Hunting at High Altitudes 



1839 there was an Arikara village on the Beaver or 

 Wolf Creek in the Indian Territory, and that this 

 village was attacked by southern Indians perhaps 

 Kiowas, Comanches and Apaches or Cheyennes and 

 all its inhabitants killed. On the other hand, for many 

 years the Cheyennes lived with the Rees or the Man- 

 dans, the latter of whom they called Earth Lodge 

 People, for many years. Standing All Night, a Chey- 

 enne, who died in 1869, supposed to be about a hun- 

 dred years old, said that he was born in the Mandan 

 village, and that a great many of his people lived 

 there in earth lodges, and in all their habits conformed 

 to the Mandans. At all events their relations with 

 the Cheyennes, fifty, sixty or seventy years ago were 

 close. To-day there are many Cheyenne people who 

 have Ree blood in their veins. Two Moon, the head 

 chief, is half Ree, and one of his names is Roman 

 Nosed Ree. There are now living among the North- 

 ern Cheyennes several old men of pure Ree blood. 

 These men are far darker in color than the people 

 among whom they are living, and generally the Ari- 

 karas have seemed to me dark enough in color to 

 justify the name sometimes given to them of Black 

 Pawnee. 



The last report of their numbers gives only 411 

 Arikaras at the Ft. Berthold Reservation. 



7. Gros Venires Indians. This is a name given to 

 two different and unrelated tribes of Indians the 

 Gros Ventres of the Village, or of the Missouri, of 

 Siouan stock, and the Gros Ventres of the Prairie, or 

 Atseha, of Algonquin stock. The ones here referred 



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