It was not for many years after the exploring expedition of Lewis and Clark passed through the country of the fierce and warlike Sioux tribe, that these Indians learned how to handle firearms. At that day they depended almost solely upon their bows and arrows, spears, tomahawks and knives, to bring down game, and fight their battles with other tribes with whom they might chance to be at war. They gave the early settlers great trouble, and many an uprising was followed by massacres. As late as the seventies they were a power to be reckoned with by the United States Government; and the memory of the massacre of General Custer's gallant command will always be one of the saddest records of border warfare. At that time it is said that there were several thousand Sioux warriors under Sitting Bull, which fact is sufficient to explain why the Sioux have always been held in such fear along the frontier of the Great Northwest. NOTE 10 (PAGE 332) This ceremony of smoking the pipe at their councils has always been a leading characteristic of Indian nature. When a stranger visits a tribe, and is to be treated as a friend, he is invited to smoke the peace pipe; and this really consists in puffing smoke in the direction of the north, east, south, and west. There is some sort of meaning to it, of course, and it is understood to stand for the promise on the part of the participants that they will remain friends for all time, whether the wind blows from one quarter of the compass or the other. It signifies complete concord between them. Besides, this is a very sacred institution; and like the breaking of bread among other peoples, or the passing of salt with the Bedouins, or Arabs of the desert, goes to signify that the bonds between those assembled must not be severed lightly. In the case of the council convened to settle the fate of the white prisoners, possibly some other meaning might have been attached to this puffing of the smoke toward the four quarters. =THE LITTLE COLONEL BOOKS= (Trade Mark) _By ANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTON_ _Each 1 vol., large 12mo, cloth, illustrated, per vol._ $1.50 =THE LITTLE COLONEL STORIES= (Trade Mark) Being three "Little Colonel" stories in the Cosy Corner Series, "The Little Colonel," "Two Little Knights of Kentucky," and "The Giant Scissors," in a single volume. =THE LITTLE COLONEL'S HOUSE PARTY= (Trade Mark) =THE LITTLE COLONEL'S HOLIDAYS= (Trade Mark) =THE LITTLE COLONEL'S HERO= (Trade Mark) =THE LITTLE COLONEL AT BOARDING-SCHOOL= (Trade Mark) =THE LITTLE COLONEL IN ARIZONA= (Trade Mark) =THE LITTLE COLONEL'S CHRISTMAS VACATION= (Trade Mark) =THE LITTLE COLONEL, MAID OF HONOR= (Trade Mark) =THE LITTLE COLONEL'S KNIGHT COMES RIDING= (Trade Mark) =MARY WARE: THE LITTLE COLONEL'S CHUM= (Trade Mark) =MARY WARE IN TEXAS= =MARY WARE'S PROMISED LAND=