More than 200 lodges, representing shelter for hundreds of people through the approaching winter.

Winter food stores accumulated over months of hunting and processing — dried meat, pemmican, rendered fat, stored roots.

Equipment, weapons, tools, personal possessions.

More than 1,400 horses.

About 1,000 of them shot on the plains south of the canyon.

What was not lost was more significant still: the lives of the people who escaped.

The warriors on the canyon walls had done their job.

The families got out.