It was in the summer of 183-, that a large party of Chippeways visited Fort Snelling.

There was peace between them and the Sioux.

Their time was passed in feasting and carousing; their canoes together flew over the waters of the Mississippi.

The young Sioux warriors found strange beauty in the oval faces of the Chippeway girls; and the Chippeways discovered (what was actually the case) that the women of the Dahcotahs were far more graceful than those of their own nation.
But as the time of the departure of the Chippeways approached, many a Chippeway maiden wept when she remembered how soon she would bid adieu to all her hopes of happiness.

And Flying Shadow was saddest of them all.