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Show 124 PICTOGftAPHS OF THE NOKTH AMERICAN INDIANS. No. II. Buffalo were so plenty that their tracks came close to the tipis. The cloven hoof- mark is cleverly distinguished from the tracks of horses in the character for 1849-' 50. No. III. Dakotas had unusual abundance of buffalo. 1862-> 63.- No. I. Bed- Plume kills an enemy. No. II. Bed- Feather, a Minneconjou, was killed. His feather is shown entirely red, while the " one- feather w in 1842-' 43 has a black tip. So. III. A Minneconjou Dakota killed an Assiniboine named Bed- Feather. Mato Sapa says: Minneconjouskill an Assiniboine named Bed- Feather. Major Bush agrees with Mato Sapa. It is to be noted that there is no allusion to the great Minnesota massacre, which commenced in August, 1862, and in which many of the Dakotas belonging to tjie tribes familiar with these charts, were engaged. Little- Grow was the leader. He escaped to the British possessions, but was killed in July, 1S63. Perhaps the reason of the omission of any character to designate the massacre, was the terrible retribution that followed it, beginning with the rout by Colonel Sibley, on September 23,1862. The Indian captives amounted in all to about eighteen hundred. A military commission sentenced three hundred and three to be hanged and eighteen to imprisonment for life. Thirty- eight were actually hanged, December 26,1862, at Gamp Lincoln. 1863-' 64.- No. I. Crows kill eight Dakotas on the Yellowstone. No. II. Eight Dakotas were killed. Again the short parallel black lines united by a long stroke. In this year Sitting Bull fought General Sully in the Black Hills. Iuterpreter La vary says General Sully killed seven or eight Grows at The- Place They- Shot- The- Deer, Ta cha- cont6, about 90 miles southwest of Fort Bice, Dakota. Mulligan says that General Sully fought the Yanktonnais and the Santees at that place. No. III. Bight Minneconjou Dakotas killed by Grow Indians. See Gorbusier Winter Counts for same year, page 144. 1864- 765.- No. I. Four Grows caught stealing horses from the Dakotas were tortured to death. Shoulders shown. No. II. The Dakotas killed four Crows. Four of the same rounded objects, like several heads, shown in 1825-> 26, but these are bloody, thus distinguishing them from the cases of drowning. No. III. Four Grow Indians killed by ihe Minneconjou Dakotas. Necks shown. 1865-' 66.- No. I. Many horses died. No. II. Many horses died for want of grass. The horse here drawn is sufficiently distinct from all- others in the chart. No. III. Dakotas lost many horses in the snow. See Corbusier's Winter Counts, No. II for same year, page 144. 1866-^ 67.- No. I. Little- Swan, a great warrior. No. II. Swan, father of Swan, chief of the Minneconjous in 1877, died. |