My wife's grandfather had a good buddy I got to chat with when we went back to visit last November. For reference, my wife's approx. 1/4 Menominee, and Grandpa Jack was full-blooded and damn proud of it. His friend was as well, I think.
Anyway, his friend's deer rifle was his father's deer rifle before it was his, and his father's father's... (you know the story). Absolutely immaculate Winchester Model 1866. Gorgeous wood, beautiful patina on the metal, razor-sharp rifling and a bore so shiny you could shave with it. That was the deer rifle.
In the back of the case was his grandfather's war rifle--another 1866 that was dressed with beaded leather, a small string of bear claws (since they're part of the Bear Clan), and some carvings he wouldn't explain and I didn't press the issue.
Originally I thought the buttplate was fully checkered, even down onto the sides. Then I noticed the edges were actually covered in a ring of tiny notches. He told me the long notches were Army soldiers and the short ones were civilian land grabbers.
I guess his grandpa didn't quite agree with the tribe's policy of playing Switzerland and staying out of everything, and did quite a lot of travelling to fight the forced displacement of the tribes as it rolled West. I couldn't tell you for sure how much he slowed it down, but there were a hell of a lot of notches on that rifle.