THE DEFEAT OF THE PAWNEES BY THE PONKAS IN 1855. 383 
They had hid themselves. We took a great many of the things which they dropped 
and left; provisions in packs, moceasins, leggings, lariats. And the Waii"-qude (Gray- 
robes) camped very close. The Ponkas searched over all the hills, but they could not 
find the slightest trail. And two men from our party went to the tent of my elder 
brother to tell about the affair. He sent out criers who said: “They report that they 
found some people in that place, and when they went to attack them, there was not even 
the slightest trail; but they deprived them of all their provisions, ete. So be on your 
guard and watch your ponies. Watch them even at night.” And [ heard one say that 
they tiad been there to tell it. And we continued surrounding the herds. At length 
some Dakotas came. And we went thither. And the Ponkas made policemen. The 
policemen and the chiefs talked together. “iio! That will do,” said they. And they 
attacked the buffaloes. They shot down a great many. And the Dakotas also sur- 
rounded them. When they sat still after carrying the meat to the camp, they said: 
“Yonder comes one on horseback!” At length they recognized him. “It is Udati- 
bi!” they said. He came from the Waii"-qude. He reached the tent of Drum, the 
two being related. ‘We surrounded the herd. We surrounded twenty-two buftalo 
bulls, and we utterly destroyed them. But the buffalo bulls wounded about seven of 
us,” said he. And as the Hu-b¢a™ (Fish-smellers) thought, ‘* Who can ‘hey be?” they 
were impatient to hear about them. Said he, “Seeks-no-retuge is wounded. Starts-to- 
run is wounded. Two-Walking is wounded. Standing-with-bent-legs is wounded. 
Big-head is wounded.” Though two remained, I do not remember the names. Te said 
as follows: “Twenty-two Pawnees attacked us, but they were utterly destroyed.” And 
we saw them alive; all recovered, not even one died. As the Pawnees were a great 
many, they chased them to a great distance before they exterminated them. They 
killed them by twos; they killed them by ones, one after another, as they went along. 
And we, the Hu-b¢a® and Waii"-qude, came together again. The Waii®-qude danced . 
continually. My elder brother was the first to kill one of the foe. So they passed the 
song around: 
“ Hi-ai-o-hi+! 
Hi-ai-o-hi+! 
Hi-ai-o-hi+! 
Hi-ai-o-hi+! 
U-bi-ski was he! 
The first one was he! 
He did not send him home to you! 
And they fear us! 
They were exterminated!” 
Smoke-Maker’s new-born son was carried to the battle-field by an old woman, and 
Was caused to put his feet on two dead Pawnees. Therefore they made him have the 
name, Trod-on-Two. 
