Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas . anchless trunk;cut me down if you will: I am ready to fall. A Tell of indication resounded on all sides. Nao-man descended from the httle bank of earth on whichhe sat, shrouded his dark countenance in his buffalorobe, and calmly awaited his fate. He fell dead atthe feet of the white woman, by the blow of thetomahawk. But the sacrifice of Xaoman, and the heroic firm-ness of the Christian whit
Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas . anchless trunk;cut me down if you will: I am ready to fall. A Tell of indication resounded on all sides. Nao-man descended from the httle bank of earth on whichhe sat, shrouded his dark countenance in his buffalorobe, and calmly awaited his fate. He fell dead atthe feet of the white woman, by the blow of thetomahawk. But the sacrifice of Xaoman, and the heroic firm-ness of the Christian white woman, did not suffice tosave the lives of the other victims. They perished—how. it is needless to say; but the memory of theirfate has been preserved in the name of the beautifullittle stream on whose banks they Hved and died,which to this day is called the Murderer b CreeJc. The scalp-dance, says Mr. Catlin, is given as a cele-bration of a victory: and amons: the Sioux, as I learnedwhile residing with them, danced in the night, by thelight of their torches, and just before retiring to a war-party returns from a war excursion, bring-ing home with them the scalps of their enemies, they. THE SCALP-DANCE. 817 generally dance them for fifteen nights in succes-sion, vaunting forth the most extravagant boasts oftheir wonderful prowess in war, while they brandishtheir war weapons in their hands. A number ofyoung women are selected to aid (though they donot actually join in the dance) by stepping into thecentre of the ring, and holding up the scalps thathave been recently taken, while the warriors dance(or YSither jlwip) around in a circle, brandishing theirweapons, and barking and yelping in the most fright-ful manner, all jumping on both feet at a time, witha simultaneous stamp and blow, and thrust of theirweapons, with which it would seem as if they wereactually cutting and carving each other to these frantic leaps, and yelps, and thrusts,every man distor
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