It is to be noted that there is no allusion to the great Minnesota massacre, which commenced in August, 1862, and in which many of the Dakotas belonging to the tribes familiar with these charts, were engaged. Little-Crow was the leader. He escaped to the British possessions, but was killed in July, 1863. Perhaps the reason of the omission of any character to designate the massacre, was the terrible retribution that followed it, beginning with the rout by Colonel Sibley, on September 23, 1862. The Indian captives amounted in all to about eighteen hundred. A military commission sentenced three hundred and three to be hanged and eighteen to imprisonment for life. Thirty-eight were actually hanged, December 26, 1862, at Camp Lincoln. [Illustration: BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. XXX 1863-’64. 1864-’65. 1865-’66. THE DAKOTA WINTER COUNTS.] 1863-’64.--No. I. Crows kill eight Dakotas on the Yellowstone. No. II. Eight Dakotas were killed. Again the short parallel black lines united by a long stroke. In this year Sitting Bull fought General Sully in the Black Hills. Interpreter Lavary says General Sully killed seven or eight Crows at The-Place-They-Shot-The-Deer, Ta-cha-con-té, about 90 miles southwest of Fort Rice, Dakota. Mulligan says that General Sully fought the Yanktonnais and the Santees at that place. No. III. Eight Minneconjou Dakotas killed by Crow Indians. See Corbusier Winter Counts for same year, page 144. 1864-’65.--No. I. Four Crows caught stealing horses from the Dakotas were tortured to death. Shoulders shown. No. II. The Dakotas killed four Crows. Four of the same rounded objects, like several heads, shown in 1825-’26, but these are bloody, thus distinguishing them from the cases of drowning. No. III. Four Crow Indians killed by the Minneconjou Dakotas. Necks shown. 1865-’66.--No. I. Many horses died. No. II. Many horses died for want of grass. The horse here drawn is sufficiently distinct from all others in the chart. No. III. Dakotas lost many horses in the snow. See Corbusier’s Winter Counts, No. II for same year, page 144. [Illustration: BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. XXXI 1866-’67. 1867-’68. 1868-’69. THE DAKOTA WINTER COUNTS.] 1866-’67.--No. I. Little Swan, a great warrior. No. II. Swan, father of Swan, chief of the Minneconjous in 1877, died. With the assistance of the name the object intended for his totem may be recognized as a swan swimming on the water. No. III. Minneconjou Dakota chief, named Swan, died. Mato Sapa’s record has a better representation of a swan. Interpreter Lavary says: Little-Swan died in this year on Cherry Creek, 75 miles northwest of Fort Sully. Major Bush says this is historically correct. 1867-’68.--No. I. Much medicine made.