There is not a woman in the band who can tell what is going to happen as well as you.

There is no nation so great as the Dahcotah," continued the medicine man, as he saw several idlers approach, and stretch themselves on the grass to listen to him.

"There is no nation so great as the Dahcotah--but our people are not so great now as they were formerly.

When our forefathers killed buffaloes on these prairies, that the white people now ride across as if they were their own, mighty giants lived among them; they strode over the widest rivers, and the tallest trees; they could lay their hands upon the highest hills, as they walked the earth.

But they were not men of war.
They did not fight great battles, as do the Thunder Bird and his warriors." There were large animals, too, in those days; so large that the stoutest of our warriors were but as children beside them.