A small tribe, near neighbours and friends of the Mandans, speaking the Crow language, and probably have, at a former period, strayed away from them; numbering about 1100.
171. Eh-toh'k-pah-she-pée-shah, the Black Mocassin; Chief; over a hundred years old; sits in his lodge, smoking a handsome pipe; his arms and ornaments hanging on a post by the side of his bed. (Since dead.) 172. E'e-a-chín-che-a, the Red Thunder; the son of the Black Mocassin (No. 171), represented in the costume of a warrior.
173. Pa-ris-ka-róo-pa, the Two Crows; with a handsome shirt, ornamented with ermine, and necklace of grisly bears’ claws.
This man is now the head Chief of the tribe.
174. ( ), ——; woman, the wife of the Two Crows (No. 173).
175. Seet-sé-be-a, the Mid-day Sun; a pretty girl, in mountain-sheep skin dress, and fan of the eagle’s tail in her hand.
CREES (KNIS-TE-NEUX).
A small tribe of 4000, in Her Majesty’s dominions, neighbours of the Black Feet, and always at war with them; desperate warriors; small and light in stature. Half of them have recently died of the smallpox since I was amongst them.
176. Eeh-tow-wées-ka-zeet, He who has Eyes behind him; one of the foremost braves of the tribe, in a handsome dress.