134 PICTOGRAPHS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 



White-Cow-Killer says, "Many-squaws-died winter." 



1799-1800. — No. 1. The-Good-White-Man returned and gave guns to 

 the Dakotas. The circle of marks represents the people sitting around 

 him, the flint lock musket the guns. 



No. II. A woman who had been given to a white man by the Dakotas 

 was killed because she ran away from him. [See No. I, 1804-05.] 



White-Cow-Killer says, "The-Good- White-Man-came winter." 



1800-01. — No. I. Nine white men came to trade witb them. The cov- 

 ered bead with short hair stands for a white man and also intimates 

 that the eight dots over it are for white men. According to this couut 

 the first whites came in 1794-'95. 



No. II. The Good- White-Man came. He was the first white man to 

 trade and live with the" Dakotas. 



Wbite-Cow-Killer calls it " Don't-Eat-Heart-makes-a-god-house win- 

 ter." 



1801-02. — No. I. The Oglalas, Brules, Minneconjous, Sans Arcs, and 

 Cheyennes united in an expedition against the Crows. They surprised 

 and captured a village of thirty lodges, killed all the men, and took the 

 women and children prisoners. The three tipis stand for thirty ; the red 

 6pots are for blood. 



No. II. A trader brought them their first guns. 



White-Cow-Killer says, " All-sick-winter." 



1802-'03.— No. I. The Ponkas attacked two lodges of Oglalas, killed 

 some of the people, and made the rest prisoners. The Oglalas went to 

 the Tonka village a short time afterward and took their people from 

 the Ponkas. In the figure an Oglala has a prisoner by the arm leading 

 him away. The arrow indicates that they were ready to fight. 



No. II. The Omahas made an assault on a Dakota village. Arrows 

 and bullets are flying back and forth. 



"White Cow-Killer calls it " Brought-in-horse-shoes winter." 



1803-'01. — No. I. They made peace with the Gros Ventres. 



No. II. Little Beaver, a white, trader, came. 



White-Cow-Killer calls it " Pleutyof-woolly-horses winter." 



1804-'05. — No. I. An Indian woman who had been unfaithful to a 

 white man to whom she was married was killed by an Indian named 

 Ponka. The symbol for Ponka indicates the name. 



No. II. The Omahas came and made peace to get their people, whom 

 the Dakotas held as prisoners. 



180j-'00. — No. I. The Dakotas had a council with the whites on the 

 Missouri River, below the Cheyenne Agency, near the mouth of Bad 

 Creek (the Lewis and Clarke Expedition ?). They had many flags, 

 which the Good- White-Man gave them with their guns, and they erected 

 them on poles to show their friendly feelings. The curved line is to 

 represent the council lodge, which they made by opening several tipis 

 and uniting them at their sides to form a semicircle. The marks are for 

 the people. American-Horse's father was born this year. 



