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selves by great acts upon the battlefield. "Another Indian to 

 be decorated was Dave Kisek. During the heavy fighting 

 around Cambrai he unstrapped a machine gun from his 

 shoulder and advanced about one hundred yards to the German 

 position, where he ran along the top of their trench, doing deadly 

 execution with his machine gun. He, single-handed, took thirty 

 prisoners upon this occasion. This Indian came from the re- 

 mote regions of the Patricia district. Sergeant Clear Sky was 

 awarded the Military Medal for one of the most gallant and 

 unselfish deeds that is recorded in the annals of the Canadian 

 Expeditionary Force. During a heavy gas attack he noticed 

 a wounded man lying in 'No Man's Land' whose gas mask 

 had been rendered useless. Clear Sky crawled to him through 

 the poisonous fumes, removed his own mask, and placed it on 

 the wounded man, whose life was in consequence saved. Ser- 

 geant Clear Sky was himself severely gassed as a result of his 

 heroic action. Joe Thunder was awarded the Military Medal 

 for a feat of arms of an exceptionally dramatic character. He 

 was separated from his platoon and surrounded by six Ger- 

 mans, each of whom he bayoneted. George McLean received 

 the Distinguished Conduct Medal in recognition of the per- 

 formance of a feat which was an extraordinary one even for 

 the great war. Private McLean, single-handed, destroyed 

 nineteen of the enemy with bombs and captured fourteen." 



And yet not a single Canadian Indian has claimed that he 

 won the World War — not even Pegahmagabow, who shot 

 three hundred and seventy-eight Germans. 



APPROACHING GAME 



But to return to the land of peace. Of course, in attempting 

 to deceive game, one must always guard against approaching 

 down wind, for most animals grow more frantic over the scent 

 than they do over the sight of man. Later on, when I went 



