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meet our fate."

It was but a short time after, when on a hunt, that an overwhelming number of the Sioux made onslaught on the Omaha hunting party.  Logan Fontenelle fought as long as he could raise a hand.  He did not quite make his assertion good, but three dead Sioux were found near his body.

Some days after the fight, his body was recovered and brought back to the camp of the Omahas.  The whole tribe went into mourning....

Col. Sarpy sent to St. Joseph, Missouri, and hired a Protestant Episcopal minister to come to Bellevue and read the Episcopal service over the remains.  The white people in all the region of the country, being mostly French traders, assembled the day he was buried.

Logan Fontenelle's name, among the classes of the Omahas, is to this day held in great reverence.

E-STA-MAH-ZA, or IRON EYE

Iron Eye, the second signer, is known to the whites as Joseph LeFlesche.  He was a man of very great natural ability.  He had no education, could not read, write, or speak English, but he always impressed one as a man of thought and good judgment.  He was a unlearned, natural philosopher. ...When the great Indian habeas corpus case was first stated to him, he instantly replied with a clear statement of the fundamental and underlying principles upon which the case should be fought