[137] The strength of the band was not great. Originally it is said to have numbered one hundred fifty lodges, but this estimate appears to be too high. At the time it started up the Little Sioux from Smithland it probably numbered not more than fifteen lodges at the highest estimate. Its depletion was due to dissatisfaction in the band and to the fact that the band did not draw annuities which caused many to drop out and return to the Agency in order to secure them. See Mrs. Sharp’s _Spirit Lake Massacre_ (1902 edition), p. 56; Hubbard and Holcombe’s _Minnesota in Three Centuries_, Vol. III, p. 248; _House Executive Documents_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Vol. II, Pt. I, p. 359; Hodge’s _Handbook of American Indians_, Pt. II, p. 891. [138] Powell’s _On Kinship and the Tribe_ in the _Third Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology_, p. xxxviii; Hubbard and Holcombe’s _Minnesota in Three Centuries_, Vol. III, p. 223. [139] Hubbard and Holcombe’s _Minnesota in Three Centuries_, Vol. III, p. 223. For further support of the view that Sidominadota’s death was not a cause as here set forth see J. W. Powell’s _Kinship and the Tribe_ in the preface to the _Third Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology_, pp. xxxviii-xl; _Senate Documents_, 1st Session, 32nd Congress, Vol. III, Doc. No. 1, p. 280; Pond’s _The Dakotas or Sioux in Minnesota as They Were in 1834_ in the _Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society_, Vol. XII, p. 389; Dorsey’s _Siouan Sociology_ in the _Fifteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology_, pp. 213-218. CHAPTER X [140] Smith’s _A History of Dickinson County, Iowa_, p. 53; Flickinger’s _Pioneer History of Pocahontas County, Iowa_, p. 29. [141] Flandrau’s _Inkpaduta Massacre of 1857_ in the _Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society_, Vol. III, p. 388; Mrs. Sharp’s _Spirit Lake Massacre_ (1902 edition), p. 60; _House Executive Documents_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Vol. II, Pt. I, pp. 358, 389; _Senate Documents_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Vol. III, p. 146; _The Spirit Lake Massacre and Relief Expedition_ in the _Roster and Record of Iowa Soldiers_, Vol. VI, p. 892. [142] A. Warner and Company’s _History of the Counties of Woodbury and Plymouth, Iowa_, pp. 305, 306. [143] Smith’s _A History of Dickinson County, Iowa_, p. 55; Fulton’s _Red Men of Iowa_, p. 303. CHAPTER XI [144] W. S. Dunbar and Company’s _Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa_, p. 242; Fulton’s _The Red Men of Iowa_, p. 303. [145] Peck and Montzheimer’s _Past and Present of O’Brien and Osceola Counties, Iowa_, Vol. I, p. 38. [146] Gillespie and Steele’s _History of Clay County, Iowa_, pp. 56, 57; Mrs. Sharp’s _History of the Spirit Lake Massacre_ (1902 edition), p. 61; Smith’s _History of Dickinson County, Iowa_, p. 56. [147] William H. Hart’s _History of Sac County, Iowa_, p. 38; Gillespie and Steele’s _History of Clay County, Iowa_, p. 57.