New Sources on Arikara Scouts

Between the time of my last discharge at Fort Stevenson and the time I enlisted at FortLincoln I was around the village here.After the service under General Custer I came back here and have been here ever since.All of those who enlisted with me – that I named above – knew me between the time Iwas discharged the second time at Fort Stevenson and the time I enlisted at Fort Lincoln andknow that my eye was blind at that time.I have no disability at this time other than my eye trouble.I was always known as Wah ne (Handsome Elk) until after I came back after the Custermassacre.I have been married five times. My first wife “Good Goods” died here about fifteenyears ago. She left me and went with another man which left me free to marry according toIndian custom. I had never been married to her by any Indian or other ceremony. The nextwife was Shell Woman. I was not married to her by any ceremony. We only lived together acouple of months. She died a long time ago. The third wife was named Corn Silk Woman. Imarried her by Indian ceremony. She only lived about two years after our marriage which tookplace I don’t know what year. The next was Omaha Woman. I did not marry her by anyceremony. She died about [no number given] years after our marriage. My next wife is mypresent wife Julia Champlain [sic?]. We were married by the Indian Agent at Elbowoods andafterwards by a Catholic priest. We were married fourteen years ago. This wife is still living.I have two children living. May, born, May 1, 1900; and Mabel, born April 7, 1904. I hadno children except by my present wife.I do not desire to be present at the further examination of my claim.I have made no contract with any one for services in prosecuting my claim.I have made no payments to any one except to the notary at Elbowoods for putting theseal on the papers.There are no witnesses elsewhere that I desire examined.There is another man here, Young Hawk, who knew me in the service.I have heard this statement read, I understood your questions and my answers arecorrectly recorded as said.40