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Gah-bay-bi-nayss, An Ethnographic Biography of Paul Peter
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Contents     Buffalo Image   Siouxs and Scouts  The Indians we
met on the rivers were pretty nice, at least I thought they
were. They were travellers. They travelled the waters the same
as Indians did before them. When we would meet another group
they would be from our same tribe.  It wasn't always that way.
In my grandfather's time occasionally they'd meet a Sioux
somewhere, but generally the Siouxs would roam pretty far off. I
can't remember any fights with the Siouxs, but I heard the old
folkstell about it though. And I heard them tell about the
uprise they had in spots, but it didn't amount to anything.
Still, in the days when it was wild, the childr