" Among the others there presently ap-
peared a band of renegade Sioux--the exiles,
as they called themselves--under White Lodge,
whose father, Little Crow, had been a leader
in the outbreak of 1862. Now the great war-
chief was dead, and his people were prisoners
or fugitives. The shrewd Scotch trader, Mc-
Leod, soon discovered that the Sioux were
skilled hunters, and therefore he exerted him-
self to befriend them, as well as to encourage a
feeling of good will between them and the Ca-
nadian tribes who were accustomed to make the
old fort their summer rendezvous.
Now the autumn had come, after a long sum-
mer of feasts and dances, and the three tribes
broke up and dispersed as usual in various di-
rections. White Lodge had twin daughters,
very handsome, whose ears had been kept burn-
ing with the proposals of many suitors, but none
had received any definite encouragement. There
were one or two who would have been quite
willing to forsake their own tribes and follow
the exiles had they not feared too much the
ridicule of the braves.
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