I left that section of the country and came further west
with the other Indians. I have always tried to live without making any
trouble among my own people or with the whites. When I got out among the
Sioux I began to learn some of their wild tricks. I began to learn to
fight the other Indians. I then went on the warpath, and have been in a
good many Indian fights. One fight in particular against the Assinaboines
I want to mention. In this battle there were about two hundred of us
Sioux. The fight was on the Missouri River. There were charges and
countercharges several times. One of the bravest came in advance of the
others but he had to retreat. I put two arrows in his back and then
rushed up and knocked him off his horse with my bow. After I had knocked
this man off his horse my own horse ran away with me and ran right into
the enemy's line, dashing in among the foe. They were firing arrows at me
from all sides, and I expected that this was my last day. This was the
greatest fight I was ever in, though I have been in many others."

It is a long step from the spear to the ploughshare, but the moccasined
feet of White Horse soon took the step. Concerning this epoch in his
life, he said: "The most important event in my life was when the
Government began to give annuities to the Indians and we were placed on
the reservation. I have always been a leader of the Indians and a chief.
When farming implements were assigned us, and the allotments made, I was
appointed head farmer over the Indians. I visited the Indians all over my
district, and tried to get them to till the soil and send their children
to school. I sent my own boy to school first as an example to the others.
I sent my children to a nearby school until they were old enough and then
I was one of the first to send my children to Hampton, Virginia, to
school. They all came home and died of consumption. About this time the
first missionary came to our country, and I was one of the first to be
converted to the Church. I have since done all I could to bring the other
Indians into the Church. I went at my own expense down to the place where
I now live. There were no people living there at the time, and I cut out
of the woods the logs and built a church in my own home. I had no help.
The Indians came there to church, and afterward they named the church the
White Horse Church. After this a settlement was made here by the Indians,
and finally the Gove