Google has it that after the debacle at Adobe Walls Isa-Tai blamed a Cheyenne for having killed a skunk and breaking his bullet-proof medicine.

Whereupon the Cheyenne’s, PO’d, started calling him by the derogatory term “Coyote Vagina”.

Some things get lost in translation.


"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744