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IS 4.2 Story of an Emigrant.
stay for hours with my sister and help her take care of the
babv. Indeed they were so fond of the white-haired child
that they would sometimes run a race in vying with each
other to get the first chance to fondle her. Sometimes we
visited them in their tents in the evening and smoked
Kini-kinick with them. Several of their dead reposed in the
young trees near our cabin. When somebody died it was
their custom to stretch the dead body on poles which were
tied to voung trees high enough to be out of the reach of
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mountain chief.
wild beasts, then cover it with blankets, and finally leave
some corn and venison and ajar of water close bv. At some
subsequent visit to the neighborhood they would gather the
bones and bury them at some regular burial-ground, usually
on a high hill or bluff.
Once we saw a regular war dance in Red Wing. A few
Sioux had killed two Chippewa’s and brought back their
scalps stretched on a frame of young saplings. At a given
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