Moreover, the black soldiers got ten times as much obedience from the Indians loafing around the tepees and wickleups as did we of the white outfit.

The Indians would fairly jump to obey the uniformed Negroes.

I remember seeing a black sergeant make a minor chief go down to a creek to get a pail of water--an unheard of thing, for the chiefs, and even the ordinary bucks among the Sioux, always make their squaws perform this sort of work.

This chief was sunning himself, reclining, beside his tepee, when his squaw started with the bucket for the creek some distance away.

The Negro sergeant saw the move.