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Show MALLIBT. DAKOTA WINTER COUNTS, 1849- 1855. 121 No. II. Peace with the Crows. Two Indians, with differing arrangement of hair, showing two tribes, are exchanging pipes for a peace-smoke. No. III. Dakotas made peace with the Grow Indians. It was, as usual, broken immediately. The treaty of Fort Laramie was in 1861. 1852-' 53.- No. I. A Crow chief, Flat- Head, comes into the tipi of a Dakota chief, where a council was assembled, and forces them to smoke the pipe of peace. This was a daring act, for he was in danger of immediate death if he failed. No. II. The Nez Percys came to Lone- Horn's lodge at midnight. The device shows an Indian touching with a pipe a tipi, the top of which is black or opaque, signifying night. The Nez Percys are so styled by a blunder of the early travelers, as they never have been known to pierce their noses, although others of their family, the Sahaptin, do so. The tribe was large, dwelling chiefly in Idaho. No. III. An enemy came into Lone- Horn's lodge during a medicine feast and was not killed. ( The enemy numbered about fourteen and had lost their way in a snow- storm.) The pipe is not in the man's hand, and the head only is drawn with the pipe between it and the tipi. Mato Sapa says: Several strange Indians came into the Dakota camp, were saved from being killed by running into Lone- Horn's lodge. Major Bush says: An enemy came into Lone- Horn's lodge during a feast and was not killed. Touch- the Clouds, a Minneconjou, son of Lone- Horn, on being shown Chart No. II by the present writer, designated this character as being particularly known to him from the fact of its being his father's lodge* He remembers all about it from talk in his family, and said it was the Nez Percys who came. 1853-' 54.- No. I. Spanish blankets introduced by traders; The blanket is represented without the human figure. No. II. Spanish blankets were first brought to the country. A fair drawing of one of those striped blankets, held out by a white trader. No. III. Dakotas first saw the Spanish blankets. See Corbusier records for 1851-' 52, page 142. 1854r-' 55.- No. I. Brave- Bear killed by Blackfeet. No. II. Brave- Bear was killed. It does not appear certain whether he had already invested in the new style of blanket or whether the extended arms are ornamented with pendent stripes. The latter is more probable. No. III. A Minneconjou Dakota named Brave- Bear was killed by the Upper Blackfeet. [ Satsikat] See Corbusier winter- counts for the same year, page 143. 1855-' 56.- No. I. General Harney ( Putin ska) makes a treaty. No. H. General Harney made peace with a number of the tribes or |
