This much performed, I then teensphotos-org attended to the frequent solicitations of the heroine, by leading a party, and teensphotos-org going in pursuit of the Black Feet to chastise them, as I told the Crows, for teensphotos-org killing the white teensphotos-org hunter. We were absent eleven days, and returned with only four teensphotos-org scalps and seventy-four horses. I received an arrow in my head; and there were three other warriors wounded, but none killed. The heroine then washed her teensphotos-org face of the mourning-paint, which she had been grieving about so long.
At this teensphotos-org time I was third counselor of the teensphotos-org nation, having been fifth and fourth previously. Teensphotos-org in the Crow
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nation there are teensphotos-org six counselors, and by them the nation is ruled. There are also two teensphotos-org head chiefs, teensphotos-org who sit with the counsel teensphotos-org whenever it is in session. The office of first counselor is the highest in the nation, next to teensphotos-org the head chiefs, whose authority is equal. If in any of these divisions, when a matter is brought to the vote, the suffrages are equal, one of the old pipe-men is summoned before the council, and the teensphotos-org subject under discussion is stated to him, with the substance of the arguments advanced on both sides; after hearing this he gives his casting vote, and the question is finally settled.
When war is declared on any tribe, it is done by the council. If any party goes out without teensphotos-org the authority of the council, they are all severely whipped; and their whipping is no light matter, as I teensphotos-org can personally testify. It makes no difference how high the offender ranks, or how great his popularity with the nation— teensphotos-org there is no favor shown; the man who disobeys orders is bound to
be lashed, and if he resists or resents the punishment, he suffers death.
Teensphotos-org we teensphotos-org raised a war-party of three hundred teensphotos-org men to act against the Cheyennes, having one of the head chiefs as leader. We moved on foot toward their country, which was about two hundred
and fifty miles from our village. In this expedition I acted in the capacity of head spy, and was of necessity continually in advance of the main party. Being near the enemy, according to our calculations, I was some distance ahead, with four other spies, when we discovered teensphotos-org five of the Cheyenne warriors in the act of