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CONTRIBUTIONS 
 
 ETHNOGRAPHY AND PHILOLOGY 
 
 INDIAN TRIBES 
 
 MISSOURI 
 
 By DR F. V. 
 
 MEMBER OP THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF 
 
 PHILADELPHIA, ETC. ETC. 
 
 PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF CAPT. WILLIAM F. RAYNOLDS, T.E.U.S.A., 
 AND PUBLISHED BY PERMISSION OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT. 
 
 PHILADELPHIA: 
 C. SHERMAN & SON, PRINTERS. 
 
 1862. 
 
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COINTTEISTTS. 
 
 CHAPTER I. Introduction. 
 
 PAGES 
 
 231-234 
 
 ALGONKIN GROUP, A. 
 
 II. Knistcneaux, or Crecs Ethnographical History, ... 
 
 III. Blackfeet Ethnographical History, .... 
 
 IV. Kemarks on the Grammatical Structure of the Blackfbot Language, 
 V. Vocabulary of the Sik-si-ka', or Blackfoot Language, .. 
 
 VI. Shyennes Ethnographical History, .... 
 
 VII. Remarks on the Grammatical Structure of the Shyennc Language, 
 
 VIII. Vocabulary of the Shyenne Language, .... 
 
 231-248 
 248-256 
 257-266 
 266-273 
 274-282 
 283-290 
 294-320 
 
 ARAPOHO GKOUP, B. 
 
 Arapohos Ethnographical History, and Eemarks on the Grammatical Struc 
 
 ture of their Language, ...... 32l-;>-!7 
 
 X. Vocabulary of the Arapoho Language, ...... 328-339 
 
 XI. Atsinas Ethnographical History and Vocabulary, . . . 340-345 
 
 PAWNEE GROUP, C. 
 
 XII. Pawnees Ethnographical History and Vocabulary, .... 345-351 
 
 XIII. Arikaras Ethnographical History and Vocabulary, . . 351-303 
 
 DAKOTA GROUP, D. 
 
 XIV. Dakotas Ethnographical History and Vocabulary, . . . 364-378 
 XV. Assiniboins Ethnographical History and Vocabulary, . . . 379-391 
 
 XVI. Aub-sa'-ro-ke, or Crow Indians Ethnographical History, with Eemarks on 
 
 the Grammatical Structure of their Language, . . . 391-402 
 
 XVII. Vocabulary of the Aub-sa'-ro-ko, or Crow Language, .... 402-420 
 
 XVIII. Minnitarees Ethnographical History and Vocabulary, . . . 420-426 
 
 XIX. Mandans Ethnographical History, ...... 426-435 
 
 XX. Observations on the Grammatical Structure of the Mandan Language, . 4:>5-439 
 
 XXI. Vocabulary of the Mandan Language. ...... 439-444 
 
 XXII. Sketch of the Orna'-ha. and Iowa or Oto Indians, with Vocabularies, . 444-456 
 
ARTICLE III. 
 
 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ETHNOGRAPHY AND PHILOLOGY OF THE INDIAN TRIBES OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 
 
 BY F. V. II A Y D E N, M.D. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 THE materials which compose the following chapters have been accumulated since the 
 summer of 1855, and I now for the first time venture to present them for publication. 
 They are named " Contributions," because they by no means exhaust the subjects treated, 
 and also because they convey but little more than a glimpse of the beauty and fulness of 
 the various Indian languages spoken in the Northwest. No opportunity will be left unim 
 proved in the future to verify or add to the materials already secured, although no effort 
 has been spared to render the present memoir as accurate as possible. A very full Gram 
 mar and Dictionary of the Dakota Language has been published by the Smithsonian Insti 
 tution, which it is but just to pronounce the most important contribution to Indian Phi 
 lology ever made in this country. To this work I am very much indebted for many 
 valuable suggestions during the latter part of my researches. It can hardly be regarded 
 as necessary to perform an equally laborious task for all the native languages of our con 
 tinent, neither could it be done except by intelligent missionaries, who have spent their 
 lives with the Indians, and acquired a great degree of familiarity with their modes of ex 
 pression. With the Dakotas, who occupy so vast an area of our Northwestern country, 
 educated missionaries have resided many years, and have become able to converse with 
 fluency in their own tongue, but this can be said with regard to very few of the North 
 western tribes. In the spring of 1860, some Lutheran missionaries attempted to establish 
 a mission school and farm in the Crow district, near the eastern base of the Big Horn 
 Mountains, but they had been in that country but a few months before the principal man 
 of the enterprise, Rev. Mr. Brauninger, was killed by a roving war party of Dakotas, and 
 thus the attempt to civilize the Crows was abandoned. Among the Blackfeet, at the 
 present time, are some Catholic priests, who are laboring to instruct the youth in the 
 English language, but as yet nothing has been done toward acquiring a knowledge of the 
 native tongue. No permanent mission station has ever been established among the Assi- 
 
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'232 ON THE ETHNOGRAPHY AND PHILOLOGY OF THE 
 
 niboins, Minnitarees, Mandans, Arickares, Shyennes, Arapohos, or Dakotas of the Missouri, 
 and with the exception of the latter, only brief vocabularies of the languages spoken by 
 these nations have been published. 
 
 The tribes enumerated in this work have been separated into four distinct groups, and 
 it is believed that a more careful study and comparison of their different dialects will only 
 tend to confirm this division. 
 
 I. KNISTENEAUX, OK CREES, -\ 
 II. BLACKFEET, > Algonkin Group, A. 
 
 III. SHYENNES, ) 
 
 IV. AKAPOHOS, i 
 
 v Arapoho Group, B. 
 V. ATSINAS, ) 
 
 VI. PAWNEES, i 
 
 *> Pawnee Group, C. 
 VII. ARIKARAS, ) 
 
 VIII. DAKOTAS, 
 
 IX. ASSINIBOINS, 
 
 X. CROWS, 
 
 XI. MINNITAREES, ) Dakota Group, U. 
 XII. MANDANS, 
 
 XIII. OMAHAS, 
 
 XIV. IOWAS, 
 
 Belonging to the last group are the Ponkas, Otos, Missourias, Kansas, Osages, Inapaw, 
 Winnibagos, whose languages have not yet been studied to any extent. 
 
 I atn well aware how incomplete these Contributions are, and would not at this time 
 suffer their publication, did I not believe that there is contained in them much useful in 
 formation which ought to be given to the world in advance of a more elaborate work. 
 In stating the definitions of many of the words, I have often used the peculiar idioms of 
 those Far-Western men, which they have derived from long intercourse with the Indians, 
 and an acquaintance with their peculiar modes of expression. 
 
 In obtaining words from the native Indian, the object is not to labor with any precon 
 ceived opinion in regard to their meaning or their grammatical structure, to which the 
 mind of the Indian must bend in giving his replies, but to let him answer freely, and then 
 by a variety of cross questions, arrive at an approximation to the truth. It has often been 
 a matter of much surprise to me, how much of the grammatical structure of a language 
 may be obtained from a wholly uneducated but intelligent native by judicious manage 
 ment. I have found it of great advantage to enlist the aid of the chiefs and leading men in 
 my labors, from the fact that they, in almost all cases, take great pride in being regarded as 
 
INDIAN TUIBES OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 233 
 
 the censors of the purity with which their language is spoken. They have not unfrequently 
 told me that all the words obtained from certain of the more common men of the tribe 
 were useless, inasmuch as they did not speak their own language correctly. Among all 
 the tribes with which 1 have been acquainted, physical and mental superiority have 
 always taken the lead in the affairs of the nation, without regard to birth, and this is a 
 result growing out of the nature of their nomadic and precarious life. Life to them is, to 
 a great extent, a struggle for existence, and therefore the position of an Indian in his 
 tribe is an almost certain index of his mental status. For this reason, in securing informa 
 tion or in acquiring the language of a tribe, it will be found most advantageous to consult 
 only the chiefs and leading men, and this is the course that I have endeavored to pursue 
 in collecting the materials for this memoir. Whenever I have been obliged to accept the 
 aid of women or ordinary men, I have always submitted the results to a chief to be veri 
 fied or rejected. 
 
 In these preliminary papers, the orthography employed by Mr. Riggs and Professor 
 Turner in the Dakota Grammar and Dictionary published by the Smithsonian Institution, 
 has been adopted in part. It is to be hoped that the Smithsonian Institution, which 
 takes the deepest interest in all researches relating to the aboriginal inhabitants of our 
 country, will recommend some uniform system, and reduce all the Indian languages to a 
 single standard of pronunciation. In the following vocabularies, the consonants are used 
 with their common English sounds, when it could be done, and this is understood when 
 not expressly mentioned. 
 
 a is sounded as in ah, father; when followed by a consonant, a* is used, otherwise it is short, as a in fat. 
 e has the sound of a in face, or e in they ; short when followed by a consonant, as in met. 
 ?', as in marine ; i short as in pin. 
 o, as in note, or short o as in got. 
 u as oo in food ; short as in hut. 
 ai has the sound of i in line, 
 au, as in now, how. 
 
 ( has the aspirated sound of ch in chin, church. 
 g always the hard sound, as in go, give. 
 
 h represents a strong guttural sound, like that of ch in the Gaelic word LorTi, or the German irli ; also re 
 sembling the Arabic kha. 
 
 ij denotes the nasal sound, similar to the French in Ion, or the English n in drink. 
 
 ks has the sound of a: in maxim. 
 
 ts is sounded as in Betsy. 
 
 wh as in what, when. 
 
 i has the sound of z in azure or s in measure. 
 
 * As a rule, a vowel is long when ending a syllabic, and short when followed by a consonant. The exceptions 
 to this rule aro indicated thus : a, long; ii, short. 
 
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 Any additional sounds that may be needed, will be noted at the 'bottom of the page in 
 succeeding portions of the work. 
 
 All the syllables are separated, for greater distinctness, and accented when it could be 
 done with certainty. The accents of some words are omitted, from neglect when securing 
 them in the country, and I dare not trust to my memory to remedy the matter now. 
 
 In all my researches in the Northwest, most important aid has been rendered to me by 
 the different members of the American Fur Company. All their stores of knowledge of 
 Indian life, language, and character, which they had acquired by years of intercourse Avith 
 the different tribes, were freely imparted to me, only a small portion of which is given in 
 the following pages. I am especially indebted to Mr. Alexander Culbertson, the well- 
 known agent of the American Fur Company, who has spent thirty years of his life among 
 the wild tribes of the Northwest, and speaks several of their languages with great ease. 
 To Mr. Andrew Dawson, Superintendent of Fort Benton, Mr. Charles E. Galpin, of Fort 
 Pierre, and E. T. Denig, of Fort Union, I am under great obligations for assistance freely 
 granted at all times. 
 
 To the Smithsonian Institution, and to Professor Henry, I am indebted for rooms, 
 books, and every facility that could be afforded, for the prosecution of my studies. The 
 memoir was written within the walls of the Institution. 
 
 I wish also to acknowledge my indebtedness to the veteran author, Mr. H. R. School- 
 craft, for the loan of many rare books, and especially to Col. Peter Force for the free use 
 of rare books in his magnificent collection, without access to which the present work 
 would have been far less complete. 
 
 The Indian reservations were located on the map under the direction of Hon. Wm. P. 
 Dole, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. This map represents the latest information of 
 that Bureau. 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 ETHNOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 
 
 I. KNISTENEAUX, OR CREES. 
 
 A GREAT difficulty occurs at the commencement of the history of any of these prairie 
 tribes, in discovering anything of ancient date of a reliable character. Among people where 
 no written records exist, and whose only method of preserving their national history is oral 
 tradition, this, after being handed down through several generations, becomes usually so 
 confused and fabulous by the additions and fanciful embellishments of the several narrators, 
 
INDIAN TRIBES OF THE MISSOURI ^ r ALLEY. 235 
 
 that but little can be extracted worthy to be considered of historical value. In regard to 
 the Crees, all appears obscure farther back than 1760.* At any rate, events said to have 
 happened prior to that period, narrated by different persons, differ so materially as to be 
 unworthy of note. From 1760 down to the present time the history of the Crees can be 
 traced with a fair degree of certainty. 
 
 So much has already been written in regard to the literature of the Cree language with, 
 its cognate Algonkin dialects, that I have thought it unnecessary to present a resume of 
 its bibliography at this time, but pass on at once to a sketch of this nation, condensed from 
 information obtained from some of the most intelligent men of the tribe. I will, however, 
 call attention to a rare work"f on the Cree language, by Mr. Joseph Howse, which I re 
 gard as a very important contribution to Indian philology. It appears to be a thorough 
 and philosophical analysis of the grammatical structure of the language, with copious 
 illustrations from the Chippewa, which show the close affinity of the former to the latter. 
 
 The Cree nation was originally a portion of the Chippewa, as the similarity of language 
 proves ; and even now they are so mingled with the latter people as with difficulty to be 
 considered a distinct tribe, further than a slight difference in language and their local 
 position. Their name for the tribe in their own tongue is Ne-a-ya-6g, which means, 
 " those who speak the same tongue." They are called by the Assiniboins Shi-4-ya, by 
 the Dakotas Shi-e-a-la, and by other neighboring tribes, as the Crows, Blackfeet, and 
 Gros Ventres of the prairie, nearly the same, only differing a little in the pronunciation 
 of the word Shi-e-ya. This word has very nearly the same signification among the Assi 
 niboins as that of Ne-a-ya-6g among the Crees. Indeed, the word Shi-e"-ya being Assini- 
 boin, could have no other meaning as a derivation among other tribes, except as an 
 appellation of the native Cree, received from the Dakotas and Assiniboins where it 
 originated. 
 
 Prior to the year 1700 the Crees say they inhabited a district much farther north than 
 at present. -Their range at that time was along the borders of Slave and Athabasca Lakes, 
 
 * Since writing the above I have had access to an interesting collection of voyages, recently published under 
 the editorial direction of Mr. J. G. Shea, of New York. In the account of Le Suaur's voyage up the Mississippi, 
 1699-1700, there is an allusion to the Crees and Assiniboins. Le Sueur seems to have been an Indian trader, 
 and had erected a trading post on the Mankato, or Blue Earth Kiver, a tributary of the St. Peter's River. These 
 tribes are called by him Christinaux and Assinipoils, and he remarks that they " live above the fort on the east, 
 more than eighty leagues up the Mississippi." We are thus able to ascertain very nearly the geographical location 
 of these two tribes more than one hundred and sixty years ago. The Indians themselves, however, can give no 
 definite information of their movements farther back than the period mentioned in the text. 
 
 f A Grammar of the Cree Language, with which is combined an analysis of the Chippewa Dialect, by Joseph 
 Howse, Esq , F.R G.S., twenty years a resident in Prince Rupert's Land, in the service of the Hon. Hudson's 
 Bay Company; pp. 324. London, 1844. 
 
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 the northern end of Lake Winnipeg, and stretching along the Saskatchewan by a chain -of 
 small lakes, in the direction of Hudson's Bay, though never reaching the latter place. 
 The Chippewas, on the other hand, spread out towards Lake Superior, Lake of the Woods, 
 and extended as low down as Lakes Huron, Michigan, and Prairie du Chien. 
 
 The time when and the cause why the Crees separated from the Chippewas and formed 
 themselves into a distinct nation are now lost ; most probably the division was of very 
 ancient date, and arose from some family feud, so frequent in their former patriarchal and 
 primitive condition. The reason may have been that they were induced by superior 
 hunting advantages presenting themselves in that district, where even yet the woods 
 abound with game, and the rivers and lakes are well stocked with beaver, fish, and wild 
 fowl. Whatever the cause of the separation was, it is now not remembered ; and after 
 long and bloody wars with nations still farther north, they were obliged to retreat south- 
 westwardly, where, in the year 1760, we find them along the shores of Red River and the 
 lower end of Lake Winnipeg, living at peace with the Assiniboins, who then joined them 
 and entered into a league, offensive and defensive, against all the surrounding nations 
 except the Chippewas. 
 
 About the year 1800 most of their Assiniboin allies left and migrated to the Missouri 
 and Yellowstone Rivers, though even yet some two hundred to two hundred and fifty 
 lodges live with the Crees. The present boundary of the Cree nation is nearly as follows : 
 On the north and northwest by Red River and Riviere du Pare ; on the south and east by 
 Pembina River ; thence west to the Coteau de Prairie, or divide ; thence along the Coteau 
 through Woody, Cypress, Tinder, and Prickly Pear Mountains, nearly to the bank of the 
 Saskatchewan ; thence to Lake Winnipeg and Red River. This is the section claimed by 
 them as their own, though in their hunting excursions they do not confine themselves to 
 these limits, but are as frequently found west of their boundary, in the country of the 
 Assiniboins, especially if buffalo are not numerous in their own district. Occasionally 
 they sell their robes to the traders on the Missouri, but most of the fine furs they collect 
 they carry to the posts of the Hudson's Bay Company established in their territory. 
 
 The Crees are surrounded on the east by the Chippewas, on the southeast and south by 
 the Dakotas, on the west by the Assiniboins, and on the north and northwest by the Gros 
 Ventres of the prairie and Blackfeet. With the Assiniboins and Chippewas they have 
 always been at peace, but with the Blackfeet and Dakotas they have Avaged an inveterate 
 war beyond the recollection of any one now living, varied only by a transient peace with 
 a portion of the former nation, whom they sometimes meet and hunt with near the Fort 
 de Prairie of the Hudson's Bay Company. 
 
 Before the small-pox made its appearance among them in 1776 or '77, the Crees num 
 bered about eight hundred lodges, one-half of whom, it is estimated, died of that disease. 
 
INDIAN TK1BES OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 237 
 
 Since that time they have gradually increased, particularly those bands that are too remote 
 to suffer from invading foes. At this time (1856) they number about ten or eleven hun 
 dred lodges, averaging four souls to a lodge, making a total of between four and five 
 thousand persons. Like most of the tribes in the Northwest Territory, they are separated 
 into clans or bands, and live in different districts for greater advantages in hunting. The 
 names and number of these bands are as follows: Co-kali, or band of " Eyes Open," bear 
 ing the name of the chief who governs it, consists of one hundred lodges and upwards, 
 who reside in the neighborhood of Lac Qu'apelle ; live in skin lodges ; hunt and trade their 
 skins at the posts of the Hudson's Bay Company. Pe-i-si-e-kan, or " Striped," is composed 
 of forty or fifty lodges ; rove and hunt near Tinder Mountains ; live in skin tents, and 
 trade with the same Company. Pis-ka-kau-a-kis, or " Magpies," are about thirty lodges ; 
 are stationed at Tinder Mountain; live in dirt lodges and log-cabins ; cultivate the soil to 
 some extent, and raise considerable quantities of corn and potatoes ; hunt buffalo during 
 the winter, and trade also with the Hudson's Bay Company. Ki-a-sku-sis, " Small Gulls," 
 reside around the fourth lake from Lac Qu'apelle ; live in skin tents ; were formerly nu 
 merous, but are now nearly all killed off by the Blackfeet, they being nearest of all the 
 bands to this large and fierce nation of enemies. At this time the number is thought not 
 to exceed thirty or forty families. 
 
 1. Wik-yu-wam-ka-mus-e-nai-ka-ta, " The Painted Lodge." 
 
 2. Mus-kwoi-ka-ke-nut, " He who shoots bears with arrows." 
 
 3. A-pis-te-kai-he, " The Little Eagle." 
 
 4. Mus-kwoi-kau-e-pa-wit, " Standing Bear." 
 
 The above are the names of four chiefs who govern each a small band which takes the 
 same name as its leader. These bands live near each other in the country about Fort de 
 Prairie, and trade at that place. They number in all about one hundred and thirty to one 
 hundred and forty lodges, and live in skin tents. 
 
 Ma-tai-tai-ke-6k, or " Plusieurs des Aigles," known among the traders as " Le Sonnant," 
 is chief of about three hundred lodges, who roam and hunt the country along the Mon 
 tagues des Bois, and sometimes trade at the American Fur Company's trading post on the 
 Missouri lliver near the mouth of the Yellowstone, but more frequently at some of the 
 Hudson's Bay Company's forts on lied Kiver. The band of She-mau-kau, or " La Lance," 
 hunt near and in Cypress and Prickly Pear Mountains; live in skin tents; occasionally 
 visiting the Missouri for the purposes of trade, especially if opposition runs high and 
 goods are cheap, otherwise they prefer dealing with the English traders in their country. 
 This is the largest band, and contains three hundred and fifty lodges. Several smaller 
 bands of from thirty to forty lodges each are found every winter near the Woody Moun- 
 
238 ON THE ETHNOGRAPHY AND PHILOLOGY OF THE 
 
 tains. They generally trade their robes on the Missouri, and carry their fine furs, wolf 
 skins, dried meat, and tallow, to the traders of the Hudson's Bay Company. 
 
 Besides the foregoing there are about two hundred lodges more who are not formed 
 into bands, but scattered along Lac de L'Isle Croix, and live by hunting reindeer, moose, 
 fish, and wild fowl. They live in skin tents in the summer, but sometimes build log and 
 bark huts in winter, and seldom more than one cabin is found in the same place. These 
 are the poorest of the Crees. 
 
 These Indians are of the same opinion in common with other prairie tribes, that the 
 Master of Life, the sun, intended all hunting lands for the sole use and occupation of the 
 Indians, but do not think that he parcelled out distinct portions to each nation. Land, 
 as far as their knowledge of it extends, is regarded as a common whole, which any nation 
 (of Indians) has a right to live upon and retain possession of as large a district as they are 
 able to defend. Their right to their own territory is in accordance with this general 
 principle, contending that they have been forced back from superior grounds to those they 
 now inhabit, and consequently they have the right in turn to dislodge others for their own 
 welfare. All nations feel and acknowledge the expediency and necessity for seeking a 
 subsistence any and everywhere, as long as they are dependent solely on the chase for 
 support ; hence the deadly struggles on the borders of each to prevent approximation. 
 Each nation feels that it must make war to prevent others from settling near them, and 
 the result is, that between each nation there is a large extent of neutral ground, seldom 
 if ever traversed except by passing war parties. 
 
 The Crees do not seem to possess any idea, either by tradition or otherwise, from which 
 we should judge that whites or any other civilized race had occupied the country previous 
 to the Indians ; nor have they any knowledge of quadrupeds foreign to America, or differ 
 ing from those now hunted and domesticated by them. They have no name for the 
 entire continent, neither are they aware of its extent. They will mention American lands, 
 English possessions, &c., but these terms only extend to those parts with which they are 
 acquainted. 
 
 None of these wild tribes have any just idea of the form of the earth, nor of its natural 
 divisions into seas, continents, islands, &c. The earth they regard as a great plain, and 
 they know that there are many lakes that contain islands, for the Cree country abounds 
 with them. All the nations are well enough acquainted with the natural features of their 
 own lands, but they have no idea of the extent of other territories. They have no notion 
 of the earth as a whole, and the ocean they think is a large lake, from the description 
 given them by the voyageurs of that body of water. Indeed, they have a very faint idea 
 of any lands or "waters outside of the boundaries of the district over which they range ; 
 and when the voyageurs, who have been sent out by the Hudson's Bay Company to the 
 
INDIAN TRIBES OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 
 
 sea-coast, describe to them the great ocean, they are not generally disposed to place any 
 confidence in their statements. 
 
 The principal river in the Cree country is the Riviere du Pare, which takes its rise from 
 springs in the Rocky Mountains, east of the Missouri, and, running in a northeastern 
 direction, empties into Lake Winnipeg. In regard to its length, our informant, who has 
 frequently travelled from its mouth to its source, states it to be sixty-seven days' travel up 
 in Mackinaw boats ; which, averaging eighteen miles per day, would make its whole navi 
 gable length about twelve hundred miles, and from the head of navigation to its source 
 one hundred and fifty miles farther. Small boats are taken up this river at all times, 
 when it is free from ice, to within one hundred and fifty miles of its source, where the 
 Hudson's Bay Company have erected a fort, called " Fort Cassepierre," at which point goods 
 are landed for the trade with the Crees in that vicinity. This is the highest post on the 
 river, though there are other trading-houses at different points lower down the stream. The 
 middle portion of this river is about three hundred yards in width ; at its mouth it is 
 nearly a mile wide, and generally from ten to fifteen feet deep, and contains one hundred 
 and sixty rapids and falls of various heights ; at all of which the goods which are taken 
 up, or the packs of furs which pass down, are carried round by portage. On this account, 
 all packages are made to weigh ninety-five pounds each. These are transported on the 
 backs of voyageurs around the falls, and at large or dangerous rapids the boats are also 
 carried, otherwise they are let gently down after having been unloaded. 
 
 Assiniboin River takes its rise on the north side of the Woody Mountains, and after 
 running through several lakes, empties into Lake Winnipeg. Its entire length, including 
 the lakes, is estimated at four hundred miles. There are no rapids in this river,. and it 
 is navigable throughout with Mackinaw boats, in which the goods and peltries of the 
 Hudson's Bay Company are carried to and from the different posts along its banks. 
 
 Red River is a branch of the Assiniboin River, emptying into it about forty miles above 
 the junction of the latter with Lake Winnipeg. This is called " The Fork," and on it is 
 established one of the largest forts belonging to the Hudson's Bay Company. The prin 
 cipal branch of Red River rises in Red Lake ; it is from fifty to sixty yards wide, with a 
 deep and slow current. The other branch heads in Lake Traverse, and joins the first 
 about one hundred miles above the mouth of Pembina River. This is called the " Plat 
 Cote" branch, and is not navigable for boats except during spring freshets, and even then 
 it is attended with much danger. 
 
 Pembina River rises in Turtle Mountain, its sources soon forming a lake ; after which 
 it passes through four other lakes. It is a long, crooked stream, full of rapids, and is not 
 navigable by any craft larger than a bark canoe. It empties into Red River, eighty miles 
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 above the junction of that river with the Assiniboin. Nine miles above its mouth, and 
 spread along its banks, is a settlement of the Cree half-breeds. 
 
 La lliviere aux Souris owes its origin to springs rising in the Coteau de Prairie, or 
 " divide." This is a long and very crooked stream ; so much so, we are informed, that 
 after seven days' travel down it, a distance of not more than thirty miles in a right line 
 has been gained. Its length is estimated at six hundred miles; it is from one hundred 
 to one hundred and fifty yards wide, but very shallow, and is not navigable except when 
 swollen by the spring thaws, when it may be descended with loaded Mackinaws. It joins 
 Assiniboin River ninety miles above the mouth of Red River, and there are five trading- 
 posts of the Hudson's Bay Company along its banks. 
 
 These are the principal rivers in the Cree country, although there are many others 
 running into these. Along the banks of all, and indeed throughout the whole of this 
 immense district, are a great many springs of excellent water, many of which might afford 
 power for machinery ; others are impregnated with salt, from which an abundant supply 
 of this article is obtained by the inhabitants. Nearly all the lakes of the larger class are 
 deep enough for good-sized steamers, and are stocked with incredible quantities of fish 
 and wild fowl. 
 
 All the territory claimed by the Crees, with the exception of a few square miles near 
 its southeastern boundary, is beyond the parallel of 49, and consequently in the English 
 possessions. The general surface of the country is what may be called rolling, though 
 there are extensive level prairies in some parts of it. As a whole it forms a gradual descent 
 from the base of the Rocky Mountains east of the Missouri, including several mountains 
 of smaller note, which give rise to the rivers and creeks running in every direction through 
 the interior, thus cutting up the surface. At the base of many of the hills and mountains 
 from which springs flow are found marshes, or what are called by the inhabitants " mus 
 kegs," of various extent, from a few miles to a day's travel across, depending upon the 
 supply of water by which they are fed, or whether the surface of the ground is level and 
 without any indented outlet. These swamps are, for the most part, covered with tall, strong 
 grass, growing very thick, six or eight feet high, sometimes with rushes intermingled ; but 
 the ground, though humid, is not miry, and can in most places be traversed on horseback. 
 All the rivers are well wooded along their margins, and groves occur on the adjoining 
 bluffs arid for some distance beyond, often extending several miles when the soil is moist 
 and adapted to the growth of trees. On the level plains patches of timber are to be met 
 with, being more numerous and larger in the northern than in any other part of the dis 
 trict. Although there is more prairie than woodland, it is by no means a barren country, 
 and differs materially in quality of soil and appearance from the Dakota lands, which 
 continue on the east and southeast, where all the plains are dry and unfruitful. 
 
INDIAN TRIBES OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 241 
 
 The soil of the whole Cree district is of a good quality, as has been shown by the 
 agriculturists settled along the banks of lied and Pembina Rivers, and the small band of 
 Cree Indians who raise maize and other vegetables at Tinder Mountain. The half-breed 
 settlement on lied River contains at this time over eight thousand persons, many of whom 
 cultivate the soil and raise live stock to a great extent ; but owing to their locality being 
 subject to -inundations from lied River during the spring thaws, sweeping off their stock 
 and other property, many of them have been induced to remove and settle on Pembina 
 River within the American boundary, where they live by hunting and cultivating small 
 portions of land. Many more of these people will follow, and soon a' village will spring 
 up in this place. There are at the present time a Catholic and a Presbyterian church, 
 schools, grist and saw mills, several stores and trading establishments, &c. ; indeed, the 
 country presents many advantages which cannot fail to attract the attention of numerous 
 restless emigrants in search of lands flowing with milk and honey. Wheat, oats, barley, 
 and corn grow well ; also potatoes and all kinds of garden vegetables are produced abun 
 dantly ; but as yet, no market being created for their surplus grain and stock, the attention 
 of settlers on the American side has not been directed to farming on a large scale. Those 
 on the English side dispose of a portion of their produce and stock to the Hudson's Bay 
 Company, who ship it to other parts farther north, where breadstuff's are not raised ; but 
 only a small part is thus disposed of, the greater portion being consumed among them 
 selves. 
 
 It is believed that the whole Cree district is arable and fit for tilling or grazing pur 
 poses, both prairie and woodland, though the latter perhaps is not as good as the low prairie, 
 on which the spontaneous grasses of the most nutritious character grow. But the small 
 rushes, common to the low grounds in this country, are said to be more nutritious for 
 animals than any kind of grain. A very poor horse will become fat if allowed to range 
 among them twenty-five or thirty days. Notwithstanding the high latitude of the country 
 the domestic animals are not usually housed during the severe cold winter; and those left 
 to run at large are said to be invariably in a better condition in the spring than those kept 
 in stables and fed on grain. Indeed, this region is known to be one of the best grazing 
 and grain-growing countries in North America. Horned cattle and horses are raised in 
 numbers, with a few sheep, but the latter are not much attended to. 
 
 Where springs and streams are not convenient, water can be obtained by digging from 
 ten to thirty feet in level places, and the water thus found is free from any mineral taste, 
 and suitable for culinary purposes. The portions designated as marshes are not useless or 
 irreclaimable ; on the contrary, the waters accumulating in these swamps could be collected 
 and made subservient to agricultural uses. The soil in these places is of the richest quality, 
 and would soon repay the expense of draining did the increase of population demand it. 
 
