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Although they listened to the prophecy of Sitting Bull, they really did not expect that the soldiers would find them. Chief Gall, a fine man, of the Hunkpapas, was head war chief; his aide was Crow King. Crazy Horse commanded the Northern Cheyennes. The head of the Miniconjou Sioux was Lame Deer. Big Road commanded the Oglalas.
A treaty signed at the Auricara village on the 16th July, 1825, by the same commissioners on the part of the United States and by certain chiefs, headmen, and warriors of the Hunkpapas band of the Sioux tribe of Indians on the part of said band.
As a matter of fact, there was no one man who led or directed that fight; it was a pell mell rush under a number of recognized warriors as leaders, with 'Gall' of the Hunkpapas and 'Crazy Horse' of the Cheyennes the more prominent. "The Indians with whom I have talked deny having mutilated any of the killed, but admit that many dead bodies were mutilated by women of the camp.
The last treaty, signed only this year, had left them five tracts, as reservations. On the Missouri River at the middle north line of South Dakota there was the Standing Rock reservation, where lived Sitting Bull and many of the Hunkpapas and Oglalas whom he had led. Next to it, on the south was the Cheyenne River reservation, for the Miniconjous, Without Bows, Two Kettles, and others.
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: I communicate to both Houses of Congress copies of treaties with Indian tribes which have been, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, duly ratified during the present session of Congress: With the Great and Little Osage tribes, concluded June 2, 1825; Kansas, June 3, 1825; Poncar, June 9, 1825; Teton, Yancton, and Yanctonies, June 22, 1825; Sioune and Ogallala, July 5 and 12, 1825; Chayenne, July 6, 1825; Hunkpapas, July 16, 1825; Ricara, July 18, 1825; Mandan, July 30, 1825; Belantse-Etoa, or Minnetaree, July 30, 1825; Crow, August 4, 1825; Great and Little Osage, August 10, 1825; Kansas, August 16, 1825; Sioux, Chippewa, Sac and Fox, Menomonee, Ioway, Sioux, Winnebago, and a portion of the Ottawa, Chippewa, and Pottawatomie tribes, August 19, 1825; Ottoe and Missouri, September 26, 1825; Pawnee, September 30, 1825; Maha, October 6, 1825; Shawnee, November 7, 1825.
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