This week’s CAIRNS Etanhan Wotanin column is the fourth of our weekly “dispatches” relating to the 1874 reconnaissance expedition into the Black Hills. This week the expedition discovered a Lakotan camp of five lodges around where Deerfield Lake is today. They wanted to capture the camp and when they approached it a man named Slow Bull met them and invited some of the soldiers into his wife’s tipi. She was a daughter of Red Cloud and graciously welcomed them into her lodge. We examine the components of Lakotan tipis and the work that Lakotan women typically did at that time. The image above is a detail of a 1907 photograph of “Mrs. Slow Bull” by Edward Curtis. The column, “Hospitality and Hostages,” can be read now by clicking here, or later this week in the Lakota Times newspaper.