This week’s CAIRNS Etanhan Wotanin column is the first of our weekly “dispatches” relating to the 1874 reconnaissance expedition into the Black Hills. The expedition left Fort Abraham Lincoln and crossed the Heart River into Lakotan treaty lands on Thursday the second of July. On the fifth of July, the 1,000-person expedition force camped along a creek that, according to one of the newspaper correspondents, was named Where the Bear Stays in Winter Creek. It was one of the Lakotan scouts, Goose (in the photo above), who shared the name. The column, “Where the Bear Stays in Winter,” can be read now by clicking here, or later this week in the Lakota Times newspaper.