242 ON THE ETHNOGRAPHY AND PHILOLOGY OF THE 
 
 In most places where the country is thickly timbered, the ground underneath is covered 
 with moss and bushes, but with little or no grass. It is only in such places and for that 
 reason that the soil sustains any damage from the burning of the prairies. The moss 
 forming the sod being reduced to a cinder by the fire, the roots are destroyed, and several 
 years must elapse before another coat of green adorns it ; which, like the preceding, is 
 destined to be burned when the fire passes in that direction. The vegetation of the 
 prairie, however, receives no such damage ; being deeply rooted the stalk only burns, and 
 the heat is swept away by the winds ; the roots retain their life ; and soon after another 
 crop springs up more lively and thick than the former, owing to the surface being cleared, 
 by the fires, of the decayed vegetation. The large timber, however, suffers greatly on 
 these occasions. Vast forests are thus completely destroyed, and centuries will be required 
 to replace them. 
 
 The burning of the prairies is not a custom resorted to by the Indians to facilitate 
 hunting, as is generally supposed. Nothing offends them more, and their laws among 
 themselves are very severe in this matter, as it effectually destroys their hunting by driving 
 away all game, and renders the country unfit for pasturage during the winter when burnt 
 late in the fall. These fires originate, for the most part, in the carelessness of hunters 
 and travellers, by the malice of individuals, or passing war parties of other nations. Some 
 times these fires are very destructive, and sweep over districts hundreds of miles in extent ; 
 on other occasions they are extinguished by rains, snow, or the wind blowing in the 
 contrary direction. A few years ago a large party of half-breeds camped near a frozen 
 swamp and let their horses loose among the tall grass. Their camp fires by some accident 
 communicated with the grass, and the wind being very strong, all their horses, to the 
 number of two hundred or more, were surrounded by the flames and destroyed. 
 
 The climate may be considered variable, not in regard to heat and cold, but moisture 
 and dryness. Cold and constant northeast winds in the spring bring rain, and from May 
 until the last of June may be called the wet season. In July and August there are no 
 settled rains for days at a time, but violent thunderstorms come from the west and south 
 west, which in a few hours swell the smaller streams to the top of the banks, though 
 seldom to overflowing. Red River, being the grand reservoir of all the others, is the only 
 stream that inundates the surrounding country. This inundation is seldom caused by 
 rain, but only by the sudden thawing of the deep snow in the spring. Severe thunder 
 storms seldom last more than an hour or two, when the clouds pass away, the sun shines 
 out fiercely, and soon the prairies are as dry as before. These storms are of frequent 
 occurrence in the summer months, but the autumn is dry and pleasant. About the tenth 
 of September the evenings and mornings become cool and frost appears. October ushers 
 in the winter with snow ; the rivers close up about the first of November, and remain 
 
INDIAN TUIBES OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 243 
 
 
 
 fro/en over until the middle of April. The snow is deep, the months of December, 
 January, and February very cold, the thermometer seldom rising above zero, but rang 
 ing from that point to 40 below it. During the winter north and northwest winds 
 prevail, which always bring snow, while at that season south and west winds indicate 
 clear weather. All travelling and hunting by the Indians and half-breeds in the winter 
 season is done with dog-sleds, horses not being able to wade through the deep snow. The 
 hunters travel about on snow-shoes. The snow is never permitted when it falls to lie 
 quietly on the ground, but is soon drifted by the winds into immense banks, and every 
 valley and ravine becomes almost impassable. Thus large areas are left bare, exposing the 
 grass to the animals. The climate is quite healthy ; fevers are almost unknown, but ex 
 posure for a long time in the cold air brings on catarrh, rheumatism, quinsy, and diseases 
 of the lungs. 
 
 On one of the branches of lied River, and near the new settlement of Pembina, is a 
 small lake, from which two hundred barrels of salt have been obtained by the inhabitants. 
 Lignite occurs quite abundantly over a large portion of the Cree country, and may at some 
 future period be employed for the purposes of fuel. 
 
 These immense plains and forests are alike silent as to their having been anciently the 
 abode of any race differing from the present occupants. Nothing is ever seen that would 
 indicate that this country had ever been the residence of other nations of savages, much 
 less any works of human industry of civilized beings at a remote period. The only ob 
 jects worthy of attention in this respect, are the mounds of earth raised by the interments 
 of the dead ; but these have been formed within the last century, and are known to con 
 tain the bodies of those Indians who died of the small-pox in 1776 or 1777. 
 
 Hundreds of bodies have been buried beneath them, or, rather, the mounds are com 
 posed of many separate burials, alongside, and over each other ; and persons are yet 
 living who contributed to their structure, by interring their parents or friends. During 
 the second visitation of this disease in 1838, several smaller depositories of this kind were 
 made by the Crees ; a comparatively small number of people having died at that time. 
 These facts may throw light upon the origin of these formations in other parts of our 
 country. Ordinarily, Indians are not buried in heaps ; because, when not visited by 
 severe maladies, they rove in quest of game, are a healthy people, and seldom more than 
 one or two graves are seen near any one of their transient encampments ; and even where 
 large villages have wintered, the interments do not often exceed ten or a dozen. But, 
 when a pestilence like the small-pox prevails, attacking the whole nation at the same 
 time, they are disabled from travel, obliged to remain stationary until the disease abates, 
 and thus hundreds are consigned to the same burial-ground. In former years, the Indians 
 could not excavate to a sufficient depth, for want of proper tools ; and, therefore, as each 
 
244 ON THE KTHNOGHAP11Y AND PHILOLOGY OF THE 
 
 
 
 individual died, he was interred near the surface, and the spot covered with a large quan 
 tity of rock and earth to protect the body from birds and beasts of prey. The disposition 
 of all the Indians is to have their bodies deposited near those of their deceased relatives, 
 or even on the top of them ; and this would, in process of time, build up a large mound- 
 like cemetery, which would also become covered with grass and trees. It is evident, that 
 the extensive mounds found in different parts of this continent, have been formed in this 
 manner, where large villages of Indians have been located for years, and selected a spot 
 for their burial-ground. The size of these mounds is not remarkable, since they took, 
 perhaps, a century or more to accumulate ; but where a numerous population existed, and 
 were swept off by pestilence, each interment contributing its quantity of earth and rock, a 
 mound of large size would soon appear. As it has always been the custom, and still is, 
 for the North American tribes to bury with their dead, if a man, his implements of war, 
 if a woman, her domestic utensils, these depositories, if carefully opened, and the different 
 strata of burial examined, would exhibit the different stages of advancement, pro 
 viding they had made any. The only change we now know anything of, is the aban 
 donment of their stone implements, as soon as they were able to obtain metallic ones. 
 The Cree nation always inter their dead, in preference to placing them in the forks of 
 trees, as is the custom with other tribes. The grave is scarcely of sufficient depth to 
 cover the body, which, with the envelopes and implements, is of considerable bulk. A 
 pile of earth and stone is raised, around and on the top, in the form of a cone, fifteen to 
 twenty feet in circumference, and two to four feet in height. The arms and utensils 
 used by this tribe in ancient times, were, pots of stone ; arrow-points, spear-heads, 
 hatchets, and other edged tools, of flint ; knives of the buffalo hump rib ; fish-hooks from 
 sturgeon-bones, and awls from the bones of the moose ; the fibres of the root of the pine 
 tree, called by them wa-tah, was, and is still to some extent, used as twine for sewing 
 together their bark canoes ; a kind of thread is also made out of a weed called sha-a-sup, 
 which they use for making nets ; stone axes and mallets were made of various sizes, and 
 used for different household purposes ; spoons, called mi-kwoi-yis, and pans, were made 
 out of the horns of the moose. Of all these, there yet remain a few, but most of them 
 have been laid aside for more convenient ones obtained from the traders. Bone fish 
 hooks and awls, with lines made of the aforementioned root and plant, are still in use, 
 and preferred by the Indians to those of European manufacture. ' They also cling with 
 great tenacity to the horn spoon ; perhaps for the reason that it is larger, and better 
 adapted to serve their capacious stomachs. The process of manipulation by which these 
 things were wrought, was chiselling one stone with another, until the flint knife was 
 made, with which other instruments were formed ; a process, doubtless, long and tedious. 
 The art is now lost, or, at least, discontinued ; but we are informed that it w;is not con- 
 
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 fined to separate individuals, as a trade : each warrior or hunter made his own arms, or 
 employed some old man to make them, whose time was of less value. 
 
 The amount of their knowledge on this subject is small, even less than that of the sur 
 rounding nations. They believe the earth to be an extensive territory of the same figure 
 as their own country, intersected by rivers, mountains, lakes, and surrounded by oceans, 
 the whole forming, as it were, a fiat circle, joined around the edge to the sky, which is a 
 solid mass of blue earth supporting the entire universe. The sun, they say, is a body of 
 light and heat, and is the great master of life, gives life, heat, and light to all things, and 
 is a country inhabited by departed spirits. The moon also they regard as another world, 
 but not a hot body, deriving its light from the sun and stars, and in the sun and moon is 
 located the Indian paradise. Stars are small lights attached as by a cord to the sky, and 
 are not supposed to be other worlds, but ornaments and luminaries to the upper regions. 
 The Milky Way is called the " Chief's Road," and is thought to be a line of division 
 separating the sky into two portions. This was done by their Great Spirit Chief for pur 
 poses set forth in their traditions, which are too lengthy to be recounted here. The sun 
 is thought to go round the earth, which remains stationary ; and every effort proves abor 
 tive to make them understand that the apparent motion arises from the diurnal revolution 
 of the earth. When the sun is in an eclipse, they say a portion of the material is burned 
 up, dead, and this is what is meant by a " dead sun," but they entertain no supersti 
 tious fears of eclipses being the forerunners of great evil, as other nations, and look upon 
 the extinction of a part as the natural result of a burning body, which, as it exists of 
 itself, has the power to burn again. The North Star is called the stationary star ; the Ursa 
 Major, the " tail of stars." These are all that have particular names attached. They 
 are also aware of the revolution of the Ursa Major around the Polar Star, and can tell 
 the watches of night by this with tolerable certainty. The Aurora Borealis is called the 
 " dance of the dead," who are supposed to be enjoying themselves in these regions. 
 Meteors are stars falling out of their places by having the cords burned that attach them 
 to the sky, and go out as they fall. In regard to comets they have no clear idea, neither 
 have they any superstitious belief attending their appearance. Indeed, these Indians do 
 not seem to fear any natural phenomena except thunder, which is supposed to be the 
 screaming and flapping of the wings of a large bird, which they represent on their lodges 
 as a great eagle. Wind is supposed to be produced by its flying, and flashes of lightning 
 are caused by the light of the sun reflected from its white and golden plumage, and when 
 strokes of lightning are felt, they are thunder-stones cast down by this bird. All storms, 
 tornadoes, &c., are caused by its wrath, and fair winds, calm and fine weather, are regarded 
 as tokens of its good humor. 
 
 The Crees have no word signifying a year, neither is there any stated number of days 
 
246 ON THE ETHNOGRAPHY AND PHILOLOGY OK THE 
 
 forming that period of time. Each month begins when the new moon appears, and ends 
 when it is no more seen. During the few days the moon is invisible, it is said to be dead. 
 They cannot even tell how many days make a moon, and all subdivisions of time are de 
 noted by the different phases of the moon, as "moon on the increase" (first quarter), 
 " half moon" (second quarter), " more than half round" (third quarter), " full or round 
 moon," " decreasing moon," " small moon," " dead moon." Every moon is named after 
 some fruit ripening, or other invariable annual occurrence, as follows, beginning with the 
 spring some time in March, when the snow begins to disappear. 
 
 1. Is-ke-pe-sim, Duck month or moon. 8. Pin-pa-kdn-o-pe-siui, Leaves off the trees. 
 
 2. A-ik-e-pe-sim, Frog moon. 9. Na-ma-pi-ne-kais, Fish-catching moon. 
 
 3. Sha-ke-pa-ka-o-pe-sim, Leaf moon. 10. Pa-pa-ke-se-kin-e kis, Moon that strikes the earth 
 
 4. Me-ne-sa-kd-tik-tuk-e, Service berries ripe. cold. 
 
 5. N6-tse-hi-kd-pe-sim, Buffalo-rutting moon. 11. Kis-ki-pd-pa-ke-tek-e-num, Coldest moon. 
 
 6. Wa-ke-pa-kdn-o-pe-sim, Leaves-changing moon. 12. Ka-mak-e-tuh-pe-siui, Ice-thawing moon. 
 
 7. Wa-sta-o-pa-kd wo-pe-sim, Leaves entirely changed. 13. Me-ke-su'-e-pe-sim, Eagles-seen (moon). 
 
 The other divisions of time are as follows : 
 
 Pa tak-pdw, Daybreak. Wa-wa-ne-nd-kwon, Twilight. 
 
 Pe-e-sini-sdk-o-ta-o, Sunrise. Te-pis-kd-o, Night. 
 
 A-pe-tdk-e-se-kdu-o, Midday. A-pis-td-te-ka-o, Midnight. 
 
 Pa-kis-e-mo", Sunset. We-pd-a-sta-o, Moonlight. 
 
 Any intermediate period of time would be indicated by pointing with the finger to the 
 place where the sun is supposed to be at the time referred to. 
 
 One, pe-e"t. Seventeen, me-ti-ta-ta-u-wd-ta-pd-ko. 
 
 Two, ni-shi. Eighteen, me-ta-ta-ta-u-wa-a-a-na-ne-o. 
 
 Three, ni-sto. Nineteen, me-td-ta-ta-u-wd-ka-ka-we-td-tat. 
 
 Four, na-6. Twenty, ne-si-ta-no. 
 
 Five, ne-un-un. Twenty-one, ne-si-ta-n<5-pe-et-o-sap. 
 
 Six, gii-to-wa-shik. Thirty, ni-st6-mi-ta-no. 
 
 Seven, ta-pa-k<5. Forty, na-mi-ta-no. 
 
 Eight, a-ha-nd-ne-o. Fifty> ne-a-nu-na-rni-ta-no. 
 
 Nine, ka-kd-we-ta-tat. Sixty, gu-to-wd-se-mi-ta-no. 
 
 Ten, mi-ta-tat. Seventy, ta-pa-o-ta-te-mi-ta-no. 
 
 Eleven, pa-ii-kwo-sap. Eighty, a-a-nd-na-ta-ta-mi-ta-no. 
 
 Twelve, n6-so-sap. Ninety, ka-kd-me-ta-ta-te-mi-ta-no. 
 
 Thirteen, nish-to-sap. One hundred, me-ta-ta-sta-mi-ta-no. 
 
 Fourteen, na-o-sap. Five hundred, ne-a-niin-me-td-tas-ta-mi-td-no. 
 
 Fifteen, ne-d-nun-sap. One thousand, kis-c'e'-me-ta-tds-ta-mi-td-no. 
 
 Sixteen, gu-to-wd she-sap. Ten thousand, me-td-tat-kis-(^e-me-td-tas-ta-mi-ta no. 
 
INDIAN TRIBES OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 247 
 
 It is seen by the above that the Crees, as is the case with most if not all the Northwest 
 tribes, count entirely by tens. From one to ten, each number has a separate name, but 
 afterwards the word " sap" is added, meaning beyond, as, pa-a-kwo-sap, one beyond ten,= 
 eleven ; ne-so-sap, two beyond tcn,=twelve ; and so on until we reach seventeen, when the 
 name for ten and for seven is mentioned, as me-ta-ta-ta-fi-wa-ta-pa-ko. This continues 
 to twenty, which becomes ne-si-ta-no, and to it are prefixed the names of the first ten 
 numerals in their order up to thirty, &c. 'They can count with correctness as far as a 
 thousand, but farther than this, they have very little occasion to enumerate. Should it 
 become necessary, they use small sticks as counters, to prevent confusion. They have no 
 number representing a million, nor do they add, subtract, or divide, without the use of 
 counters to aid their memory. 
 
 It is customary with the traders of the Hudson's Bay Company to facilitate hunting by 
 crediting the Indians for small amounts, varying according to the character of the person 
 credited. Indians that have always paid their debts promptly can get advances to the 
 amount of thirty plues, while others of more doubtful reputation are credited Avith an 
 amount sufficiently large to enable them to hunt, say five to ten plues. A plue is an imagi 
 nary amount placed on the value of skins, equal to about two shillings sterling. The pro 
 ceeds of all hunts are reckoned in plues, and the prices of merchandise are fixed to conform 
 to this standard, by which the Indians are able to calculate with certainty how much of 
 each article they will receive for furs collected. The traders' accounts are kept in the fol 
 lowing manner. 
 
 DR. Le C/icf ihi Tonnerrc. Cree. Cu. 
 
 1854. 1855. 
 
 Aug. To G feet blue cloth, .... 8 plues. March. By 10 muskrat skins, .... 2 plues. 
 
 " 1 foot scarlet cloth, . . . 3 " "1 large beaver skin, ... 4 " 
 
 " 1 white blanket, 3 points, 7 " "1 small " " . . . 2 " 
 
 " 20 loads ammunition, . . . 1 " "10 otter skins, average 2 p., . 20 " 
 
 " 3 feet N. W. twist tobacco, 1 " "6 cross % skins, " 4 " . 24 " 
 
 " 1 N. W. gun, 15 " "2 silver " " " 5 " . 10 " 
 
 " 1 horse, 30 " "1 buffalo robe, 3 " 
 
 05 " 65 " 
 
 Now although a plue has a nominal value of about two shillings sterling, it is not to be 
 inferred that the actual value of that amount of money is paid in merchandise, at prime 
 cost, with expenses of transportation and a fixed per cent, added. All articles of trade 
 are reduced to a standard price, and made proportionally higher or lower as they are neces 
 sary or indispensable to the Indians. Care is taken, however, not to rate too high such 
 articles as guns, ammunition, horses, traps, and other things absolutely required for hunting 
 VOL. xii. 32 
 
248 ON THE ETHNOGRAPHY AND PHILOLOGY OF THE 
 
 purposes, for in that case, the Indians not being able to procure them, would fail in their 
 hunts, and the trade thereby suffer. But such articles as tobacco, cloth of gay colors, 
 ornaments, beads, c., bear very high prices in comparison with their actual cost. Thus 
 we see in the foregoing bill that a Northwest gun, the prime cost of which in England is 
 seldom less than two pounds sterling, sells for fifteen pines, while half a pound of tobacco 
 worth sixpence is sold for one plue. 
 
 The Indians themselves keep no accounts either pictorial or otherwise, nor can we learn 
 that any devices are used by them in trade, except that they sometimes aid the memory 
 by notches on a stick, or the memory is refreshed by the trader when they have the means 
 to pay. The Crees sometimes use strokes in successive lines of ten each, until they arrive 
 at the required amount, as 
 
 1111111111 . . . 
 
 1111111111 . . . 
 
 1111111111 . . . 
 1111. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 It. BLACKFEET. 
 
 ETHNOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 
 
 IT has usually been understood that the history, traditions, and customs of Indians have 
 been handed down from generation to generation by the principal men of each tribe with 
 a fair degree of certainty by means of oral tales. Each tribe, it is true, has its traditions, 
 which arc very numerous, but they are for the most part fabulous; and I have never yet met 
 with an Indian nation that could give its history with any degree of accuracy farther back 
 than one hundred years. Even then it is so mingled with fable that it becomes quite a 
 difficult matter to sift out the truth from so much chaff. It becomes, therefore, a matter 
 of great ethnological interest to place on record as much of the present history of these 
 wild, changing tribes of the prairie, as can be secured of a reliable character. From the 
 different members of the American Fur Company, many of whom are intelligent, well- 
 educated men, I have obtained a large mass of information in regard to the Blackfeet, 
 which I think is reliable, and in a future publication I hope to present it in full. 
 
 The Indians usually known under the general name of Blackfeet, are the Piegans, Blood 
 Indians, Blackfeet, and the Gros Venires of the prairie, or, as they are sometimes called, 
 Fall Indians. Of these, the first three speak the same language, and are sprung from the 
 same stock, but the last belong to quite a different group, and use a dialect entirely dis 
 tinct from the others. The Gros Vcntres, or, as they call themselves, Atsinas, arc a branch 
 
INDIAN TRIBES OF THE MISSOURI VALLEr. 
 
 249 
 
 of the Arapohos, who, from some feud, so common among savages, became separated from 
 their friends, crossed the Rocky Mountains and associated themselves with the Blackfeet. 
 When this division took place is not now correctly, known, though it seems not to have 
 been at a very remote period, most probably within the last century. When treating of 
 that group in a subsequent sketch, I shall present all the information that can be obtained 
 in regard to that matter. Their former hunting grounds, as indeed those of the whole 
 Blackfoot nation, were on the tributaries of the Saskatchewan, in which region buffalo and 
 other game abounded. Previous to the opening of the trade with these Indians on the 
 Upper Missouri, they sold all their skins to the Hvidson's Bay Company, seldom visiting 
 the headwaters of the Missouri, except for marauding purposes. 
 
 The Blood Indians range through the district along Maria, Teton, and Belly Ilivers, 
 inclining west and northwest far into the interior. In this section, wood is more abun 
 dant, pasturage excellent, and, consequently, buffalo almost always abound there. 
 
 The Blackfeet inhabit a portion of country farther north than the Bloods, extending to 
 the banks of the Saskatchewan, along which they often reside. 
 
 They have never altogether abandoned their English friends, and more frequently dispose 
 of their furs to them than to the American traders on the head branches of the Missouri. 
 
 The Piegans roam through the Rocky Mountains on the south side of Maria River, on 
 both banks of the Missouri. They often extend their travels as far as St. Mary's Valley, 
 where the Flatheads are stationed, with whom a precarious peace has been in existence 
 for many years back, though often interrupted by the other bands of Blackfeet. They 
 also hunt as far down the Missouri as the Mussel-shell River, and up that stream to the 
 borders of the Crow country. 
 
 The three divisions last mentioned constitute the Blackfoot nation proper, whose name 
 has become notorious for their fierce and deadly struggles with all the neighboring tribes, 
 and in former times struck terror to all white men who travelled in any'district from the 
 Saskatchewan to the Yellowstone, and from the Yellowstone to the Columbia. 
 
 The Blackfeet are such a nomadic people that it is a difficult task to obtain a per 
 fectly accurate statement of their numbers. The following estimate, given in one of the 
 United States Indian agent's reports,* is probably an approximation to the true number : 
 
 Bands. 
 
 Lodges. 
 
 Men. 
 
 Women. 
 
 Children. 
 
 Total. 
 
 Blackfeet, 
 
 150 
 
 260 
 
 400 
 
 540 
 
 1200 
 
 Bloods, 
 
 300 
 
 500 
 
 800 
 
 1100 
 
 2400 
 
 Pie <7i aris. 
 
 460 
 
 900 
 
 1200 
 
 1600 
 
 3700 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Total, 
 
 910 
 
 1600 
 
 2100 
 
 3240 
 
 7300 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1858. 
 
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 ON THE ETHNOGRAPHY AND PHILOLOGY OF THE 
 
 In Volume I of the Pacific Railroad Reports^ by Gov. I. I. Stevens, Mr. James 13oty 
 has given an estimate of the numbers of the Blackfeet, from information obtained under 
 the most favorable circumstances. 
 
 Bands. 
 
 Lodges. 
 
 Population. 
 
 Warriors. 
 
 The Bloods, 
 
 350 
 
 2450 
 
 875 
 
 The Blackfeet, 
 
 250 
 
 1750 
 
 C25 
 
 The Pie^ans, 
 
 360 
 
 2520 
 
 900 
 
 
 
 
 
 Total, 
 
 960 
 
 6720 
 
 2400 
 
 
 
 
 
 These bands all live in skin tents, like the rest of the prairie tribes, follow the chase for 
 a subsistence, and in former years were famous for their war excursions against neigh 
 boring tribes. 
 
 The country they inhabit varies in its natural features from the broad plains east of the 
 Missouri to the highlands and undulating hills as we approach the western barrier of the 
 llocky Mountains. That part of it reaching towards the Saskatchewan is a level plain, 
 many days' travel in extent, and nearly destitute of timber. There is an abundance of 
 good grass, however, and small lakes supply water to the immense herds of buffaloes that 
 are found there in the summer season. These animals seem to prefer the level plains in 
 warm weather, approaching the timbered sections in the fall and winter to obtain the 
 shelter of woods and hills during the severe cold and deep snows of that season. On this 
 account the Indians can provide themselves Avith food and clothing at all times ; for if the 
 buffalo remained in the plains during the winter season, they would not be able to procure 
 fuel, and certain death would, ensue from the intense cold and terrible winds that sweep 
 over these broad, naked praiiies. 
 
 On the south side of the Missouri, up the Mussel-shell, Judith, or any of the streams 
 which take their rise in the mountains in that direction, the face of the country is more 
 broken, hilly, and better timbered. Travelling over this district is quite difficult, on ac 
 count of the exceeding ruggedness of the surface, called by the Indians and Canadian 
 voyageurs " Bad Lands." Very good grass is found in this portion in many places, and 
 it is a favorite resort for game, on account of the facilities for concealment. Near the 
 mountains there is an abundance of wood, water, and grass, for the wild animals, or for 
 the horses of the Indian and voyageur. 
 
 The timber of the several rivers running through the Blackfoot country, is chiefly 
 cottonwood, and on the hilly portions, several kinds of pine and cedar, with a few quaking 
 asps and stinted elms. Along most of the ravines springs up a thick growth of bushes, 
 
INDIAN TRIBES OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 251 
 
 such as osier (Connt*\ rose, and bluewood, with patches of cherry, plum, and service- 
 berry shrubs. On the eastern side of the Missouri, berries are not abundant, but along 
 the base of the mountains, they are very plentiful. Plums and cherries are the most 
 abundant, and are eagerly sought after by the Indians, and regarded as great delicacies. 
 Gooseberries, wild currants, and grain de bceuf can also be found, but not in large quanti 
 ties. None of the trees bear nuts that can be eaten, and in consequence, the supply of 
 fruit cannot be considered a safe resource, should game become scarce. 
 
 The soil of this portion of the western territory is not generally more than three or 
 four inches in depth, and in the " Bad Lands," or more rugged portions, there is com 
 paratively little grass, and the rocks are composed mostly of clays, sands, and sandstones. 
 The valleys and level plains are quite well clothed with the short, curly buffalo grass, and 
 other prairie grasses. None of these grasses grow more than eighteen inches or two feet in 
 height, but they are very nutritious. No great variety of flowers adorns these endless plains, 
 and we look in vain for the beautiful display so often seen along the lower portion of the 
 Missouri. The whole extent of country presents a dreary, desolate aspect, especially 
 when parched up by the hot sun of midsummer, or covered with the deep snow of winter. 
 There is nothing inviting to the eye of the traveller, except, perhaps, the herds of buffalo, 
 some one of whom may furnish him a repast, after he has spent the day traversing the 
 prairie in search of wood and water sufficient to cook his meal. 
 
 The climate near the mountains is much milder than that lower down the Missouri ; 
 the rivers close later, and open much sooner than at the mouth of the Yellowstone. 
 Leaves put forth from two weeks to a month earlier in the spring, and sometimes the vege 
 tation exhibits the full bloom of spring at the Blackfoot Fort, while the hills around Fort 
 Union arc covered with snow, and the trees show no sign of leaves. Snow-storms arc 
 not so violent and cold, nor of so long duration, and in the level country, the snow rarely 
 falls more than eighteen inches in depth, but it is soon blown into the ravines, leaving the 
 tops of the hills bare, and the valleys impassable on horseback. 
 
 The degree of cold at the Blackfoot trading post is seldom lower than 20 below zero ; 
 usually above that point, while at Fort Union, the thermometer ranges from 25 to 40 
 below zero for three or four weeks at a time. War parties of Assiniboins, going to the 
 Blackfect from the latter place, have travelled as far as Milk River on snow-shoes, over 
 throe feet of snow, and above that point, found the surface scarcely covered. Ducks and 
 geese pass the winter at the foot of the mountains, in springs and streams which are never 
 fro/en over. On the summits of the mountains, snow often continues the year round, 
 while that collected on their sides and in the valleys, melts away about the middle of 
 May, which causes the annual rise of the Missouri. It is said by the Indians and voya- 
 geurs, that this rise almost invariably occurs about the time when the roses are in bloom. 
 
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 In the summer of 1855, a treaty was concluded with the Blackfcet, by Commissioners 
 on the part of the United States, having for its object the entire cessation of hostilities be 
 tween them and neighboring tribes. Other stipulations were made with regard to depre 
 dations on white persons, either resident in, or travelling through their country. About 
 $50,000 worth of goods of various kinds were sent to their country by the Government, 
 and distributed among them, and a number of other tribes who were present at the treaty. 
 Since that time, the Blackfeet have become more and more peaceable, and at the present 
 time, they are considered the best disposed Indians in the Northwest. Their head chief 
 his adopted, in part, the costume of the white man. and is setting the example to the 
 remainder of his tribe, of settling down for a portion of the year, and cultivating the soil ; 
 and as the game becomes scarce, others will follow. 
 
 In regard to the early history of the Blackfoot nation, we know very little, except from 
 brief allusions of various writers, and a few scanty vocabularies. They have always been 
 considered a bloodthirsty, cruel, and treacherous race, a terror to white men as well as 
 Indians. As far as their present condition is concerned, the contrary is the case. There 
 is now no more peaceable, honorable, and prosperous Indian nation in the West than the 
 Blackfeet. The impression in regard to their ferocity was doubtless derived, to a great 
 extent, from the glowing accounts which have been given from time to time of their 
 sanguinary conflicts with the trappers, a class of people, many of whom were scarcely less 
 savage than themselves, and who always gave them ample cause for attacking them, when 
 they found them the weaker party. From my own experience among them, and from in 
 formation derived from intelligent men, who have spent the greater portion of their lives 
 with them, I am convinced that at the present time, they are among the most peaceable, 
 honorable Indians in the West, and in an intellectual and moral point of view, they take 
 the highest rank among the wild tribes of the plains. They arc also more flexible and 
 teachable in their natures, and the head chief, a man who has attained his position by 
 his prowess and success in war, has laid aside the Indian costume, put on that of the 
 white man, located his family permanently on the Government farm, and commenced 
 the cultivation of the soil, thus setting a noble example to his tribe. I have never met 
 with Indians who appeared so susceptible to the influences of civilization as the Blackfcet, 
 providing they are rightly applied. It is true that they have been brave and fond of war, 
 which they have waged with relentless zeal against the Crows, and other hereditary 
 enemies, from time immemorial. Their superior intelligence and energy have rendered 
 them successful against an equal number of whites, and superior numbers of the neigh 
 boring tribes, until they became a terror to both. The writer has travelled much in their 
 country, and when within the limits of the district claimed by them, he has felt safe, but 
 
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 when white men are found by them in their enemies' country, they arc regarded as giving 
 aid and comfort to their foes, and are liable to be treated accordingly ; at least, this was 
 the case until after the treaty with the United States Government in 1855. Since that 
 time, they have been, for the most part, at peace with all nations. 
 
 Very little reliable information has ever yet been given to the world in relation to 
 this tribe, and it is only within a comparatively recent period, that the true affinity of 
 their language was known, some supposing them to speak an independent language ; 
 others a remote dialect of the Dakota stock. In the Transactions of the American 
 Ethnological Society, Vol. II, Gallatin proved conclusively .that they belonged to the great 
 Algonkin Group. So far as I can ascertain from the books within my reach, I desire 
 to present a brief account of the statements of travellers, who have noticed them, and 
 to allude to the different vocabularies of their language, which have already been given 
 to the world. 
 
