This week’s CAIRNS Etanhan Wotanin column is the eighth of our weekly “dispatches” relating to the 1874 reconnaissance expedition into the Black Hills. This week, Native scouts for the expedition killed a grizzly bear and her two cubs, and were paid for doing so by a scientist for the expedition. The image above is a detail of a photograph of Shiyaka, a bear medicine man, photographed in Standing Rock Reservation by Frank Fiske, 1911. The column, “Bears,” can be read now by clicking here, or later this week in the Lakota Times newspaper.