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Show TOOK THREE ENEMY SCALPS Exploit of Indian Girl Made Her Famous Fa-mous Among the Tribes of the Northwest. One of the most warlike of Indiaa maidens was Hanging (.'loud, a Chippewa Chip-pewa girl, the daughter of Na-nong-ga-hee, chief of a branch of that tribe which occupied the territory around Iiiee lake in northern Wisconsin, some To years a.go. In her hair Hanging Cloud wore three eagle plumes, feigni-fying feigni-fying that she had slain that many braves in battle. This exploit she performed when a party, including herself and her father, fa-ther, were ambushed by a force of Sioux, the Chippewas' traditional enemies. ene-mies. Her father was slain, and Hanging Cloud, feigning death, waited wait-ed until the Sioux came to secure the scalps fif the slain Chippewas, and then, seizing her father's rifle, killed one and. in the pursuit which followed, fol-lowed, succeeded in killing two more. She scorned to marry one of her own tribe, for she coulJ not espouse herself her-self to a leser warrior than she, and so she finally u'urried a white man, with whom shi lived for many years near Rice lake. |