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Major Bush suggests that perhaps some old squaw left to die sought 
the carcass of a buffalo for shelter and then died. He has known this 
to occur. 
Fig. 236, 1851-52.—Peace with the Crows. ‘Two In- 
dians, with differing arrangement of hair, showing 
two tribes, are exchanging pipes for a peace smoke. 
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Fic. 236. 
Fig. 237, 185253.—The Nez Percés came to Lone-Horn’s lodge at 
midnight. The device shows an Indian touching with 
a pipe a tipi, the top of which is black or opaque, sig- 
nifying night. 
Touch-the-Clouds, a Minneconjou, son of Lone- 
Horn, when this chart was shown to him by the pres- 
ent writer, designated this character as being partic- 
ularly known to him from the fact of its being his 
father’s lodge. He remembered all about it from talk Fa. 237. 
in his family, and said it was the Nez Percés who came. 
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Fig. 238, 185354.—Spanish blankets were first brought 
to the country. <A fair drawing of one of those striped 
blankets is held out by a white trader. 
Fia. 238. 
Fig. 239, 1854~55.—Brave-Bear was killed. His ex- 
tended arms are ornamented with pendent stripes. 
Fig, 240, 1855~56.—Gen. Harney, called by the DERGenE Wiehe 
(“white beard” or “‘white mustache”), made peace 
with a number of the tribes or bands of the Dakotas. 
The figure shows an officer in uniform shaking hands 
with an Indian. 
Executive document No. 94, Thirty-fourth Congress, BEES UM 
first session, Senate, contains the “‘minutes of a council held at Fort 
Pierre, Nebraska, on the 1st day of March, 1856, by Brevet Brig. Gen. 
William S. Harney, U. 8. Army, commanding the Sioux expedition, 
with the delegations from nine of the bands of the Sioux, viz, the Two 
Kettle band, Lower Yankton, Uncpapas, Blackfeet Sioux, Minnecon- 
jous, Sans Ares, Yanctonnais (two bands), Brulés of the Platte.” 
Fig. 241, 1856~57,—Four-Horn was made a calumet or medicine man. 
