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Late in the second night the great storm subsided. "Ho, ho! Iyotanka! Rise up!" So the first hunter to awaken aroused all the others. As after every other storm, it was wonderfully still; so still that one could hear distinctly the pounding feet of the jack-rabbits coming down over the slopes to the willows for food.
So they all wrapped themselves in their robes and lay down to sleep. All that night and the following day it was impossible to give succor, and the hunters felt much concern for the absent. Late in the second night the great storm subsided. "Ho, ho! Iyotanka! Rise up!" So the first hunter to awaken aroused all the others.
Foremost of these was the old-time enemy of every white man, long the leader of the most powerful band that ever disputed the dominion of the West, Tatanka Iyotanka Sitting Bull.
Ever since the ghost-dancing had begun, Si Tanka stayed in the open. So the Bureau sent and civilly requested. Si Tanka most uncivilly replied, and Tatanka Iyotanka scorned to reply at all. What made matters bad was this, that young braves were eternally getting crazy over the ghost-dancing and going off to join these big chiefs.
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