He invited some of his best friends, including his brothers and cousins, and announced that he would go on a war party. He intended to steal horses. Eleven men decided to accompany him. He made a hat and a coat of old cloth for each of them. Their appearance was amusing, for they all resembled Clowns. They started and traveled for five or six nights. They found a camp at which there were many horses. They abandoned their blankets and approached the camp, wearing their hats and coats, leaving their legs bare. Each man carried a bow and arrows. One half of the back of each bow was black, the other half was splotched with white dots. The notched ends of the arrowshafts were red, the ends nearest the arrow were white; zigzag lines, representing lightning, extended along the shafts. He carried only a bow and an arrow. Before he started from his camp, he had made an offering to the sun and the moon, told them what he wanted and asked for their help.

They abandoned their blankets and walked into the camp in single file. They went into the middle of the camp and sat there in a circle. The man carried a small drum which he placed on the ground. He sang, and the others danced. The people came out and looked at them, thinking that these men belonged to their own camp. When all the people of the camp had gathered about them, the leader pointed a red arrow first in one direction, then in another. Lightning flashed from every quarter toward. which he pointed, and the people of that camp fell to the ground unconscious. He did the same to the tipis. They fell down, and the women and children in them dropped to the ground unconscious. The Thunders had directed him to do this.

The Canadian Dakota, p. 142