CONTENTS • IS 



The annual calendars— Continued Pas« 



1835-36. Big-face or Wolf-hair killed in Mexico 270 



1836. Wolf-creek snn dance— Kiuep visit Crows — Battle with Cheyenne. 271 

 1836-37. K'iruihiate killed in Mexico 271 



1837. Cheyenne massacred on upper Red river 271 



1837-38. Head-drugging winter 272 



1838. Kiowa and allies defeat Cheyenne and Arapaho 273 



1838-39. Battle with the Arapaho 273 



1839. Peninsula sun dance 274 



1839-40. Smallpox ravages the plains tribes 274 



1840. Red-blnfi' buu dance— I'eace with Cheyenne and Arapaho Ii75 



1840-41. Hide-quiver war expedition— Expeditious against Mexico 276 



1841. Pawnee massacred on the Soutli Canadian - --- 276 



1841-42. Encounter with Texan Santa Fe expedition— A'dalhabU'k'ia 



killed ^^ 



1842. Repeated sun dance - 279 



1842-43. Crow-neck died 280 



1843. Nest-biiilding snu dance— Encounter with Texans 280 



1843-44. Woman stabbed— Raid into Mexico— Trading post on South 



Canadian '^^^ 



1844. Dakota snu dance- l>akota visit Kiowa 281 



1844^5. Great expedition against Mexico— A'taha-ik'i killed 282 



1845. Stone-necklace snu dance 283 



1845-46. Bent establishes trading post on South Canadian— Allison's post 



on the Arkansas 283 



1846. Pjiguuhefite initiated— The Kaitsenk'ia 283 



1846-47. Mustache-shooting winter— Fight with the Pawnee 285 



1847. Fight with the Santa I'"e traders ; Red-sleeve killed 286 



1847-48. Camp on upper South Canadian 287 



1848. iva'itsi'fiko ini tiated 287 



1848-49. Antelope drive on the Arkansas ; the ceremonies 287 



1849. Cholera on the plains— Treaty negotiations postponed 289 



1849-50. Fight with tlie Pawnee— The scalp dance 290 



1850.' Chinaiierry snu dance on Beaver creek 292 



1850-51. Tangiapa killed in Mexico 292 



1851. Dusty sun dance— Treachery of the Pawnee 293 



1851-52. Woman elopes aiul is frozen- "Stealing" a woman 294 



1852. Allied tribes defeated by Pawnee— Iron-shirt killed 294 



1852-53. Race horse stolen by Pawnee boy 295 



1853. Showery snn dance— Taime sacrilege 295 



1853-54. Raid into Mexico, Piiugyagiate killed 296 



1854 Medicine-lodge-creek sun dance— Confederated tribes defeated by 



Sauk and Fox "^ 



1854-55. Gyai'koaonte killed by the Alah<i - 299 



1855. Sitting summer ; horses worn out 300 



1855-56. Big-head kills an Alaho— Raid into Mexico 300 



1856. Prickly pear sun dance 301 



1856-57. Tipis seized by th<^ Cheyenne 301 



1857. Forked-stick-sprontiug sun dance— Expeditions against El Paso 



and the Sauk— Story of the (i'poto 301 



1857-58. Horses stolen by the Pawnee 305 



1858. Timber-circle sun dance 305 



1858-59. Giii-k'ate kille<l by Mexicans— Expedition against the Ute 306 



1859. Cedar-bluff sun dance 306 



1859-60. Giakii-ite abamloned to die 307 



1860. Attacked by troops with Indian allies— Increasing hostility 308 



