Excerpt from Spirit LakeHair was a leather cap, decorated at the front, on the back, and on either side, with the heads of an eagle, a loon, a crane, and an owl; and with an eagle's tail spreading fanlike behind. In his right hand he grasped a medicine bag and a drumstick; with his left he held a drum. He stood motionless. The smokers among the men, women, and children squatting before him, puffed away at their tobacco all save a boy of six, who withdrew his pipe from his mouth and held it aside while he refreshed himself from his mother's breast.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work.

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