 So far back as 1789, Mackenzie, in his " General History of the Fur-Trade," says : " On 
 the head waters of the South Branch (Saskatchewan), are the Picaneux, to the number of 
 twelve to fifteen hundred men. Next to them, on the same water, are the Blood Indians, 
 of the same nation as the last, to the number of fifty tents, or two hundred and fifty men. 
 From them downwards extend the Blackfeet Indians, of the same nation as the two last 
 tribes ; their number may be eight hundred men. Next to them, and who extend to the 
 confluence of the South and North Branch, are the Fall or Big-bellied Indians, who may 
 amount to about six hundred warriors." Again, he says, " The Picaneux, Blackfeet, and 
 Blood Indians are a distinct people, speak a language of their own, and I have reason to 
 think, are travelling northwest, as well as the others just mentioned, nor have I heard of 
 any Indians with whose language that which they speak has any affinity." 
 
 Umfreville, in a well-written work, published about 1791, says (on page 200) that the 
 three bands, Blackfeet, Piegan, and Blood Indians, all speak the same language, and have 
 the same laws and customs. They were the most numerous and powerful nation with 
 which he was acquainted. In this work he gives a list of forty-four words of their lan 
 guage, which, so far as I know,-was the first ever published of their tongue. He also 
 mentions the occurrence of the small-pox in 1781, which spread generally throughout the 
 Indian country. It proved very destructive, not one in fifty of those attacked surviving, 
 and it seriously injured the trading interests. 
 
 In Lewis and Clarke's Journal, quite extended and interesting accounts are given of 
 their intercourse with this tribe, but nothing definite in regard to their former history, 
 and no vocabulary of their language. It would appear that at the time of their visit to 
 the West, in 1804, '5, and '6, these Indians had taken up their abode near the sources of 
 the Missouri. 
 
254 ON THE ETHNOGRAPHY AND PHILOLOGY OF THE 
 
 Brackcnvidgc, in his " Voyage up the Missouri River, in 1811,"* merely alludes to the 
 Blackfeet. " They wander on the heads of the Missouri, Maria River, and along the 
 Rocky Mountains ; they are also Sioux. They trade at the same establishments with the 
 Assiniboins, and are at war Avith the Crow nation. They have been very troublesome to 
 our traders, to whom they have conceived a deadly hatred. Their country the most 
 abundant in beaver and other furs." 
 
 Mr. Morse, in 1822, speaks of the Blackfeet as inhabiting the headwaters of the Mis 
 souri, of whom very little is known.f 
 
 In the Transactions of the American Antiquarian Society, Vol. II, Mr. Gallatin has 
 summed up in the most able manner, all the knowledge that had been previously obtained 
 in regard to the Blackfoot nation, and their language. Mr. Gallatin's memoir was pub 
 lished in 1836, and at that time, he says: " We have as yet no other vocabulary of those 
 two nations (Blackfeet and Gros Verities of the prairie), and of the Assiniboins, but the 
 scanty one of Umfreville. It is sufficient, however, to show that the Assiniboins are, as 
 they have been uniformly stated, a branch of the Sioux family, and that the languages of 
 the Rapid Indians and of the Blackfeet are distinct from each other, and different from 
 any other known to us." 
 
 Again, in 1818,+ Mr. Gallatin published a second memoir on the American Aboriginal 
 Languages, in which he proves most conclusively the affinity of the Blackfoot language 
 with the Algonkin stock. Out of 180 words of which the vocabulary was composed, 54 
 have clear affinities. The vocabulary, as well as much information in regard to the Upper 
 Missouri tribes, was furnished to Mr. Gallatin by Mr. Kenneth Mackenzie, an intelligent 
 Scotchman, and for many years one of the principal partners of the American Fur Com 
 pany, in charge of Fort Union, at the mouth of the Yellowstone. 
 
 A vocabulary of the Blackfoot language is published in Vol. VII of the United States 
 Exploring Expedition, Ethnography and Philology, by Horatio Hale, Philadelphia, 1846. 
 From what source Mr. Hale obtained this vocabulary, I could not ascertain. 
 
 In a work by George Catlin, " Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Con 
 dition of the North American Indians," London, 1841, 2 vols. 8vo., may be found a very 
 good vocabulary of the language under consideration, and it is remarkable as being the 
 second one ever published of these Indians. Mr. Catlin did not visit the Blackfoot coun 
 try, however, inasmuch as he did not ascend the Missouri higher than the mouth of the 
 Yellowstone. The Blackfeet not unfrequently visited this post in former times for trading 
 or marauding purposes. 
 
 * Journal of a Voyage up the Missouri River, in 1811, by IT. M. Brackcnridge, Esq. Pittsburg, 1814. 
 f Report to the Secretary of War on Indian Affairs, by Rev. J. Morse, D.D. New Haven, 1822. 
 J Transactions of the American Ethnological Society, Vol. II. New York, 1848. 
 
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 But the most reliable information in regard to the Indians of the Upper Missouri is 
 given in that magnificent work of Maximilian, Prince of Wied.* He visited that country 
 in the years 1832, '3, and '4, and spent considerable time among the Blackfeet, under 
 circumstances which were favorable for obtaining an accurate knowledge of them. He 
 also procured a brief but very correct vocabulary. 
 
 There is also a vocabulary of the Blackfoot language in the " Proceedings of the Philo 
 logical Society of London," Vol. IV, 1850, but I was unable to gain access to it. 
 
 A good traders' vocabulary was made by J. B. Moncrovie, who was for a long time a 
 trader among the Blackfeet Indians on the Upper Missouri. This is published in School- 
 craft's " Indian Tribes of the United States," Vol. I'l, pp. 494-505. 
 
 A few words, about twenty-three in number, and the Lord's Prayer translated into 
 the Blackfoot language, is given in the latter part of a work entitled, " Oregon Missions, 
 and Travels over the Rocky Mountains, in 1845 and '46, by Father P. J. Do Smet, of the 
 Society of Jesus." 
 
 The above comprises, as far as I can ascertain, the entire literature of the Blackfoot 
 language, and it will be seen that it consists only of rather brief vocabularies. Nothing 
 of the grammatical structure has ever been secured, and thus my brief sketch may be con 
 sidered as the first attempt toward a grammar of this language. 
 
 An interesting sketch of the Blackfoot nation may be found in Part V of Schoolcraft's 
 great work. The materials were supplied by the late Col. D. 1). Mitchell, of St. Louis, Mis 
 souri, who spent many years among these Indians, as one of the partners of the American 
 Fur Company. It may be well in this place to discuss the origin and meaning of the 
 names of the different bands of the Blackfeet. Col. Mitchell relates the origin of the term 
 Blackfoot in the following manner. These Indians originally inhabited the region of country 
 drained by the Saskatchewan and its tributaries, and only visited the valley of the Missouri 
 on hunting excursions or marauding expeditions. They became distributed over a wider 
 range of country on account of the claims of two ambitious chiefs, each one of whom desired 
 the sole command of the nation. Thus a separation took place, and the followers of one 
 chief retired southward to the headwaters of the Missouri, where game is plenty and all 
 the luxuries of a savage life are abundant. The remainder continued in the valley of the 
 Saskatchewan, where they roam at the present day, trading, for the most part, with the 
 Hudson's Bay Company. Prior to the separation, however, bloody battles ensued, in one 
 of which the parties fought " three days and three .nights. The sun and moon was made 
 red by smoke of the hot blood which flowed through the ravines, and the rocks along the 
 banks of Belly Ilivcr remain red to this day." The black chief was at length defeated, 
 
 * llcise des Prinzen Maximilian zu Wied, Coblentz, 1839-1841. 2 vo's. 4lo Vol. IT, pp. 589 ct seq. ; Vol. 
 II, pp. 480-486. There is also an English translation of the narrative in 1 vol. 4to. London, 1843. 
 VOL. XII. 33 
 
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 and he and his followers retired to the Missouri, where they arrived in the fall, when the 
 prairies are burnt by the autumnal fires. In their travels their moccasins and leggins 
 became blackened by the burnt grass, and in this condition they were first seen by the 
 Crows and other neighboring tribes, who at once gave them the name they now bear. 
 This account undoubtedly forms a part of their mythology, but how much of truth there 
 is in it, it is impossible to determine. So far back as 1789, before any of the nation roamed 
 so far southward as the sources of the Missouri, we know that the same three divisions, 
 bearing the same names as at the present time, constituted the Blackfoot nation. The 
 name is derived from sik-si-nim', black, and probably at-si-kin',a shoe or moccasin, which 
 could be easily abbreviated into sik-si-ka', the name not only for a band or division, but 
 also for the whole tribe. 
 
 The name of the second band has been spelled in a variety of ways, as, Kahna, Kaenna, 
 &c. ; but as given to me by the best interpreter in the country, and approved by the chief, 
 it is Kai'-e-na, people who counted a plenty of " coups," that is, people who took in war a 
 great many scalps and arms ; and this appears to me to be the true interpretation. The 
 meaning given by the Prince of Neuwied is essentially the same. " Before the Blackfeet 
 divided into separate bands, they were encamped in the neighborhood of five or six tents 
 of the Kutonas or the Sarcecs, I believe the former. The Siksikai and the Kahna desired 
 to kill the Kutonas ; and though the Piekanns declared against it, a part of those Indians 
 attacked the few huts during the night, killed all the inmates, took the scalps, stained 
 their faces and hands with the blood, and then returned. Disputes ensued in consequence 
 of this cruel action ; the Indians separated from each other, and the murderers received 
 the name which they have ever since retained. They have always manifested a more san 
 guinary and predatory character than the others, of whom the Piekanns have always been 
 remarked as the most moderate and humane of this nation." 
 
 The name of the third band has also been spelled in a variety of ways, as, Picaneux, 
 Piekan, Piekanns, Piegan, &c. From the best authority, the interpreter before-mentioned 
 gave the name to me as, Pi-kun'-i, people with badly dressed robes. 
 
 In the following grammatical sketch and vocabulary, I have presented only an abstract 
 of the materials in my possession, and have made the whole as brief as possible. Farther 
 researches will render much of the information not included in these papers more complete 
 and reliable, and on that account it is omitted. 
 
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 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 REMARKS UPON THE GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURE OF TUE BLACKFOOT LANGUAGE. 
 
 I. PARTS OF SPEECH. 
 
 1. THE parts of speech are the noun, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, inter 
 jection, pronoun, and verb. Of all these, the verb is the most complex, and the most 
 important. 
 
 II. NOUNS. 
 
 2. No change is made in the termination of a noun to indicate its case : this is known 
 by its position in the sentence. In nouns indicating possession, the name of the possessor 
 usually comes first ; as, mus-op-ski'-o-yis', a muskrat's lodge. 
 
 3. Nouns have two numbers, singular and plural, which are shown by difference of ter 
 mination. In the Blackfoot language all nouns, with few exceptions, have variable but 
 distinct terminations, indicating the plural number, and a portion possess two plural end 
 ings ; as, po'-ksa-6is, a hammer ; plural, po'-ksa-6iks ; second form, po'-ksa-6i-sa'-wa, the word 
 a-ku'-a-wa, meaning " a good many," being incorporated into the noun. Examples : 
 
 SINGULAR. PLURAL. 
 
 2d form. 
 
 nm-tu'-a-wa. 
 
 ni-pu'-a-wa. 
 
 mu-ku'-a-wa. 
 
 
 
 1st form. 
 
 Spring, 
 
 mu-tu', 
 
 mu-tu'-isc,* 
 
 Summer, 
 
 ni-pu', 
 
 ni-pu' -isc, 
 
 Autumn, 
 
 mu-ku', 
 
 mu-ku'-is6, 
 
 Winter, 
 
 stu'-yi, 
 
 stu'-yis<5. 
 
 Star, 
 
 ko-ka'-tos, 
 
 ko-ka-to'-siks. 
 
 Antelope, 
 
 a-wa'-kos, 
 
 a-wa-ko'-slks. 
 
 Tongue, 
 
 ma-tsi-ne' ; 
 
 ma-tsi-ne'-iks, 
 
 ma-tsi-ne'-a-wa. 
 
 4. So far as I have yet observed, gender is distinguished by the use of different names ; 
 as, stuni'-ik, a buffalo bull ; ski-ni', a cow ; pu-no-ka'-mi-ta, a horse ; ski'-am, a mare. 
 
 III. ADJECTIVES. 
 
 5. Adjectives usually follow the nouns which they describe ; as, mis'-tis-oh'-o-tok, petri 
 fied wood. But to this rule there are an unusual number of exceptions in the Blackfoot 
 language ; as, pi-wali'-o, bad lands, from pi'-wa, rough, rugged, and ali'-o, land ; ba-kap'-sa-ko- 
 ma'-pi, a lazy boy. 
 
 6. Adjectives have the same numbers as nouns (see Remark 3) ; as, 
 
 * Last syllable pronounced as istch. 
 
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 SINGULAR. 
 
 PLURAL. 
 
 
 
 1st form. 
 
 2d form. 
 
 Good, 
 
 ah'-si-o, 
 
 ali'-si-Iks, 
 
 ah'-si-a-wa. 
 
 Lazy, 
 
 ba-kaps', 
 
 ba-kap'-siks, 
 
 ba-kap'-si-a-wa. 
 
 Bad, 
 
 ma-kaps', 
 
 ma-kap'-slks, 
 
 ma-kap'-si-a-wa. 
 
 Dreadful, 
 
 ko-ma'-pi, 
 
 ko-ma'-pis6. 
 
 
 Ugly, 
 
 muli-si-num', 
 
 
 inuh-si-num'-i-a-wa. 
 
 Hot, 
 
 kris-tu'-yi, 
 
 kris-tu'-yisd. 
 
 
 7. Degrees of comparison in adjectives are not shown by inflection, bnt their significa 
 tion is increased or diminished by means of adverbs ; as, ki-nai'-ah'-si-o, all good ; i-tai-mali'-si-o, 
 there are none so good ; mis-ti-poks'-ah'-si-o, beyond good, the best of all. 
 
 8. Adjectives are sometimes formed from nouns by the addition of a syllable ; as, on'-o- 
 tok, a stone, 6h-o-t6k'-sku, stony ; mis-tek', a rock, mis-tek'-sku, rocky. A more thorough 
 knowledge of the language would doubtless multiply these examples. 
 
 9. The cardinal numbers are as follows : 
 
 One, nis'-i. 
 
 Two, na-tok'. 
 
 Three, noli. 
 
 Four, ni-su'-i. 
 
 Five, ni'-si-to. 
 
 Six, na'-au. 
 
 Seven, ih'-it-sili. 
 
 Eight, na-nis'-o. 
 
 Nine, pih-su'-a. 
 
 Ten, ki-pu'-a. 
 
 Eleven, nit'-si-ko-put'-o. 
 
 Twelve, nat'-si-ko-put'-o. 
 
 Thirteen, ni'-ko-put'-o. 
 
 Fourteen, ni'-si-ko-put'-o. 
 
 Fifteen, ni-sit-si'-ko-put'-o. 
 
 Sixteen, na-a'-ko-put'-o. 
 
 Seventeen, ili-it'-si-ko-put'-o. 
 
 Eighteen, na-ni'-si-ko-put'-o. 
 
 Nineteen, pih'-si-ko'-put'-o. 
 
 Twenty, na-tsi'-po. 
 
 Twenty -one, na-tsi'-po-nit'-si-ko'-put'-o. 
 
 Thirty, ni-hip'-o. 
 
 Forty, ni-sip'-o. 
 
 Fifty, nis-it'-sip-o. 
 
 Sixty, na'-ip-o. 
 
 Seventy, kit-si'-kip-o. 
 
 Eighty, na-na'-sip-o. 
 
 Ninety, pili'-sip-o. 
 
 One hundred, ki-pip'-o. 
 
 IV. ADVERBS. 
 
 10. Adverbs precede the verbs which they qualify, as, ma-toli'-si-po-ksi-po'-at, he came 
 afterwards. The following is a list of the principal adverbs known : 
 
 e-sum'-o, a good while, 
 a-sto-ko'-ki, near by. 
 na-to'-tsi, so, likewise, in like manner, 
 ma-toh'-si, afterwards, 
 ma-to-ko'-tsi, never, 
 mats-ta'-nis-tsit, again, once more. 
 
 a-me'-tohs, above. 
 
 seli'-ta, it may be, perhaps. 
 
 ai-sum'-o, long ago. 
 
 ali-o-tsi'-ma, in exchange. 
 
 skna'-to-nis, early, soon in the morning. 
 
 a-pin'-o-kos, to-morrow. 
 
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 pi-ih'-tsi, far off, at a distance. fa'-ni-sto-tu'-yi, how ? how have you done it ? 
 
 noli, now. to-toli'-tsi, on this side. 
 
 kin'-i, enough. a-pum'-ots, on the other side. 
 
 nun'-u-wa, at last. pi-na-poli'-tsi, down, as down the river. 
 
 nun'-u-wa-po-ksi-po'-at, he came at last. sa-oli'-tsi, out of doors. 
 
 ai-pis-tskai'-kum-o, a little while ago, lately. na-koh'-tsi, a little. 
 
 mi-im', over yonder. pa-ki-tsi'-ku-im, with great difficulty. 
 
 kin-i'-nai, there. ka-tets', none. 
 
 u'-no-mai, here. ka-nis'-i, smoothly. 
 
 e-ka'-pa-nis-tsi, after. ma-ta'-kai-im, not enough. 
 
 spoli'-tsi, above. is-6i'-ka, more. 
 
 a-kai'-im, much, plenty. ma-tu'-ni, yesterday. 
 
 sa-nis'-tsi, when, at what time ? ai sali'-ta, why ? 
 
 tsi-ma', where, in what place ? 
 
 V. PREPOS'ITIONS. 
 
 11. As a general rule, prepositions follow the nouns which they govern, as: 
 
 sa-toli'-si, beyond. kai-e'-ksi-se-to'-ko, through a gap or pass. 
 
 pau-ah'-u-i-sa-toli'-si, beyond the ridge. se-to-ko'-ksin, between or among. 
 
 u-ni'-mai, at. a-pa-toli'-si, behind. 
 
 mu-yis'-u-ni'-njai, at the house or lodge. sai-a'-ni-sots, down. 
 
 pi-sto'-tsi, in. it-si'-o, in. 
 
 mu-yis'-pi-sto'-tsi, in the house. sa-ko'-mi-it-si'-o, in the ground. . 
 
 se-to'-ko, through, between. 
 
 VI. CONJUNCTIONS. 
 
 12. Conjunctions are few in number, as: 
 
 i-yo'-pi, if. 
 
 10 VII. INTERJECTIONS. 
 
 lo. 
 
 e-ku'-ta-nis-6i'-wats ! is it possible ! a-e' ! oh ! yes ! is it so ! 
 
 at-sto mat'-sa ! oh dear ! at-sto'-ma-ki-ni'-sa ! pity ! poor fellow ! 
 
 VIII. PRONOUNS. 
 
 14. The pronouns are of two kinds, the simple and the fragment pronoun. The simple 
 pronouns are complete in themselves, but the fragment pronouns are either prefixed or 
 inserted into verbs, adjectives, and nouns. The simple pronouns are as follows : 
 
 ni-stu'-a, I. ni-stu'-nan, us or we. 
 
 ki-stu'-a, you or thou. ki-stu'-wa-wa, you. 
 
 u-stu'-i, he or him. u-stu'-wa-wa, they or them. 
 
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 nit-si-nan', mine, 
 kit-si-nan', thine, 
 u-tsi-nan', his. 
 
 nin-i-6i'-tup-i, I myself alone. 
 kin-i-6i'-tup-i, you yourself alone, or thyself. 
 u-ni-6i'-tup-i, he himself alone. 
 
 nit-si-na'-nan, ours, 
 kit-si-na'-nan, yours, 
 u-tsi-nan' -wa'-wa, theirs. 
 
 nin-i-6i'-tup-i-nu'-ni, we ourselves alone. 
 kin-i-6i'-tup-i-nu'-ni, you yourselves alone. 
 u-ni-6i'-tup-i-wa'-wa, they themselves alone. 
 
 15. The fragment pronouns are connected with nouns, adjectives, adjective verbs, and 
 verbs. Those prefixed to nouns denote possession ; as, 
 
 no-tos', my horse. 
 
 ko-t5s', thy horse. 
 
 o-tos', his horse. 
 
 noli'-u-a, my son. 
 
 koli'-u-a, thy son. 
 
 ou'-u-a, his son. 
 
 noli-u-i'-ksi-nan, our sons. 
 
 koh-u-i'-ksi-nan, your sons. 
 
 oli-u-i'-ksi-nan, their sons. 
 
 ni-tun'-a, my daughter. 
 
 ki-tun'-a, thy daughter. 
 
 i-tun'-a, his daughter. 
 
 no-ko'-si-nan-sa'-ko-ma'-plks, our children, boys. 
 
 no-to'-siks, my horses. 
 
 ko-to'-siks, thy horses. 
 
 o-to'-slks, his horses. 
 
 noli'-u-iks, my sons. 
 
 koh '-u-Iks, thy sons. 
 
 oli'-u-Iks, his sons. 
 
 no-kos', my child. 
 
 ko-kos', thy child. 
 
 o-kos', his child. 
 
 no-ko'-siks, my children. 
 
 kit-o-ki'-man, thy wife. 
 
 u-no'-i, his father. 
 
 no-ko'-siks'-ni-tun'-iks, our children, girls. 
 
 16. These fragment pronouns are also incorporated into adjective verbs and adjectives ; 
 
 as, 
 
 ni-ta'-ats, I am well. 
 ki-ta'-ats, thou art well. 
 a-a'-tsu, he is well. 
 
 i-a-tsop', 
 i-a-tsi-a -wa, 
 
 they are well. 
 
 ni-tut'-si, I am brave, 
 ki-tut'-si, thou art brave, 
 ma'-tsi, he is brave. 
 
 ni-ti'-o-to'-kos, I am sick. 
 ki-ti'-o-to'-kos, thou art sick, 
 i'-o-to'-kos, he is sick, 
 ni-ti'-o-to-ko'-spin, we are sick, 
 ki-ti'-o-to-ko'-spin, you are sick, 
 i'-o-to-ko'-ksi-a, they are sick. 
 
 nit-o-kaps', I am bad. 
 kit-o-kaps', thou art bad. 
 nit-o-ka'-spin, we are bad. 
 
 17. The following is a list of the principal adjective pronouns : 
 
 SINGULAR. 
 a-mo', this, 
 o'-ma, that, 
 ta-ka', who. 
 ali'-sats, what, 
 sa-kah'-ta, what person ? 
 
 PLURAL. 
 
 a-rnoks', these, 
 o'-maks, those, 
 ta-ki'-ksan. 
 ah-sa'-i-ksan. 
 
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 SINGULAR. 
 
 kris-ta'-pi, something, 
 mah-tsi'-tsi, nothing, 
 it-sin'-a-ka, all. 
 
 sta-nis'-6is, when, at what time ? 
 tsa-ni-ta'-pi, how, in what way ? 
 tsim'-a, where, at what place ? 
 
 PLURAL. 
 kris-ta'-pi-au-a. 
 
 IX. VERBS. 
 
 18. To the verbs belong mood, tense, number, and person. The indicative, imperative, 
 and infinitive moods are well marked, and also the present, past, and future tenses. The 
 verbs are conjugated as follows : 
 
 a-ko-mim', to love, loving. '-yi> eating, to eat. 
 
 nit-a-wa'-ko-mirn, I love, or am loving, 
 kit-a-wa'-ko-mim, thou lovest, or art loving, 
 a-wa'-ko-mim, he loves, or is loving, 
 nit-a-wa'-ko-mi'-rni-nan, we love, or are loving, 
 kit-a-wa'-ko-mi'-ina, you love, or are loving, 
 a-wa'-ko-mi'-mi-o, they love, or are loving. 
 
 ni-ti'-a-ka'-ko-mim, I will love, 
 ki-ti'-a-ka'ko-mim, thou wilt love, 
 i'-a-ka'-ko-mim, he will love, 
 ni-ti'-a-ka'-ko-mi'-ma-nan, we will love, 
 ki-ti'-a-ka'-ko-mi-mo-wa'-wa, you will love, 
 i'-a-ka'-ko-mi'-rui-o, they will love. 
 
 ni-kai'-a-kris'-ta-ko-mim, I have loved, 
 ki-kai'-a-kris'-ta-ko-mim, thou hast loved, 
 i-kai'-a-kris'-ta-ko-mim, he has loved, 
 ni-kai'-a-kris'-ta-ko-rm'-ma-nan, we have loved, 
 ki-kai'-a-kris'-ta-ko-mi'-ma-wa, you have loved, 
 i-kai'-a-kris'-ta-ko-mi'-mi-a, they have loved. 
 
 a-ko'-mi-mis (imp. sing.), love, 
 ka-na'-wa-ko'-mi-mis (pi.) 
 
 nit-a-ko'-mi-mo'-tsi, I love myself, 
 kit-a-ko'-mi-mo'-tsi, you love yourself, 
 a-wa-ko'-mi-mo'-tsi, he loves himself, 
 nit-a-ko'-mi-mo-tslli'-pi-nan, we love ourselves, 
 kit-a-ko'-mi-mo-tsili'-pu-wa'-wa, you love yourselves, 
 a-wa-ko'mi-mo'-tslks, they love themselves. 
 
 ni-to'-yi, I am eating, 
 ki-to'-yi, thou art eating, 
 o'-yi, he is eating, 
 nit-o-yili'-pi-nan, we are eating, 
 kit-o-pili'-pi-nan, you are eating, 
 o-i'-yiks, they are eating, 
 n'se-mi'-sto-yih'-pi-nan, we both are eating, 
 se-mi'-sto, both or two. 
 
 ni-ta'-kso-yi, I am going to cat. 
 ki-ta'-kso-yi, thou art going to eat. 
 i-a'-kso-yi, he is going to eat. 
 ni-ta'-kso-pili'-pi-nan, we arc going to eat. 
 ki-ta'-kso-yili'-pu-a, you are going to eat. 
 i-a'-kso-yiks, they are going to eat. 
 
 ni-ta'-kse-mi-sto-ylh'-pi-nan, we two arc going to cat. 
 ki-ta'-kse-mi-sto-ylh'-pu-a, you two are going to eat. 
 i-a'-kse-mi-sto-yi'-waks, they two arc going to eat. 
 
 nit-e-kris'-o-yi, I have done eating, 
 kit-e-kris'-o-yi, thou hast done eating, 
 it-e-kris'-o-yi, he has done eating, 
 nit-e-kris'-o-yili'-pi-nan, we have done eating, 
 kit-c-kris'-o-ylh'-pu-wa'-wa, you have done eating, 
 it-c-kris'-o-yi'-waks, they have done eating, 
 nit-e-kris'-c-mi-sto-yikh'-pi-nan, we both have done 
 eatinir. 
 
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 ni-ta'-wa-to'-to-pi-a, if I cat. 
 ki-ta'-wa-to'-to-pi-a, if thou catest. 
 o-ylh'-to pi-a, if he eats, 
 a-yo-pi-nit-so-yikh-pi-nan, if we eat. 
 
 a-yo'-pi-kit-so-pikh'-pu-wa-wa, if you eat. 
 a-yo'-pi-at-so'-pi-waks, if they eat. 
 
 na'-ksi-kum'-o-yi, perhaps I will eat. 
 ka'-ksi-kum'-o-yi, perhaps thou wilt eat. 
 a'-ksi-kum'-o-yi, perhaps he will eat. 
 na'-ksi-kum'-o-ylh'-pi-nan, perhaps we will eat. 
 ka'-ksi-kura'-o-yili'-pu-wa'-wa, perhaps you will eat. 
 a'-ksi-kum'-o-yi'-waks, perhaps they will eat. 
 
 o'-ylt (imp. sing.), eat. 
 ka'-kso-yili'-pu-wa (imp. pi.), eat. 
 a'-ni-i-so'-ylks, let them eat. 
 
 a'sim-i, to drink. 
 
 ni-tai'-sim-i, I drink, or am drinking, 
 ki-tai'-sim-i, thou drinkest, or art drinking, 
 a-tai'sim-i, he drinks, or is drinking, 
 ni-tai'-sim-ih'-pi-nan, wo drink, or are drinking. 
 kit-ai'-sim-Ih' -pi-nan, you drink, or are drinking, 
 a-tai'-sim-ili'-pi-nan, they drink, or are drinking. 
 
 ni-tai'-ak-sim'-i, I will drink, 
 ki-tai'-ak-sim'-i, thou wilt drink, 
 a-tai'-ak-sim'-i, he will drink, 
 ni-tai'-ak-sim-ih'-pi-nan, we will drink, 
 ki-tai'-ak-sim-ih'-pi-nan, you will drink, 
 a-tai' ak-sim-ih'-pi-nan, they will drink. 
 
 ni-tai'-kris-itn'-i, I have drunk, 
 ki-tai'-kris-im'-i, thou hast drunk, 
 a-tai'-kris-iin'-i, he has drunk. 
 ni'-tai-kris-im-Ili '-pi-nan, we have drunk, 
 ki-tai'-kris-im-ili'-pi-nan, you have drunk. 
 a-tai'-kris-im-Tli'-pi-nan, they have drunk. 
 
 sim-it' (sing, imp.) drink, 
 ak-sim'-i-op (pi. imp.) drink all of you. 
 
 a-i-mi, to laugh. 
 
 ni-tai'-ira, I laugh, 
 ki-tai'-iui, thou laughcst. 
 ai-im'-i-o, he laughs, 
 ni-tai'-iin-pih'-pin, we laugh, 
 ki-tai'-im-plli'-po, you laugh, 
 ai-im'-i-a, they laugh. 
 
 ni-tai'-a-kim, I will laugh, 
 ki-tai'-a-kim, thou wilt laugh, 
 ai-a-ksim-i-o, he will laugh, 
 ni-tai'-a-ksim-pih'-pin, we will laugh, 
 ki-tai'-a-ksim-pili'-po, you will laugh, 
 ai-a-ksim-i-a, they will laugh. 
 
 ni-tai'-kris-tsim, I have laughed, 
 ki-tai'-kris tsim, thou hast laujrhed. 
 
 ' O 
 
 ai'-kris-tsim'-i-o, he has laughed, 
 ni-tai'-kris-tsim' -pili-pin, we have laughed, 
 ki-tai'-kris-tsim'-pih-po, you have laughed, 
 ai'-kris-tsim'-i-a, they have laughed. 
 
 ai-im'-it (imp.) laugh. 
 
 nit-i-a'-sto, I come, or am coming, 
 kit-i-a'-sto, thou comest, or art coming, 
 i-a'-sto, he comes, or is coming, 
 nit-i-a-stokh'-pi-nan, they come, or are coining, 
 kit-i-a-stokh'-pi-nan, you come, or are coming, 
 i-a-sto'-ylks, they come, or are coming. 
 
 nit-i-pi-o'-ksa-po, I am coming here, 
 kit-i-pi-o'-ksa-po, thou art coming here, 
 i-pi-o'-ksa-po, he is coming here, 
 nit-i-pi-o'-ksa-poh'-pi-nan, we are coming here, 
 kit-i-pi-o'-ksa-poli'-pi-nan, you are coming here. 
 i-pi-o'-ksa-po'-Iks, they are coming here. 
 
 ni-ti'-a-ko'-to-nie-po'-ksa-po, I will come here, 
 ki-ti'-a-ko'-to-mc-po'-ksa-po, thou wilt come here, 
 i'-a-ko'-to-me-po'-kpa-po, he will come here, 
 ni-ti'-n-ko'-to-me-po'-ksa-poh'-pi-nan, we will come 
 here. 
 
