Ravens were picking at them.As they arrived, one old woman, a woman of perhaps twenty, and a girl a few years younger emerged from one of the lodges. The old woman looked at them, at the dead bodies, at the cattails crowding the riverbank. Waxed Jacket Barbour men She muttered something, went into the lodge, and came back out with a hoe made from a stick and a buffalo scapula. She started shuffling toward the garden.Flint Shouting asked her a question. She looked at him as if he were crazy and answered, a single short sentence, and continued toward the corn. International Jacket Barbour men She says she has work to do,Flint Shouting translated. I think maybe she s lost her mind. Red Shoes rode toward the younger women and dismounted. Waxed Coat Barbour men Ask her who did this,he told Flint Shouting.The Wichita asked and got an answer. He spoke with the young women and the boys for a few more moments and then straightened in his saddle. Iron men,he said, with many muskets and long knives. International Jacket Barbour men They were of many tribes. Some were Crow, some Black Shoes, some Snake People, some unknown. Some were white, like Tug.They had captives three men and a woman, all white.He looked speculatively at Red Shoes. She said they have heard of these people before. They come from the west, and grow as they come. Quilted Jacket Barbour men Her people did not really believe it, but it seems it is so. They took all the food, except a few caches of last year s corn they didn t find. Like the boys, these women were out of the village when it happened. Wool Jacket Barbour men I don t understand,Red Shoes said. These iron men come from the west. Does that mean they ve passed alreadyThe party we ve been following was going east. Flint Shouting briefly spoke to the young woman again, then nodded grimly and turned back to Red Shoes. Sac Chanel
She says she has work to do,Flint Shouting translated. I think maybe she s lost her mind. Red Shoes rode toward the younger women and dismounted. Waxed Coat Barbour men Ask her who did this,he told Flint Shouting.The Wichita asked and got an answer. He spoke with the young women and the boys for a few more moments and then straightened in his saddle. Iron men,he said, with many muskets and long knives. International Jacket Barbour men They were of many tribes. Some were Crow, some Black Shoes, some Snake People, some unknown. Some were white, like Tug.They had captives three men and a woman, all white.He looked speculatively at Red Shoes. She said they have heard of these people before. They come from the west, and grow as they come. Quilted Jacket Barbour men
Her people did not really believe it, but it seems it is so. They took all the food, except a few caches of last year s corn they didn t find. Like the boys, these women were out of the village when it happened. Wool Jacket Barbour men I don t understand,Red Shoes said. These iron men come from the west. Does that mean they ve passed alreadyThe party we ve been following was going east. Flint Shouting briefly spoke to the young woman again, then nodded grimly and turned back to Red Shoes. Sac Chanel