erty was in his possession and he could
not satisfactorily explain his connection with it. He was placed upon
trial, witnesses summoned and he was convicted of the theft and
sentenced to be whipped, a punishment most befitting the mean estate of
a squaw. The sentence was executed in full view of the entire camp.
Grey Eagle continued in the campaign, fighting valiantly at every
opportunity, but he was filled with an intense desire for revenge
against the court and particularly against Sitting Bull, a plebian who
had compelled recognition from the aristocrats, and whom the convict
believed to be especially responsible for his humiliation. Though not
apropos to this discussion it may be of interest if I shall add that
after the lapse of fourteen years, one December morning in 1890 when a
party of native policemen, inspired very largely by the aristocratic
hatred for the presumptuous plebian, came down upon the home of Sitting
Bull and effected his arrest and were taking him away through an
excited throng of his friends, the voice of Grey Eagle, from out in the
darkness shouted: "Sitting Bull is escaping, shoot him, shoot him!"
whereupon began the outbreak which within the moment resulted in the
death of the old medicine man and seventeen of the police and
Indians.[7] It, too, may be of further interest to relate that at the
present time Grey Eagle is the Chief Justice of the native court at
Bullhead Station, South Dakota.

[7] Related by Miss Mary C. Collins, April, 1908.

Among the duties of this court was to determine the limits of each
day's march when out upon a campaign, and to regulate the camping
places. This was an important function, for the army subsisted off the
country and unless the utmost care was exercised "the base of supplies"
would be frightened away and the band subjected to starvation.

A court very similar to the military court was likewise organized for
each great hunting expedition and given absolute control of the general
movement, but this hunting court did not interfere with the ordinary
jurisdiction of the civil court in matters of personal disputes,
personal injuries and the like. In 1841, General Henry H. Sibley, of
Minnesota, proposed to the Indians residing about his home at Mendota
that they go down to the "Neutral Strip" in Northern Iowa for a long
hunt. The Sioux were agreeable, and to get the matter in form Sibley
made a feast to which all of the natives were invited. After eating