WOMAN STABBED — DAKOTA SUN DANCE 



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it sometimes gives rise to Jealous feelings on the part of liusbauds 

 or lovers. On this occasion, at the invitation of the chief Dohasiln, 

 a woman got upon his horse behind him, which so enraged lier hus- 

 band that he stabbed her. The woman recovered, and the husband 

 received no other punishment than a rebuke ft-om Dohasiin, who told 

 him that he ought to have better sense, as he (Dohi'isJin) was a great 

 chief and an old man — too old to be running after girls. 



Immediately after the dance, a war party under Giaded(*ete (Faces- 

 the-line), went against the A'-fa'Mi (Timber Mexicans) or Mexicans of 

 Tamaulipas. They killed a number of people and des- 

 troyed houses, but on recrossing the Rio Grande encoun- 

 tered a body of Mexican troojjs when Giiidedeete and two 

 others were killed. 



In the following winter K'6dal-aka-i, ''Wrinkled-neck," 

 a clerk of the Bents, built a log trading house about a 

 mile below Giiadal Doha, "lied bluff," on the South 

 Canadian, near the mouth of Mustang creek and a few 

 miles above Adobe Walls, in the Texas panhandle (see 

 winters 1845— iG and 1S64-0.")). It is also stated that the 

 same man, at a later period, built another trading post 

 at a tine spring a few miles above this one at Gi'iadal 

 Doha on the same (north) side of the river. 



SUIkOIER 1844 



Fig. 89— Winter 

 18+3-44— Wom- 

 an stabb»*fl. 



K'6dalp(il{ Hi K'ddd, "Dakota sun dance." A number 



of mounted Dakota paid a friendly visit to the Kiowa to 



dance and receive presents of ponies, while the Kiowa were engaged 



in the sun dance, which was held, like the last two preceding, on Kd<U 



P'« or Kiowa Medicine-lodge creek. Although the 



Dakota had been at war with the Kiowa when the 



latter lived in the north, the two tribes had now 



been friends for a long time, so long that the 



old men do not remember when the peace was 



made. 



The Dakota are represented by the tigure of a 

 man's bust, wearing a kodaljui or necklace brace- 

 let of long shell or bone tubes, popularly known 

 among the traders as Iro()Uois beads. The Kiowa 

 call the Dakota the K'odalpdk'idgo, "Necklace 

 people," and say that the Dakota were the original 

 wearers of such necklaces. 



The explanation appears to be a myth founded on a misconception 

 of the tribal sign for Dakota, which is the same as for necklace, i. e., a 

 sweeping pass of the hand across the throat, but commonly translated 

 "beheaders" when applied to that tribe. 



17 KTH 3'2 



FiQ. 90— Summer 1844— 

 Dakota snii dauce. 



