10G PICTOGRAPHS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 



No. II. Red-Coat, a chief, was killed. The figure shows the red coat 

 pierced by two arrows, with blood dropping from the wounds. 



No. III. Uucpapa Dakota, named Red-Shirt, killed by Ree Indians. 



Battiste Good says: " Game and-killed-man-witk-red-skirt-on winter." 



White Cow-Killer calls it "Red-shirt-killed winter." 



Mato Sapa says: Red-shirt, an Uncpapa Dakota, was killed by Rees. 



Major Bash same as last. 



lS08-'09.— No. I. Broken-Leg (Dakota) killed by Rees. 



No. II. The Dakota who had killed the Ree shown in this record for 

 180(J-'O7 was himself killed by the Rees. He is represented running, 

 and shot with two arrows ; blood dripping. These two figures, taken 

 in connection, afford a goo<l illustration of the method pursued in the 

 chart, which was not intended to be a continuous history, or even to 

 record the most important event of each year, but to exhibit some one 

 of special peculiarity. War then raging between the Dakotas and sev- 

 eral tribes, probably many on both sides were killed in each of the 

 years ; but there was some incident about the one Ree who was shot as 

 in fancied security he was bringing down an eagle, and whose death 

 was avenged by his brethren the second year afterward. Hence the 

 selection of those occurrences. It would, indeed, have been impossible 

 to have graphically distinguished the many battles, treaties, horse- 

 stealings, big hunts, etc., so most of them were omitted and other events 

 of greater individuality and better adapted for portrayal were taken for 

 the calendar, the criterion being not that they were of national mo- 

 ment, but that they were of general notoriety, or perhaps of special in- 

 terest to the recorders. 



No. III. A Blackfeet Dakota, named Broken-Leg, killed by Ree Indians, 

 diaus. 



Mato Sapa says : Broken-Leg, a Blackfeet Dakota, was killed by Rees. 



.Major Bush same as last. 



1809-'10. — No. I. Little-Beaver, a white trapper, is burnt to death by 

 accident in his house on the White River. He was liked by Indians. 



No. II. A chief, Little-Beaver, set fire to a trading store, and was 

 killed. The character is simply his name-totem. The other interpreta- 

 tions say that he was a white man, but he probably had gained a Lew 

 name among the Indians. 



No. III. White French trader, called Little-Beaver, was blown up by 

 powder on the Little Missouri River. 



Battiste Good says: "Little-Beaver's house-burned winter." Little- 

 Beaver was an English trader, and his trading house was a log one. 



White-Cow-Killer says: Little-Beaver's house was burned. 



1810-11. — No. I. Black-Rock, a Mitmeconjou chief, killed. See page 

 135. 



No. II. Black-Stone made medicine. The " medicine men" have no 

 connection with therapeutics, feel no pulses, and administer no drugs, or, 

 if sometimes they direct the internal or external use of some secret prep 

 aration, it is as a part of superstitious ceremonies, and with main reli- 



