This week’s CAIRNS Etanhan Wotanin column is our final “dispatch” relating to the 1874 reconnaissance expedition into the Black Hills. In our first dispatch we cited Black Elk as evidence that Lakotans engaged in a form of counter-surveillance, tracking the expedition’s movements into and out of Paha Sapa. Lakotans knew what was going on in their treaty lands. They did not like what they saw, but they still tried to honor their treaty. The image above is a detail of a photograph of a delegation of headmen who traveled to Washington, DC, during the spring of 1875 and tried to convince the Government to honor the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie. From right to left, seated, are Spotted Tail, Swift Bear, and Sitting Bull (identified as an Oglalan, not the more famous Hunkpapan), with Red Cloud and interpreter Julius Meyer standing. The column, “Duplicity and Diplomacy,” can be read now by clicking here, or later this week in the Lakota Times newspaper.