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Show 122 PICTOGBAPHS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. bands of the Dakotas. This was at Fort Pierre, Dakota. The figure shows an officer in uniform shaking hands with an Indian. Executive document No. 94, Thirty- fourth Congress, first session, Senate, contains the " minutes of a council held at Fort Pierre, Nebraska, on the 1st day of March, 1856, by Brevet Brig.- Gen. William S. Harney, U. S. Army, commanding the Sioux expedition, with the delegations from nine of the bands of the Sioux, viz., the Two- Kettle band, Lower Yankton, Oncpapas, Blackfeet Sioux, Minneconjous, Sans Arcs, Yanc-tonnais ( two bands), Bruits of the Platte." No. III. Dakotas made peace with General Harney ( called by them Putinska, white beard or moustache) at Fort Pierre, Dakota. 1856-' 57.- No. I. Four- Horns, a great warrior. No. H. Four- Horn was made a calumet or medicine- man. This was probably the result of an important political struggle, as there is much rivalry and electioneering for the office, which, with its triple character of doctor, priest, and magician, is one of far greater power than the chieftainship. A man with four horns holds out the same kind of ornamented pipe- stem shown in the character for 1804-' Q5, it beiughis badge of office. Four- Horn was one of the subchiefs of the TTncpapas, and was introduced to General Harney at the council of 1856 by Bear- Bib, head chief of that tribe. No. III. A Minneconjou Dakota, named Red- Fish's- Son, danced calumet dance. Mato Sapa says the same as last. Major Bush says, " A Minneconjou, Bed- Fish's- Son, The- Ass, danced the Four- Horn calumet." Interpreter Clement, in the spring of 1874, said that Four Horn and Sitting- Bull were the same person, the name Sitting- Bull being given him after he was made a calumet man. No other authority tells this. 1857~' 58.- No. I. White- Robe kills a Grow woman. There is but one arrow and one blood spot in the character. No. II. The Dakotas killed a Grow squaw. The stripes on the blanket are shown horizontally, Brave- Bear's, 1854-' 55, and Swan's, 1866-' 67, being vertical. She is pierced by four arrows, and the peace made with the Grows in 1851-' 52 seems to have been short lived. No. III. A party of Grow Indians, while on a visit to the Dakotas, had one of their number killed by a young Dakota. The figure has blood from the four arrows running down each side of the body. Mato- Sapa says : A Grow was killed by a Dakota while on a visit to the latter. Major Bush says substantially the same as Mato Sapa. 1858- 759.- No. I. Lone- Horn makes medicine. " At such times Indians sacrifice ponies, etc., and fast." In this character the buffalo-head is black. No. II. Lone- Horn, whose solitary horn appears, made buffalo medicine, probably on account of the scarcity of that animal. Again tbe |