76 - MEMORY OF A NOTED CHIPPEWA CHIEF,



ished his dinner, cooly arose, drew his blanket about
him and with a lordly tread and a compressed lip, and
flashing eyes, walked down in front of these hostile
Sioux, and lighting his pipe, deliberately puffed the
smoke into the very faces of his inveterate foe!
  That man was Hole-in-the-Day, the great and noted
chief of the Chippewa Nation, and the thirty Sioux
warriors were on his war-path, but they well knew, and
so did Hole-in-the-Day, that the moment a blow had
been struck, that the white man's troops would dash
down upon them and terminate their career; so the
chief passed along in safety, and the sullen Sioux soon
after withdrew to their own possessions, which, at that
time, was on the west side of the Mississippi river.
The wily chief well knew that his safety lay in the fact
that he was on land belonging to the whites, while had
he been on the other side of the river, on ground owned
by the Sioux, he would have met a terrible death, as it
was only a short time before he crossed the river, took
two Sioux scalps, right in the face of the enemy and
civilization, and returned glorying over his achievement.
He was a brave, intelligent Indian chief, and his mem-
ory is kindly cherished by the whites.
            GRAVE OF HOLE-IN-THE-DAY.
  About two miles northwest of Little Falls, a town
located on the Upper Mississippi river, in Minnesota,
and on a high hill, known as Hole-in-the-Day's bluff,
lies the body of the great Chippewa chief, and that of
his father, a noted chief before him, both facing south-
east, so they can watch the movements of their enemies
-the Sioux. There is a gap between the depression
of the two hills upon which the bodies lie, and in the