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 ki-ti'-a-ko'-to-mc-po'-ksa-po-pu'-wa-wa, you will come 
 
 here, 
 a-ti'-a-ko'-to-me-po'-ksa-po'-iks, they will come here. 
 
 ni-kai'-a-po'-ksa-po, I have come here, 
 ki kai'-a-po'-ksa-po, thou hast come here, 
 a-kai'-a-po'-ksa-po, he has come here, 
 ni-kai'-a-po'-ksa-poli'-pi-nan, we have come here, 
 ki-kai'-a-po'-ksa-puli'-pu-wa'-wa, you have conic here. 
 a-kai'-a-po'-ksa-po'-Iks, they have come here. 
 
 po-ksa-po'-at (imp. sing.), come here, 
 po-ksa-pok' (imp. plu.), come here. 
 
 ni-ko'-ta-me-po'-ksa-po, have I come here, 
 ki-ko'-ta-me-po'-ksa-po, hast thou come here, 
 ko'-ta-mc-p'o'-ksa-po, has he come here, 
 ni-ko'-ta-me-po'-ksa-poh'-pi-nan, have we come. 
 ki-ko'-ta-me-po'-ksa-pol\'-pu-wa'-wa, have you come. 
 ko'-ta-me-po'-ksa-po'-Iks, have they come here, 
 seli'-ta-i-a'-kso-po'-ksa-po, perhaps he will come. 
 
 kit-a'-ni-sta, I told you, 
 
 kit-a'-ni-ku'-a, he told you. 
 
 ni-ta'-nik, he told me. 
 
 ta-ni-ki'-nan, he told us. 
 
 ma-to'-ki-nan (imp.), take us. 
 
 mis-ta-plkst' (imp.), throw away. 
 
 e-a'-kse-ni, he is going to die. 
 
 e-a'-kse-ka-mi'-ta, I think he will live. 
 
 sput'-se-ko-i-ta'-po, he has gone to the sandhills, a 
 
 common expression, meaning, he is dead, 
 sput'-se-ko-i-ta'-pi-ki'-mi-taps, he, poor man, has gone 
 
 under, is dead. 
 
 kc-ai'-yo-nit-si-nu'-a, I saw a bear, 
 ke-ai'-yo-kit-si-nu'-a, you saw a bear, 
 ke-ai'-yo-u-tsi-nu'-a, he saw a bear, 
 ke-ai'-yo-nit-si-nu'-a-nan, we saw a bear, 
 po-ksi-pip'-i-no'-tos, bring my horse, 
 pok-sup'-sko-no'-tos, drive my horse here, 
 pok - sup'- sko-o-mo'-ksim - po-no-ka'- mi - teks, drive 
 
 those horses here. 
 
 si-mi'-a-pi-so-mo'-ksira-po-no-ka'-mi-teks, water those 
 
 horses. 
 
 sa-pik'-si-mait, light the pipe. 
 kah-o'-6is, come and smoke, 
 kit-o'-ta-tsi-wa'-ni-nte-a-ka'-ksi-te-kc, when I meet you, 
 
 I shall be happy, 
 e-a'-kso-tau, it is going to rain, 
 ni-tes'-tau-e-a'-kso-tau, I think it is going to rain, 
 ma-ti-a'-kso-tau, it is not going to rain. 
 ni-ma'-tis-tah -pa-a'-kso-tau, I do not wish it to rain, 
 is-tali'-si-a'-kso-tau, I would like to see it rain, 
 so'-tau, it is raining, 
 jfli-po'-tau, it snows, 
 e-a-kali'-po-tau, it is going to snow, 
 ma-ti'-a-kah'-po-tau, it is not going to snow, 
 ma-tali-po-tau, it is not snowing, 
 ah-sats'-kit-a'-pa-suin'-i, for what arc you searching ? 
 i-mi'-wa-nc-he tali'-tai, the river is high, 
 ma-tsi'-wa-ne-he-tah'-tai, the river is not high, 
 ni-pe'-po-tat-a-pin'-a-ku, it is daylight, I will make u 
 
 fire. 
 
 po-ci'-di-mi-ni, stir up the fire. 
 to-koli'-i-tsa-tso-pats', give me some powder. 
 ni-pis-6i'-o-koli'-it, give me a blanket, 
 tsi-mak-tu'-i-ta-po, where has he gone ? 
 a-mi-to'-ksai-ta'-po, gone up the river, 
 ki-a'-pi-te-ksi-na-pu'-is, there are a few houses there, 
 nit-ai'-is-ci'-nit, I cut it off. 
 kit-ai'-is-<5i'-nit, you cut it, off. 
 et-ai'-is-ci'-nit, he cuts it off. 
 nit-ai'-is-ci-nlh'-pi-nan, we cut it off. 
 kit-ai-is-c'i-mh'-pi-nan, you cut it off. 
 et-ai-ci-nih'-pi-nan, they cut it off. 
 as-cl'-nit, to cut off. 
 nit-au'-a-sen, I cry. 
 kit-au'-a-sen, you cry. 
 nit-eli'-pi, I dance, 
 kit-eh'-pi, you dance. 
 
 i-a'-ksa-kris'-ta-ku, it is approaching daylight, 
 a-ni-stis'-ko-ksa-po'-a, tell him to get up. 
 
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 NAMES OF BANDS OF THE BLACKFOOT 
 
 pi-kun'-i,* Piegans. 
 kai'-e-na, Blood Indians, 
 sik-si-ka', Blackfcet. 
 
 1. a-pi-kai'-yiks, The Polecat Band. 
 
 2. ko-te'-yi-miks, The Band that do not laugh. 
 
 3. si-koli'-i-tsim, The Band with black doors. 
 
 4. a-iniks'-eks, Little Kobes. 
 
 5. e-poli '-si-nnks, The Band that fries fat. 
 
 6. sus-kso'-ylks, The Band with hairy mouths. 
 
 7. mo-ta'-tots, The Band that are all medicine men. 
 
 8. is-ksi'-na-tup-i, The Worm people. 
 
 9. kai'-it-ko-ki'-ki-naks, White-breasted Band. 
 
 10. a'-pe-tup-i, The Blood people. 
 
 11. e-ka-to'-pi-staks, The Band that have finished 
 packing, as bales of anything. 
 
 12. si-ka'-tsi-po-maks, The Band with black patched 
 moccasins. 
 
 13. ne-ta'-ka-ski-tsi-pup'-iks, People that have their 
 own way, that listen to no one. 
 
 NATION, AND PRINCIPAL CHIEFS. 
 
 1. ko-te-tsi'-tsi-man, The man who cannot overtake 
 the buffalo. 
 
 2. i-tut'-tsi-ki'-o-pi, The man who sits in the middle. 
 
 3. im-i-te'-sko-mali-an, The dog that goes back. 
 
 4. ni-nai'-po-a-ksin, The man who rises in the morn 
 ing. 
 
 5. ni-na-kai'-i-yo, Bear chief. 
 
 C. kit-si-po'-ni-sta, This name indicates any animal 
 that has an unnatural color, and lives on the side 
 of a hill or mountain, as a white buffalo, white 
 skunk, &c. 
 
 7. i-muli'-se-ko-kau, Large painted lodge. 
 
 8. sta-tsi-stum'-ik, Underneath the bull. 
 
 9. pu-no-ka'-it-si-ni'-na, Elk tongue. 
 
 10. ni-na-sta'-ko-i, Mountain chief. 
 
 11. stum'-i-ko-tu'-kan, Bull's head. 
 
 12. im-e-te'-ko-cn, Little Dog. 
 
 13. o-ni-ste'-po-ka-o, Young white calf. 
 
 NAMES OF SOME OF THE BANDS OF THE KAl'-E-NA. 
 
 i-ni'-po-i, Buffalo rising up, meaning rather obscure. ni-tet'-ska-Iks, They that fight by themselves, 
 sik-si-no'-kai-iks, Black Elks. mum-i'-o-yiks, Fish-caters. 
 
 NAMES OF PERSONS AND 
 
 kut-e-se'-pi-a, They did not rush, as upon an enemy, 
 e-sta-po'-a-wali'-au, Walking off. 
 ma-kris'-kum, Spring of water, 
 ah'-se-i-ni'-ki-o, She that did not kill, 
 pali-tok'-sai-ki-o, The woman of the pine, 
 ai-ki'-o-pi, The sitting squaw, a Gros Venires chief, 
 ku'-ti-na-a'-pi, Old Kootenay, a Blackfoot chief, 
 ni-te'-na, The only chief, 
 he-ka'-ske-ne, Low horn, 
 ni-na'-i-sta'-ko, Mountain chief, 
 pu-no-ka'-ni-na, Elk chief, 
 o-ni-sta'-a-kop, The sitting calf. 
 
 NEIGHBORING TRIBES. 
 
 o-ni-sta'-sa-nu'-ku-en, The calf out of sight, 
 stum-i-ko'-sak, Bull's back fat. 
 na-to'-so-o-ni-sta', The medicine calf, 
 sa-ku'-i-stum'-ik, Hindmost bull, 
 noli'-ska-stum'-ik, The three bulls. 
 
 i-sa-po'-a, The Crow Indians, 
 ko-toli'-spi-tup'-i-o, The Flathead Indians, 
 ko-mun'-i-tup'-i-o, Green Paint Indians, Ncz Perec's, 
 ni-he-ta-te-tup'-i-o, Pend Oreilfes. 
 pi-6i'-kse-ni-tup'-i-o, Snake Indians, 
 mum-i'-tup-i-o, Fish Indians. 
 
 NAMES OF MAMMALS. 
 
 stum'-ik, a buffalo bull. Bos Amcrtcanus. 
 ski-ni', a cow. 
 o-ni-stalis', a calf. 
 
 pu'-no-ka-o, a general term for elk. Ccrvus Cana- 
 
 densis. 
 pu'-no-ka-stum'-ik, a male elk. 
 
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 pu'-no-ka-pu'-l;a, a young elk. 
 i-si'-ko-ti, black-tailed deer. Cervus macro/Is. 
 o-muk-i'-ki-na, big-horn. Ovis monlana. 
 a-wa'-to-yi, white-tailed deer. Cervus leucurus. 
 so-ki'-a-wa'-kos, antelope. Antihcapra Americana. 
 
 (so-ki', a prairie, and a-wa'-kos, deer.) 
 a-pu'-muk-i-na, a white big-horn. Aplocerus mon- 
 
 tanus. 
 
 kai'-yo, a grizzly bear. Ursus liorribiUs. 
 kai-yi-pu'-ka, a young bear, 
 si'-ko-kai'-yo, a black bear. Ursus Americanus. 
 sik-so-so', a moose. Alee Americanus. 
 kris-tuk'-i, a beaver. Castor Canadcnsis. 
 kris-tuk'-i-pu'-ka, a young beaver, 
 i-si'-tsi, a wolverine. Gulo litscus. 
 mi-sin'-sku, a badger. Taxidea Americana. 
 a-pi'-sin, large wolf. Cam's occidentalis. 
 sna'-o, medicine wolf. Canis latrans. 
 o-ta'-to-yi, red fox. Vulpes macrourus. 
 si-no-pa', small kit fox. Vulpes velox. 
 pi-no-tu'-yi, a fisher. Mustela Pennanti. 
 
 au'-mo-nis, an otter. Lutra Canadensis. 
 so'-yi-kai'-yi, a mink. Putorius niyreseens. 
 mus-op'-ski, a muskrat. Fiber zibethicus. 
 u-muk'-u-ka-ta, a large prairie dog. Ci/nomys ludo- 
 
 vicianus. 
 kit-si' -su-inu-ku'-ka-ta, a small prairie dog. Cyno- 
 
 mys Gunni'sonii. 
 
 kai'-ska, a porcupine. Erethizon epixanthus. 
 a-pi'-a-kai-yi, striped back, a skunk. Mephitis me- 
 
 phitica. 
 
 a'-pa, a weasel in winter pilage. 
 o-mu'-ka-pa, a large weasel, 
 o'-ta, summer weasel. 
 
 si-ka-ci'-sta, sage rabbit. Lcpus artcmisia. 
 o-muk'-a-ci'-sta, jackass rabbit. Lepus campestris. 
 i'-kais, a pine squirrel. Sciurus Huihonius. 
 i-a-tsi'-ki, thirteen-lined squirrel. Spermophilus 
 
 tridccem-lineatus. 
 ka'-na-skin, a wood mouse. 
 
 o-muh'-a-ka'-na-skin, a wood rat. Neotoma. cinerca. 
 so-yi'-ka'-na-skin, a water mouse. 
 
 NAMES OP BIRDS. 
 
 pi-ta'-o, the war eagle, 
 si-kit-si-nai'-aks, a black eagle. 
 i-si-sun'-i-kim, the bald eagle, 
 si-kai', a buzzard, 
 a-pe-ta-pun'-i-ki-mi, a fish hawk, 
 si-ke-ta-ptin'-i-ki-mi, a brown fish hawk, 
 si-kup'-e-ta-pun'-i-ki-mi, a" gray hawk, 
 kse'-ni, a cow bunting. 
 o-muk-sa'-kse-ni, a crow blackbird, 
 a-pi-a-ksa'-kse-ni, a brown blackbird, 
 so-yi'-ksi-ni, a water blackbird, 
 mi-e-kut'-si, a kind of duck, 
 mi-e'-sa, a fish duck, 
 ap-spi'-ni, the common wild goose, 
 kai'-yi, a kind of gull, 
 o-muk-sa'-kai-yi, a large gull, 
 a-pit-so'-to-yi, small prairie plover, 
 a-muk'-o-pit-so'-to-yi, large prairie plover, 
 kit-se-pit-'se-ku'-yi, 
 ni-a'-tsi, a killdeer plover. 
 
 o-muk'-a-tsi, a large killdeer. 
 sik-se-kun'-i-ki-su'-yi, a black woodpecker, 
 mi-ki'-ma-ta, a kind of small speckled woodpecker, 
 o-muk-si-ki'-ma-ta, red-headed woodpecker, 
 oli'-u-mi, the domestic hen, or the bird that screams, 
 a-pin'-a-ku-sis-tse, the morning bird, 
 i-si-kau'-kai-yi, the lark, 
 ni-pu'-ma-ki, tomtit, 
 ma'-sto, a beaver, 
 ki'-to-ki, the common prairie hen. 
 o-muk'-si-ki'-to-ki, large prairie hen, sage cock, 
 kit'-si-it'-sim, pheasant. 
 pi-ksi-ka'-c"i, teal duck. 
 pi'-ksi, a fish hawk, 
 ma'-ma-a-cr-kim, the magpie. 
 pi-6i'-ksin, a small snake. 
 o-muk'-si-6i'-ksin, the rattlesnake. 
 mu-cT-e-ku-cT-man, a frog, 
 o-muk'-i-ei-e-ku-ci'-man, a large toad, 
 ma-ni'-ski (pi. -skiks), water lizards . 
 
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 sko'-pi (pi. -piks), tortoises. 
 
 ma-to'-is-^i, a hair worm. 
 
 i-ski-se'-na (pi. -naks), worms. 
 
 a-po'-ni (pi. -niks), butterflies. 
 
 tse-ka'-a-tse (pi. -tse-Iks), grasshoppers. 
 
 tup-i-kai'-nirn, a large cricket. 
 
 si-ki-tup'-i-kai, a common cricket. 
 
 at-si'-na-ko, a mosquito hawk. 
 
 sus-kris'-i, a mosquito. 
 
 o-muk-sus'-kris-i, a large horsefly. 
 
 ut-si'-mo-sus'-kri-si, a stinking fly that swarms about 
 
 meat, 
 u-sko'-kin, a large ant. 
 
 o-ko'-ma, a body louse. 
 
 a-tse'-tsi-ksim, cottonwood. 
 
 ka-po'-ksim, the ash. 
 
 pah '-tok, pine. 
 
 sik-si-no-kok', cedar, or blackberry pine, so called 
 
 from its black fruit, 
 o-toli'-o-tsist. Opuntia JUissoun'ensls. 
 6t-sta'-tsi-man. 0. Nuttalli. 
 ak-spis', gummy weed. GrinJclia Kqiiarrosa. 
 inas, pomme blanche. Paoralea esculenta. 
 ots-eV-nist, strawberry. Fragaria Virginiana. 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 VOCABULARY OF THE SIK-SI-KA' OR BLACKFOOT LANGUAGE. 
 
 A. 
 
 across, a-pum'-ots. 
 
 Adam's apple, i-to-kits'-kris-tun. 
 
 after a while, ni-ta'-tum-i ; 'I will come after a while, 
 ni-ta'-tum-i-tup'-o. 
 
 air, a-mi-puk'. 
 
 alive, e-te'-pi. 
 
 all, it-si'-na-ka ; the whole, ki'-na ; all, entirely, mo- 
 tu'-sa ; all icy, mo-tu'-sa-ko-ku'-to. 
 
 ankle, ki-tali'-o-kin-a'-ki. 
 
 annoying, ska'-aps. 
 
 arm, o'-tis ; right arm, i-toli'-si ; left arm, i-a-kris'-o- 
 oks. 
 
 armpit, oli-ris'. 
 
 around or about, a-ko'-kats; around about the vil 
 lage, ko-na'-to-ka'-to-a-ko'-kats . 
 
 to arrive, ma'-no-tu. 
 
 arrow, aps, or ap'-si; an arrow point, sa'-ku-pun; 
 who owns these arrows ? ta'-ka-mi-a-psi'-wa. 
 
 ashamed, ne-tu'-yis. 
 
 ashes, muks-kit'-si. 
 
 asleep, o'-kauj sleeping, i-yo'-kau. 
 
 to be astonished, ki-o'-to. 
 
 at, u-ni'-mai ; at the house, mu-yis'-u-ni'-mai. 
 
 autumn, mu-ku'. 
 
 axe, ko'-ksa-kin. 
 
 B. 
 
 back, as the back part of the head or body, na-ka'- 
 
 kin-i ; back, backward, ali-pa-to'-tsi; back, in past 
 
 time, mi-sani'. 
 bad, ba-kaps', ba-ka'-psu, me-ska'-psu ; a bad boy, ba- 
 
 ka'-psa-ko-ma'-pi. 
 bank, of the river, at-siks' ; the bank is near by, it- 
 
 sat'-siks. 
 
 bark, of a tree, o-tok'-skris. 
 barrel, su'-5-in. 
 beads : red beads, a-mank'-sku ; black beads, si-ksi'-no- 
 
 ku ; white beads, about the size of pigeons' eggs, 
 
 used in the Indian trade, cik'-sku. 
 beak, of a bird, pi-kso'-kris-is. 
 beans, o-to'-ksi-nu'-tsi. 
 beard, mo-yo'-yi. 
 bed, sa'-a-kan. 
 behind, a-pa-toli'-si. 
 belly, o-ku'-a. 
 
 belt, or sash, me-pis ; pi. me-pis6'. 
 to bend, ta-wa'-ksi-pin'-a-ki ; bent, a-ksi-kin'-o-tuks. 
 better, su-kaps'. 
 
 between or among, sc-to-ko'ksin. 
 beyond, sa-toh'-si; beyond the ridge, pau-ali'-u-i-sa- 
 
 toli'-si. 
 black, sik-si-nim'. 
 
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 bowels, pi-stum'-i. 
 
 bowl, or plate, su-in'-ta-dis. 
 
 box, ai-i-su'. 
 
 boy, sa-ko'-ma-pi ; a boy without finger or toe nails, 
 
 sa-ko'-ma-pi-e-kai'-sa-na. 
 brains, o'-pi. 
 
 blanket, na-pis'-di ; a green blanket, ut-skai'-pis-di. 
 blisters, arising on the skin from burning, a-moh'-sa- 
 
 wa-nit'-si. 
 blood, a-pau'-ni. 
 
 blow the nose, i-mi-ei'-kin-i, to blow the nose. 
 blue, ot-ku'-e-nut'-sc. 
 boat, or canoe, a-ki'-oh-sa'-c'is ; steamboat, a-ki-oli-sa'- 
 
 dis-a-mi'-to ; also, is-di'-a-ki-oli-sa'-dis, fire-boat; 
 
 is-di', fire ; ferry-boat, the boat that crosses people 
 
 over the river, i-mali'-ta-pa-to-di'-wa. 
 bog, low wet ground, pali-si-kaij'-ku-i. 
 boil, i-kih'-an ; a sore containing pus, i-ta'-cis ; the 
 
 pus of the sore, a-dis'-i-o. 
 bone, oh '-in ; collar-bone, i-sa-mi'-kan. 
 book, a pile of folded leaves, sa-pa'-ko-tsi-na'-ksi. 
 both, or two, sem-is'-to. 
 bottle, so-ko'-ka-tos. 
 bow, spe'-kin-a-ma. 
 brass, ko-te-ke'-me ; also, o-tai'-kim ; small brass bells, 
 
 used in the trade, mo-soli '-i-ki-ni ; small brass 
 
 nails, e-tus'-ta-kai'-6p. 
 brave, ma'-di, also ma'-tsi. 
 to break, si'-nit.. 
 breechcloth, oh-e'-a-ksa'-cis. 
 brother, elder brother, nis'-a; younger brother, ni'- 
 
 skuni. 
 
 broom, na-mu'-ki-ma-dis. 
 broth, o'-pis. 
 
 to brush, as clothes, ta-sa-tsi'-ni o';s. 
 buffalo, in a mass, i-ni'-wa; a mad bull, ma-ni-kris'- 
 
 stum'-ik ; a mad cow, ma-ni-kris'-ski-ni' ; the 
 
 dried excrement of the buffalo, " buiFalo chips," 
 
 kah'-plh-ta. 
 
 to burn, e-nit'-se ; burnt, it'-sin-it'-se. 
 butterfly, a-po'-ni. 
 to buy, puui'-at. 
 by, passing by, stut-sko'-a; by the house, or passing 
 
 by the house, stut-sko'-a-mu-yis'. 
 
 C. 
 
 to call, uiu-ta'-ni-stis. 
 to carry, a-wa'-se-ni. 
 circingle, for a horse, is-ksi'-si-pi-staud'. 
 chair, so-pats'. 
 cherries, puli'-i. 
 chief, niu'-a; pi. nin'-aks. 
 child, po'-ka ; pi. po'-klks; o-kos' is also used; po'-ka, 
 
 denotes an infant, 
 chin, op-ski'-na. 
 claw, of a bird, pi-kso'-ki-dis. 
 to climb, a-tnis'-o. 
 cloth, nai-pis'-di ; blue cloth, si-kai'-pis-di ; black cloth, 
 
 sik-si-nuts' ; red cloth, mali'-ai-pis'-di. 
 cloud, so-kris'-te-ko-is; far beyond the clouds, so-kris- 
 
 te-ko'-is-mi-sto-po'-ats ; cloudy weather, a-su'-kris- 
 
 te-ku'-i. 
 
 coat, su'-kos ; chief's coat, ni-ni'-o-su'-kos. 
 coffee, ai-sik-si-ki'-mi; a cofifee-pot, kri-su'-yi. 
 cold, stu'-yi; I ain not cold, mis-di'-stu-yi ; I am cold, 
 
 nis-tu'-yi ; you are cold, kis-tu'-yi. 
 come, quickly, in a hurry, a-ke'-po-kse-po'-at. 
 to cook, ap'-sat ; to cook different kinds of food in a 
 
 pot together, a-yq'-sit. 
 copper, me-ko-ti'-ke-me. 
 
 cord, a-pis' ; a rope made of hemp, a-pis'-ta-pi'-kin. 
 cough, ses-ki'-na. 
 coulee, sau-auh'-tai. 
 
 cow, ski'-ni ; domestic cow, a-pot'-ski-ni. 
 crazy, raat'-saps. 
 to cry, au-a-scn'. 
 crooked, yu-mo'-ki-o. 
 to crumble, as food, si-si-ki'-a. 
 cup, kus. 
 
 curious, pi-si-ta'-pi ; a curious dog, pi-si-ta'-pi-im'-i-ta'o. 
 to cut or split the feather from a quill, te-a-kris'-ta-ta- 
 
 D. 
 
 to dance, eh'-pi; I dance, nit-eh'-pi; you dance, kit- 
 
 eli'-pi. 
 
 darkness, ske-nut'-si. 
 daughter (my), ni-tun'-a. 
 day, kris-te-ku'-e. 
 
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 to die, a'-ni ; dead, a-ni'-wa ; I die, ni-ta'-ni ; you die, 
 ki-ta'-ni. 
 
 deer, a-wa'-kos ; a white-tailed deer, a-wa'-to-yi - t prai 
 rie deer, antelope, so-ki'-a-wa'-kos. 
 
 deep, mi'-a. 
 
 to destroy, mo'-tsa. 
 
 dog, im-i-ta'-o; a young dog, im-i-te'-ku-en ; you are 
 a dog, im-i-te'-ta-pi. 
 
 door, kit'-sim. 
 
 down, na-po' ; gone down the river, wai-na-po'. 
 
 dreadful, ko-ma'-pi. 
 
 to drink, a-sim'-i. 
 
 dry, e-ki'-ksi-o; it is dry, e-ki-ksu'-yi ; dried apples, 
 a'-pa-sta-mi-na'-tsi, so called because they look 
 like rotten wood. 
 
 dust, sis-ce' ; dust flying, sis-6e'-pu-ka. 
 
 E. 
 
 eagle, pi-ta' ; pi. pi-teks'. 
 
 ear, oli'-to-kis ; the external ear, oli'-o-oli'-to-kis. 
 earth., suli'-um. 
 easily, ki-na'-pi. 
 to eat, o'-yi. 
 egg, o'-wa. 
 elbow, o-kin'-stis. 
 enemy, ni-kuli'-to-ma. 
 enough, ki'-nai-e. 
 evening, o-to-ku'. 
 
 every, each, ki-nai' ; everybody, ki-nai-tup'-i. 
 eye, a-waps'-pits ; eye winkers and brows, u-uii-a'-pi- 
 nan ; eyelids, ko-wap'-spi. 
 
 F. 
 
 face, o-sto'-ksis. 
 
 to fall, e-ni'-si ; falling, e-ni'-si-wa. 
 
 far off, at a distance, pi-oli'-tsi ; a little way. a little 
 
 distance, o-te'-stsi ; near by, a-stsi'. 
 fat, o-tsi-nau'-a. 
 father, ni-i-na', or ni-na'. 
 feather, pi-kso'-ku-is. 
 fear, ko'-pum. 
 to feel, ti-e'-nim. 
 few, ki-a'-pi, scattered. 
 
 fine, ma-tso'-waps; a fine horse, ma-tso-wa'-psi-no-ko'- 
 
 mi-ta-o; also, ma-tsi'-no-ko'-mi-ta-o. 
 finger, o-ki'-cis; thumb or large finger, o-ma-ki'-cis ; 
 
 little finger, o-tsa-na'-ki-6is ; finger-rings, sa-pe'- 
 
 ki-co-sa'-cis ; the fingernails, ta-wa-ka'-no-ki'-cis ; 
 
 the joints of the finger, i-ta-ku'-yi-kit-si'-pi. 
 to fight, it-skan'. 
 
 fish, ruum'-i; a fish-line, mih'-a-tsis. 
 fire, is-cT, also, is-ci'-wa; a plenty of fire, a-kau'-is-c-i. 
 flame, pa-ku'-is. 
 flint, kris-a'-ki-ta. 
 flood, i-ka-ku'-yi. 
 flour, ai-ki'-ta-top. 
 flower, ki-ni'-wa. 
 to fold the arms, a-nc'-i-kin-sak. 
 fool, mat-saps' j foolish, a-wa-tsaps'. 
 foot, oli'-ats. 
 forehead, o'-mis. 
 forest, ut-si-wat'-sku-i. 
 forever, es-ksa'-a-ni'-ste. 
 friend, nit-sili'-i-wa. 
 frightful, sku-ni'-ta-pi. 
 
 G. 
 
 garnishing, on a robe, a-to-nus'-i. 
 get up (imp.), ni-pu'-uk. 
 to give, ko'-dis; give me, ko'-kit; I give it to you, 
 
 ki-to'-ko-ta-o; you give, ki-ta'-kum. 
 girl, a-ke'-ku-en. 
 glove, o-tsec'. 
 glue, tek-spo'-te-ku. 
 gold, same name as brass. 
 to go, a'-ma-to; go (imp.), po-ko'-mis; go with them, 
 
 po-ko'-mi-sa-o; go away, mi-sto-po'-at; to go ahead, 
 
 a-ma'-tup-i-is6'. 
 good, ali'-si-o ; a good house, ah'-si-mu-yis' ; a good 
 
 boy, ali'-si-sa-ko-ma'-pi ; all good, ki'-nai-ali'-si-o ; 
 
 beyond good, best of all, mis-ti-poks' -ali'-si-o ; he 
 
 alone is good, i-tai-ali '-si-o ; there are none so good, 
 
 i-tai-mali'-si-o. 
 good while, wai-sa'-mo ; he is gone a long time, wai- 
 
 sa'-ma-ma'-to. 
 grass, ma-tu'-yis. 
 grease, po-mis'. 
 
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 great, sku'-na-taps. 
 
 green, ut-sku'-i. 
 
 ground, sa'-ko; in the ground, sa-ko'-mi-it-si'-o; ground, 
 
 the surface of which is covered with little butes, 
 
 or hillocks, pi-kah'-o. 
 grove of trees, u-tso'-a-sku-yi. 
 gum of the pine, a-wa'-ksis. 
 gun, na'-ma ; to miss fire, to snap a gun, na-mi-ka'- 
 
 kis; where is my gun? a-na'-ni-mo. 
 
