In the summer of 1844 a large party of half-breeds and Indians from Red river,--English subjects,--trespassed upon the hunting grounds of the Sioux.

There were several hundred hunters, and many carts drawn by oxen for the purpose of carrying away the buffalo they had killed.

One of this party had left his companions, and was riding alone at some distance from them.

A Dahcotah knew that his nation would suffer from the destruction of their game--fresh in his memory, too, were the sufferings of the past winter.

What wonder then that the arrow which was intended for the buffalo, should find its way to the heart of the trespasser! This act enraged the half-breeds; they could not find the Sioux who committed it--but a few days after they fell in with a party of others, who were also hunting, and killed seven of them.