When I was young," he added, bitterly, "the Dahcotahs were free; they went and came as they chose.

There were no soldiers sent to our villages to frighten our women and children, and to take our young men prisoners.

The Dahcotahs are all women now--there are no warriors among them, or they would not submit to the power of the long knives." "We must submit to them," said the Rattler; "it would be in vain to attempt to contend with them.

We have learned that the long knives _can work in the night_.

A few nights ago, some young men belonging to the village of Marpuah Wechastah, had been drinking.