Summary

Chanuka had been punished for being outside the camp and near where the Dakota were. When the tribe needed someone to scout out the Dakotas they sent Chanuka since he know a lot about the area around them. After Chanuka had been out there a while he came across a wounded Dakota boy that was about his age. He tended his wounds and set him in his canoe so he could bring him back to his tribe while he scouted it. After a while they came across the tribes’ camp. After a while he heard some warrior coming out of one of the tents, he feared they would find him and kill him because he where he was not supposed to be. He hid behind a stack of logs and soon he heard footsteps and feared he was caught, it turned out to be Neosho and he hands Chaunka his pair of beaded moccasins. He told Chanuka that he has to dress up as a buffalo if he wants to escape alive. So Chanuka puts on his moccasins and danced with the other warriors then after everything was over he snuck out of the camp and takes the hide off and swims to his canoe. When he got back to his tribe’s camp he showed the chief the moccasins and told him that the Dakota have had a great hunt and will be able to beat them if they were to go to war with each other. So the chief tells the tribe that they will not be going to war this year.