Part 52 (1/2)

Gather or grasp the left side of the unbuttoned coat (or blanket) with the right hand, and, either standing or sitting in position so that the signal can be seen, wave it to the left and right as often as nized Whenthe person should not move his body (_Dakota_ I)

DANGER SEE ALSO NOTES ON CHEYENNE AND ARAPAHO SIGNALS

---- Horse, and crossing each other--_eneallop back and forward abreast--do not cross each other (HM

Brackenridge's _Views of Louisiana_ _Pittsburgh_, 1814, p 250)

---- Riding rapidly round in a circle, ”Danger! Get together as quickly as possible” (Richard Irving Dodge, lieutenant-colonel United States Army, _The Plains of the Great West_ _New York_, 1877, p

368)

---- Point the right index in the direction of the danger, and then throw the aronally, so that the hand rests near the left shoulder, back outward If the person to be notified of the danger should be in the rear precede the above signal with that for ”_Attention_” This signal can also benarrow roll Perhaps this signal wouldunder ”_Caution_,” as it would be used to denote the presence of a dangerous beast or snake, and not that of a hu 337--Signal for ”buffalo discovered”]

[Illustration: Fig 338--Signal of discovery or alar one another, either on foot or nal; which is expressed in the Hidatsa--makimaka'da--halidie (_Mandan and Hidatsa_ I)

DIRECTION

---- Pass around that place

Point the folded blanket in the direction of the object or place to be avoided, then draw it near the body, and wave it rapidly several ti it out toward the side on which you wish the person to approach you, and repeat a sufficient nunal to be understood (_Dakota_ I)

DISCOVERY

The discovery of ene rapidly to and fro, or in a circle The idea that there is a difference in the signification of these two directions of riding appears, according to many of the Dakota Indians of the Missouri Valley, to be erroneous Parties away froenerally in search of soame, or of another party, either friendly or hostile, which is, generally understood, and when that object is found, the announcement is made to their companions in either of the above ways The reason that a horseman may ride from side to side is, that the party to whom he desires to communicate ht angles to the direction to the party--would be perfectly clear Should the party be separated into smaller bands, or have flankers or scouts at various points, the only way in which the rider's signal could be recognized as a nal was directed, would be for him to ride in a circle, which he naturally does (_Dakota_ VI, VII, VIII) Fig 338

The latter was noticed by Dr Hoffman in 1873, on the Yellowstone River, while attached to the Stanley Expedition The Indians had again concentrated after their first repulse by General Custer, and taken possession of the woods and bluffs on the opposite side of the river

As the coluh bluff to ride rapidly round in a circle, occasionally firing off his revolver The signal announced the discovery of the advancing force, which had been expected, and he could be distinctly seen froion

As hborhood, sonal had he ridden to and from an observer, but the circle produced a lateral moveame than Buffalo See also NOTES ON CHEYENNE AND ARAPAHO SIGNALS

The discovery of ene rapidly around in a circle, so that the signal could be seen by their friends, but out of sight of the discovered enemy (_Dakota_ I)

When eneame than buffalo, the sentinel waves his blanket over his head up and down, holding an end in each hand (_Oa rapidly forward and backward on the top of the highest hill The saht and left, and then directly toward the ga that it is not to the right or to the left, but directly in front (_Dakota_ I)

DRILL, MILITARY

”It is done by signals, devised after a system of the Indian's own invention, and communicated in various ways

”Wonderful as the stateht day, when the sun is in the proper direction, is done with a piece of looking-glass held in the hollow of the hand The reflection of the sun's rays thrown on the ranks communicates in so on a little knoll overlooking the valley of the South Platte, I witnessed almost at my feet a drill of about one hundred warriors by a Sioux chief, who sat on his horse on a knoll opposite me, and about two hundred yards from his command in the plain below For more than half an hour he commanded a drill, which for variety and promptness of action could not be equaled by any civilized cavalry of the world All I could see was an occasional ht arlass” (Dodge's _Plains of the Great West_, _loc cit_, pp 307, 308)

FRIENDshi+P

If two Indians [of the plains] are approaching one another on horseback, and they may, for instance, be one mile apart, or as far as they can see each other At that safe distance one wants to indicate to the other that he wishes to be friendly He does this by turning his horse around and traveling about fifty paces back and forth, repeating this two or three times; this shows to the other Indian that he is not for hostility, but for friendly relations If the second Indian accepts this proffered overture of friendshi+p, he indicates the saers of both hands as far as to the first joints, and in that position raises his hands and lets them rest on his forehead with the pal to shi+eld his eyes froht of the sun

This implies, ”I, too, am for peace,” or ”I accept your overture”

(_Sac, Fox, and Kickapoo_ I) It is interesting in this connection to note the reception of Father Marquette by an Illinois chief who is reported to have raised his hands to his eyes as if to shi+eld the splendor That action was supposed to be made in a combination of huaze on the face of the illustrious guest has been taken to be the conception of the gesture, which in fact was probably only the holding the interlocked hands in the esture in which the flat hand is actually interposed as a shi+eld to the eyes before a superior is probably made with the poetical conception erroneously attributed to the Indian