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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1920. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... NARRATIVE OF THE ARIKARA Of Their Part In The Campaign Of Lieut.-col. George A. Custer, June, 1876 Sitting Bear's Story of his father, Son-of-the-Star, in the words of Son-of-the-Star as Sitting Bear remembers hearing them.1 The beginning of the permanent friendship between the Arikara and the whites came about from a meeting held by Grand-father, as they called him, on Mussel Shell River in Montana. There was one representative of the Arikara tribe at this meeting, Bear Chief, and he was given authority to choose a colleague on his return, to be chief with him over the Arikara. White Shield was so named and he afterwards appointed Son-of-the-Star as head of the Arikara police. Each chief, according to Arikara custom, had such a police force. The purpose of the Mussel Shell meeting was peace. And thus the police were to prevent hostilities between the Arikara and the whites. The whole camp was full i Unlets otherwise stated the regular interpreter of these narratives was Peter Beauchamp, a graduate of Hampton Institute, Virginia. The numerous footnotes that accompany this narrative are added to indicate how closely the Indian story agrees with the general trend of the official and unofficial accounts of the same events. of respect for the new regime of order and peace, even the oldest of the tribe. The police served to check inter-tribal skirmishes, but not all of the tribes respected the new plan, for the Dakotas continued to plague the Arikara. At this time there were many whites spread far and wide, working in wood camps, on boats, etc., and the Dakotas massacred them. The Arikara and the whites suffered the same fate. This continued from bad to worse; some of the Arikara present at this meeting had helped to defend the whites against the Dakotas. Now Bear Ch...