 II. 
 
 hail, kris-i'-ki-ni. 
 
 half, or a part, a-no-kolits'. 
 
 hallo ! i'-ya. 
 
 hair, tu-ko-ili'-in-i-pi ; long-haired, i-nu'-spi ; hair on 
 the upper lip, ma-ta'-ksi-wa'-tsi. 
 
 hammer, po'-ksa-<5is. 
 
 hand, me-cill'-se-ku'-ist. 
 
 handsome, ba-tsi'-nurn, also, ah-waps'. 
 
 happy, a-ksi'-ti-ke. 
 
 hard, mi-wa ; hard wood, nii-wa-mis-c'is'. 
 
 hat, i-ci'-mo-kain. 
 
 head, o-to-kan'; a kind of shell, of the genus Denta- 
 It'um, used by the Indians as ornaments for the 
 head, a-pi-ksis'-cim-a-o-ksu'-is. 
 
 to heal, a-ki'-o. 
 
 to hear, ai-oli'-sim. 
 
 heart, 6h-it'-sa-pa'-pi. 
 
 heavy, so-ku' and so-ke-sini'; both words arc in use. 
 
 heel, 6h-tu-tun'-i. 
 
 here, in this place, un-i'-ma, u'-no-mai. 
 
 to hesitate, hold back, pe-i-tslh'-tan. 
 
 high, spi ; a high animal, spi-mi'-o. 
 
 hill, pa-wali'-u. 
 
 hip, oli-i'-ni-sak. 
 
 to hold, e-i-ni'-o. 
 
 hole, ah-a'-ni-ka. 
 
 honest, ko-mo'-tsi ; an honest man, ko-mo'-tsi-tup'-i. 
 
 horn, ot-ski'-na. 
 
 horse, pu-no-ka'-mi-ta, literally elk dog, from pu-no- 
 ka'-o, an elk, and im-i-ta'-o, a dog; mi-o'-mi-ta 
 (pi. mi-o'-nii-teks), pack horses; another form is 
 in use in declension denoting possession : my 
 horse, no-tos'; your horse, ko-tos'; his horse, 
 
 o-tos' ; his horses, o-to'-siks ; a white horse, a-pi'- 
 wa-no'-tos ; a gray horse, si-ka-pi'-wa-no'-tos ; a 
 horse with black ears, i-sik'-sta-ki-no'-tos. 
 
 hot, kris-to'-tsus ; kris-tu'-yi. 
 
 house, of the white man, na-pu'-is, mu-yis'. 
 
 how, in what way? tsa'-ni-ta-pi ; how many? sa-na'- 
 tsim. 
 
 husband, o'-ma. 
 
 I. 
 
 ice, ko-ku'-to. 
 
 if, i-yo'-pi. 
 
 in, pis-tolls' ; in company with, ti-a-koli'-po-ko'-mau ; 
 
 in company with my son, ti-a-koli'-po-ko'-mau- 
 
 noli-o'-a. 
 
 Indian, ni-i'-tsa-ta'-pi. 
 intestines, o'-dis; manifolds, or large intestines of an 
 
 animal, i-si'-ston. 
 island, mi-ni'-wa. 
 iron, miks'-kim ; an iron frying-pan, miks-kim'-i-kus ; 
 
 iron horse, locomotive, miks-kim'-o-nu-ka'-mi-ta ; 
 
 iron wire, sik-si-ak'-skim. 
 
 J. 
 
 joint, i-toll'-o-ki'-na-ki. 
 joke, ka-saps'. 
 jug, sa-ku'-ko-tus-ko. 
 to jump, ell-pa'-sto. 
 
 K. 
 
 kettle, i'-ski; isk. 
 
 kidneys, o-to-ko-to'-kisc ; also o-tok'. 
 to kill, i-ni'-ki-o. 
 kiss, so-nau'-ski-pi. 
 kinnic-kinnic, a-pi'-ni-kim. 
 knee, o-to'-ksi. 
 
 knife, stu'-un ; a sheath for a knife, a-so'-tu-un ; a two- 
 edged knife or sword, sa-ma-kin'. 
 
 L. 
 
 lake, o-muh'-si-ki-mi. 
 land, ali'-o; a country, sa'-ko; the whole country, 
 
 ki'-na-sa'-ko. 
 large, a-pa'-ki ; a largo quantity, o-muh'-u ; a heap, 
 
 a-kau'-I, also a-ku'-a-wa. 
 
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 lately, i'-so. 
 
 to laugh, a-i'-mi. 
 
 lazy, buli-aps' or ba-kaps' ; a lazy fellow, good for no 
 thing, pah'-i-kah'-si-o. 
 
 lead, o-wak'-shu-pa. 
 
 leaf, nips; also so-yo'-poj dry leaves, so-yo'-po-kist. 
 
 leg, o-kuts' ; leg below the knee, a-tse'-na ; calf of the 
 leg, Oh -ki'-nan ; an instrument for dressing robes, 
 made from the leg-bone of the antelope, ma'-ski. 
 
 leggins, aVtsi. 
 
 lengthwise, i-kum'-o ; splits lengthwise, i-kum'-o-i-sta- 
 to'-ksi. 
 
 less, o-wa'-tu-ksi. 
 
 level plain, mi-ni-stah'-wah-u. 
 
 light, kris-ti-ku'-e-nut'-si. 
 
 lightning, i'-pa-pum. 
 
 like, ni-tu'-i ; he is like my son, ni-tu'-ni-i-tso-dli-u'-i ; 
 just like, as he is just like his father, a-ye'-ko-no- 
 tse; like, applied to any object but persons, ni- 
 tum'-a-nis'-tsi-num'-i-a. 
 
 limb, of a tree, o-ku'-niks. 
 
 to listen, kris-to-ci'-si. 
 
 little, small, a-nuks'; a small man, a-nuk-si'-na ; a 
 little or small quantity, no-tse-nah'-o ; give me a 
 little, no-tse-nah'-o-kdh'-it. 
 
 to live, e-ta'-pi ; I live, nit-se-ta'-ta-pi you live, kit- 
 se-ta'-ta-pi. 
 
 lodge, mu-yis'; a beaver lodge, kris-tuk-u-o-yis ; a hole 
 or rent in the lodge, ah'-un-ih-a; pins driven into 
 the ground, to fasten down the bottom of the 
 lodge, i-sto-ka'-cis ; the holes in the lower edges 
 of the lodge where the pegs are inserted, pi-ki'; 
 pins to fasten the side of the lodge-skin, after it 
 is erected, sa-pi'-ki-na-na-ma'-6is; the act of tying 
 the lodge-poles at the top, a-tu'-ksi-pi'-stan ; the 
 hole in the top of the lodge to let out the smoke, 
 ma-o-to'-tsi-man ; lodge-poles, ma'-ni-stam. 
 
 long, i-nu'-ye. 
 
 long ago, a-ka'-a; I was displeased with you long 
 ago, a-ka'-a-o-ki'-ma-su-ki. 
 
 look (imp.), sum'-is; look at me, i-suru'-o-kit ; look 
 at me, I am ugly, sum'-o-ki-tun'-i-to-kaps ; look! 
 he looks ugly, sum'-is-sum'-o-kaps. 
 
 lost, a'-tsa. 
 
 louse, tut-sc-po'-kok ; I am bitten by lice, ni-tai-sik'- 
 
 si-pfik. 
 
 to love, a-ko-mim'. 
 low, e-kuk'. 
 
 M. 
 
 maiden, a-ki'-a-ko'-a, (pi.) a-ki'-a-ko'-aks. 
 
 maize, or corn, bes-ka'-ta, a word derived from the 
 
 Arapoho language. 
 mammse, un'-i-kis, breasts. 
 man, or person, ma-ta'-pi; a young, unmarried man, 
 
 a-si'-ta-pi ; also ma-ni-ka'-pi ; a white man, na-pi'- 
 
 ku-un ; a black man, sik-sa-pi'-ku-un. 
 mare, ski'-am. 
 marrow-bone, i-nun'-i. 
 mean, as a mean fellow, ma-ksi-num'. 
 measure, e-ska'-ki. 
 
 meat, kai'-yis ; meat in small fragments, pi-i'-wa. 
 medicine, drugs, sa'-am ; a medicine man, or doctor, 
 
 i-su'-ki-wa'-ke; medicine, or mystery, na-tu'-yi. 
 midday, tut'-se-ka-kris-ta-ku' ; midnight, tut'-se-ka'- 
 
 ku-ku. 
 
 middle, as in the middle of the river, tut'-se-kuts. 
 milk, u-ni'-kis. 
 mirror, tsa-pi'-a-tsis. 
 to mix, pa-so'-ko. 
 moccasins, at-si'-kin-i ; top of the moccasins, ntuk'-o- 
 
 to'-to-nan; shoestrings, sa-pi'-ne-ka'-ats; to tie up 
 
 the shoes or moccasins, nta'-ksi-naus. 
 moon, ke-sum'. 
 more, stik'-i, is-di-'ka. 
 morning, ma-to'-nis ; early in the morning, &ka-na'- 
 
 to-nis. 
 
 mosquito, sus-kris'-i. 
 mother (my), ni-krist'. 
 mould, a-pi-su'-yi ; mouldy, a-pi-su'-yi-wa ; it will be 
 
 mouldy, i-a'-ka-pi-su'-yi ; to smell mouldy, a-pi- 
 
 su'-yi-e'-mo. 
 mountain, mi-stah'-u. 
 mouth, a-o'-yi ; my mouth, na-o'-yi ; your mouth, ka- 
 
 o'-yi. 
 
 * 
 
 much, a heap, a-ku'-im, a-kai'-im. 
 mud, miry, pa-kse'-kali'-u-a. 
 mule, long ears, o-muk'-sto-ki. 
 
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 N. 
 
 name, nin-ik-os'; his name, sin-ti-kos'. 
 narrow, e-ki'-o. 
 navel, o-to'-yis. 
 near, close, o-tsust'. 
 
 neck, oh-o'-kin-i ; back part of the neck, oh-tun'-is. 
 needle, large needles, o-muk-o'-to-nau'-ksi-cis ; small 
 
 needles, o-to-nau'-ksis. 
 new, ina'-ni ; a new arrow, ma-no'-psi. 
 night, ko-kiis' ; the same night, a-nu'.-ko-kus'. 
 no, sa; also a-ni'-yi. 
 
 noon, tut-si-kc'-a-kris'-te-ku' ; (pi. -ku-is<5). 
 nose, oh-kris'-is; my nose, noli-kris'-is. 
 nostril, o-pis'-ki-sa. 
 nothing, ma-tsi'-tse, and kris-ta'-pi. 
 
 0. 
 old, na'-pe; a white man, na-pe'-ku-un, literally old 
 
 people; applied to a female, ki-pi'-ta; an old 
 
 woman, ki-pi'-ta-a-ki'-wa. 
 open (imp.), kau-a-pi'-sta ; open the door, kit'-sim- 
 
 kau-a-pi'-sta; open out, spread out, o-po'-tos. 
 opinion, plan, se-ni'-stan. 
 outside, sa-olis'. 
 over, i-sok'. 
 
 P. 
 
 paddle, it-i-ali'-e-o-kso-pe ; to paddle, as a boat, mai- 
 
 a'-ki-oks. 
 pail, su-yen'. 
 
 parfleche, ko-to-ki'-a-no-ko. 
 pepper, pi-stup'-o-ku. 
 perhaps, ali-si-kum'; seh'-ti; perhaps he will come, 
 
 ali-si-kum'-a-sto. 
 pins, spin-o-to'-nauks. 
 pine tree, pah'-tdk. 
 pipe, ali-o-i'-ni-man. 
 plain, prairie, so-ka', so-ki'. 
 to play, e-ku'-c-ni. 
 
 plenty, a-kai-im'; a plenty of people, a-kai'-tup-i. 
 pole, i-ne'-stam ; a long pole, i-nc'-ni-stam. 
 pork, ai'-ksin-i, a grunter, hog. 
 post, a-kun'-iks. 
 potatoes, in-su'-mon. 
 VOL. xii. 35 
 
 powder, sa-tso-pa'-ats. 
 prairie, so'-ki, sometimes so-ka'. 
 puzzle, oli'-pi-ska. 
 
 pumpkin, Gh'-to-ki-nut'-si, so called when cut and 
 dried. 
 
 quickly, ki-pun'-is-tsi. 
 quill, ma'-min. 
 
 Q. 
 
 R. 
 
 rain, i'-so-ta ; rainy, so'-tau ; to clear away, as clouds 
 
 after a rain, ai'-c-pun'-i ; the rain has passed away, 
 
 so-te'-ai-pun'-i. 
 
 rattles, on the tail of a rattlesnake, se'-tsi-ko'-to. 
 ravine, ka-wali'-u-a. 
 raw, uncooked, ko-te'-tsi. 
 red, moli'-si-nut'-si ; a red blanket, moli'-o-pe'-pist ; 
 
 vermilion red paint, moh-i'-san. 
 relation, kso'-qua. 
 rest, sik-si'-ste-ku. . 
 rib, pi-kis'. 
 river, ni-i-tuli'-ta ; a stream or creek, a-sc-tuli'-ta ; a 
 
 little run, wa-wa'-ku-a. 
 
 road, mo-ksa'-ku-yi ; path or road, pa-tot'-sku-yi. 
 rock, mis-tek'; rocky, mis-tek'-sku. 
 rosebuds, ki-niks'. 
 rope, a'-pis, a lariat for a horse, 
 rough, rugged, pi'-wa; bad lands, pi-wali'-o, and si- 
 
 na-tali'-o. 
 
 to rub off, or brush, ta-sa'-tsi-ni-ok'-sto. 
 to run, o-ma'-ka ; aks'-kas ; to run quickly, ka-moks'- 
 
 kas ; run (imp.), aks-ka'-sit, and, niali-at'; run 
 
 away, mis-ta-pi'-mah'-at ; ni-to-mali', I run ; ki- 
 
 to-mah', you run. 
 rusty, a-psu'-yi. 
 
 S. 
 
 sacred, holy, kse'-maps. 
 salt, stik-sc-po'-ko. 
 sandbar, sput'-se-ko; the great sand pile where the 
 
 dead go, o-muks'-sput'-se-ko. 
 sash or belt, ma'-pis. 
 scabbard, a-sto'-tu-wa. 
 
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 scabby, a-pe'-kris ; a scabby bull, a-pe'-kris-stum'-ik. 
 
 scalp, sa-o-to'-mu-a. 
 
 scattered, ki-a'-pi. 
 
 to scratch, ta-ksi-ki'-na-to'-Le. 
 
 sea, mo-toh'-i. 
 
 seat, nu'-o-sa. 
 
 searching, a-pa'-su-nii. 
 
 to see, na-mu'-i-nu. 
 
 seed, e-ni-si'-man. 
 
 selfish, avaricious, a-kum-i'-tup-i-o. 
 
 sharp, kris-e'-kim ; a shafp knife, kris-e'-ki-sto'-a. 
 
 to shave off with a knife, ksi-kit-si'-ni-aks. 
 
 shears, ste-si'-so-yop. 
 
 shells for earrings, po-kun-um' ; to the fossil shells, 
 
 which occur in that country very abundantly, 
 
 the Indians give the name o-cis'-he. 
 shirt, stah-ti-so'-kaus. 
 shooting, sku-ni'-ke. 
 shot, kit-si-ko'-pun-i. 
 shot-pouch, su-i-a'-tsi-man. 
 shoulder, o-kut'-si-kiu. 
 sick, oh-to-ko'-ksi. 
 sinew, hai-si-pi'. 
 to sing, e-ni-ki'-o; I sing, ni-tai'-ni-ki; you sing, ki- 
 
 tai'-ni-ki. 
 sister, i-sa'-ki-mi. 
 sit down (imp.), pi'-it. 
 skin of an animal, to'-kis, and, o-to'-kis; a cow-skin 
 
 dressed, pakh'-i; undressed, i-ni'-o-to'-kis. 
 sky, spohts. 
 sleep, wai-yo-ka'. 
 slow, e-tsc-tse'-kris-to. 
 small, 6h-po'-ki-o, and, na-ko'-tsi-o. 
 smart, active, ku-waps'. 
 smell, a-mas' ; a bad smell, mes-ka'-pa-mas. 
 smoke, sa-tsi'-wa; smoky, se-nu'-tsu. 
 to sneeze, a-si'-i-si. 
 
 snow, kon ; kon'-sko ; snowing, 6Ti'-po-ta-o. 
 soap, sis-ki-o-sa'-tsis. 
 soft, ki'-ni, also, ih-i-ni'-si. 
 to soil or dirty, po-mis'. 
 something, ki-sta'-pi. 
 sometimes, ni-ta'-tum-i. 
 son, oh-u'-a. 
 
 soon, skun'-i ; come soon, skun'-i-o-po-ksa-po'-at. 
 
 soup, o-ko'-pis ; goose soup, ap-sin'-i-o-ko'-pis. 
 
 sour, eh-i-mu'-i. 
 
 to speak, a-pu'-i. 
 
 spear or lance, sa-pa-pi'-sta-cis. 
 
 spirit or ghost, o-ni-stan' ; Great Spirit, the Great 
 
 Medicine Man above, na-to'-yi-tup-i'-spo-ma'-pi. 
 spot, e-na'-ki-o ; a yellow spot, o-toh'-u-i-na'-tsi-o. 
 spoon, i-noli'-si-o. 
 spring, mu-tu' ; (pi. -tu-ist.) 
 spring of water, ma-ki'-kum. 
 spurs, ta-wa'-wa-ka-piks. 
 stand up (imp.), ne-pu'-yi-pu-yit.. 
 star, ka-ka'-tos. 
 to steal, ka-mos. 
 stingy, it-si'-ki-ma'-ats. 
 stockings, a-to-wa'-ksin. 
 stomach, no-kin', o'-ku-un. 
 stone, Oli'-o-tok ; stony, oli'-o-tok'-sku. 
 stop ! hi-ka'-o. 
 straight, kum-o'-e-sim. 
 to stretch, or yawn, sc-pi'-is ; I stretch, ni-tai-se'-pi-is; 
 
 you, &c., ki-tai-se'-pi-is ; he, &c., e-tai-se'-pi-is. 
 to strike, a-wa'-a-ki ; I strike, nit-a-wa'-a-ki ; you 
 
 strike, kit-a-wa'-a-ki. 
 strong, mi-ska'-pi. 
 to suck, sta. 
 
 summer, ni-pu', (pi. -pu-is6.) 
 sun, na-tos', na-to'-se ; sun's rays, sc-ki'-so-au. 
 sweet, me-ne-po'-ko; sometimes, ma-tse'-pu-ku. 
 swelled, kah'-pi. 
 swift, c-kum'-i-si; a swift dog, e-kum'-i-si-im-i-ta'-o. 
 
 T. 
 
 tail, oh-su'-yis. 
 take it, uiat'-sit. 
 temples, 5t-skup-u'-na. 
 tooth, oli-pi'-a-kin. 
 
 then, i-tck'-si ; then, in that place, un'-i-it-si'-o. 
 thigh, u-\va'-pi-sak. 
 
 thin, stoh'-i ; a thin leaf, stoli'-so-yo'-po-ki. 
 to think, a-ah-ska'-to-ki. 
 
 thread, thread made of sinew, e-si'-pis; cloth thread, 
 ne-pi-stai'-si-pis. 
 
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 throat, oli-kris'-tun-i. 
 
 thunder, kris-tc-kum'- 
 
 to tickle, si-kus'-i-ta'-ki, and e-ko'-i-ni-sto'-to. 
 
 to tie, isk'-si-ni-stuk'-sim ; tie (imp.) sksi'-nit. 
 
 tobacco, pis-ta'-kan ; Indian tobacco of the best qual 
 ity, Lobelia inflata, ne-cts'-ti-nis ; common In 
 dian tobacco, both kinds used in the religious 
 ceremonies of the Indians, e'-nis; cutting-board 
 for tobacco, su-pi'-ksis-tsi-ma'-cis ; a garnished to 
 bacco sack, a-su'-a-ci'-man. 
 
 to-morrow, a pin'-o-kos; I will go to-morrow, a-pi- 
 nuk'-si-ta-ko'-ma-ta. 
 
 to-night, ko-kus'. 
 
 tongue, ma-tse'-nc. 
 
 tooth, 6h-pi'-a-kin. 
 
 top, or summit, si-ko'-ki-tohs. 
 
 to touch, ksi'-nit. 
 
 towards, pit-si-oh'-to. 
 
 towel, ste'-sis-ki-o. 
 
 travail, ma-nis'-ci. 
 
 tripe, o-ku'-un. 
 
 true, truth, kit-si'-ma ; you are not a man of truth, 
 ki-ma-to'-ma-nlh'-pa. 
 
 trunk, or box, a-so'-kai-is ; a wooden trunk, mis-6is'- 
 o-kai'-is. 
 
 to twist, a-niks'-ka-pi-kris'-ta-kis. 
 
 U. 
 Ugly, rnul'i-si-num'. 
 
 under, stalls ; it is under something, stahs-mi-it-si'-o ; 
 
 there is something under the stone, 6li -o'-to-ki- 
 
 stahs-roi-it-sl'-o. 
 up, a-mi-toks'. 
 
 V. 
 
 valley, pi-i-stah'-wal'i-u'-mi-ni-stah'-u-i. 
 vein, 6s-ci'. 
 verdigris, oli-o-mo'-ni-nut-si ; ko-na'-no is sometimes 
 
 used. 
 very, e-a', sku-nuts', e-ku'-i; this very night, a-nu'- 
 
 ke-a-ksa'-ko-kus-e-ku'-i ; a very old man, e-ku'-i- 
 
 na'-pi-o ; very cold, sku-nuts'-tu-yi. 
 village, a-ki'-ta-pi-sko' ; a plenty of lodges, o-ki'-o- 
 
 kum-i. 
 
 villain, ma-kse-tup'-i. 
 to voiuit, o-kit'-skuai. 
 
 W. 
 
 wagon, or cart, a'-na-kaus. 
 to walk, sik-so'-o ; I will walk, nit-a'-ksi-ksi-ni ; you 
 
 will walk, kit-a'-ksi-ksi-ni ; he will walk, ta'-ksi- 
 
 ksi-no. 
 
 war, kah'-to-ma ; a war-club, ko'-ksa-kin. 
 warm, kris-to'-yi. warrior, tsu'-a-pits. 
 
 wasp, na'-mo. water, oh'-i. 
 
 weak, ma-tse-kut'-saps. 
 
 weeds, ki-stu'-po-tu'-yis; dried grass, ki-pi-ta'-tu-yis. 
 well, it'-ksu ; he got well again, at'-ai-it'-tsu. 
 wife (my), nit-o-ki'-man. 
 wind, i'-so-pu ; sometimes pronounced, su-po ; a strong 
 
 wind, a-muk'-sa-pu'-yi. 
 windpipe, o'-ku-stun. 
 wing, of a bird, o-min'-stra-kin. 
 winter, stu'-yi ; sto'-yi. 
 within, pi-sto'-tso; without, su-oh'-so. 
 wise, mo-ku'-ki-aps. 
 to wish, te-tsih'-ta. 
 what? ah-sats'; what more? what else? akh-sas'-ci-ki ; 
 
 what do you say? sa-wa'-ni; when? at what time? 
 
 sta-nis'-6is ; where ? at what place ? 6i'-ma. 
 whip, is-ci'-pi-si-ma'-tis ; to whip, is-ci'-pi-sis'. 
 whiskey, na-pi'-6li-i, white water. 
 white, ci-ksi-num'; white cloth, ci-kai-pi'-6i. 
 who? ta-ka'. 
 
 woman, a-ki'-ma; (pi. a-klks'.) 
 wood, mis'-tis ; stone wood, petrified wood, mis'-tis-oh'- 
 
 o-tok; all kinds of hard wood, tsa-si'-ksa; rotten 
 
 wood, bi'-a-kuk'-si-ksi ; split wood, ni-sta'-to-ksaks ; 
 
 a pile of drift-wood in the river, ka-cis'-ko. 
 word, e-pu'-o-ksin. 
 to work, a-po'-to-ki; work (imp.), a-po'-to-kit ; lam 
 
 going to work, nta-ka-po'-to-ki. 
 to wrap up, a-mo-pit'. 
 wrist, i-tah'-o-ki-wis-tsi'-pi. 
 to write, a-sin'-a-ki ; write (imp.), sin'-a-kit; writing, 
 
 sin'-a-ki ; books, a-sin'-aks. 
 
 Y. 
 
 yellow, o-toli'-u-i. yes, a. 
 
 yesterday, ma-tun'-i-yc. 
 yet, sa'-ki; he is living yet, sa'-ki-ai-to'-pi-wa. 
 youder, o'-mim. 
 
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 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 III. SHYENNES. 
 
 ETHNOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 
 
 COMPARATIVELY little has been published in regard to this tribe of Indians, and their 
 former history is quite obscure. The few facts already recorded seem to render it very 
 probable that they emigrated from the north and northeast to their present location, but I 
 can find no reliable account of their movements or their history, in any works within my 
 reach. How so important and interesting a tribe of Indians has escaped the notice of 
 travellers, is a matter of some surprise. Even the indefatigable Schoolcraft was unable to 
 obtain any extended account of them. From my own personal observations, and from all 
 the sources within my reach, I have constructed the following brief sketch of this tribe. 
 
 This nation has received a variety of names from travellers and the neighboring tribes, 
 as Shycnnes, Shiennes, Cheyennes, Chayennes, Sharas, Shawhays, Sharshas, and by the 
 different bands of the Dakotas, Shai-en-a, or Shai-e-la, the meaning of which is not known. 
 On the Missouri Iliver, near latitude 45 and longitude 101, is the entrance of the Great 
 Shyenne Iliver, one of the most important branches of the Missoiiri. It takes its rise in 
 the divide between the valley of the Yellowstone, and that of the Missouri, and is called 
 by the Dakota Indians, Wash-te'-wali-pa, or Good Iliver. About thirty miles below the 
 eastern base of the Black Hills, is the junction of two important branches, called the 
 North and South Forks of the Shyenne. The South Fork rises far to the northward of 
 the Black Hills, in the arid, tertiary hills which form the dividing ridge between the waters 
 of the Yellowstone and those of the Missouri, and flows around the southern base of the 
 Black Hills, receiving numerous tributaries from the mountains. The North Fork rises 
 in the same dividing ridge, making a flexure around the northern base of the Black Hills, 
 likewise receiving numerous branches, fed by springs in these hills. Uniting, they form 
 the Great Shyenne, as before mentioned. The country bordering this river, from its 
 mouth to the junction of the two forks, is underlaid by the black, plastic, saline clays of 
 the cretaceous system, and is, consequently, for the most part, quite arid and barren. 
 The bottoms, however, forming the immediate valley, are clothed with grass, and furnish 
 a supply of fuel sufficient for all the wants of the Indian. Game is also quite abundant, 
 as elk, deer, and antelope, and in former years, vast herds of buffalo roamed over this 
 region, though at the present time, only now and then a stray bull is seen along this river 
 from mouth to source. In the vicinity of the Black Hills, the clear, beautiful streams 
 that flow from the mountains, swarm with beaver, the prairies are covered with antelope, 
 and the wooded valleys and hills are favorite resorts for elk and deer, the whole rendering 
 
INDIAN TRIBES OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 275 
 
 this country one of the most delightful spots to the Indian. We will not at this time 
 describe the country in detail, inasmuch as we shall dwell more at length upon it in our 
 history of the Dakota bands which now roam over it. We now allude to it, from the fact 
 that it seems to be the starting-point in our knowledge of the Shyennes. A little farther 
 up the river, a small stream flows into the Missouri from the north, which is called the 
 Little Shycnne. These streams evidently derived their names, from the fact that they 
 drain the country once occupied by this tribe of Indians. 
 
 Those enterprising travellers, Lewis and Clarke, give us no extended account of the 
 Shyennes, and simply allude to them in their Journal.* On their map attached to their 
 report, they locate them near the eastern base of the Black Hills, in the valley of the 
 Great Shyenne River, and state the number at fifteen hundred souls. They also speak of 
 the remains of their old villages along the Missouri (vol. i, p. 149), which seem to show 
 the course of their migrations. Near the mouth of a little stream, named by them " Cha- 
 yenne" Creek, they observed " a circular work or fort, where the Sharsha or Chayennes 
 formerly lived." There are, "also, on one of the banks of the Red River of the North, the 
 remains of an old village of the Shyennes, with an important stream bearing their name. 
 All these forts show quite clearly that the Shyennes either gradually and slowly migrated 
 from the far north to their present location, in search of better hunting grounds, or were 
 driven by the superior strength of their more numerous neighbors. We have the state 
 ments of persons now living in that country, that the Dakotas drove them from the Mis 
 souri to their present position. 
 
 Brackenridge in his Journal of a tour up the Missouri River, in 1811,f says of these 
 Indians that they are a " wandering nation on the heads of the Shyenne River ; trade with 
 the Arikaras ; speak a different language from any nation I know ; their complexion very 
 fair. They trade also with the Spaniards, and have a great number of horses, &c." 
 
 During the time of Long's expedition to the Rocky Mountains, in 1819 and 1820, a 
 small portion of the Shyennes seem to have separated themselves from their nation on the 
 Missouri, and associated themselves with the Arapohos, who wandered about the tributa 
 ries of the Platte. On page 367, vol. ii: "The Shyennes associated with those wander 
 ing tribes (Arapohos, &c.), are a small band of seceders from the nation of the same name, 
 residing upon the Shyenne River. They are said to be daring and ferocious.''^ 
 
 * Travels up the Missouri, during the Years 1804, '5, and '6, by Captains Lewis and Clarke. London edition, 
 in three volumes. 
 
 f Views of Louisiana, together with a Journal of a Voyage up the Missouri lliver, in 1811. By II. M. 
 Brackenridge, Esq. Pittsburg, 1814. 
 
 | Account of an Expedition from Pittsburg to the llocky Mountains, performed in the Years 1819 and 1S20, 
 by order of the lion. J. C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, under the command of Major Stephen II. Long, com 
 piled by Edwin James, Botanist and Geologist to the Expedition. 2 vols., with an Atlas. Philadelphia, 182.'!. 
 
276 ON THE ETHNOGRAPHY AND PHILOLOGY OF THE 
 
 According to Mr. Morse, in 1822, " this tribe, of 3250 souls, dwell and hunt on the river 
 of this name, a western tributary of the Missouri, a little above the Great Bend."* 
 
 We have no means at hand for determining the exact time when these Indians took up 
 their abode in the Platte country. We only know that at the present time they claim, in 
 connection with the Arapohos, the country bordering upon the North and South Platte 
 Bivers. They range, however, in their war excursions and in their search for buffalo, far 
 into the Crow country, along the various branches of Powder River, along the Sweet water, 
 and even as far to the west and north as the Black Hills, south to the Arkansas, and west 
 to the valley of Green River. Owing to the rapid immigration of white settlers into that 
 region for a few years past, the Indian Bureau has attempted to place these Indians upon 
 a reservation ; but they must be taught to cultivate the soil before they will become a con 
 tented or a prosperous people. 
 
 The writer, attached to a United States Exploring party, under the command of Capt. 
 William F. Raynolds, spent the winter of 1859 and 1860 at the base of the mountains, 
 about a hundred miles above Fort Laramie, on the North Platte. The Indian Agent, 
 who resided at the same place, had several very intelligent Shyenne hunters, from whom 
 much information was obtained. The following extracts are taken from the writer's jour 
 nal kept at that time. 
 
 " There are many instances of Indians possessing several wives, from two to fifteen, but 
 jealousies are constantly arising, and are kept in check only by force on the part of the 
 husband. Every woman rejoices when she finds she is the only lawful wife; and when 
 she suspects that her husband meditates the taking of a second, she throws every obstacle 
 in the way, first by renewed attentions and kindness to her husband, and then by creating 
 difficulties with the intended wife. When an Indian takes several wives, he usually se 
 lects one as his favorite. She may be a young woman, or the first wife and the mother of 
 his children. The remainder are intended more as slaves, to dress robes and to perform 
 the drudgery of the lodge. 
 
