​Ayabe-Way-We-Tung, Chief Little Shell III (1896).

​Ayabe-Way-We-Tung, Chief Little Shell III (1896).

Photo taken during the delegation to Washington, DC.

It was reported that Little Shell and his delegates traveled by foot from Turtle Mountain to Devils Lake in the dead of winter to go to Washington. During the 80 mile walk in the middle of winter, temperatures were -40 windchill.

During the 1950s, a North Dakota State Senator recounted how, when he was a child, he and his family were sleeping in their homestead house. They heard some people enter the house in the middle of the night. They were too afraid to investigate, so they waited until morning. In the morning his father found Little Shell and his men busy cooking bacon. They enjoyed breakfast before heading back out in the cold and finishing their trek to Devils Lake.

Enhanced & colorized by Dibaajimowin (07/21/2020)