No. II. Lame-Deer shot a Crow Indian with an arrow; drew it out and shot him again with the same arrow. The hand is drawing the arrow from the first wound. This is another instance of the principle on which events were selected. Many fights occurred of greater moment, but with no incident precisely like this.
No. III. Minneconjou chief named Lame-Deer shot an Assiniboine three times with the same arrow. He kept so close to his enemy that he never let the arrow slip away from the bow, but pulled it out and shot it in again.
Mato Sapa says a Minneconjou named Lame-Deer shot an Assiniboine three times running with the same arrow.
BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. XXI
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1838-’39.
THE DAKOTA WINTER COUNTS.
Lame-Deer was a distinguished chief among the hostiles in 1876. His camp of five hundred and ten lodges was surprised and destroyed by General Miles, and four hundred and fifty horses, mules, and ponies were captured.