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No. It. Peace with the Crows. Two Indians, with differing arrange- 

 ment of hair, showing two tribes, are exchanging pipes for a peace- 

 smoke. 



No. III. Dakotas made peace with tbe Crow Indians. It was, as 

 usual, broken immediately. 



The treaty of Fort Laramie was in 1851. 



1852-'53.— No. I. A Crow chief, Flat-Head, comes into the tipi of a 

 Dakota chief, where a council was assembled, and forces them to smoke 

 the pipe of peace. This was a daring act, for he was in danger of im- 

 mediate death if he failed. 



No. II. The Nez Percys came to Lone- Horn's lodge at midnight. The 

 device shows an Indian touching with a pipe a tipi, the top of which is 

 black or opaque, signifying night. Tbe Nez Percys are so styled by a 

 blunder of the early travelers, as they never have been known to pierce 

 their noses, although others of their family, the Sahaptin, do so. The 

 tribe was large, dwelling chiefly in Idaho. 



No. III. An enemy came into Lone-Horn's lodge during a medicine 

 feast and was not killed. (The enemy numbered about fourteen and 

 had lost their way in a snow-storm.) The pipe is not in the man's hand, 

 and the head only is drawn with the pipe between it and the tipi. 



Mato Sapa says: Several strange Indians came into the Dakota camp, 

 were saved from being killed by running into Lone Horn's lodge. 



Major Bush says : An enemy came into Lone-Horn's lodge during a 

 feast and was not killed. 



Touch-the Clouds, a Miuneconjou, sou of Lone-Horn, on being shown 

 Chart No. II by the present writer, designated this character as being 

 particularly known to him from the fact of its being his father's lodge. 

 He remembers all about it from talk in his family, and said it was the 

 Nez Perces who came. 



1853-'54. — No. I. Spanish blankets introduced by traders. The blan- 

 ket is represented without the human figure. 



No. II. Spanish blankets were first brought to the country. A fair 

 drawing of one of those striped blankets, held out by a white trader. 



No. III. Dakotas first saw the Spanish blankets. 



See Corbusier records for 1851-52, page 142. 



1854-'55.-No. I. Brave-Bear killed by Blackfeet. 



No. II. Brave-Bear was killed. It does not appear certain whether 

 he had already invested in the new style of blanket or whether the ex- 

 tended arms are ornamented with pendent stripes. The latter is more 

 probable. 



No. III. A Minneconjou Dakota named Brave-Bear was killed b\ tin- 

 Upper Blackfeet. [Satsika ?] 



See Corbusier winter-counts for the same year, page 143. 



1855-'56. — No. I. General Harney (Putin ska) makes a treaty. 



No. II. General Harney made peace with a number of the tribes or 



