AN INDIAN ELOPEMENT.
Young Spotted fail, sou of Spotted Tail, the renowned chief of all the Sioux, took advantage of the absence of Chief Stranger Horse on a hunting expedition to pursuade Stranger Horse’s squaw to elope and live with him. Stranger Horse return*‘d from the hunt to find his lire gone out. his squaw—he. had but one—departed and tepee desolate. Gathering his friends about him, he started out wi hj his riflthreatening the life of the chief who had brought shame into his household The affair was reported to the agent, who summoned the faithless wife and her paramour to tinagency, where they were confronted with the vmiiged husband. After a a full hearing of the case, in which the agent acted as m -diator, it was decided that the wounded honor of Stranger Horse should be healed with the gift of an American horse anil a number of valuable articles, and that he should take Back his wife and live with her again. Thus bloodshed was averted and the scandal hushed In tße following the usages of his triße, stranger Horse wi 1 verp likely make the faithless wife a menial, and take another squaw unto himself.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 987, 18 March 1881, Page 3
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199AN INDIAN ELOPEMENT. Dunstan Times, Issue 987, 18 March 1881, Page 3
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