The widowed wife and childless mother was found dead under the scaffold where lay the body of her son.
The Thunder Bird was avenged for the death of his friend.

The strength of Red Deer had wasted under a lingering disease; his children were dead; their mother lay beside her youngest son.
The spirit of the waters had not appeared in vain.

When the countenance of Unktahe rests upon a Dahcotah, it is the sure prognostic of coming evil.

The fury of the storm spirits was spent when the soul of Harpstenah followed her lost ones.
* * * * * Dimly, as the lengthened shadows of evening fall around them, are seen the outstretched arms of the suffering Dahcotah women, as they appeal to us for assistance--and not to proud man! He, in the halls of legislation, decides when the lands of the red man are needed--one party makes a bargain which the other is forced to accept.
But in a woman's heart God has placed sympathies to which the sorrows of the Dahcotah women appeal.

Listen! for they tell you they would fain know of a balm for the many griefs they endure; they would be taught to avoid the many sins they commit; and, oh! how gladly would many of them have their young children accustomed to shudder at the sight of a fellow creature's blood.