BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. XII
1809-’10.
1810-’11.
1811-’12.
THE DAKOTA WINTER COUNTS.
1809-’10.—No. I. Little-Beaver, a white trapper, is burnt to death by accident in his house on the White River. He was liked by Indians.
No. II. A chief, Little-Beaver, set fire to a trading store, and was killed. The character is simply his name-totem. The other interpretations say that he was a white man, but he probably had gained a new name among the Indians.
No. III. White French trader, called Little-Beaver, was blown up by powder on the Little Missouri River.
Battiste Good says: “Little-Beaver’s-house-burned winter.” Little-Beaver was an English trader, and his trading house was a log one.