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out to look for tbem. On returning, about dayliglit, one of them, who 

 carried a bugle, blew it to announce their approach, with the result 

 that the whole camp, thinking that the troops were about to attack 

 them, fled precipitately several miles before the truth was discovered. 

 According to another account, the bugle was blown by Set-t'aiute, 

 who for many years carried on ceremonial occasions a 

 bugle which he had probably obtained from some army 

 post. He had been on a visit to the Arkansas, and 

 blew it on his return in order to locate the camp. 



SUMMER 1870 



E'gii Gy(ik'u(d(i-de K'ddo, "Plant-growing sun dance," 

 or K'ddo ratnyoHlui'dc, "Dusty sun dance." The former 

 is the more common designation. This sun dance, like 

 the last, was held on the North fork of Eed river, 

 but on the sonth side, in what is now Greer county, 

 Oklahoma, near where the reservation line strikes the stream. During 

 the dance the traders brought corn and watermelons to sell to the 

 Indians. The seeds were thrown away, and on returning to the spot 

 in the fall the Kiowa found that they had germinated in the sandy soil 

 and developed into full growth ; hence the common name of the dance, 

 indicated on the Set-t'an calendar by a stalk of green (blue) corn beside 

 the medicine lodge. On the Anko calendar it is distin- 

 guished as the " Dusty sun dance," on account of the 

 high winds which raised clouds of dust during the dance 

 and which are rudely indicated by close black lines across 

 the medicine pole. No other event is recorded, the dance 

 serving merely as a chronologic point. 



Fig. 147 —Summer 

 1870_PlaDt-grow- 

 ing 8im dance ; 

 dusty sun dance. 



WINTER 1870-71 



Set-d'ngya A' ton Agan-de Sai, "Winter when they 

 brought Set-tingya's bones." 

 For this winter the Set-t'an calendar records the bring- 



Iing home of the bones of young Set ihigya, indicated by a 

 skeleton above the winter mark, with a sitting bear over 

 the head. 

 In the spring of 1870, before the last sun dance, the son 

 of the noted chief Set-angya ("Sitting-bear"), the young 

 man having the same name as bis father, had made a raid 

 with a few followers into Texas, where, while making an 

 attack upon a house, he had been shot and killed. After 

 the dance bis father with some friends went to Texas, found 

 his bones and wrapped them in several fine blankets, put 

 the bundle upon the back of a led horse and brought them home. On 

 the return Journey he killed and scalped a white man, wliich revenge 

 served in some measure to assuage his grief. On reaching home he 



Fig. 148— Winter 

 1870-71 — Set- 

 angya's bones 

 brought home; 

 drunken figb,t; 

 negroes killed. 



