1843--Tipi

1843-44

Blue Thunder: "Camped that winter above Fort Rice place. Almost starving. These Hunkpati men have a lodge with a red door. Made a prayer. Asked for the buffalo to come around -- They came. Called 'Man living in a red door winter' or 'Buffalo came with free will winter' First time they had red as a cloth."

No Two Horns: "We found a man dead in a tipi with a red door."

Blue Thunder Variants: "Above Fort Rice. Buffalo come to Wicijela when they were most stormy because a holy man prayed, so called him

Re Tiopa Sa Oti Pte-Aku'

This Door Scarlet Lodge Buffalo Came

Maize means survival

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