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Updated: June 9, 2025
You see, Moonlight, although full seventeen years of age, was still so much of a child as to delight in a scamper with her little friend, the youngest child of Bounding Bull. "Be careful, my child," said Brighteyes. "Keep within the sentinels; you know that the great Blackfoot is on the war-path."
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As Big Otter had predicted, we came to a large village of Blackfoot Indians two days afterwards, and were received with cordial friendship by the inhabitants, who knew my Indian well. He had visited them during his wanderings many a time, and once, at a very critical period in their history, had rendered important service to the tribe, besides saving the life of their chief.
"What need," said the Blackfoot chief, tauntingly, "have the Nez Perces to leave their homes, and sally forth on war parties, when they have danger enough at their own doors? If you want fighting, return to your villages; you will have plenty of it there. The Blackfeet warriors have hitherto made war upon you as children. They are now coming as men.
"You poor boy!" the girl cried softly, and she put her arm under the Indian's head to lift it to an easier position. The dumb lips of the Blackfoot did not thank her, but the dark eyes gave her the gratitude of a heart wholly hers. All that night the house was a hospital. The country was one where men had learned to look after hurts without much professional aid.
"At that time the Yanktonnais numbered a little over forty families. We were nicknamed by the other bands Shunkikcheka, or Domestic Dogs, because of our owning large numbers of these animals. My father was the head chief. "Our favorite wintering place was a timbered tract near the mouth of the Grand River, and it was here that we met the Blackfoot Sioux in the fall hunt.
Having an exaggerated idea of his power to aid them, they have tried to follow his advice, so as to obtain his good-will and secure his aid with the government. Thus they have had always before them a definite object to strive for. The Blackfoot of to-day is a working man. He has a little property which he is trying to care for and wishes to add to.
However, the truth is, you must sarve me in this business. I struv to see her twiste, but couldn't, an' I'm afraid of bein' seen spyin' about their place." "The truth is, Connor, you want to make me a go-between a blackfoot; very well, I'll do that same on your account, an' do it well, too, I hope."
An unusual moderation in the temperature carried this away before nightfall, and the weather became almost spring-like, or rather resembled the lingering days of Indian summer, which are the expiring gasp of the mild season, soon to be followed by the biting rigors of winter. Before noon it was known throughout the Blackfoot village that the remarkable young Shawanoe had arrived.
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