1838-’39.—No. I. Indians built a lodge on White Wood Creek, in the Black Hills, and wintered there.
No. II. A dirt lodge was built for Iron-Horn. The other dirt lodge (1815-’16) has a mark of ownership, which this has not. Perhaps it was not so easy to draw an iron horn as a crow feather, and the distinction was accomplished by omission. A chief of the Minneconjous is mentioned in General Harney’s report in 1856, under the name of The-One-Iron-Horn.
No. III. A Minneconjou chief, named Iron-Horn, built dirt lodge (medicine lodge) on Moreau River (same as Owl River).
This Minneconjou chief, Iron-Horn, died a few years ago and was buried near Fort Sully. He was father-in-law of Dupuis, a French Canadian.
BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. XXII
1839-’40.
1840-’41.
1841-’42.
THE DAKOTA WINTER COUNTS.