566 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS 
killed. [Pls. xurv and xLv show the dead Sioux.] -The soldiers killed 136 and 
wounded 160 Sioux. The Sioux killed all these different soldiers in the ravine. 
[Pl. xtv1 shows the dead cavalry of Custer’s battalion. } 
The soldiers charged the Sioux camp farthest up the river. A short time after the 
different soldiers charged the village below. While the different soldiers and Sioux 
were e fighting together the Sioux chief said, ‘‘ Sioux men, go watch the soldiers on the 
hill and prevent their joining the different soldiers.” The 
Sioux men took the clothing off the dead and dressed them- 
selves in it. Among the soldiers were white men who were 
not soldiers. The Sioux dressed in the soldiers’ and white 
men’s clothing fought the soldiers on the hill. 
The banks of the Little Bighorn river were high, and 
the Sioux killed*many of the soldiers while crossing. The 
soldiers on the hill dug up the ground [i. e., made earth- 
works], and the soldiers and Sioux fought at long range, 
sometimes the Sioux charging close up. The fight contin- 
ued at long range until a Sioux man saw the walking sol- 
diers coming. When the walking soldiers came near the 
Sioux became afraid and ranaway. [Pls. XLvi and xLyut1 
show the Indians leaving the battle ground. ] 
SECTION 38. 
RECORD OF MIGRATION. 
Fig. 796 is a pictorial account of the migrations 
of the Ojibwa, being a reduced copy of a drawing 
made by Sika/ssigé’. The account, especially in 
its commencement, follows the rule of all ancient 
history in being mixed with religion and myth. 
The otter was the messenger of Mi/nabo/zho and 
led the Ani/shinabe’g, who were the old or origi- 
some other tribes which they knew, from an island, 
which was the imagined center of the world as 
bounded by the visible horizon, to the last seats 
of the tribe. before interference by Europeans. 
The details of the figure were thus explained by 
the draftsman: 
a. The cirele signifies the earth’s surface, bounded by 
the horizon, as before described, and the dot in the cen- 
ter is the imagined island or original home of the human 
race. ob. A line separating the history of the Mide’wiwin, 
that is, the strictly religious tradition from that of the 
actual migration as, follows: When the Otter had offered 
four prayers, which fact is referred to by the spot ¢, he dis- 
ward the west, in which direction the Ani’ shinabég fol- 
Fic. 796.—Record of Ojibwa 
migration. lowed him, and located at Ottawa island, d. Here they 
erected the Mideé’wigéin and lived for many years. Then the Otter again disappeared 
beneath the water, and it ashort time reappeared at A/wiat/ang (e), when the Mide’- 
wiwin wasagain erected and the sacred rites conducted in accordance with the teach- 
nal people, the ancestors of the Ojibwa, and also of 
appeared beneath the surface of the water and went to- - 
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