 " Rib, our excellent Shyenne hunter, has been out in pursuit of game for several days, 
 and although one of the best Indian hunters in the country, he has had very poor success. 
 He is very superstitious, like all his tribe, and says it is the moon that is in fault. It is 
 now full moon, and he says that when the moon dies his luck will return again. Thus 
 these people are continually impeded in their efforts by their superstitious notions. The 
 first time he went out hunting during this moon he wounded an antelope ; it escaped, and 
 many other chances occurred, yet he returned without meat, to receive the angry looks of 
 the wife, who would give him no supper. Having rested himself he started out again, 
 
 * A lleport to the Secretary of War of the United States on Indian Affairs. By llev. Jedediah Morse, D.D. 
 New Haven, 1S2. 
 
INDIAN TRIBES OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 277 
 
 wounded an elk, and pursued it into the mountains, until it became buried in a snowdrift, 
 from which place it was impossible for him to carry away the meat. The next day he 
 started out again, and found a deer asleep near a little creek : then, too, his gun missed 
 fire. Again he took deadly aim at a deer, and the ball stopped within a few feet of the 
 muzzle of the gun. He now waits patiently for the next moon, when, he says, he will kill 
 an abundance of game. 
 
 " Rib has a Dakota wife, one quarter white. She presents the only instance that I have 
 met with among the Indians, in which the woman ruled the man directly. It is very 
 seldom that an Indian allows his wife to gain any power over him, though she may quietly 
 influence him ; yet any disobedience of his orders is punished, oftentimes with great seve 
 rity. In their domestic affairs each one has his or her duty to perform, and there is no in 
 terference the one with the other, though the tastes and wishes of the man are consulted, 
 and have the preference. His is the first or principal place in the lodge, usually the far 
 thest from the door. On one occasion Ilib ventured to punish his children for some act of 
 disobedience. His wife turned him out of the lodge, and threw all his things out after him. 
 He went away alone quite crestfallen. When rallied for his want of heart, and asked why 
 he did not whip her, he replied that he loved his wife, and did not wish to strike her. So he 
 waited patiently until her wrath cooled, and all was made right again. He says that if 
 he were to punish his wife every time she conducted herself badly, he would be com 
 pelled to stand with his whip in his hand all the time, and could not use his gun. 
 
 " The Shyennes are a proud race, large and well formed, more like the Dakotas than 
 any tribe I am acquainted with on the Missouri. They are at peace with the Dakotas, 
 and have become so intermarried now, that it is hardly probable that they will ever break 
 their friendly relations. So many of them speak the Dakota language, that their own lan 
 guage is not used at the present time in diplomatic affairs. I have never heard of but one 
 white interpreter for these Indians, and he has long since left them, his knowledge of their 
 language being of no pecuniary benefit to him. 
 
 " The Shyennes, like the Dakotas, are quite rigid in regard to the fidelity of their women. 
 When a woman proves false to her husband, which is not common, she is punished with 
 great severity, and not uncommonly with death. When a young man sees a woman fail- 
 to look upon, and one which his heart desires, he at once commences to apply his arts. 
 If he succeeds in seducing the woman to elope with him, he immediately escapes to 
 another tribe or band, and if he remains away, nothing is said or done about the matter ; 
 but if he returns, in some instances the injured husband kills him, though usually the 
 man who decoyed away the wife gives to the former husband a horse and other presents, 
 and he and a number of their mutual friends gather together at the lodge of the first hus 
 band, who hands the latter a pipe, and they all smoke together. The injured husband then 
 
278 ON THE ETHNOGRAPHY AND PHILOLOGY OF THE 
 
 says that his heart was bad, but has now become good, and the past is forgotten. Among 
 the Blackfect it is not uncommon for a lapse from virtue on the part of the woman to be 
 visited with the worst form of punishment, the cutting off of the nose. A few rare cases 
 have occurred among the Shyennes, but, as Rib says, only bad men do so. In a few 
 cases the women have been killed. 
 
 "There is at this time (January, 1860), a serious warlike feeling existing between the 
 Shyennes and the Crows. Each tribe accuses the other of having broken the peace, but, 
 as near as I can ascertain, the Crows are in the wrong. About one year ago, one of the 
 head chiefs of the Crows came to the Platte and stole from the Shyennes about thirty 
 horses. In endeavoring to get them back the latter lost some men and the former some. 
 About a month ago, the Shyennes, in considerable numbers, were encamped on Powder 
 River. The Crows surprised the camp one morning, killed five persons and wounded 
 several others, taking five children prisoners. The Crows being mounted, took the 
 children in front of them on their horses. Being hard pressed by the Shyennes, who were 
 in pursuit, the Crows drew their knives and stabbed the children, and threw them from 
 their horses. The Indians at once removed from the interior to the Platte, near our 
 winter quarters, bringing their wounded with them, most of whom died. One old woman 
 was scalped alive, and though she was not otherwise injured, soon after died. It is con 
 sidered the greatest insult to a tribe to scalp one of its members in that way. A lad about 
 sixteen years of age, is now with his parents near our camp, with a bullet lodged in his 
 thigh. It is quite uncertain what the result will be. The Dakotas and Shyennes have 
 united against the Crows in a war of extermination. It would seem as though the country 
 which the Crows have so long possessed, and regarded as the finest region in the world, 
 would soon be taken from them. They are surrounded on all sides by enemies. 
 
 " At this time (January 25th, 1860), there are several lodges near the Agency. One of 
 the old men has a daughter about sixteen years of age. Near his tent there is a small 
 temporary hut, which is occupied by the girl during her menstrual period. During this 
 time she is not permitted to touch anything, not even a horse, if so, it is considered bad 
 ' medicine,' and unclean. This is a universal custom among all Indians with whom I am 
 acquainted. 
 
 " Rib gives me the following information in regard to the religious belief of the Shy 
 ennes. He says that they all believe that when a person dies a portion returns to the 
 earth, and another part, the spirit, goes to the Great Spirit, from which it had its origin. 
 It then enters a child again and returns to this world ; and should that being at any 
 period during its lifetime walk over the dust of the former body, it also dies. ' Grass, 
 an unusually intelligent Indian, a hunter for the Agent, says, that the Indians are aware 
 that there is a .Great Spirit who made the heavens and the earth, but farther than that 
 they know nothing. They mourn for the dead because they are lost to them, and they 
 
INDIAN TRIBES OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 279 
 
 know they cannot return. They place food and articles of clothing on the grave, because 
 they think that the spirit continues with the body after death a short period, and then 
 departs for the place where all spirits are gathered together. Grass says that the Indians 
 often hear the spirits of the dead, and know their presence by various noises, but that he 
 himself never saw them, though he has looked for them many times. His own belief is, 
 that when an Indian dies that is the last of him : his body goes to the ground, his flesh to 
 feed the worms, and his bones to form earth. He says also that the other Indians are 
 fools for having any different belief. Is he not an infidel "? None of the prairie Indians 
 originally believed in a bad spirit, but have derived that idea from the whites. To sum 
 up the religious belief of the Indians, it is simply an indefinite idea of a great Creator of 
 all things ; and farther than that they know nothing. 
 
 " The Great Spirit made half of the country for the whites, suitable for raising all kinds 
 of grain, &c. He made the other half for the Indians, mostly prairie, and placed upon it 
 an abundance of game ; but that the white men were continually intruding upon them, 
 and would soon drive them into the sea. He illustrates his remark in this way, that the 
 whites are like ants, and desire to have the whole world for an ants' nest. 
 
 " There are no special ceremonies connected with the birth of a child. As soon as a child 
 is born, it is dipped in cold water and wrapped in a blanket. Presents are made to the 
 old woman who acts as midwife. The father desires that the child shall be a boy, to aid 
 him in herding the horses and in the hunt, while the mother prefers it to be a girl, to 
 assist her- in carrying wood and in making moccasins. There is considerable ceremony in 
 piercing the ears of the child when it has attained a certain age, say four years. Liberal 
 presents are given to the person who performs the act. 
 
 " There is great regularity in the operation of smoking the pipe. The Indians always 
 pass around the pipe, the first man puffing a few whiffs, and then handing it to the one 
 next to him. One person takes hold of the pipe-stem at a certain place, the next one' 
 above, and the next below alternately. Should any one fail to observe this order, whether 
 white man or Indian, he cannot get the pipe until he takes hold of it in the proper way. 
 The reason given is, that it is their ' medicine ;' that no two men, sitting side by side, 
 shall handle the pipe in the same way. It is also very common for a man, on receiving 
 the pipe, to point the bowl toward the ground, and the stem toward the heavens. There 
 is, perhaps, no more interesting ceremony than that of smoking. It is to them a great 
 luxury, and as they sit in groups around, puffing out large volumes of smoke, and con 
 versing in a low, quiet tone of voice, they present the most perfect picture of happiness 
 and contentment. 
 
 " The Indians, both male and female, arrive at the age of puberty at from fifteen to seven 
 teen years, occasionally, though rarely, at thirteen or fourteen. Rare instances are known 
 of females being married at thirteen years of age." 
 VOL. xii. 36 
 
280 ON THE ETHNOGRAPHY AND PHILOLOGY OF THE 
 
 Abortion is produced, to a greater or less extent, among all the Indians. When a 
 woman does not wish to give birth to a live child, she takes a stick which is used for dig 
 ging the pomme llanche, or prairie turnip, and presses the end of it against the abdomen, 
 causing the death of the child in utero. It is very seldom that there is any fatal result to 
 the mother from this operation. 
 
 I can find no reliable evidence that any of the prairie Indians are especially neglectful 
 of their aged people. When they become so old that they cannot walk, they are not left 
 to perish, but are provided with horses or a travais, and cared for until they die. There 
 may be cases in which there is a want of filial affection, but the contrary is the general 
 rule. So long as a chief can hunt and go to war, he can maintain his influence in his 
 tribe, but as soon as he fails through age to lead his people to battle, his son takes his 
 place, or some other man who, by acts of bravery, may have elevated himself to the posi 
 tion of chief. 
 
 It is not so uncommon for the Indians to have deformed children as one would suppose 
 at first glance. The vicissitudes of a nomadic life usually destroy such children very soon 
 after birth. They are usually cared for in time of plenty, but when food is scarce they 
 are allowed to starve. I was told by the Indians themselves, that many are born deaf and 
 dumb, and blind. An instance occurred of a woman giving birth to four children at a 
 time, two of which were blind. I saw a very pretty half-breed girl among the Crows, 
 who had been deaf and dumb from her birth, otherwise she apppeared bright and intelli 
 gent. 
 
 There are a great number of dances among the Indians, the most important of which 
 is the sun dance. The names of a portion are given below. Oli-i'-om, the Sun Dance, 
 " to dance and look at the sun." The principal medicine-man gathers all the warriors in 
 the village together at a certain place, and each one makes an offering to the sun, and 
 then they all dance and beat the drum from two to four days, or as long as they can en 
 dure without eating or drinking. They do not sing, but whistle a continuous note on a 
 bone instrument, tap the drum, and dance. They also fold the skin in different parts of 
 the body, piercing a hole through it with a sharp knife, insert a stick, and fasten the stick 
 with a cord to a pole above their heads, or the limb of a tree. They then endeavor to 
 break the stick or cord by the pressure of their weight, at the same time giving away a 
 horse, or some other equally valuable present. The fold of skin sometimes tears away, 
 producing a most painful wound. They do this that they may be successful in all their 
 undertakings, have plenty of buffalo, kill numbers of their enemies, have no sickness, &c. 
 
 The commencement of this ceremony is brought about by some one in the village having 
 a dream, which informs him that the sun controls all the affairs of life. He then bids all 
 the people to prepare for its performance. The same dance occurs among the Dakotas. 
 and is called by them Wi-wai'-a5-i-vra'-ci. 
 
INDIAN TRIBES OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 281 
 
 E-a-cis-to, Scalp Dance. When a war party goes out against the enemy, and returns with 
 plenty of scalps, all the village, men, women, and children, join in dancing and singing, 
 sometimes for half a day or all night. They also build large fires. The same dance occurs 
 among the Dakotas, and is called by them I-wa'-ki-6i-pi. As the description will apply 
 to the ceremony among both tribes, I quote from the Dakota Dictionary. " This dance 
 follows the bringing home of the scalps of their enemies. A circle is formed, on one side 
 of which stand the young men, with their bodies painted, with their feathers in their heads, 
 and their drums, rattles, and other instruments of music in their hands, while on the 
 other side stand the young women, in their best attire, carrying the scalp or scalps stretched 
 on a hoop. The war song commences, and the women dance around, sometimes ad 
 vancing towards the men, who are stationary, and then again retreating, and responding 
 at intervals to the music in a kind of chorus. If the scalp is taken in the winter, the 
 dance is kept up, frequently by day and night, until the leaves grow in the spring. If it 
 is taken in the summer, they dance and rejoice over it until the leaves fall off, when it is 
 buried." 
 
 O-ta'-mi-mi-sa'-o, Strong Heart Dance. The young men only join in this dance. The Da 
 kotas call it cai)'-te-su-tai'-wa-<$i. 
 
 E-wok-si'-hi-wa-to : Dakota, To-ka'-la-wa-ci'-pi, the Fox Dance. The Indians make a large 
 kettle of soup, and dance for good luck. Only the young, unmarried women, that is, 
 virgins, join in this dance. 
 
 Ho-tum'-i-ta'-ni-o, Dog Dance ; Dakota, I-han'-shi-wa-pa'-wa-&, the Big Owl Dance. The manner 
 of performance is the same in both tribes. In this dance, all the male sex, and all the 
 virtuous wives join. It is said that not more than four or five women dance. 
 
 O-ho-mi-no'-toh-i-o, Soldier Dance ; Dakota, Wi'-cis-ka, the White Belt Dance. Among 
 the Dakotas, the belt that holds all their hunting apparatus is white. Only the young 
 men join in this dance. 
 
 O-tu'-a-ta'-ni-o, Bull Head Dance ; the same meaning in Dakota, Ta-taij'-ka-pa-wa-ei. They 
 perform the most violent gesticulations in this dance. The men form a ring, wearing a 
 bull's head in the shape of a mask, imitating the grunt of a bull. Two women stand 
 inside the ring. It is the most picturesque and exciting of all their dances. 
 
 Mo'-he-ta'-ni-o, the Elk Dance ; Dakota, He-l'ia'-ka-wa-c-i. This is a sort of Medicine dance. 
 All join, men, women, and children. 
 
 Na-ko-yo-su'-is-to, Bear Dance ; Dakota, Ma-t'-wa-6i-pi. A man dreams of having a fight 
 with a bear; he awakes in the morning, and if he overcame the bear in his dream, he 
 tells his friends, and they all have a dance. Only the males join. The motions and 
 grunt of the bear are imitated. 
 
 As we have before remarked, our previous knowledge of the Shyenncs and their language 
 
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 is very limited. A brief list of the " Words and Vocabularies" of the Shyenne language is 
 given in Ludwig's " Literature of American Aboriginal Languages," to which nothing has 
 been added up to this date. In the Archseologia Americana, vol. ii, p. 379, is a list of the 
 names of the Shyenne chiefs Avho signed the treaty of July, 1825. It so happens, that all 
 the names were given in the Dakota, and are, therefore, no contribution to the Shyenne. 
 
 Reise des Prinzen Maximilian zu Wied, Coblenz. 1839-1841, ii vols., 4to. On pp. 
 487-489, about sixty-seven words of the Shyenne are given, apparently very correctly taken. 
 
 The vocabulary secured by Lieut. Abert, U. S. A., is, perhaps, the most valuable one 
 ever taken, though quite brief. Great use was made of this by Mr. Albert Gallatin, in 
 his Comparison of the Indian Languages. See Transactions of the American Ethnological 
 Society, vol. ii, pp. cxvi-cxviii. It was first published in Abert's lleport of his Examina 
 tion of New Mexico, in the years 1846 and 1847, pp. 467-518, forming a part of Emory's 
 Notes of a Military Reconnoissance, &c., Washington, 1848, 8vo. It seems that it was 
 from Lieut. Abert's vocabulary, that Gallatin first detected the affinity of the Shyenne to 
 languages of the Algonkin stock. " Out of forty-seven Shyenne words for which we have 
 equivalents in other languages, there are thirteen which arc indubitably Algonkin, and 
 twenty-five which have affinities more or less remote with some of the languages of that 
 family."* 
 
 A vocabulary of nearly three hundred words is published in Schoolcraft's " History and 
 Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States," Part III, pp. 346-459. John S. 
 Smith, to whom the credit is given for this vocabulary, is the only white man who ever 
 claimed to have anything like a thorough acquaintance with the Shyenne tongue. He 
 was interpreter and trader for that tribe for many years. He at this time (1860) keeps 
 a trading-house near the mouth of Cache la Poudre creek, on the South Platte. 
 
 So far as we can ascertain, the above list comprises everything of an original character, 
 published in regard to the Shyenne language, up to this date. 
 
 The following grammatical notes and vocabulary, were obtained during the winter of 
 1859 and '60, at the Indian Agency on the South Platte, about one hundred miles west of 
 Fort Laramic'. I was fortunate in securing the services of a very intelligent Shyenne In 
 dian, who spoke, in addition to his own tongue, the Dakota with almost equal fluency. 
 His wife was a very intelligent Dakota woman, who understood the English language 
 quite well. With the aid of a Dakota interpreter, I would pronounce the words from the 
 Dakota Dictionary, published by the Smithsonian Institution, and the Indian would then 
 give the corresponding words in the Shyenne language. I, therefore, feel much confidence 
 in the accuracy of the materials thus obtained. 
 
 * Gallatin, Transactions American Ethnological Society, vol. ii, p. cxi. Langue des Indiens Cheycnnes (nu 
 merals), Bulletin dc la Sociote dc Geographic, 1'aris, 18 16, Svo. Third scries, tome vi, pp. 381-386. 
 
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 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 REMARKS ON THE GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURE OF THE SI1YENNE LANGUAGE. 
 
 I. NOUNS. 
 
 1. IN the Shyenne language no change is made in the terminations of nouns to indicate 
 their case. The nominative arid objective cases are inferred from the position of the nouns 
 in a sentence, and the idea of possession is denoted by fragment-pronouns, which are 
 usually prefixed, and sometimes, though rarely, inserted into the nouns. 
 
 2. Nouns have two numbers, singular and plural ; and these are usually distinguished 
 by difference of termination, as : (sing.) o'-he, a river ; (pi.) o-he'-ist; (sing.) wih'-pots, a leaf ; 
 (pi.) wili'-po-tots ; (sing.) mu'-i-no, a horse; (pi.) inu'-i-no-ham ; (sing.) na'-e, otter; (pi.) na'-in. 
 
 a. There seem to be two forms of the plural number, one of which denotes a moderate 
 number of individuals, and the other a great many; as, (sing.) ho'-ma, a beaver; (1st pi.) 
 ho-ma', several beavers ; (2d pi.) ho-ma-e'-yo, a great many beavers. 
 
 b. The plural of some nouns is formed by simple change of accent from one syllable to 
 another; as (sing.) ho'-tum, a dog; (pi.) ho-tum'; (sing.) ho'-ma, a beaver; (pi.) ho-ma'; (sing.) 
 
 nu'-man, a fish ; (pi.) no-man'. 
 
 3. The gender of nouns is denoted by the use of different words ; as, o-to-a', a bull ; mi, 
 a cow ; o-tu'-a-mu, a male elk ; mi'-i-mu, a female elk ; wo stun', a man ; hi, a woman. 
 
 IT. ADJECTIVES. 
 
 4. In the Dakota, Blackfoot, Crow, and other Indian languages of the Northwest, the 
 adjective usually follows the noun which it qualifies ; but in the Shyenne it most com 
 monly precedes, though examples of both cases occur ; as, e-ku'-si-si'-o-tum, a sharp-nosed 
 dog ; moli-ta'-o-hum, a black horse ; mai-is'-oi, a red shirt. In the following instances, the 
 adjective follows the noun : hu'-Uv-si-wa', bad lands ; wo-i'-ha-i-not, thick clouds ; i-shi'-ni-pit'-siv, 
 a snowy day. 
 
 5. Adjectives have two numbers, singular and plural, the same as nouns. There are 
 also two plural forms ; as, 
 
 SINGULAR. PLURAL. 
 
 1st form. 2d form. 
 
 na-tos, na-to-si-o, na-to'-sis-to, cold, 
 
 no-moli'-ta, no-mOTi'-tai-yo, no-mol'i'-tas-to, well, 
 
 i-ha'-i-yom, i-ha-i-yo'-mi-o, i-ha-i-yo'-mis-to, fat. 
 
 e-ho'-ni-cist, e-ho'-ni-cis'-ta-o, lazy, 
 
 e-wo'-kfmi, c-wo-ko'-mi-o, c-wo-ko'-mo-nist, white. 
 
 G. The cardinal numbers are as follows : 
 
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 one, noli. twenty-one, ni-so'-o-ta-nolV. 
 
 two, nih. thirty, na-no'. 
 
 three, na'-a. thirty-one, na-no'-o-ta-nol'i'. 
 
 four, ni-pa. forty, ni-pu'. 
 
 five, non. fifty, no-no'. 
 
 six, na-su'-tu. sixty, na-so'-to-nu. 
 
 seven, ni'-so-tu. seventy, ni-so'-to-nu. 
 
 eight, na-noh'-tu. eighty, na-noli'-to-nu. 
 
 nine, soli'-tu. ninety, sOli'-to-nu. 
 
 ten, ma-toli'-to. one hundred, ma-toli'-to-nu. 
 
 eleven, ma-toh'-to-o-ta-noh'. two hundred, nih'-a-ma-toli'-to-nu. 
 
 twelve, ma-toh'-to-o-ta-nih'. three hundred, na'-a-ma-toli'-to-nu. 
 
 thirteen, ma-toli'-to-o-ta-na'-a. four hundred, ni'-pa-ma-toli'-to-nu. 
 
 fourteen, ma-toh'-to-o-ta-ni'-pa. five hundred, non'-ma-toh'-to-nu. 
 
 fifteen, ma-toh'-to-o-ta-non'. six hundred, na-su'-tu-ma-toli'-to-nu. 
 
 sixteen, ma-toh'-to-o-ta-na-su'-tu. seven hundred, ni-so'-tu-ma-toli'-to-nu. 
 
 seventeen, ma-toh'-to-o-ta-ni'-so-tu. eight hundred, na-noli'-tu-roa-toli '-to-nu. 
 
 eighteen, ma-toh'-to-o-ta-na-noh'-tu. nine hundred, sol'i'-tu-nia-ton'-to-nu. 
 
 nineteen, ma-t5h'-to-o-ta-sSli'-tu. one thousand, ma-toh'-tu-ma-toli'-tu-nu. 
 
 twenty, ni-so'. 
 
 7. Other forms occur, either as numeral adjectives or adverbs. 
 
 i-o-ni'-so-wah'-si-o, twice, in two ways. e-na-hanst', three pairs. 
 
 mh'-ut-si-na'-wo, a double-barrel gun. na-suh'-ta-tsi'-na-wo, six mouths, a revolving pistol, 
 
 ni-ni-shish', you two. i-na-soli'-to-yos, six toes, a man with six toes, 
 
 e-no'-ka, one pair. e'-ni-wo'-wa-tanst', in four ways, four times, 
 e-nih-anst', two pairs. 
 
 III. ADVERBS. 
 
 8. Adverbs usually precede the verbs which they qualify ; as, po-no-i-W-no-o-ist, to throw 
 anything down ; i-hav'-siv-i-mi'-i-ots, to smell badly. 
 
 IV. PREPOSITIONS. 
 
 9. Prepositions generally follow the nouns which they govern ; as, ho-ev', on the ground. 
 
 V, VI. CONJUNCTIONS AND INTERJECTIONS. 
 
 10. Of conjunctions and interjections there are but few. Most of the former are con 
 nected with other words, though a few are separate ; as, ma'-tu, and, also. 
 
 VII. PRONOUNS. 
 
 11. The fragment or incorporated pronouns are prefixed to, or inserted into nouns, ad 
 jectives, and verbs. 
 
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 ma, an arrow. 
 
 ma-hots', pi. arrows. 
 
 na-ma', my arrow. 
 
 ni-ma', thy arrow. 
 
 ho-ist', a fire, or his fire. 
 
 na-to'-ist, my fire. 
 
 ni-to'-ist, thy fire. 
 
 ho-i'-stats, pi. fires, or their fires. 
 
 na-to'-is-tam, our fires. 
 
 ni-to'-is-tam, your fires. 
 
 ma'-clk, a bow, or his bow. 
 
 ma'-takst, pi. bows, 
 na-ma'-clk, my bow. 
 ni-ma'-cik, thy bow. 
 mo'-dik, a knife, 
 na-mo'-cik, my knife, 
 ni-mo'-clk, thy knife. 
 i-mo-(-Ik, his knife, 
 mo-takst', knives, 
 na-mo-takst', our knives, 
 ni-mo-takst', your knives. 
 
 12. The following are the words that denote kindred, and changes are made to denote 
 the person of the relationship affirmed, by prefixing to the nouns the fragmentary personal 
 pronouns ; as. 
 
 na-ho-e', my father. 
 
 na-ko-e', my mother. 
 
 na'-a, my son. 
 
 na-ton', my daughter. 
 
 na-nih'-a, my grandchild. 
 
 ni-nil\'-a, your grandchild. 
 
 nih'-a, a grandchild. 
 
 na-e-ih'-a, my great grandchild. 
 
 na-ni'-a, my elder brother (spoken by a male). 
 
 na-ta'-ta-riim, my elder brother (said by a female). 
 
 nam'-ham, elder sister (said by a male). 
 
 hiu'-i, elder sister (said by a female). 
 
 i'-he-mi-ots, she is an elder sister. 
 
 na'-hc-mi-ots, slie is my elder sister. 
 
 ni'-he-mi-ots, she is your elder sister. 
 
 nal'i'-a-him, my younger sister (said by a male). 
 
 ni-ali'-a-him, your younger sister (said by a male). 
 
 i-ah''-a-hiin, his younger sister (said by a male). 
 
 is'-i-ma, younger sister (said by a female). 
 
 na-is'-i-ma, my younger sister (said by a female). 
 
 ni-is'-i-ma, your younger sister (said by a female). 
 
 na-hi'-ni-hi'-nots, my brothers. 
 
 na-e'-ka-e'-ni-nots, my sisters. 
 
 ni-to', brother-in-law. 
 
 ni-tam', sister-in-law (wife's sister). 
 
 na-wi'-si, a woman's husband's brother's wife. 
 
 him'-shim, a father-in-law. 
 
 na-nim-shim', my father-in-law. 
 
 ni-nini-shiin', your father-in-law. 
 
 na'-him-shim'-i-not. 
 
 ni'-him-shim'-i-not. 
 
 i'-him-shim'-i-not. 
 
 na'-him-shim'-i-no. 
 
 ni'-him-shim'-i-hu. 
 
 ni'-him-shim'-i-no. 
 
 na-han', his aunt. 
 
 na-na-han', my aunt. 
 
 ni-na-han', your aunt. 
 
 it-sin'-ot, nephew, his nephew. 
 
 na-tsin'-ot, my nephew. 
 
 ni-tsin'-6t, your nephew. 
 
 na-it-sin'-o-ta, our nephews. 
 
 ni-it-sin'-o-ta, your nephews. 
 
 na-ham', his niece. 
 
 na-na-ham', my niece. 
 
 ni-na-ham', your niece. 
 
 na-na-hai'-ha-mi-nuts, our nieces. 
 
 na-hai'-ham-i-wo, our nieces. 
 
 e-mi-shim', his stepfather. 
 
 na-mi-shim', my stepfather. 
 
 ni-mi-shim', thy stepfather. 
 
 nish'-ki-e, mother-in-law (said by male and female). 
 
 hi-hum', a husband. 
 
 hi-hum'-i-wo, pi. husbands. 
 
 na-i-hum', my husband. 
 
 ni-i-hum', thy husband. 
 
 e-is'-tsi-im, his wife. 
 
 e-is'-tsi-im'-i-o, his wives. 
 
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 na-tsi-im', my wife, 
 ni-tsi-iin', thy wife. 
 
 ni-sis'. a man's male cousin. 
 
 13. The single pronouns are divided into separate or incorporated, or those which form 
 separate words, or those which are prefixed to or inserted into verbs, adjectives, and nouns. 
 The following is a list of the principal separate pronouns, personal or otherwise : 
 
 na-ni'hu, I. 
 ni-ni'-hu, thou. 
 i-ni'-hu, he or it. 
 na-ni'-hu-in, we. 
 ni-ni'-hu-in, you. 
 in-i-hu-wi'-o, they, 
 na-tsi'-ots, mine. 
 nis-tsi'-ots, thine, 
 is-tsi'-ots, his, hen-, its. 
 nat-so-tan', me, myself, 
 nit-so-tan', thou, thyself, 
 is-tso-wiv', they, themselves. 
 
 ne'-wi-shi'-wos, both, they two. 
 ni-wa'-as, who. 
 rii-wa'-si-o, pi. 
 hi'-nu-wa'-it, what, 
 to'-nish, when, 
 tas, which, 
 to-nist', how many, 
 no'-tsi-to, this, 
 nis'-i-wo, that, 
 hc-to', these, 
 he-to-is'-ta-nuts, those, 
 no-nis'-to-whews, those. 
 
 VIII. ADJECTIVE s. 
 
 14. Adjectives and adjective-verbs are declined, by prefixing the fragment-pronouns, in 
 the following manner : 
 
 na pi'-wa, I am good, 
 ni-pi'-wa, thou art good, 
 i-pi'-wa, he is good, 
 na-pa'-wan, we are good, 
 ni-pi'-wan, you are good, 
 i-pi'-wa-na'-no, they are good. 
 
 na-tai'-pa-wan, I will be good, 
 ni-tai'-pa-wan, thou wilt be good, 
 e-tai'-pa-wan, he will be good, 
 iia-tai'-pa-wa'-na-non, we will be good, 
 ni-tai'-pa-wa'-na-non, you will be good, 
 e-tai'-pa-wa'-na-no, they will be good. 
 
 *na-shi-pau'-a, I am already good or handsome. 
 ni-shi-pau'-a, thou art already good or handsome, 
 i-shi-pau'-a, he is already good or handsome, 
 na-shi-pau'-av, we arc already good or handsome, 
 ni-shi-pau'-av, you are already good or handsome. 
 
 i-shi-pau'-av, 
 i-shi-pau'-a-na-no, 
 
 they are already good or hand 
 some. 
 
 na-pau -hai, ) 
 
 V I am handsome or pretty. 
 na-pe-whai, > 
 
 ni-pau'-hai, thou art handsome or pretty, 
 i-piv'-hai, he is handsome or pretty, 
 na-pau'-haim, I am handsome or pretty, 
 ni-pau'-haim, you arc handsome or pretty, 
 i-pau-hai'-yo, -s 
 
 i-pau-hais'-to, t they are handsome or pretty, 
 i-piv-hais'-to, - 
 
 na-pi'-wi-e-wi, I am well, or in good condition, 
 ni-pi'-wi-e-wi, thou art well, 
 i-pi'-wi-e-wi, he is well, 
 na-pi'-wi-iv'-nim, we are well, 
 ni-pi'-wi-iv'-nim, you are well. 
 
 i-pi'-wi-iv'-ni-o, ) 
 
 [ they are well, 
 i-pi'-wi-iv -nis-to, J 
 
 * The adverb nish is inserted, meaning now, already, quickly. 
 
