"Every Sioux;" said he, "will steal if he need, and there be a chance.

The best Indian that ever lived, has stolen.

I myself once stole some powder." I have thus, perhaps tediously, endeavored to show, that what is said in this work has been learned by intimate association, and that for years, with the Indian.

This association has continued under influences that secured unreservedly their confidence, friendship--and I may say--truly, in many instances--their affection.

If the perusal of the Legends give pleasure to my friends--how happy am I! To do more than this I hardly dare hope.
M.H.E.
PRELIMINARY REMARKS ON THE CUSTOMS OF THE DAHCOTAHS.
I.
SIOUX CEREMONIES, SCALP DANCE, &c.
The Sioux occupy a country from the Mississippi river to some point west of the Missouri, and from the Chippewa tribe on the north, to the Winnebago on the south; the whole extent being about nine hundred miles long by four hundred in breadth.
Dahcotah is the proper name of this once powerful tribe of Indians.