. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. he sun dance; a youngman was out alone straightening arrows when he saw two men creep-ing up, with grass over their faces. Thinking they were Kiowa deerhunters, he advanced to meet them, when they tired and wounded himand his horse; he fled back to camp aud gave the alarm, and Kiowa,Comanche, and Apache rushed out in pursuit. They soon came upwith a small party of the enemy, who proved to be Cheyenne. TheKiowa and their allies killed three of them there, and following thefugitives killed severa
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. he sun dance; a youngman was out alone straightening arrows when he saw two men creep-ing up, with grass over their faces. Thinking they were Kiowa deerhunters, he advanced to meet them, when they tired and wounded himand his horse; he fled back to camp aud gave the alarm, and Kiowa,Comanche, and Apache rushed out in pursuit. They soon came upwith a small party of the enemy, who proved to be Cheyenne. TheKiowa and their allies killed three of them there, and following thefugitives killed several others; continuing along the trail down thenorth side of the creek to a short distance below its junction withSweetwater, they came upon the main camp of the Cheyenne, who dugholes iu the sand aud made a good defense, but were at last all killedexcept one, who strangled himself with a rope to avoid capture. Thebodies of the dead Cheyenne, 48 in number, were scalped. stri]iped, andlaid along the ground in a row by the victors. Six Kiowa were killed, ^ Xl« i x^VS • Mk^. ^ .\ . \\\ \< VIJ/.. Fig. 75—Battle pictures (from the Dakota calendars) including the grandfather of the present Lone-wolf. Tebodal, theoldest man now in the tribe, was engaged in this encounter. Set-tan states that one Cheyenne wearing a war bonnet was killed ashe came out of a tipi (see figure271). Other informants do not remem-ber this, but saj that the Kiowa captured a fine medicine lance in afeathered case, and also a pahon or Dog-soldier stafl, of the kindcarried by those who were pledged to die at their post. The streamwhere the battle took i)lace is since called 8al/ota Aoton-de Pa,Creek where the Cheyeniies were massacred. The summer of theoccurrence is sometimes called Akddn Pat, Wailing sundaucesummer, because, although the Kiowa wailed for their dead, the sundance was not ou that account abandoned. WIXTER 1837-38 Adaltem Etkuegdn-de Sai, Winter that they dragged the figure above the
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