﻿FRIEDEICH 
  KXJRZ— 
  BUSHNELL 
  - 
  519 
  

  

  Kurz 
  was 
  evidently 
  interested 
  in 
  the 
  songs 
  and 
  games 
  of 
  the 
  many- 
  

   children 
  of 
  the 
  native 
  village. 
  That 
  day 
  he 
  wrote 
  in 
  his 
  journal 
  : 
  

  

  While 
  I 
  was 
  taking 
  a 
  walk 
  on 
  the 
  prairie 
  to-day 
  I 
  met 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  inter- 
  

   esting 
  children, 
  playing 
  in 
  groups 
  near 
  tiieir 
  grazing 
  horses. 
  Several 
  little 
  

   girls, 
  who 
  had 
  made 
  a 
  shelter 
  from 
  the 
  blazing 
  sun 
  with 
  their 
  blankets, 
  were 
  

   singing 
  to 
  the 
  rhythm 
  of 
  drumbeats. 
  Their 
  song 
  practice 
  soon 
  enticed 
  one 
  

   of 
  the 
  boys, 
  who 
  were 
  also 
  guarding 
  horses, 
  and 
  lie 
  taught 
  a 
  little 
  dwarf 
  to 
  

   dance. 
  I 
  saw 
  small 
  boys 
  quite 
  frequently 
  at 
  their 
  first 
  shooting 
  practice, 
  with 
  

   stalks 
  of 
  grass 
  for 
  arrows 
  they 
  aimed 
  at 
  the 
  leaping 
  frogs, 
  and 
  when 
  they 
  hit 
  

   the 
  mark 
  laughed 
  with 
  delight 
  to 
  see 
  the 
  little 
  white-bellied 
  creatures 
  turn 
  

   somersaults 
  in 
  their 
  swift 
  movements 
  to 
  escape. 
  

  

  Kurz 
  wrote 
  on 
  August 
  1 
  : 
  

  

  In 
  this 
  village 
  men 
  set 
  more 
  value 
  on 
  personal 
  adornment 
  and 
  good 
  appear- 
  

   ance 
  than 
  do 
  the 
  girls 
  ; 
  they 
  take 
  especially 
  good 
  care 
  of 
  their 
  hair 
  and 
  even 
  

   wear 
  false 
  hair 
  glued 
  to 
  their 
  own, 
  but 
  that 
  is 
  done 
  only 
  by 
  those 
  men 
  who 
  

   are 
  accredited 
  with 
  coups. 
  The 
  hair 
  of 
  the 
  Herantsa 
  Indians 
  is 
  not 
  smeared 
  

   with 
  grease 
  and 
  has, 
  therefore, 
  a 
  rough, 
  reddish-brown 
  appearance. 
  The 
  men 
  

   wear 
  their 
  hair 
  either 
  hanging 
  loose 
  or 
  coiled 
  into 
  a 
  knot 
  above 
  the 
  brow. 
  

   La 
  Longue 
  Cheveleur, 
  as 
  \his 
  name 
  implies, 
  is 
  distinguished 
  by 
  his 
  very 
  long 
  

   hair. 
  I 
  saw 
  him 
  only 
  once 
  when 
  he 
  allowed 
  it 
  to 
  hang 
  down 
  and 
  that 
  was 
  

   when 
  he 
  delivered 
  the 
  address 
  of 
  welcome 
  to 
  the 
  Sauteurs. 
  

  

  Conditions 
  became 
  worse 
  at 
  Fort 
  Berthold; 
  sickness 
  continued. 
  

   August 
  14: 
  

  

  La 
  Grande 
  Cheveleur 
  paid 
  me 
  a 
  visit 
  to-day, 
  bringing 
  one 
  of 
  his 
  friends 
  

   with 
  him. 
  He 
  entreated 
  me, 
  with 
  signs, 
  to 
  open 
  my 
  sketchbook 
  for 
  them 
  that 
  

   they 
  might 
  see 
  with 
  their 
  own 
  eyes 
  and 
  decide 
  whether 
  my 
  sketches 
  were 
  

   really 
  the 
  cause 
  of 
  the 
  sickness 
  so 
  prevalent 
  among 
  them. 
  Owing 
  to 
  the 
  absence 
  

   of 
  Quartre 
  Ours, 
  who 
  is 
  with 
  Mr. 
  Culbertson 
  and 
  the 
  Assiniboin 
  chiefs 
  at 
  Fort 
  

   Laramie, 
  Le 
  Grande 
  Cheveleur 
  is 
  now 
  chief 
  of 
  the 
  Herantsas. 
  He 
  is 
  dis- 
  

   tinguished 
  for 
  his 
  intelligence 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  for 
  his 
  gift 
  of 
  eloquence 
  ; 
  Quatre 
  

   Ours 
  is 
  accredited 
  with 
  more 
  coups, 
  having 
  14 
  to 
  his 
  account. 
  Grande 
  Cheve- 
  

   leur 
  finds 
  in 
  my 
  drawings 
  nothing 
  in 
  the 
  least 
  to 
  warrant 
  suspicion. 
  He 
  will 
  

   talk 
  with 
  his 
  people. 
  

  

  Three 
  days 
  later 
  and 
  deaths 
  were 
  more 
  frequent 
  : 
  

  

  The 
  Indians 
  have 
  such 
  dread 
  of 
  the 
  disease 
  that 
  they 
  have 
  determined 
  to 
  

   hurry 
  away 
  to 
  the 
  hills 
  ; 
  they 
  would 
  like 
  to 
  take 
  their 
  families 
  with 
  them 
  

   and 
  live 
  in 
  the 
  huts 
  they 
  built 
  for 
  summer 
  on 
  the 
  banks 
  of 
  Knife 
  River. 
  

  

  The 
  next 
  day 
  the 
  chief, 
  Le 
  Corbeau 
  Rouge, 
  accused 
  Kurz 
  of 
  being 
  

   the 
  direct 
  cause 
  of 
  the 
  great 
  sickness, 
  that 
  — 
  

   my 
  looking 
  at 
  everything 
  and 
  writing 
  down 
  what 
  I 
  saw 
  was 
  the 
  cause. 
  

  

  Kipp 
  advised 
  him 
  not 
  to 
  allow 
  the 
  Indians 
  to 
  see 
  the 
  sketches 
  as 
  

   they 
  were 
  becoming 
  more 
  and 
  more 
  excited. 
  Sickness 
  and 
  death 
  

   throughout 
  the 
  region. 
  August 
  23 
  : 
  

  

  Aged 
  Indians 
  and 
  the 
  sick 
  are 
  encamped 
  in 
  front 
  of 
  our 
  fort 
  in 
  tiny 
  huts 
  

   constructed 
  of 
  boughs 
  and 
  twigs. 
  They 
  make 
  use 
  of 
  these 
  shelters, 
  at 
  the 
  same 
  

   time, 
  for 
  taking 
  their 
  vapor 
  baths. 
  They 
  produce 
  steam 
  by 
  heating 
  stone 
  red- 
  

  

  