uffalo hide or the deer hide for a breechclout. For a bucket
we used the tripe of the buffalo, after thoroughly cleaning it. We would
hang it up on the branch of a tree, full of water, and drink out of it."

"The white people came long before I was born, but when I first remember
the white man I thought he was very funny. I never knew of any one person
particularly, but I know there are good white people and bad white people,
honest white people and dishonest white people, true white people and mean
white people. We always take it for granted that what the white people
say is true, but we have found out by experience that they have been
dishonest with us and that they have mistreated us. Now when they say
anything we think about it, and sometimes they are true. I am saying this
about the white people in general."

"Going back to the days when we had no horses, we would see the buffalo on
the plains; we then surrounded them, driving them as we did so, near to
the edge of some steep precipice. When we got the buffalo up near the
edge of the precipice we would all wave our blankets and buffalo robes and
frighten the buffalo and they would run off the steep place, falling into
the valley below, one on top of another. Of course the undermost animals
were killed. Then we would go down and get them and take away the meat."

"The Indians found some dogs on the prairie. After they got the dogs they
would fasten a pole on either side of the dogs with a tanned hide fastened
between the poles, and the Indians would put their trappings, their meat,
and their pappooses on this hide stretched between the poles. In that way
they moved from place to place, the dog carrying the utensils of the camp.
We called it a travois. One day when we were moving, the dog who was
carrying a baby in the travois saw a deer and ran after it. He went over
a bank and carried the baby with him, and finally came back without the
baby."

"In counting the dead on the battlefield we placed sticks by the dead
soldiers or Indians, then gathered the sticks up, took them to one place
in a pile and there counted the sticks. We count by fixing events in our
mind. We have a brain and a heart, and we commit to memory an event, and
then we say Chief So-and-So died when we broke camp on the Big Horn, and
So-and-So were married when we had the big buffalo hunt in the snow. Or
we had a big fight with the Sioux when our tepees were placed in a ring in
the be