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`` Twice in the year the Pawnees hunted the buffaloes , once in the winter when the robes were good and the buffaloes fat , and once in the summer for food . All the day before we had seen a great dust rising and all night the ground shook with the buffaloes running . There was a mist on the prairie , and when it rose our scouts found themselves almost in the midst of the Pawnees who were riding about killing buffaloes . `` It was a running fight ; from noon till level sun they fought , and in the middle of it , Alights-on-the-Cloud came riding on a roan horse along the enemy line , flashing a saber . As he rode the Pawnees gave back , for the iron shirt came up over his head and their arrows did him no harm . So he rode down our own line , and returning charged the Pawnees , but this time there was one man who did not give back . `` Carrying-the-Shield-in-Front said to those around him : ` Let him come on , and do you move away from me so he can come close .