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 na-na'-tos, I am cold, 
 ni-na'-tos, thou art cold, 
 i-na'-tos, he is cold, 
 na-na'-to-sim, we are cold, 
 ni-na'-to-sim, you are cold. 
 
 i-na'-to-si'-o. ) 
 
 J. they are cold, 
 i-na -to-sis -to, ) 
 
 na-sa'-na-to-sin, I am not cold, 
 ni-sa'-na-to-sin, thou art not cold, 
 i-sa'-na-to-sin, he is not cold, 
 na-sa'-na-to-si'-him, we are not cold. 
 
 ni-sa'-na-to-si'-him, you are not cold, 
 i-sa'-na-to-si-hi-o, they are not cold. 
 
 na-shi-na'-tos, now I am cold, 
 ni-shi-na'-tos, now thou art cold, 
 i-shi-na'-tos, now he is cold, 
 na-shi-na'-to-sim, now we are cold, 
 ni-shi-na'-to-sim, now you are cold. 
 
 i-shi-na'-to-si-o, i 
 
 } now they are cold. 
 i-shi-Da -to-sis-to, J 
 
 There is a form in frequent use among the Shyennes, which expresses future time by 
 prefixing an adverb ; as : 
 
 noli'-a-na-na'-tos, I will be cold. e-no-moli'-tai-yo, 
 
 noli'-a-ni-na'-tos, thou wilt be cold. e-no- 
 
 o-moli -tai-yo. ) 
 
 f- they arc well, 
 o-mon -tas-to, j 
 
 na-no-moli'-ta, I am well (not sick), 
 ni-no-moh'-ta, thou art well, 
 e-no-moh'-ta, he is well, 
 na-no-moli'-tam, we are well, 
 ni-no-moli'-tam, you arc well. 
 
 i-moli-tan', black. 
 
 na-moli-tan'-wa, me black, I am black, 
 ni-moli-tan'-wa, thou art black, 
 i-moh-tan'-wa, he is black. 
 
 i-moh'-ta-whai'-yu, black-black (emphatic), like the 
 Dakota sap-sap'-pa. 
 
 IX. VERBS. 
 
 15. Shyenne verbs have three moods, indicative, imperative, and infinitive ; three tenses, 
 present, past, and future ; three persons, first, second, and third ; two numbers, singular 
 and plural. There are two forms of the plural ; the common form meaning a number or 
 several,- and the other is probably caused by the addition of a-is'-to, a great many, like 
 the similar form in the Blackfoot verbs, by the addition of a-ku'-a-wa. 
 
 na-wi'-ats, I am. 
 ni-wi'-ats, thou art. 
 i-wi'-ats, he is. 
 na-wi'-at-sim, we are. 
 ni-wi'-at-sim, you are. 
 i-wi'-at-si'-o, they are. 
 i-wi'-at-sis'-to, they are. 
 
 na-pau'-i-mit, I give liberally, 
 ni-pi'-wi-mit, thou givest liberally, 
 i-pau'-i-mitst, he gives liberally, 
 na-pi'-wi-mi-tain, we give liberally, 
 ni-pi'-wi-mi-tain, you give liberally. 
 
 i-pi'-wi-mi-ta, ) 
 
 > they give liberally, 
 i-pi -wi-mi-tai -yo, J 
 
 By inserting the word nish, now, at once, quickly, we have the other forms of this verb, 
 conjugated as follows: 
 
 na-shi-pau'-i-mit, I give liberally now. i-shi-pi'-wa-mi'-o, he gives liberally now. 
 
 ni-shi-pi'-wa-mit, thou givest liberally now. na-shi-pi'-wa-mi'-tain, we give liberally now. 
 
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 ni-shi-pi'-wa-mi-tain, you give liberally now. 
 i-shi-pi'-wa-mi'-a-to, they give liberally now. 
 
 SECOND FOBM. 
 
 na-pi'-wi-i-shi, I give liberally now. 
 ni-pi'-wi-i-shi, thou givest liberally now. 
 i-pi'-wi-i-shi, he gives liberally now. 
 na-pi'-wi-i-shi'-im, we give liberally now. 
 ni-pi'-wi-i-shi'-im, you give liberally now. 
 i-pi'-wi-i-shi'-i-o, 
 
 i-pi -wi-i-shi -i-o, ) 
 
 } they give liberally 
 .i-pi -wi-i-shi -is-to, J 
 
 now. 
 
 na-mis'-a, I eat. 
 tri-mis'-a, thou eatest. 
 i-mis'-a, he eats, 
 na-inis'-em, we eat. 
 ni-mis'-em, you eat. 
 i-mis'-i-o, they eat. 
 
 na-shi'-i-ni-mis'-a, I eat quickly now. 
 ni-shi'-i-ni-mis'-a, thou eatest quietly now. 
 i-shi'-i-ni-mis'-a, he eats quickly now. 
 na-shi'-i-ni-mis'-em, we eat quickly now. 
 ni-shi'-i-ni-niis'-em, you eat quickly now. 
 i-shi'-i-ni-mis'-i-o, they cat quickly now. 
 
 na-mis'-a-tun, I will eat. 
 ni-mis'-a-tun, thou wilt eat. 
 i-ruis'-a-tun, he will eat. 
 na-mis'-a-tun-om, we will eat. 
 ni-mis'-a-tun-om, you will eat. 
 i-mis'-a-tun-oh'-to, they will eat. 
 
 mis'-a (imp. sing.), eat. (Dakota, wo-ta-wo'.) 
 wi'-na-mis'-a (imp. pi.). (Dakota, wo-ta-po'.) 
 
 This verb may also be negatively conjugated by the insertion of the negative particle sa. 
 
 na-sa'-mis-a-tun, I will not eat. 
 ni-sa'-mis-a-tun, thou wilt not eat, &c. 
 
 na-pi'-o-si-man, I think badly of some one secretly 
 
 'in the heart. 
 
 ni-pi'-o-si-man, thou thinkest badly, &c. 
 i-pi'-o-sim, he thinks badly, &c. 
 na-pi'-o-si-ma'-niui, we think badly, &c. 
 ni-pi'-o-si-ma'-nim, you think badly, &c. 
 
 i-pi'-o-si'-mi-o. i 
 
 [ they think badly, &e. 
 i-pi'-o-si'-mo-cY-sto, J 
 
 e'-wi-ist (infinitive), to beg. 
 
 na-wi-is'-to-roo, I beg. 
 ni-wi-is'-to-mo, thou dost beg. 
 i-wi-is'-to-mo, he begs, 
 na-wi-is'-to-mo'-in, we beg. 
 ni-wi-is'-to-mo'-in, you beg. 
 i-wi-is'-to-mo'-i-o, they beg. 
 
 mi'-ta-nut, to remember. 
 
 na-mi'-ta-nut, I remember, 
 ni-mi'-ta-nut, thou dost remember. 
 
 i-mi'-ta-nut, he remembers, 
 na-mi-ta'-nut-a-nu, we remember, 
 ni-mi-ta'-nut-a-nu, you remember, 
 i-mi-ta'-nut-o, they remember. 
 
 na-o'-mo-tom, I breathe, 
 ni-o'-mo-tom, thou brcathest. 
 i-o'-mo-tom, he breathes, 
 na-o'-mo-to-mim, we breathe, 
 ni-o'-mo-to-mim, you breathe, 
 i-o'-mo-to'-mis-to, they breathe. 
 
 o'-mo-tom (imp. sing.) breathe, 
 o'-mo-to-mist (imp. pi.) 
 
 na'-no-mats, I steal, 
 ni'-no-mats, thou stealcst. 
 e'-no-mats, he steals. 
 na-no-ma'-tsim, we steal, 
 ni-no-ma'-tsim, you steal, 
 c-no-ma'-tsi-o, 
 c-no-ma'- 
 
 a-tsi-o, ) 
 
 } they steal, 
 a'-tsi-to, ) 
 
 na-tai'-no-mats, I will steal, I am going to steal. 
 ni-tai'-no-mats, thou wilt steal. 
 
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 e-tai'-no-mats, he will steal, 
 na-tai'-no-ma'-tsim, we will steal, 
 ni-tai'-no-ma'-tsim, you will steal, 
 e-tai'-no-nia'-tsi-o, 
 e-tai'-no-ma'- 
 
 a-tst-o. ) 
 
 J- they will steal, 
 a'-tsi-to, j 
 
 na-ni'-no-mats, I have stolen, I am done stealing. 
 
 ni-ni'-no-mats, thou hast stolen. 
 
 c-ni'-no-inats, he has stolen. 
 
 na-ni'-no-ma'-tsim, we have stolen. 
 
 ni-ni'-no-ma'-tsim, you have stolen. 
 
 e-ni'-no-ma'-tsi-o, 
 
 e-ni'-no-ma'- 
 
 i'-tsi-o. ) 
 
 J. they have stolen, 
 a'-tsi-to, ) 
 
 no-ma'-tsi-6st (imp. sing), steal thou. 
 no-ma'-tsi-o (imp. pi.) 
 
 na-oli-to', I trade or barter, 
 ni-ol'i-to', thou dost trade or barter, 
 e-ol'i-to', he trades or barters. 
 na-6li-to'-wam, we trade or barter, 
 ni-oli-to'-wam, you trade or barter, 
 c-oli to'-wa-o, 
 e- 
 
 D-oli to'-wa-o, ) 
 
 > they trade or barter 
 e-ol'i-to'-wa-to, ) 
 
 na-tai'-oh-to, I will trade or barter, 
 ni-tai'-oli-to, thou wilt trade or barter, 
 e-tai'-oh-to, he will trade or barter. 
 na-tai'-6h-to-wam', we will trade or barter, 
 ni-tai'-oh-to-wam', you will trade or barter, 
 c-tai-oli-to-wa'-o, 
 c-tai-oh-to-wa'-to, 
 
 they will trade or barter. 
 
 na-i-noli'-to, I have traded or bartered, or I have 
 
 done trading. 
 
 iii-i-noli'-to, thou hast traded, &c. 
 e-noli'-to, he has traded, &c. 
 na-i-noli'-to-wam, we have traded, &c. 
 ni-i-noh'-to-wam, you have traded, &c. 
 e-noh'-to-wa-o, 
 c-noh'-to-wa-i 
 
 [ they have traded, &c. 
 wa-to, ) 
 
 na'-am, I shoot. 
 ni'-am, thou dost shoot. 
 
 i'-a-mo, he shoots, 
 na'-a-mon, we shoot. 
 ni'-a-mon, you shoot, 
 i'-a-mov, they shoot. 
 
 na-ta'-am, I will shoot. 
 ni-ta'-am, thou wilt shoot, 
 i-ta'-a-mo, he will shoot, 
 na-ta'-a-mon, we will shoot. 
 ni-ta'-a-mon, you will shoot, 
 i-ta'-a-mov, they will shoot. 
 
 na'-ni-aui, I have shot. 
 ni'-ni-am, thou hast shot, 
 i-ni'-a-mo, he has shot, 
 na-ni'-a-mon, we have shot. 
 ni-ni'-a-mon, you have shot, 
 i'-ni-a-mov'. they have shot- 
 am (imp. sing.) shoot, 
 ta'-mi (imp. pi.) 
 
 na.-na! -i-fots, I am dead, 
 ni-na'-i-yots, thou art dead, 
 i-na'-i-yots, he is dead, 
 na-na'-i-yo'-tsim, we are dead, 
 ni-na'-i-yo'-tsim, you are dead, 
 i-na'-i-yo'-tsi-o, they are dead. 
 
 na'-to-is6, I wrap up anj'thing. 
 ni'-to-is<5, thou wrappest up anything. 
 i'-to-is< 5 , he wraps up anything, 
 na'-to-is'-ci-non, we wrap up anything, 
 ni'-to-is'-tfi-non, you wrap up anything, 
 i'-to-is'-ci-no, they wrap up anything. 
 
 nali'-ai-im, I cry. 
 ni-ali'-ai-im, thou criest. 
 i-ali'-ai-im, he eries. 
 nali'-ai-a-mim, we cry. 
 ni-ali'-ai-a-mim, you cry. 
 i-ali'-ai-a-mi-o, they cry. 
 
 c-ali'-ai-a-nii (imp. sing.), cry. 
 
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 na-sa-ah'-ai-im, I do not cry. 
 ni-sa-ali'-ai-im, thou dost not cry. 
 
 nali-po-o'-is<5, I bind or tie. 
 ni-oli-po-o'-is6, thou dost bind or tie. 
 e-6li-po-o'-is6, be binds or ties, 
 na-oli-po-o'-is-ci-non, we bind or tie. 
 ni-6li-po-o'-is-ci-non, you bind or tic. 
 e-oli-po-o'-is-ci-no, tbcy bind or tic. 
 
 e oh-po-o'-inst (imp.) 
 
 na-ta'-niit, I give, 
 ni-ta'-mit, thou givest. 
 i-ta'-mit, he gives. 
 
 mi'-tsi (imp.), give, 
 ni-niitst (imp.), give me. 
 tsi'-vi-mit (imp.), not give. 
 nu-h'a'-na-ta'-mit, hold on, I give. 
 
 i-shi-mansc', to be done or finished. 
 
 na-sbi-mansc', I am done or have finished, 
 ni-shi-mansc', thou art done or hast finished. 
 na-shi-man'-s6i-non, we are done or have finished. 
 ni-shi-man'-s6i-non, you are done or have finished, 
 i-shi-ma'-ni-o, they (a moderate number), are done 
 
 or have finished, 
 i-shi-man'-sc'i-no, they (a great many), are done or 
 
 have finished. 
 
 NAMES OP TRIBES, PERSONS, AND RIVERS. 
 
 o-e'-tun'-i-o, the Crows. 
 
 so'-so-ni and so'-so-i-ha'-ni, Snakes. 
 
 i-tun'-i-wo, the Skymen, Arapohos. 
 
 o-o'-ho-mo-i'-o, Dakotas generally. 
 
 o-toh'-son, Little Stars, Ogallalas. 
 
 moh-ta'-wa-ta-ta'-ni-o, Blackfeet Dakotas, the Blackfect 
 
 people, 
 ma'-i-sin-as, Sansares, No-bows, same meaning as with 
 
 the Dakotas. . 
 
 wo-ni-to'-na-his, Brulees, Burnt Thighs. 
 nih'-a-o-6ih'-a-is, Two Kettle band, 
 ho-tum'-mi'-bu-is, the Band that eat no dogs, 
 mi'-sis : one half of the Shyenne tribe call themselves 
 
 mi'-sis ; same name as the Platte lliver. 
 po-no-i'-ta-ni-o, the name of the other portion of the 
 
 Shyennes. Different nations with whom they have 
 
 been at war, gave them the name, shai-en'-a, shai- 
 
 e'-la, &c. 
 
 na'-to-wo-na, the Mississippi Dakotas. 
 ho-he'-i-o, Assiniboins. 
 moh-tau-hai'-ta-ni-o, the Blackmen, Utes. 
 ka-ko'-is-tsi'-a-ta'-ni-o, people who flatten their beads ; 
 
 the Flatheads. 
 
 po'-o-nias, blankets whitened with earth, Blackfeet. 
 bis-tu-i'-ta-ni-o, Gros Ventres of the prairie, Atsinas. 
 
 The Shyennes say that the Atsinas call themselves, 
 
 " men" or " people ;" hence, they have another 
 
 name for them, c-ta'-ni-o, which means a people. 
 
 wi-tup-a'-tu, Comanches. 
 
 shish-i-nu'-wut-tsit'-a-ni-o, the Rattlesnake people, Kio- 
 was ; shish-i-nu'-wut, a rattlesnake. 
 
 o-ni'-ha-o, the Drum-beaters, Omahas. 
 
 ho-ni'-i-ta-ni-o, the Little Wolf people, Pawnees. 
 
 o-no'-ni-o, Arickaras. 
 
 mo-no'-ni o, Mandans. 
 
 ma-wi'-o, Red-bodied people, Mormons. 
 
 mish-i-si'-wi-o, people with hairy noses, Spaniards. 
 
 ka-he'-ta-ni-o, people with white ermines, some people 
 who accompanied the Spaniards to trade with the 
 Shyennes, and tied their hair with strips of white 
 ermine skin. 
 
 hev'-hai-ta-ni-o, the hairy people, a band of the Shy 
 ennes. 
 
 is-is-i-wi'-ho-niv, head chief of the mi'-sis band. 
 
 tsi-wi'-o-nirst, the name of a chief. 
 
 he-o-ma'-ast, the Red Body, a woman's name. 
 
 ni-ni-i'-o-he, the Platte River. 
 
 wa-at'-si-wa'-i-yo-he, Deer Creek. 
 
 hi-na-i-yu'-he, Laramie Fork. 
 
 tsin'-o-o-no, Box Elder Creek, Bad-wood Creek. 
 
 ha-ha'-o-he, Very Windy Creek. 
 
 nal'i-o-i-yo'-he, Bear Creek. 
 
 6li-i-i'-o-he, Lodge Pole Creek. 
 
 a-wo'-a-na-tsi'-o-he, the creek where the Pawnees cry. 
 The Pawnees went to war with the Shyennes, and 
 had several of their number killed ; on their re- 
 
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 turn, they stayed four days on this creek, and 
 cried for revenge, without eating or drinking, 
 wi-ta-ni'-o-he, Fat Eiver, South Platte. 
 
 mali-i-mi'-no-i-o-he, Plum Creek. 
 
 i'-o-mit, Turbid or Muddy Water, Missouri River. 
 
 mo-e-i-o'-he, Elk River, Yellowstone. 
 
 NAMES OP THE PRINCIPAL MAMMALS. 
 
 o-to-a', a male buffalo. l>os Americanus. 
 
 mi, a female, a cow. 
 
 mok-si-ai', a calf. 
 
 is'-i-wan, a herd of buffalo. 
 
 o-tu'-a-mu, a male elk. Ccrvus Canadensts. 
 
 uii'-i-mu, a female elk. 
 
 mu-ki-his', a young elk. 
 
 mu e', a herd of elk. 
 
 o-tu'-a-kiis, mountain sheep, male. Ovis Montana. 
 
 mi'-i-kus, female sheep. 
 
 ku-sai'-i-su, young sheep. 
 
 ku-sun', a flock of sheep. 
 
 o-tu'-o-wo-ka, white-tailed deer. Cervus hucurus. 
 
 mi'-i-wo'-ka, female deer. 
 
 wo-ka-hais', young deer. 
 
 wo-ka'-i, a herd or flock. 
 
 moli'-ta-wi-wast-wa-wo'-tsi-wa, black-tailed deer. Cer 
 vus macrotls. 
 
 moh'-ta-wi-wast-wo'-tsi-wan, black-tailed deer, (pi.) 
 
 wa-ko-tsi-wai-is, small or young black-tailed deer. 
 
 wo'-ka, antelope. Atilocapra Americana. 
 
 wuh'-o'. Lcpvs artemisia. 
 
 ai'-ni-wo. Lcpus campestris. 
 
 woli-is', swift fox, kit fox. Vulpcs velox. 
 
 ma-ta i'-woli-is', large red fox. Vulpes macrourus. 
 
 ha'-o, a skunk. Mephitis mephitica. 
 
 moli'-ta-wi-na'-ku, a black bear. Ui'sus. Na'-ku, a 
 bear. 
 
 mi'-ni-wa-ka'-o. Spermophilus tridecem lincatus. 
 
 mi-ni-wa-ka'-tsi-po-ast. Tamias qiiadrivitf.atus. 
 
 no-c', red squirrel of the pines. 
 
 he-ko'-wit, a porcupine. Eretliizon epixanlhus. 
 
 NAMES OF BIRDS, SERPENTS, ETC. 
 
 mo (sing.), mo'-e (pi-), magpie. Pica Iludsoiiica. 
 ma-ka-i-tai'-wi-kis, a humming bird, iron bird, 
 ni'-po-tats-pi, nighthawk. Chordcilcs popetuc. 
 ai'-sto-rao-pi, poorwill. Antrostomus Nuttulli. 
 a-o-tsi'-mis-tac, prairie owl. Athene Jiypngce. 
 si-wa'-ni-shish, fish-duck. Menjus Americanvs. 
 po-pai'-ki-ta-nais, sandpiper. Trinya. 
 mili'-a-is, chickadee. Parus septentrionalis. 
 e-it', Maximilian's jay. Gymnokitta cyanocrphala. 
 a-ka-wo'-i-tu is', sap-sucker. 
 
 ma-i-shi'-o-nun, robin-redbreast. Turdus miyratoriiis. 
 sus'-ki-wat, a small, gray, winter sparrow, 
 ko-nali-tum', gray-crowned finch. Lcucostictc lephro- 
 
 cotts. 
 
 mah-c-mis'-ta-a, large eared owl. Otus Wilsoniamis. 
 mis-ta-kis', small gray owl. Nyctale acadica. 
 mai'-ya-tak, spatula-billed duck. Apatula dypeala. 
 sis-ta-to'-wi-kis, Say's flycatcher. Sayorms Sayus. 
 o'-i-na, small woodpecker, with a red band on back of 
 
 the neck. 
 
 o ha'-mi-shish', green-winged teal. Nettion Carolincn- 
 
 sis. 
 
 lia-ma-shish', blue-winged teal. Qitcrqucdula discors. 
 mo-he-nuh, a rusty yellow hawk, 
 hau'-no-wa-wi-kis, butcher bird. 
 
 ho-i-no'-si-wi-kis, common snowbird. Junco hyemalis. 
 ha-dim, mud-hen. Fulica Americana. 
 woh-a, bald eagle. Ilalicctus leucocephalus, 
 ai'-e-no, a kind of hawk, 
 o'-ko-uin, a small screech owl. Scops asio. 
 mo-e'-a, domestic pigeon. 
 
 mal\-c-min', wild pigeon. Ec.topistcs miyratoria. 
 he-mi-ni'-su, turtle-dove. Zenaidura Carolinensls. 
 shish-to-tu'-wi-kis, cedar bird. Ampelis cedrorum. 
 mai'-e-sai'-e, cheewink. Plpilo arcticus. 
 mat-si'-ni. Tyrannus Carolinicnsi's. 
 o'-e-ni, little nuthatch. Silta Canadensis. 
 ma-e-wis', red-breasted grosbeak. Guiraca mclano- 
 
 cephnla. 
 sus-ki'-wat, a brown bunting. 
 
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 mi-wa-wi'-kis, butcher bird. Collyrio excurbitoidcs. 
 c-a-wo-ci-mo-pa, a cuckoo. Coecygvt Americanus. 
 mali-ta'-hc-in, white-winged blackbird. Dulichonyx, 
 
 oryzivorus. 
 
 e-nis'-ko-na'-wi-wo-to'-nats, martin. Progne purpurea. 
 shili-q-to'-nc, banded-tailed hawk, 
 no-man'-to-ki-si-wa'-nos, a kind of hawk, 
 mo-ta'-wo-is-tom, a kind of hawk, 
 po-pa'-ki-ta-no'-i-sun, a sandpiper. Trinrjoides. 
 he-i'-mi-e. (?) 
 
 shi'-ish, a heron. Ardea herodias. 
 wi-i-e', bittern. Botaurus lentiyinosus. 
 mo-o-ko', whooping crane. Grits Americanus. 
 wo'-a, a swan. Cygnus buccinator. 
 he'-na, a brant goose. 
 wo-ko-mi'-na, a white goose. 
 raai-a-tauh, a goosander, 
 shi-wa-ne-shish', red-breasted teal. Querqiicdula cya- 
 
 nopterts. 
 
 o-wish', long-billed curlew. Numenius longirostris. 
 pa'-wi-wi-kis, wax wing. Ampelis garrulus. 
 
 shish-to-to'-wa'-hi-yis, ruffed grouse. Bonasa itm- 
 bellus. 
 
 shi-shi-noli'-uts, a rattlesnake. Crotalus conjlucntus. 
 
 sas-ko'-wi-tan, a striped water-snake. Eutainia Hay- 
 den i. 
 
 ni-e', large prairie snake. Pituophis Suyi. 
 
 o-ho'-i-tsi-mim, a green snake. Bascanion flavivcn- 
 tris. 
 
 ka-ko'-i-mira, a bull snake. Ueterodon nasicus. 
 
 nia'-i-min. (?) 
 
 inoli'-ta-wi-min, water moccasin. Nerodia s/'pcdon. 
 
 ais'-toli'-an, a round turtle that sits on the prairie, 
 looks like a "buffalo chip," and if undisturbed, 
 watches the sun, and turns with it. 
 
 ha-ta'-o-wis, a swift, or lizard, found in the sand-hills. 
 Plesliodon. 
 
 ho'-o-ma, a musquito. 
 
 hali'-nom, a horse-fly. 
 
 minst'k-so-ni, small insects, ants, lice, &c. 
 
 mi'-shi-min, caterpillars. 
 
 NAMES OF PLANTS. 
 
 ho-i-nai'-i-mo-i, a plant found near the summits of the 
 high mountains, growing on the rocks in thick 
 masses, like moss. 
 
 wih-ci-wa-no, Sarcolatus vermicularis, called by the 
 traders " grease-wood." It is a chenopodiaceous 
 plant, grows in thick clumps, three to six feet 
 high, and is often used for fuel by the Indians 
 and voyageurs in their travels over the treeless 
 prairies. It is very abundant throughout the 
 saline clays of the cretaceous and tertiary forma 
 tions of the Upper Missouri, but more especially 
 abundant in the valleys of the Yellowstone and 
 Missouri near their sources. 
 
 toh-to-i-wili '-i-wa'-no, a shrub somewhat similar to the 
 last. 
 
 mah'-i-wa'-no, Artemisia trifohi, a very abundant 
 shrub along the bottoms of streams, as well as the 
 uplands on the Upper Missouri. It grows some 
 times to the height of ten feet, with stems six 
 inches in diameter, and is also useful for fuel. 
 
 he'-i-wa-nost', Artemisia frigida, wild sage. 
 
 kok-si-wa'-no, a species of Artemisia like A. trlfida, 
 growing on the Big-horn Mountains. 
 
 wa-ni'-tsi-pa-i-me'-i-its, a low sage ; herbaceous. 
 
 mali-i-ini'-ka-ist, Linosyris graveolcns, a shrub associa 
 ted with the grease-wood and sage, and used as fuel. 
 
 o-i-nai'-i-ko-wost, Phlox Hoodi, a low species; looks 
 like gray, rigid moss. 
 
 lia-ma-mili'-a-ist, Gulicrrtzia cutfiamia'. 
 
 woh-pi-wili'-i-wa-no, Enrol ia lanata. 
 
 ci-hos-c'i'-a-wo'-e-ist, a Solid mjn, named from its large 
 yellow flowers. 
 
 mi-mi'-a-ton, spruce pine. Abies. 
 
 wa'-no-wan, Frasera, a tall plant growing in the moun 
 tains. 
 
 ha-ma-sis'-ti-to, Pinus. 
 
 hc-yo-wo'-ist, all kinds of moss. 
 
 mali-i-no-a-ni'-o-nuts, Ghimapliila umbcllata. 
 
 shi-ni-wa'-tsi-wa-mo'-e, Potentilla Norveyica. 
 
 ma-ost', a tall, fine species of Erioijonnm. 
 
 hc-ho-wa-nis'-tots, a yellow moss like lichen, used for 
 dyeing porcupine quills. 
 
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 hc-si'-i-yo-tsi'-nio-ist, Marcliantia polymorpha, used as 
 a medicine. 
 
 tslh -i-wop-tsa'-a-wo-ist, Achillea millifoUum. 
 
 wo-ko-mi-si'-i-6ts, En/oca sericea. 
 
 toh'-to-i-wa-nost, a gray slirubby plant, like Linosy- 
 ris. 
 
 toh'-to-i-cili'-i-wo-yast, a common ground lichen. 
 
 tsi-waks-tsi'-a-wo-ist, a fire-weed growing on the tops 
 of the mountains. Ercchtliites. 
 
 toli-to-e'-o-pais, a fungus, a small puff-ball. 
 
 cih-c'a-e'-o-ni'-o-wist, a shrub growing abundantly in 
 the Shyenne country. 
 
 mish-kim', box elder. Acer neyitndo. 
 
 hais-tah-pa-nis'-to-tuts, "white grass or weeds;" a low 
 species of Erigonum growing among the rocks. 
 
 eli'-o-wo-ist, "jagged seeded." Atriplex. 
 
 i-a-kis'. Spirea. 
 
 o-ta'-ton-wi-si'-i-ots, "green medicine;" a plant grow 
 ing on the Big-horn Mountains. 
 
 ma-ko'-ist, "red-weed." Epiloliuin cffusum. 
 
 we'-si-wo, a kind of grass, the stem of which is used 
 to clean out the pipe-stem. 
 
 na-si'-tsi-wo, " pipe-tail grass," a species of grass. 
 
 ho-i-nos, "bunch-weed;" a species of Eriyeron, grow 
 ing in bunches. 
 
 hai'-ku-ni-ka-mali', "strong or hard wood;" a bush 
 growing in the mountains. 
 
 si-wopst-ci'-a-wo-ist, " gray grass with white blossoms." 
 Antennaria planlaginifolia. 
 
 ais'-to-mi-wa-nost, "white weed of the prairie," a 
 woolly plant. 
 
 tseh-e'-wo-nist, " rattling weed." Penstcmon. 
 
 he-e-wa-nost', "woman-weed;" so called because it is 
 used by the women during the period of their 
 menses as a tea. Artemisia frlyida. 
 
 mol'i-ta'-wi-wa-nost, " black-gray grass." Artemisia 
 ludoviciana. 
 
 so-so'-ni-wa-nost, "snake-weed;" a kind of Artem isia. 
 
 wi-oli'-i-wa-nost, " bad-weed." It is called " bad- 
 weed" because it catches the clothes with its 
 thorns. 
 
 ksa-ma-tum-ots, " bush that the big - horn eats ;" 
 grows in the mountains ; looks like a Smilax. 
 
 hai-i-so', " prairie-water weed." Pulyjonum ramo- 
 sisstmtim. 
 
 wis-ki-e'-mi-nost, " sweet blueberries ;" a large-leaved 
 
 plant growing in the mountains, 
 mi-ni-mi-notst, "rattlesnake bush ;" so called because 
 
 the rattlesnake is supposed to eat the leaves. 
 
 Berlieris aquifolium. 
 shi-sto-to', a spruce pine, 
 ma-pi'-mo-ist, " weeds that the water flows through." 
 
