Ross’s Reviews > Native Nations: A Millennium in North America > Status Update

“A Lakota calendar records that in the winter of 1814-15, a party of Lakotas visited a Kiowa camp on the North Platte River, in what's now western Nebraska, to discuss peace. The season's name, "Kiowa-Hit-on-Head-with-Axe Winter," reveals that the talks did not go well.”