Gros Ventre Stories, continued.
Plenty Coups Recollection of Bull Lodge
In Frank Bird Linderman's book, "Plenty Coups: Chief of the Crows, Chief Plenty Coups recalls an encounter the Crow had with Bull Lodge and other Gros Ventre warriors.
“…the Hairy-noses [Gros Ventre] got into village to steal horses and, were driven out and surrounded in some willows not far from this place—just over there by the spring where Cuts-the-bear’s-ears lives now. When daylight came they killed several Crows who tried to drive them out, and our warriors saw that something different had to be done. Thick grass grew among the willows, and at last the Crows set it afire. But when the flames drew close to the enemy, one of their Wise Ones sang his Medicine Song, putting the fire out with rain. I was too young to know much about it, and what I am telling you now came to me from others who were older. I do know, however, that Bull Lodge, the Wise One who sang and made rain come, was a very powerful man. Our chiefs finally called the Kicked-in-the-belly clan to drive the Hairy-noses out of the willows, and after a desperate fight the thing was done. But I remember it cost more than it was worth”.
From “Plenty Coups: Chief of the Crows”, by Frank Bird Linderman, pp 162-163
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