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Updated: May 21, 2025
Every girl was beautifully dressed, for at that time the white doeskin gowns, with a profusion of fringes and colored embroidery, were the gala attire of the Sioux maidens. Red paint was added, and ornaments of furs and wampum. Many youths eagerly surveyed the maiden gathering, at which the daughter of Tamakoche outshone all the rest.
"'If our uncle Tamakoche sanctions your going, they replied, 'we shall be proud to have our cousin with us, to inspire us to brave deeds! "The maiden now sought her father and asked his permission to accompany the warparty. "'I wish, said she, 'to visit the graves of my brothers!
The Cut-Heads fled womanlike; but the people of Tamakoche fought gallantly to the very last. "Makatah remained with her father's people. Many cried out to her, 'Go back! Go back! but she paid no attention. She carried no weapon throughout the day nothing but her coup-staff but by her presence and her cries of encouragement or praise she urged on the men to deeds of desperate valor.
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