Three Indians had been searched without incident when a young warrior standing apart from the search held his new, valuable Winchester over his head and announced in Lakota that he had paid a good deal of money for the gun and would not give up such an expensive weapon without being paid for it. Three soldiers grabbed him from behind and they all began to struggle. Troops around them pointed their weapons at the Indian. As the men wrestled, an army scout shouted: “Look out! Look out! They are going to shoot!”26 As the soldiers and the warrior struggled, the gun fired into the eastern sky.27
