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of stone, to see those little children, with their bodies shot to pieces, 

 thrown naked into the pit." The dead soldiers had already been 

 brought in and buried decently at the agency. When the writer visited 

 the spot the following- winter, the Indians had put up a wire fence 

 around the trench and smeared the posts with sacred red medicine 

 paint (plate <i :. 



A baby girl of only three or four months was found under the snow, 

 carefully wrapped up in a shawl, beside her dead mother, whose body 

 was pierced by two bullets. On her head was a little cap of buckskin, 



Fig. 81— Snrvivora of Wounded Knee— Jennie Sword (1891). 



upon which the American flag was embroidered in bright beadwork. 

 She had lived through all the exposure, being only slightly frozen, and 

 soon recovered after being brought in to the agency. Her mother being 

 killed, and, in all probability, her father also, she was adopted by Gen- 

 eral Colby, commanding the Nebraska state troops. The Indian women 

 in camp gave her the poetic name of Zitkala-noni, " Lost Bird," and by 

 the family of her adoption she was baptized under the name of Mar- 

 guerite (figure SO). She is now (1S!IG) living in the general's family at 

 Washington, a chubby little girl G years of age, as happy with her dolls 

 and playthings as a little girl of that age ought to be. 

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