mallkbt.] DAKOTA WINTER COUNTS, 1786-1793. 101 



1789-'90.— No. I. Two Maudans killed by Minneconjous. The pecu- 

 liar arrangement of the hair distinguishes the tribe. 



The Maudans were in the last century one of the most numerous and 

 civilized tribes of the Siouan stock. Lewis and Clarke, in 1804, say that 

 the Maudans settled forty years before, i. e., 1764, in nine villages, 80 

 miles below their then site (north of Knife River), seveu villages on the 

 west, and two on the east side of the Missouri. Two villages, being 

 destroyed by the small-pox and the Dakotas, united and moved up op- 

 posite to the Arickaras, who probably occupied the same site as exhib- 

 ited in the couuts for the year 1823-24. 



Battiste Good says : " Killed-two-Gros-Ventres-on-the ice winter." 



1790-'9L— No. I. The first United States flag in the country brought 

 by United States troops. So said the interpreter. No special occasion 

 or expedition is noted. 



Battiste Good says : " Carried-flag-about-with-them winter," and ex- 

 plains ; they went to all the surrounding tribes with the flag, but for 

 what purpose is unknown. 



"White-Cow-Killer says : " All-the-Iiidiaus-see the -flag winter." 



1791-'92. — No. I. A Mandan and a Dakota met in the middle of the 

 Missouri; each swimming half way across, they shook hands, and made 

 peace. 



Mulligan, post interpreter at Fort Buford, says thaC this was at Fort 

 Berthold, and is an historic fact ; also that the same Mandan, long 

 afterwards, killed the same Dakota. 



Cloud-Shield says : The Sioux and Omahas made peace. 



1792-93. — No. I. Dakotas and Rees meet in camp together, and are 

 at peace. 



The two styles of dwellings, viz., the tipiof the Dakotas, and the earth 

 lodge of the Arickaras. are apparently depicted. 



Battiste Good says : " Camp-near-the-Gros-Yentres winter," and adds : 

 "They were engaged in a constaut warfare during this time." The Gros 

 Ventres' dirt-lodge, with the entry in front, is depicted in Battiste 

 Good's figure, and on its roof is the head of a Gros Ventre. 



See Cloud-Shields's explanations of his figure for this year, page 133. 



1793-94. — No. I. Thin-Face, a noted Dakota chief, was killed by Rees. 



Battiste Good says : " Killeda-long-haired-man-at-Raw-Hide-Butte 

 winter," adding that the Dakotas attacked a village of fifty-eight 

 lodges, of a tribe [called by a correspondent the Cheyennes], and killed 

 every soul iu it. After the fight they found the body of a man whose 

 hair was done up with deer-hide iu large rolls, and ou cutting them 

 open, found it was all real hair, very thick, and as long as a lodge-pole. 

 (Mem.: Catlin tells of a Crow called Long-Hair, whose hair, by actual 

 measurement, was 10 feet 7 inches long.) The fight was at Raw-Hide 

 Butte, now so-called by the whites, which they named Buffalo-Hide 

 Butte because they found so many buffalo hides in the lodges. 



According to Cloud-Shield, Long-Hair was killed in 17S6-87 ; and, 



