"Would a Teton warrior make his wife greater than himself?
I know he would not; and yet my ears have heard that there are lands where the councils are held by squaws." Another slight movement in the dark circle apprised the trapper that his declaration was not received without surprise, if entirely without distrust.

The chief alone seemed unmoved; nor was he disposed to relax from the loftiness and high dignity of his air.
"My white fathers who live on the great lakes have declared," he said, "that their brothers towards the rising sun are not men; and now I know they did not lie! Go--what is a nation whose chief is a squaw! Are you the dog and not the husband of this woman ?" "I am neither.

Never did I see her face before this day.

She came into the prairies because they had told her a great and generous nation called the Dahcotahs lived there, and she wished to look on men.

The women of the pale-faces, like the women of the Siouxes, open their eyes to see things that are new; but she is poor, like myself, and she will want corn and buffaloes, if you take away the little that she and her friend still have." "My ears listen to many wicked lies!" exclaimed the Teton warrior, in a voice so stern that it startled even his red auditors.