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a knife & stabbed her in the shoulder.  Old woman never moved.  Sioux said she was dead, & went on so she saved her grandchildren.

"Dora's Father"  Dora Indian girl named so at mission.  Dora & her mother died.  One day, Dora's Father met taking a woman her children home a blizzard came up.  children & woman suffering.  Man dug a hole, took off his clothes, made them comfortable & started for help.  After severe struggles into a Lodge - his feet & hands frozen solid - the woman & children escaped.

An Omaha Indian was fighting during the war, was with an officer.  Officer wounded & Indian caught the officer, laid him beside a dead horse flayed the skin & laid it over the officer & then defended the Officer single handed & afterwards carried him miles to a fort to safety.  Month afterward Indian came to the fort, officer saw him & ran & kissed him.