124 PICTOGR&PIIS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 



No. II. Buffalo were so plenty that their tracks came close to the 

 tipis. The cloven hoof-mark is cleverly distinguished from the tracks 

 of horses in the character for 1849-'o<). 



No. III. Dakotas had unusual abundance of buffalo. 



18G2-'G3.— No. I. Eed-Plume kills an enemy. 



No. II. Red-Feather, a Minueconjou, was killed. His feather is shown 

 entirely red, while the " one-feather" in 1S42-M3 has a black tip. 



5o. III. A Minueconjou Dakota killed an Assiniboine named Red- 

 Feather. 



Mato Sapa says : Minneconjous kill an Assiniboine named Red-Feather. 



Major Bush agrees with Mato Sapa. 



It is to be noted that there is no allusion to the great Minnesota mas- 

 sacre, which commenced in August, 1802, and in which many of the 

 Dakotas belonging to the tribes familiar with these charts, were en- 

 gaged. Little-Crow was the leader. He escaped to the British pos- 

 sessions, but was killed in July, 1SG3. Perhaps the reason of the omis- 

 sion of any character to designate the massacre, was the terrible retri- 

 bution that followed it, beginning with the rout by Colonel Sibley, on 

 September 23, 18G2. The Indian captives amounted in all to about 

 eighteen hundred. A military commission sentenced three hundred and 

 three to be hanged and eighteen to imprisonment for life. Thirty-eight 

 were actually hanged, December 2(5, 18G2, at Camp Lincoln. 



l863-'64. — No. I. Crows kill eight Dakotas on the Yellowstone. 



No. II. Eight Dakotas were killed. Again the short parallel black 

 lines united by a long stroke. In this year Sitting Bull fought General 

 Sully in the Black Hills. 



Interpreter La vary says General Sully killed seven or eight Crows at 

 The-Place They-Shot-The-Deer, Ta cha-con-te, about 90 miles southwest 

 of Fort Rice, Dakota. Mulligan says that General Sully fought the 

 Yanktonnais and the Sautees at that place. 



No. III. Eight Minueconjou Dakotas killed by Crow Indians. 



See Corbusier Winter Counts for same year, page 144. 



1804-'G5. — No. I. Four Crows caught stealing horses from the Dakotas 

 ■were tortured to death. Shoulders shown. 



No. II. The Dakotas killed four Crows. Four of the same rounded 

 objects, like several heads, shown in 1S25-'2G, but these are bloody, thus 

 distinguishing them from the cases of drowning. 



No. III. Four Crow Indians killed by the Miuneconjou Dakotas. 

 Necks shown. 



18G5-G6. — No. I. Many horses died. 



No. II. Many horses died for want of grass. The horse here drawn 

 is sufficiently distinct from all others in the chart. 



No. III. Dakotas lost many horses in the snow. 



See Corbusier's Winter Counts, No. II for same year, page 144. 



18G6-'G7. — No. I. Little Swan, a great warrior. 



No. II. Swan, father of Swan, chief of the Minneconjous in 1877, died. 



