The Chippeway maidens rejoiced when they remembered that their rivals, the Dahcotah girls, would no longer seduce their lovers from their allegiance.
Flying Shadow wept, there was nothing to make her happy, she would see the Track-maker no more, and she looked forward to death as the end of her cares.

She concealed in her bosom the trinkets he had given her; every feature of his face was written on her heart--that heart that beat only for him, that so soon would cease to beat at all! But there was a fearful cry, that banished even him from her thoughts.
The war-whoop burst suddenly upon the defenceless women.
Hundreds of Dahcotah warriors rose up to blind the eyes of the terror-stricken mothers.

Their children are scalped before their eyes; their infants are dashed against the rocks, which are not more insensible to their cries than their murderers.
It is a battle of strength against weakness.

Stern warrior, it needs not to strike the mother that blow! she dies in the death of her children.

[Footnote: The Dahcotahs believe, or many of them believe, that each body has four souls.