The expression of his eye, however, changed as it glanced across the different countenances of his supporters and of his opponents.

To the former the look, though stern, was not threatening, while it seemed to tell the latter all the hazards they incurred, in daring to brave the resentment of one so powerful.
Still, in the midst of so much hauteur and confidence, the sagacity and cunning of the Teton did not desert him.

When he had thrown the gauntlet, as it were, to the whole tribe, and sufficiently asserted his claim to superiority, his mien became more affable and his eye less angry.

Then it was that he raised his voice, in the midst of a death-like stillness, varying its tones to suit the changing character of his images, and of his eloquence.
"What is a Sioux ?" the chief sagaciously began; "he is ruler of the prairies, and master of its beasts.

The fishes in the 'river of troubled waters' know him, and come at his call.