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by General Miles, and four hundred and fifty horses, mules, and ponies 

 were captured. 



183C-'37.— No. I. Father-of the-Mandaus died. 



No. II. Band's-Father, chief of the Two Kettles, died. The device is 

 nearly the same as that for 1816-'17, denoting plenty of buffalo belly ; 

 and the question might be raised, what the buffalo belly had to do with 

 the demise of the lamented chieftain, unless he suffered from a fatal 

 indigestion after eating too much of that delicacy. 



Interpreter Fielder, however, throws light on the subject by saying 

 tbat this character was used to designate the year when The-Breast, 

 father of The-Baud, a Minneconjou, died. The-Band himself died in 

 1875, on Powder River. His name was O-ye-a-pee. The character was 

 therefore the buffalo breast, a name-totem. 



No. III. Two Kettle, Dakota, named The-Breast, died. 



Mato Sapa says : A Two Kettle, named The-Breast, died. 



Major Bush same as Mato Sapa. 



1837-'38. — No. I. Many elk and deer killed. The figure does not show 

 the split hoof 



No. II. Commemorates a remarkably successful hunt, in which it is 

 said one hundred elk were killed. The drawing of the elk is good 

 enough to distinguish it from the other quadrupeds in this chart. 



No. III. The Dakotas killed one hundred elk at the Black Hills. 



Mato Sapa says : The Dakotas killed one hundred elk at the Black 

 Hills. His figure does not show the split hoof. 



1838-'39.— No. I. Indians built a lodge on White Wood Creek, in the 

 Black Hills, and wintered there. 



No. II. A dirt lodge was built for Iron-Horn. The other dirt lodge 

 (1815-'16) has a mark of ownership, which this has not. Perhaps it was 

 not so easy to draw an iron horn as a crow feather, and the distinction 

 was accomplished by omission. A chief of the Minneconjous is men- 

 tioned in General Harney's report in 1850, under the name of The-One- 

 Iron-Horn. 



No. III. A Minneconjou chief, named Iron-Horn, built dirt lodge 

 (medicine lodge) on Moreau River (same as Owl River). 



This Miuuecoujou chief, Iron-Horn, died a few years ago and was 

 buried near Fort Sully. He was father-in-law of Dupuis, a French 

 Canadian. 



183!)-'40. — No. I. Dakotas killed twenty lodges of Arapahos. 



No. II. The Dakotas killed an entire village of Snake Indians. The 

 character is the ordinary tipi pierced by arrows. The Snakes, or 

 Shoshoni, were a numerous and wide-spread people, inhabiting South- 

 eastern Oregon, Idaho, Western Montana, and portions of Utah and 

 Nevada, extending into Arizona and California. 



No. III. A Minneconjou Dakota, named The-Hard (with band), killed 

 seven lodges of the Blue Cloud Indians. 



The Blue Clouds are the Arapahos, so styled by the Dakotas, origi- 

 nal Maqpiyato. 



