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Show 146 PICTOGRAPHS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN8. No. II. Seven of Red- Cloud's band were killed by the Crows. White- Cow- Killer calls it " Five- Dakotas- killed winter." 1876-' 77.- No. I. The Ogldlas helped General Mackenzie to whip the Cheyennes. The Iudian's head represents the man who was the first to enter the Cheyenne village. The white man holding up three fingers is General Mackenzie, who is placed upon the head of the Dakota to indicate that the Dakotas backed or assisted him. The other white man is General Crook, or Three Stars, as indicated by the three stars above him. [ This designation might be suggested from the uniform, bat General Crook did not probably wear daring the year mentioned or for a long time before it the uniform either of his rank as major- general of volunteers or as brevet major- general in the Army, and by either of those ranks he was entitled to bat two stars on his shoulder- straps.] No. II. Three- Stars ( General Crook) took Keddoud's young men to help him fight the Cheyennes. A red cloud, indicating the chief's name, is represented above his head. White- Cow- Killer calls it " General- Mackenzie- took- the- Red- Cloud- Indians'- horses- awayfrom- them winter." IS??-^.- No. I. A soldier ran a bayonet into Crazy- Horse, aud killed him in the guard- house, at Fort Robinson, Nebraska ( September 5, 1877). No. II. Crazy- Horse's band left the Spotted Tail Agency ( at Camp Sheridan, Nebraska), and went north, after Crazy- Horse was killed at Fort Robinson, Nebraska. Hoof- prints and lodge pole tracks run northward from the house, which represents the Agency. That the horse is crazy is shown by the waved or spiral lines on his body, running from his nose, foot, and forehead. White- Cow- Killer calls it " Crazy- Horse- killed winter." 1878-' 79.- No. I. Wagons were given to them. No. II. The Cheyenne who boasted that he was bullet and arrow proof was killed by white soldiers, near Fort Robinson, Nebraska, in the intrenchments behind which the Cheyennes were defending themselves after they had escaped from the fort. White- Cow- Killer calls it " Wagons- given- to- the- Dakota- Indians winter." |