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Pipe, or league. See note (4) to the Bois Brulé.

Two guns on each shoulder. Tradition says,
four.

Natooessies signifies, in the Chippeway tongue, the
enemy. As the Dahcotahs and Chippeways have been at
war from time immemorial, the term is natural.

The great medicine bag. Every Indian has his
medicine bag, which contains articles which he considers sacred.
The medicine bag in the text belonged to the institution
of the Grand Medicine.

By right of having taken the first scalp.
Among the Chippeways, he (of a war party) who has been
the first to take a scalp, returns at the head of all, and has
the first honor.

This anecdote is well authenticated, or we should have
hardly ventured to record it.