ing of water from an exhaust. He sings a war song of his
own composition and you can hear him for a mile. When asked to tell a
story of his boyhood days he said that rather than tell such a story he
would prefer to describe the management of the camp under the two great
chiefs; his father, Mountain Chief, and Chief Lame Bull. These two men
signed the treaty between the United States and the Blackfoot tribe,
together with other tribes, in 1855, when Franklin Pierce was President.
The historic information vouchsafed by Mountain Chief regarding the
conduct of an Indian camp, their manner and method of hunting buffalo, and
the purposes to which they put the buffalo, has never before been put in
type:

"I remember the different chiefs in the camp when I was a boy, and how
they governed the camp. My father, Mountain Chief, and his chum, Chief
Lame Bull, were living in the same tepee. They each had a medicine pipe.
These two chiefs made the plans before they moved the camp. After the
plans were made, they took their medicine pipes and placed them against
the rear side of the tepee. That indicated that the camp was going to
remain for another day. The women of the camp were sent around by the
various warriors to note the position of the pipes so they could tell what
the plans were. When they came back, they told their husbands the pipes
were in the rear of the tepee; then the husbands would say: 'The camp is
going to remain for another day.' Then the chiefs sent for Four Bear, who
asked certain Indians to go around and tell the people that the camp would
remain for another day. Then Four Bear went toward the camp from the
sunrise and walked around the camp toward the sunset. Then the Indians
told their wives and children to keep still, and see what was going to be
said. Four Bear would then tell the people that the camp would remain
another day and to tell their wives to go after wood. Then the women took
the travois and went after wood. Then the chiefs sent for the leaders and
warriors; we called them 'crazy dogs.' The leaders of the crazy dogs came
into the tepee of Mountain Chief and Lame Bull, and my father, Mountain
Chief, told these two crazy dogs to start before sunrise, and to take with
them the other crazy dogs to find where there was a lot of good fresh
water, and a lot of grass where they might camp, and also where they might
find the nearest herd of buffalo. The crazy dogs found a good place where
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