MALLERY.] WINTER COUNTS. 285 
Their compound would be heqaka-ho-mani, the translation being the 
same as above given. 
Fig. 246, 1861—62.—Butftalo were so plentiful that 
their tracks came close to the tipis. The cloven-hoof 
mark is cleverly distinguished from the tracks of 
horses in the character for 1849—50. 
Fig. 247, 1862-63.—Red-Feather, a Minneconjou, was killed. His 
feather is shown entirely red, while the ‘‘one-feather” in 
184243 has a black tip. 
It is to be noted that there is no allusion to the great Minne- 
sota massacre, which commenced in August, 1862, and in which 
many of the Dakotas belonging to the tribes familiar with these 
charts were engaged. Little-Crow was the leader. He escaped 
to the British possessions, but was killed in July, 1863. Perhaps ¥' 2!" 
the reason of the omission of any character to designate the massacre 
was the terrible retribution that followed it. 
Fig. 248, 1863~64.—Hight Dakotas were killed. Again 
the short, parallel black lines united by a long stroke. In UU l 
this year Sitting-Bull fought General Sully in the Black 
Hills. 
Fig. 249, 1864~65.—The Dakotas killed four Crows. 
Four of the same rounded objects, like severed heads, 
shown in 1825~26, but these are bloody, thus distinguish- Fie. 249. 
ing them from the cases of drowning. 
Fia. 248. 
Fig. 250, 1865-66.—Many horses died for want of 
grass. The horse here drawn is sufticiently distinct 
from all others in the chart. 
Fia. 250, 
Fig, 251, 1866—67.—Swan, father of Swan, chief of the 
Minneconjous in 1877, died. With the assistance of the 
name the object intended for his totem may be recog- 
nized as a Swan swimming on the water. 
Fig. 251. 
Fig. 252, 1867—68.—Many flags were given them by the Peace Com- 
mission. The flag refers to the visit of the Peace Commissioners, 
among whom were Generals Sherman, Terry, and other promi- 
nent military and civil officers. Their report appears in the 
Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for 1868. 
They met at Fort Leavenworth, August 13, 1867, and between 
August 30 and September 13 held councils with the various bands 
of the Dakota Indians at Forts Sully and Thompson, and also at eae 
