526 SIGN LANGUAGE AMONG NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 
LEAN WOLE’S COMPLAINT. 
The following remarks were obtained by Dr. W. J. HorrMAN from 
TCE-CAQ-A-DAQ-A-QIC (Lean Wolf), chief of the Hidatsa Indians of Da- 
kota Territory, who visited Washington in 1880: 
FOUR YEARS AGO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AGREED TO BE FRIENDS 
WITH US, BU'T THEY LIED. THAT IS ALL. 
(1) Place the closed hand, with the thumb resting over the middle 
of the index, on the left side of the forehead, palmar side down, then 
Fa, 329, 
draw the thumb across the forehead to the right, a short distance be- 
yond the head—white man, American, Fig. 329. 
(2) Place the naturally extended hand, fingers and thumb slightly 
separated and pointing to the left, about fifteen inches before the right 
