Interpreter Lavary says General Sully killed seven or eight Crows at The-Place-They-Shot-The-Deer, Ta-cha-con-té, about 90 miles southwest of Fort Rice, Dakota. Mulligan says that General Sully fought the Yanktonnais and the Santees at that place.
No. III. Eight Minneconjou Dakotas killed by Crow Indians.
See Corbusier Winter Counts for same year, page [144].
1864-’65.—No. I. Four Crows caught stealing horses from the Dakotas were tortured to death. Shoulders shown.
No. II. The Dakotas killed four Crows. Four of the same rounded objects, like several heads, shown in 1825-’26, but these are bloody, thus distinguishing them from the cases of drowning.
No. III. Four Crow Indians killed by the Minneconjou Dakotas. Necks shown.
1865-’66.—No. I. Many horses died.
No. II. Many horses died for want of grass. The horse here drawn is sufficiently distinct from all others in the chart.
No. III. Dakotas lost many horses in the snow.
See Corbusier’s Winter Counts, No. II for same year, page [144].