which was not inteuded to be a continuous history, or even to record the most important event of each year, but to exhibit some one of special peculiarity. War then raging between the Dakotas and several tribes, probably many on both sides were killed in each of the years; but there was some incident about the one Bee who was shot as in fancied security he was bringing down an eagle, and whose death was avenged by his brethren the second year afterward. Hence the selection of those occurrences. It would, indeed, have been impossible to have graphically distinguished the many battles, treaties, horse-stealings, big hunts, etc., so most of them were omitted and other events of greater individuality and better adapted for portrayal were taken for the calendar, the criterion being not that they were of national moment, but that they were of general notoriety, or perhaps of special interest to the recorders. No. III. A Blackfeet Dakota, named Broken- Leg, killed by Bee Indians, dians. Mato Sapa says: Broken- Leg, a Blackfeet Dakota, was killed by Bees. Major Bush same as last. ISOIMIO.- No. I. Little- Beaver, a white trapper, is burnt to death by accident in his house on the White Biver. He was liked by Indians. No. II. A chief, Little- Beaver, set fire to a trading store, and was killed. The character is simply his name- totem. The other interpretations say that he was a white man, but he probably had gained a Lew name among the Indians. No. III. White French trader, called Little- Beaver, was blown up by powder on the Little Missouri Biver. Battiste Good says: " Little- Beaver'a- house- burned winter." Little- Beaver was an English trader, and his trading house was a log one. White- Cow- Killer says: Little- Beaver's house wan burned. 1810-' ll.- No. I. Black- Bock, a Miuneconjou chief, killed. See page 135. No. II. Black- Stone made medicine. The " medicine men " ha^ ve no connection with therapeutics, feel no pulses, and administer no drugs, or, if sometimes they direct the internal or external use of some secret preparation, it is as a part of superstitious ceremonies, and with main reli- |
