This is our final “dispatch” from the summer of 1874. In our first column, we cited Black Elk as evidence that Lakotan people knew what was going on in their treaty lands. During the weeks that followed, we found further proof that Lakotans engaged in a form of counter-surveillance, tracking the expedition’s movements into and out of Paha Sapa. Lakotans practiced enormous self-restraint. Contrary to expectation, they refrained from making direct contact until after the expedition returned to Fort Lincoln at the end of August. According to a telegram that was published in the Chicago In- ter-Ocean newspaper on September...

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