He is his brother.

He shall have the youngest wife of the Teton.

Tachechana, the pride of the Sioux girls, shall cook his venison, and many braves will look at him with longing minds.

Go, a Dahcotah is generous." The singular coolness, with which the Teton concluded this audacious proposal, confounded even the practised trapper.

He stared after the retiring form of the Indian, with an astonishment he did not care to conceal, nor did he renew his attempt at interpretation until the person of Mahtoree was blended with the cluster of warriors, who had so long, and with so characteristic patience, awaited his return.
"The Teton chief has spoken very plainly," the old man continued; "he will not give you the lady, to whom the Lord in heaven knows you have no claim, unless it be such as the wolf has to the lamb.