The Blackbird assembled his warriors, led them against the Pawnee town, attacked it with irresistible fury, slaughtered a great number of its inhabitants, and burnt it to the ground.

He waged fierce and bloody war against the Ottoes for many years, until peace was effected between them by the mediation of the whites.

Fearless in battle, and fond of signalizing himself, he dazzled his followers by daring acts.

In attacking a Kanza village, he rode singly round it, loading and discharging his rifle at the inhabitants as he galloped past them.

He kept up in war the same idea of mysterious and supernatural power.