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Show MALLBBY. l DAKOTA WINTER COUNTS, 1856- 1861. 123 head of an albino bison. One- Horn, donbtless the same individual, is recorded as the head chief of the Minneconjous at this date. No. III. A Minneconjou chief, named Lone- Horn, made medicine with white buffalo- cow skin. Lone- Horn, chief of Minneconjous, died in 1874, in his camp on the Big Cheyenne. 1859-' 60.- No. I. Big- Crow killed. No. II. Big- Crow, a Dakota chief, was killed by the Crows. The crow, transfixed by an arrow, is drawn so as to give quite the appear-ance of an heraldic crest. $ No. III. A Minneconjou Dakota, named Big Crow, was killed by the Crow Indians. He had received his name from killing a Crow Indian of unusual size. Mato Sapa says: Big- Crow, a Minnecopjou, was killed by Crows. Major Bush says same as Mato Sapa. 1860-' 61.- No. I. The- Elk- who- showshimself- when- he- walks makes medicine. No. II. Device, the head and neck of an elk, like that part of the animal in 1837-' 38, with a line extending from its mouth, at the extremity of of which is the albino buffalo- head. " The elk made you understand his voice while he was walking." The interpreter persisted in this oracular rendering, probably not being able to fully catch the Indian explanation from want of thorough knowledge of the language. The ignorance of professed interpreters, who easily get beyond their philological depth, but are ashamed to acknowledge it, has occasioned many official blunders. This device and its interpretation were unintelligible to the writer until examination of General Harney's report above referred to showed the name of a prominent chief of the Minneconjous, set forth as " The- Elk- that- Hollows- Walking." It then became probable that the device simply meant that the aforesaid chief made buffalo medicine, which conjecture, published in 1877, the other records subsequently discovered verified. No. III. A Minneconjou Dakota, named Bed- Fish's- Son, made medicine with white buffalo- cow skin. Mato Sapa's record agrees with No. III. Major Bush says the same, adding, after the words " Bed- Fish's- Son," " The- Ass." Interpreter A. Lavary said, in 1867, that The- Elk- that- Hollows- Walking, then chief of the Minneconjous, was then at Spotted- Tail's camp. His father was Bed- Fish. He was the elder brother of Lone- Horn. His name is given as A- hag- a- hoo- man- ie, translated The Elk's- Voice- Walking, compounded of He- ha- ka, elk, and Omani, walk- this according to Lavary's literation. The correct literation of the Dakota word meaning elk is heqdka; voice Ao; and to walk, walking, mani. Their compound would be Heqaka ho mani, the translation being the same as above given. 1861-' 62.- No. I. Buffalo very plenty. i |