543. Death of the White Buffalo. A feat of the Mandan Chiefs.
544. A Sioux War Council. The Chief Waneton speaking, and asking of the head Chief a war-party to go against the Sacs and Foxes.
545. Battle between the Sioux and Sacs and Foxes. The Sioux Chief killed and scalped on his horse’s back. An historical fact.
546. The Death of Ha-wan-je-tah, the One Horn; head Chief of the Sioux.
Having been the accidental cause of the death of his only son, he threw himself in the way of a buffalo-bull. (See Catlin’s Notes, vol. ii., for a full account.)
547. The Long Speech.
It is an invariable rule amongst Indians, that while any one speaks in council no one can rise. See-non-ty-a (the Blistered Feet), a great medicine-man, made his favourite boast, that when he once rose in an Ioway council of war it happened unfortunately for the council that “he began to speak just as it began to snow.”
548. Battle of the Buffalo Bulls.
549. Buffaloes crossing a Ravine in a snow-drift.
550. Buffaloes crossing the Missouri on the ice.