 Parnassia. 
 na-ko'-is-ta'-tsi-mi-nu, "bear berry," black haw; so 
 
 called because the bears eat the fruit. 
 si-ul\-i-i'-si-o-te-si'-ist, fox-tail grass ; named from the 
 
 beards which get in the mouth, and work down 
 
 the throat, and excite coughing, 
 hon-ski-wi'-si-wo, "grass with a small stem," a spe 
 cies of grass. 
 i-ta'-ni-wa-nost', " man's weed," Artemisia Canaden- 
 
 sis. 
 
 ino-i-ac', "milk-weed," Lyyodesmia juncea. 
 mo-to6', " bitterwood," Populus, bitter cottonwood. 
 ais'-to-mi-moli'-shin, "sweet-smelling prairie weed," 
 
 Serophularia nodosa. 
 ais'-to-mis-ta'-si-mi-nu', "the prickly berry," Riles 
 
 Jllissouriensis. 
 o-i-nos', " wood that grows in the prairie," Helian- 
 
 thus giijanteus. 
 
 moli'-ta-wi-si'-i-otst, " black medicine-weed," Liatris. 
 ho-e-toli'-o-nost, " gummy weed," Grindelia squarrosa. 
 mil'i-a-haist', "bird-weed," same as the name of a 
 
 bird. 
 
 o'-ta-mi-mi-nost', " dog bush," Acer Pennsylvanicum. 
 wi-ski-e'-mi-nu, " very sweet berry," Rulus striyosus. 
 wi-ski-e'-mi-nu6, red raspberries, 
 ma-cai'-no-was, the burrs of Glycyrrliiza lepidota. 
 ma-6ai'-no-wa-si-wu', the stalk of the last, 
 wish-ke', Populus, sweet cottonwood. 
 ma-pi'-moh-shin, " sweet-smelling water-weed," Mcn- 
 
 tha Canadensis. 
 mili-ni-mi-nust', so called because the animals crush 
 
 the fruit with their teeth, Celtis crassifolia. 
 na-ko-is-ta'-tsi-min " bear-killer," Crateyus coceineus. 
 
 It received its name from the Indians, because 
 
 they say that when the bears eat the fruit, it 
 
 causes them so great pain, that they try to tear 
 
 out their bowels. 
 
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 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 VOCABULARY OF THE SHYENNE LANGUAGE. 
 
 A. 
 
 above, e-arn', above, overhead, 
 abominable, si'-e-to-wa'-no, very mean, abominable, 
 abreast, e-mo-no'-i-o-tsi-o, abreast, in a row. 
 abstain from, e-ni-ni-ta'-mi-ots, to abstain from, to 
 
 leave oil when one has eaten enough, 
 accept, e'-i-stan, to accept or take. 
 acid, tsi-wi-ld'-i-nu, acid, 
 acquaint, e-6l'i'-ta-han, to relate or acquaint, 
 acrid, e-wi-oli'-i-i-no, acrid, sharp to the taste, 
 across, i-ta-ta'-o-mi, across, by a near way, a cut-off, 
 adhesive, e-pa'-o-yots, sticky, adhesive, 
 adulteress, he-im'-i-sa-ni, an adulteress. 
 afar off, ta'-a-is, i-ha'-is, ha'-ish, at a great distance, 
 
 afar off, far away, a long distance, 
 after, ho-oli ', following after, immediately after, 
 afraid, shi'-i-pais, to be afraid, to be astonished. 
 
 i-mo'-si-o-toli '-ta, to be scared or afraid secretly, 
 ni-i-e'-yo, to make afraid by talking to. 
 na-a'-hi-yo, I am afraid, 
 na-sa'-a-hi-yo, I am not afraid, 
 e-e-po-no'-ma-au, to have fear, to be afraid, 
 ago, o-o-mi'-shi-iv, long ago. 
 all, ni-ta'-o, all, the whole. 
 
 ni-ta-a', all over, all around, 
 ho-i-ni'-ta-o, all the world over, 
 alone, e-ho-wa'-a-haiv, alone, single, unmarried, 
 always, ho-woli'-po-nit, at all times, at any time, al 
 ways. 
 
 and, ma'-tu, and, also. 
 annoyed, in-hu-stun', bothered, annoyed, 
 any, nasts-mih'-o-yats, any one, no matter who. 
 appear, i-mi'-i-ots, to be visible, manifest, appear. 
 
 tsi-me'-i-nis, to appear occasionally, as one 
 passing under a hill, or as the sun through 
 clouds. 
 
 arm, he'-ats, an arm ; na'-ats, my arm. 
 ni'-ats, thy arm. 
 he-a-tsi-ni'-wots (pi.), arms, 
 ma-i-tsi'-nots (dual ?), both arms. 
 
 e-tsi-non', the armpit, 
 c-woli'-ci-on, the bend of the arm. 
 i-ci-na', the part of the arm above the elbow, 
 ni-hi'-sta-tan, within arm's reach, 
 e'-e-wo-ni, an armful of wood. 
 arrive, i-nili'-o-yots, to arrive at a place. 
 
 e-tam-sto'-i-yots, to arrive, and remain at home. 
 arrow, ma, an arrow. 
 
 ma-hots' (pi.), arrows, 
 na-ma', my arrow, 
 ni-ma', thy arrow, 
 ascend, e-i', to ascend, as a hill, 
 ashes, pa'-a, ashes, 
 pa-isc', (pi.) 
 o-sta'-pa-a. (?) 
 ask, ni-midst', to beg, or ask of any one. 
 
 nili'-o-mist, to ask for anything, 
 assembly, i-mo-hi'-no-is-to, an assembly of men. 
 astride, i-tsi'-o-i-ta'-ho, straddling, astride. 
 
 i-ni'-sko-na, to sit astride of anything, 
 at, nai'-nu, at or to. 
 attack, c'-min-hau, to charge on, to attack. 
 
 i-ta'-min-ho-wa'-to, to make an attack, 
 audibly, mah'-i-hast, audibly, with a loud voice, 
 aunt, e'-ha-hi-sto, to have for an aunt, 
 awake, tost, to awake from a sleep, to be awake, 
 awl, he'-on, an awl. 
 
 hc-o-ninst', pi. awls. 
 na'-tsi-on, my awl. 
 ni'-tsi-on, thy awl. 
 axe, ho-ak', an axe. 
 
 ho-oksc', pi. axes. 
 ho'-to, axe-handle, 
 ho-to'-ist, pi. 
 
 B. 
 
 back, i-to'-to-nas, a crooked back. 
 
 he-na-on', upper part of the back, across the 
 
 shoulders, 
 tau-ta-ma-inst', at or on the back. 
 
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 bad, av-si-wai', sing, 
 av-si-wai'-yo, pi. 
 ho'-i-av-si-wa', bad lands. 
 ball, e'-hu-a-si-wa'-to, to play ball with the foot. 
 
 o-ho-ni'-wo-ol'i, a ball club, with a hoop at the 
 
 end to hold the ball as it is thrown. 
 bare, i-oks'-ti-a, to be bare of anything, as a bald head, 
 na-i-kos'-ti-a, I am bare or bald, 
 ma-i-ni'-a-si-tak, bare, as an open prairie without 
 
 thickets, or a tree without leaves, 
 i-ma'-tau, to become bleak or bare, as the ground 
 
 when the snow disappears. 
 beads, o-ni'-a-wokst, beads. 
 
 woh-pi'-o-ni'-a-w5kst, white beads, 
 ma-e-ni'-a-wokst, red beads, 
 o-ta'-ta-wi-o-ni'-o-wokst, blue beads, 
 moh-ta'-wi-ni'-o-wokst, black beads, 
 i-yu-wi-o-ni'-o-wokst, yellow beads. 
 bean, mo'-nisk, (sing.)' 
 
 mo-ni'-ski (pi.), beans. 
 bear, nali'-u, and na'-ku. 
 
 nah'-u-yo, (pi.) 
 
 beat, e-po'-po-no, to beat on, as a drum, 
 beaver, ho'-ma. 
 
 ho-ma' and ho-ma-e'-yo, both plural forms, are 
 
 in use. 
 beard, i-mi'-ats, the beard. 
 
 i-mi-a'-tsi-nah'-to, beards, 
 na-mi'-ats, my beard, 
 ni-mi'-ats, thy beard, 
 ni-mi-a'-tsi-num, dual, both your beards, 
 e-hu'-i-mi-ats, yellow beard, 
 moli -ta'-i-mi-ats, black beard. 
 
 bend, ili-a-ma'-i-yuts, to bend, as the body, forward, 
 i-to'-to-na, to bend backwards. 
 e-hi-a-ma'-i-yuts, to bend the head to one side, 
 i-sta-won', outside of a bend, 
 mo-mi'-ka-ua-nuts, to bend into or around, as a 
 
 piece of iron, 
 e-a-wo'-i-yu-ha, to bend away with the foot, as 
 
 the grass on the prairie, 
 beyond, a-stu', beyond, over. 
 
 ta-sit-sinst', more, beyond, farther, 
 black, i-muh'-tau, black. 
 VOL. xir. 38 
 
 i-moTi'-tau-o-nist, (pi.) 
 
 i-moli'-ta-wa, to make anything black or dirty, 
 na-moli'-ta-wa, I make anything black or dirty, 
 ni-moli'-ta-wa, thou dost make anything black 
 
 or dirty, 
 i-moli'-ta-wa' -a-no, they make anything black 
 
 or dirty. 
 
 bind, e-oli'-po-o, to bind or tie. 
 nali'-po-o'-isc', I bind or tie. 
 ni-6li'-po-o'-is<?, thou dost bind or tic. 
 e-oli'-po-o'-isc', he binds or ties, 
 na-oli'-po-o'-is-c'i-non, we bind or tie. 
 ni-oli'-po-o'-is-6i-non, you bind or tie. 
 e-oli'-po-o'-is-di-o, they bind or tic. 
 bird, wi-kis', a bird. 
 
 wi-ksi'-o (pi-)) birds, 
 birth, i-sta'-ots, the birth of a child. 
 
 no-to-mo'-i-notst, first-born, if a son. 
 ma-kos', the first-born, when a daughter. 
 bite, c-i'-wo-oli t, to bite off. 
 
 e-wo'-wo-solit, to bite notches, 
 i-ku'-ku-ni-rno, to bite or tear anything in pieces, 
 i-yo-stai'-yu-stot, to bite a hole in anything, 
 bitter, i-av'-si-vi-e'-no, it is bitter, 
 nav-si'-vi-at, mine is bitter, 
 ni-av-si'-vi-at, thine is bitter, 
 bladder, ili-ai-no'-kuts. 
 blanket, wop'-shi-un, a blanket, 
 wop-shi'-u-non, pi. 
 na-wop'-shi-un, my blanket, 
 ni-wop'-shi-un, thy blanket, 
 na-wop'-shi-u-no'-nam, my blankets, 
 ni-wop'-shi-u-no'-nam, thy blankets, 
 mai-wop'-shi-un, red blanket, 
 e-tai'-i-wom, dark blue blanket, 
 mokh'-ta-wom, black blanket. 
 mo-ku-ta'-wi-ka-ku'-i-shi-5n, a blanket of fine 
 
 blue cloth. 
 
 o-ta'-ta-wi-ka-ku'-i-shi-on, a blue striped blan 
 ket, 
 mai'-ka-ku'-i-shi-on, a blanket of fine scarlet 
 
 cloth. 
 
 o-ta'-ta-wi-is'-ci, a blue coat, 
 nis-ko'-um, a blanket of all colors, Spanish. 
 
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 wop-shi'-un-o-nis, a small, one-point blanket. 
 blaze, eli'-o-as, a blaze, burning, prairie fire. 
 
 eh-o-a-su'-mi, pi. 
 blind, i'-ok-c"im, to be blind, 
 blow, i-ha'-a, to blow, as the wind. 
 
 i-wo'-na-a, the wind blows, it blows. 
 
 ili-tai'-na-a, the wind blows long and steady. 
 
 i-sto-woh'-tuts, to blow, as wind, or with the 
 mouth. 
 
 i-a-mi-ni'-to-a-o, to blow into, as wind into a lodge. 
 blue, e'-hi-wali-so, to become blue or green, 
 blunt, e-nili-ap', blunt, dull, bruised up. 
 boat, sim, a boat. 
 
 sim'-o-nots, pi. 
 
 o-i-sta'-sim, a fire-boat, a steamboat. 
 
 body, nan'-sti-ni'-to-wa, ) 
 
 > the whole body, 
 he-wi'-to-wa-ni'-to, ) 
 
 he-wi'-to, the body, or principal part of anything, 
 ta-yoli', one side of the body, 
 po-to-ma', in the body. 
 bone, he'-ni-ku. 
 
 he'-ni-sta-ta-mo, shoulder bone or blade. 
 his-6is-to'-o, underjaw bone, 
 his-dis-to'-o-nin, pi. 
 e-ko-ni'-we-was, the tail-bone. 
 borrow, is-6i-oc-na-no'-o-6isc', to borrow, 
 both, ne'-ni-shi-wos, both, they two. 
 
 i-ta'-i-sto-we, both together, 
 bottom, in'-ma-si, bottom upwards. 
 bow, ma'-6ik, a bow. 
 ma'-takst, pi. 
 na-ma'-6ik, my bow. 
 ni-ma'-dik, thy bow. 
 
 ho-tai-wo', a bow lined on the back with sinews, 
 boy, kai-kun', a small boy. 
 kai-ku'-ni, pi. 
 na-kai-kun', my boy. 
 ni-kai-kun', thy boy. 
 na-kai-kun'-ham, my boys. 
 ni-kai-kun'-ham, thy boys. 
 braid, e'-sto-tun-a, to plat or braid, 
 brains, his-ta'-pi, brains of animals. 
 
 e-shi-sta'-pi, to brain a robe or skin, 
 na-shi-sta'-pan, I brain a robe. 
 
 ni-shi-sta'-pan, thou dost brain a robe, 
 branch, kam-lii'-ots, the branches of a tree. 
 
 kam-hi'-o-tsi-o'-e-nats, to break off the branches 
 
 of trees, 
 hi-si'-o, branching, or having many roots, as a 
 
 tree, 
 bread, ma-ha'. 
 
 na-mi'-si-tun-a-ma-ha', I eat bread, 
 ko-ku'-ko-ne, a kind of bread. 
 
 break, o-ni'-so-wan, to break in pieces, to divide as bread, 
 e'-po-i-yots, to break or tear in pieces, 
 ta'-mi-i-sa, to break off, as the nose, 
 e-o-ni'-yu-ha, to break a string with the foot, 
 e-i'-u-ha, to break anything with the foot, 
 su-a-o-mi'-uts, to break through, as the ice. 
 i-yo-si'-o-sto, to break out of the shell, as a bird, 
 i-oh'-i-wo-he, broken off, as a spoon-handle, or 
 
 a glass flawed. 
 
 i'-yo-6h, to break in two by striking. 
 na'-yo-oh, I, &c. 
 ni'-yo-ol\, thou, &c. 
 e'-i-yots, to break with the hand, as a stick, but 
 
 not entirely off. 
 na'-i-yots, I, &c. 
 ni'-i-yots, thou, &c. 
 
 breast, e-ta-nun', a woman's breast, the udder of a cow. 
 e-ta-nai'-wo, pi. 
 na-ta-nun', my breast, 
 ni-ta-nun', thy breast, 
 he-in', the breast and neck of an animal, 
 breath, he-o-mi-to'-ini-stots, the breath of life, 
 i'-o-mo-tom, to breathe on. 
 e-i'-si-i-i'-mas, to breathe hard through the nose, 
 i'-ha-ha-o-tum, to pant, to breathe hard after 
 
 severe exercise, 
 i-ha-o-to'-mi-ots, to be out of breath, and in a 
 
 great perspiration, 
 na-he'-o-na-a'-sto-wot, to make the fingers warm 
 
 by breathing or blowing upon them, 
 bridle, oh-ut'-si-na'-si-o, a bridle for a horse, 
 bring, ili-u-yatst', to bring wood for a fire. 
 
 si-mo-i'-no-mo-i, to bring a boat to shore, or 
 
 over the river, 
 brood, ni-si-da', a litter, a brood. 
 
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 broom, mah'-i-wo-ma-o'-yi. 
 brother, e-ni'-son, a brother. 
 
 e-ni'-so-ni-wo (pi.), brothers, 
 na-ni'-son, my brother, 
 ni-ni'-son, thy brother, 
 na-ni', a man's elder brother, 
 na-ta'-ta-mim, a woman's elder brother, 
 na-si-ma', younger brother, 
 na-hi'-ni-hi'-nots, my brothers, 
 e'-to, a brother-in-law, 
 ni-to', your brother-in-law, 
 he'-wi-to, his brother-in-law, 
 ni-a-wi'-to-wi'-to-wats, you are my brother-in- 
 law. 
 
 ni-sa'-he-wi-to-he-nits, you are not my bro 
 ther-in-law, 
 he-wi'-tost, to have for a brother-in-law, to 
 
 sustain that relation. 
 
 bubble, e-hi' -si-wot, to bubble up in boiling, as water, 
 i'-a-niv-si-wots, to bubble, or flow along with 
 
 a noise, as water over rocks, 
 ma-pe-e'-hi-ni-o, to make water bubble up, as 
 
 water when a stone is thrown in. 
 buckle, e-o'-we-me-kait, brass buckle, 
 bud, ho-o'-tsi-si'-mi-nots, the buds of the trees in the 
 
 spring. 
 build, pa-yo'-na-o-wc, to build a house, or pitch a 
 
 tent, 
 ci-na'-no-is-to-he-ni-to, to build a fence around 
 
 a corn-field. 
 
 buffalo, o-to-a', a male buffalo. Bos Americanus. 
 mi, a female, 
 wok-si-ai', a calf, 
 is'-i-wan, a herd of buffalo, 
 e-mas', bois de vache, "buffalo chips." 
 i'-yo-iv, an old, scabby, buffalo bull. 
 bulky, ta-sis'-to-wo, to be bulky, to hinder or impede, 
 
 by putting on too many clothes. 
 bunch, e-po-pis'-tai-i-na, bunches, knots, excrescences, 
 
 on trees ; the Indians make dishes of them, 
 burn, i-si-to-wa-o, to burn or smoke, as incense, with 
 
 a smell, 
 burst, e'-ni-sta-ni-wa'-wot, to make pop or burst. 
 
 o-6h'-i-wo-yat, to burst, as a boiler or a gun. 
 
 bush, mi'-no-6i-a, willow bushes, 
 button, o-ni-kom'. 
 
 o-ni-ko'-mo-nots, (pi.) 
 
 C. 
 
 call, wi-hu-in'-i-min, to call to a meal. 
 
 o-no'-o-mi, to call to a feast, to invite. 
 i-a-no'-ma-6i'-sto, to call each other to a feast, 
 calm, e'-he-kut, calm, still, without wind, 
 callous, e'-wo-wi, any hard place formed by a burn or 
 
 cut on the skin. 
 
 candle, wa-ksi'-na-nis-to, a torch or candle, 
 cap, wi-oh'-6a. 
 
 wi-oh'-c'a-ist, (pi.) 
 carry, e-mo-he'-he-noh'-to, to carry or draw. 
 
 e'-ni-a-mi-ots, to carry or bring anything, 
 mah -pe-i'-not, to carry or take on the shoul 
 der. 
 
 cat, ka-c-si'-o-tum, a cat, a short-nosed dog. The 
 plural is formed simply by changing the accent 
 from the third syllable to the last. 
 catch, i-no-olit', to catch in the mouth, anything that 
 
 is tossed. 
 
 cause, ta-no-onst', to cause to see. 
 chair, tali-i-si'-is-tuts. 
 
 tali-i-si'-is-to-tuts, (pi.) 
 champ, ma-kai'-i-ta-i'-ko-not, to champ, as a horse his 
 
 bit. 
 
 chapped, i-mo-o'-a, smarting, chapped by the wind, 
 cheap, c-he'-ya-na, cheap, easily purchased, 
 cheek, e-wo-ta'-nots. 
 
 e-wo-ta'-no-tse-hik, cheek-bone, 
 cherries, mah-ot-sta'-min, fruit of Cerasus pumila. 
 chewed, pe-noli'-tots, anything chewed fine, like musk- 
 rats' food. 
 
 choke, i'-o-hoc, to choke, to be choked in eating, 
 na'-o-hoc, I was choked in eating. 
 ni'-o-ho6, thou wast choked in eating, 
 clearly, o-ha-ci'-stuts, clearly, conspicuously. 
 
 in-sis'-to-wa-a, clear and cold, with particles 
 
 of snow in the air. 
 climb, e'-i-wo-ni, to climb, as a tree. 
 close, ho'-o-sist, to be close to, to press on. 
 
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 ke-kas', ^ 
 
 kae, > near by, close, 
 
 im'-a-e-kas', ) 
 
 cloth, ni-na-wo'-i-stiits, clothing of all kinds, 
 clouds, e-wo-iv', to cloud over, to be cloudy, 
 e-wo-iv', clouds, sky, heaven, 
 i-mokh'-tau-wo'-i-yots, black clouds. 
 wo-i'-ha-i-not, thick clouds, 
 wo-e-e-he-ni'-wo-ist, broken clouds, 
 wo-e-e'-a-si-ta, scattering clouds, 
 en'-i-wo-iv, the sky becoming black with 
 
 clouds, 
 coffee, moh'-ta'-whop, black water, or medicine coffee. 
 
 rna-ta'-o-ki-rui-nuts, coffee-grains. 
 coil, o-ni'-mo-ta'-o-to-nots, to coil or knot by twisting, 
 ruo-me'-ka-no-ni-a'-nuts, to coil up, as a rope, 
 e-o-ni'-sta-c'is, to lie coiled up on one's side, 
 collect, i-ho'-sun, to collect together. 
 cold, i-to-nit', to be cold. 
 come, ni'-ni-o-tsi-o, come (imperative mood). 
 o-hurn', come close. 
 
 ni-ni'-o-ist, come towards, come this way, (imp.) 
 na-ni'-o-tsitst, I come in a hurry, 
 ni-ni'-o-tsitst, you come in a hurry, 
 e-ni'-o-tsitst, he comes, or to come in a hurry, 
 ni'-ni-ats, come on, let it be so, (imp.) 
 ui-is'-taks, come in, (imp.) 
 nm'-shi-wi-ost, come here quickly, (imp.) 
 ni-wa'-i-si'-ni-i-ko, to come and peep in and 
 
 then draw the head back, 
 he-wi-no'-wo-tau-iitst, to come towards one. 
 comb, tsi-i-ni'. 
 
 tsi-i-ni'-he-yo, (pi.) 
 i-tsi-i-ni'-a, to comb the hair, 
 commit, hc-wi-no'-nun-o-ho'-ni, to commit murder, 
 comrade, ni-si-ma-ha', ray comrade, 
 he-wi'-so-no, thy comrade, 
 concave, i'-wo-wos, hollowed out, concave, 
 concealed, ni'-ha-mos, out of sight, behind something, 
 
 concealed. 
 cook, i-ho-moli'-to-wo, to cook, as food. 
 
 e'-l'mt, to be cooked or roasted, as meat, 
 copper, ma-i-ma-kai'-it, copper, red metal. 
 
 corn, ma-mi'-nuts. 
 
 ho-o'-tsi-mi-nu, cornstalk, 
 ho-ots', an ear of corn. 
 ho-6tsts' (pi.), oars of corn, 
 ma'-mi-nu-tsi-o-i'-mi-nist, to shell off as corn 
 
 with the hands. 
 corral, ni-ma-i'-nuts, the circle or corral formed by 
 
 wagons at a camp, 
 covering, e-wi'-shi-main, covering, as clothes or a 
 
 sheath, 
 ali-to-ho'-ma-i-nats, to be covered up with 
 
 earth, 
 i-a'-to-ho, to cover over with earth, as a 
 
 grave. 
 in-i-in'-i-olit, to be covered with frost, as 
 
 grass in the morning, 
 cough, i'-hi-a, he coughs, or to cough. 
 na'-hi-a, I cough, 
 ni'-hi-a, you cough, 
 count, o-is-to'-nist, to count, 
 court, e-sta-ni-e'-wa, to court a woman. 
 
 e-sta-ni-e'-wah-to, (pi.) 
 cousin, ni-sis', your male cousin. 
 crack, a'-po-at, a crack or hole, as in a lodge. 
 
 i-o'-sin, to crack a louse. 
 
 crawl, he-eT-a-mist, to crawl up carefully on anything. 
 creak, he-ni'-to-e-ni'-sto-ni-wun, to creak or grate, like 
 
 a door. 
 
 creep, i-a-mi'-wo-minst, to creep or crawl, 
 ta-mi'-wo-minst, " " 
 
 i-a'-uie-wu'-ne-ots, to creep on. 
 crisped, e-hi'-se-maut, crisped or drawn up. 
 crooked, e'-woli, to be crooked, arched. 
 
 e-wo-wo'-kit-si-un, crookedly, in an arched 
 
 manner, 
 cross, i-oh'-o-ho, to cross a river. 
 
 i-ta'-ko-ho, to wade across a stream, 
 a-mi-sta'-nots, crosswise, across something else. 
 crumbs, mo-es'-te-plh' -pi-ots, crumbs or fragments, 
 crupper, holi -i-si'-ni-o. 
 
 hGli-i-si'-ni-o-nr.ts, (pi.) 
 crush, i-so'-so-is, to mash, or crush. 
 
 mih'-ni-min, to crunch, crush, grind, champ, 
 to make a noise with the teeth. 
 
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 i-po-i-ha', to break or crush in pieces, as meat 
 
 or tallow. 
 
 na-po-i-ha', I break, &c. 
 ni-po-i-ha', thou breakest, &c. 
 i-po-i-ha'-o, they break, &c. 
 cry, ni-oli'-ai-im, to make cry, by talking to. 
 cup, to-i-ni'-o. 
 
 to-i-ni'-o-nots, (pi.) 
 
 to-i-ni'-o-ni-wi-tok, a cup with a handle, dipper, 
 curl, im'-a-ma-kai, to curl, as hair. 
 
 ma-mali-ai-e', curly, 
 currants, he-sta-tsi'-rnin, black currants, Riles flo- 
 
 ridum, 
 curtain, ni-i'-psi-no'-i-nuts, to curtain, or cover with a 
 
 curtain, 
 cut, c-ih', to cut. 
 
 e-wo-ili', to cut off a string from a skin. 
 
 e-pi-ili', to cut in pieces, to destroy with a knife. 
 
 c-po-ih ', to cut off, as a piece of meat. 
 
 i'-o-tali, to cut holes in anything with a knife. 
 
 i-o'-sis, to cut or rip open. 
 
 i-o-ta'-o-mo, to cut a hole into, as in wood. 
 
 e'-i-so, to cut in the middle. 
 
 ho-o-i-ninst', to cut tobacco. 
 
 pi-nol'its', to carve, to cut. 
 
 e-mi-ko'-yo-kali , to cut or shear off the hair. 
 
 D. 
 damp, e-hi'-ko-o, damp. 
 
 e-yo'-i-yats, to be moist or damp, 
 dance, e-mal'i'-ta-a, a dance, 
 e-mah'-ta-o, to dance, 
 ma-mah'-ta-o, I dance, 
 ni-mali'-ta-o, you dance, 
 i-mi-tali'-to, they dance, 
 i-o-so'-i-to, to dance on anything, 
 i-ma-yun'-i-so'-i-sto, a sacred dance, 
 e-ho'-i-o-ci'-sto, a scalp dance. When the In 
 dians arrive at the camp with scalps, they 
 come in dancing. 
 
 c-a'-cis-to, a regular scalp dance. This dance 
 is conducted among the Shyenncs, the same 
 as with the Dakotas. 
 dark, i'-a-no-nit, to be dark, darkness. 
 
 in-sta-c'-wi-6ts, to become dark, 
 i'-shi-ta-e'-wi-ni, to darken, to shadow as clouds, 
 daughter, he'-mi. 
 
 na-ton', my daughter, 
 day, i'-shi-i-wa. 
 
 i-shinst' (pi.), days. 
 
 i'-shi-iv, all day. 
 
 si-to'-shi-iv, the middle of the day. 
 
 e-pa-wi-i'-shi-o, 
 
 e-pa-wi-i -slu-o, ) 
 
 . , ,...,,. \ good day. 
 
 i-hav -si-vi-i -sht-o, ) 
 
 i-shi-ni-pit'-siv, a snowy day. 
 i-shi-i-wai'-i-hi-ko, a rainy day. 
 i-shi'-hi-kot, a mild, calm day. 
 c-i-to'-iv, dusk, between sunset and dark, 
 in-i-wo'-o-ni-yots, day breaking, daylight, 
 e-ho-so'-wo-ma-no, broad daylight, full light. 
 dead, ho-wa-tsi'-e-wish. 
 
 i-na'-i-yots, to be dead, 
 debilitated, i-ha-mu'-ta, sick, debilitated. 
 
 i-ha-mu'-ta-yo, (pi.) 
 December, e-po-iv'-si-o, the month when the animals 
 
 shed their horns, 
 deep, i-ha'-o-tum, deep as water, dense as foliage, 
 
 thick as hair. 
 
 ho-i-ta'-is, deep, far within, 
 deer, mu-ksa', young deer or fawn. 
 
 mu-ksa'-o-iv, a fawn or deerskin, 
 defecate, he-mats', to defecate. 
 
 defective, wi'-shi-to-nost, to be defective, wanting. 
 deformed, e-noli-ni-ka, deformed, deficient in any 
 
 part, 
 demijohn, i-shi-i'-wi-to, a large bottle. 
 
 na-niv'-sit, a glass bottle, 
 descend, e-ha'-ni-wo-ni, to descend from a tree, 
 desert, toh-to'-a, a desert place where no one dwells, 
 destitute, i-sa-a'-i-nu, to be destitute, to have nothing 
 
 of. 
 
 na-sa-a'-i-nu, I am destitute, 
 ni-sa-a'-i-nu, thou art destitute. 
 i-sa-a'-i-nu'-i-nu (pi.), they are destitute. 
 dew, e-hi-ko-wi'-ni-o. 
 
 i-ma-hi'-ko-wi'-ni-o, dewy everywhere, 
 diaphragm, he-to'-nish, the diaphragm of a deer. 
 die, ni-in'-a, to die. 
 
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 na-ni'-na, I die. 
 
 ni-ni'-na, you die. 
 
 i-na'-tea-ta-no'-ats, to die of fright, to faint from 
 
 alarm. 
 
 different, i-ni'-ta, he is or to be different, another, 
 na-ni'-ta, I am different, 
 ni-ni'-ta, thou art different, 
 i-ni'-tai-yo, they are different, 
 na-ni'-tam, we are different, 
 ni-ni'-tam, you are different. 
 difficult, i-ho'-wa-nat, hard to do, difficult. 
 
 i-ho'-to-wa'-na-ton, to think anything hard 
 
 or difficult. 
 
 dig, ma-a'-ko, to dig, as a bear, in the earth. 
 diminished, sik-sta'-ots, less, diminished. 
 dip, ni'-hi-a-ta-i-na'-nuts, to dip food out of a kettle 
 
 with a ladle, 
 dirty,, im-a-si'-a-hot, to be dirty, as a gun that needs 
 
 cleaning, 
 disagreeable, e'-wo-ev, unpleasant, disagreeable, as 
 
 the appearance of the weather or country. 
 dish, e-tok', a dish or plate. 
 
 e-to'-ko-nots, (pi.) 
 
 disposition, non-to-wi'-ta-no-tuls, mind, will, disposi 
 tion. 
 
 shu-mi'-a-tu-a, a good disposition, 
 shu-mi'-hav-sus, a bad disposition. 
 . i-ta'-ko-wi-ni-hav'-siv, to be of a surly- 
 disposition. 
 
 displeased, e-av'-si-vi'-tan, to be sorry, displeased, sad. 
 dispute, i-hi'-si-ta'-tsi-no, to dispute about anything, 
 dissatisfied, o-wa-no'-isc', not pleased with, 
 distribute, wo-tsi'-no-o-wa, to distribute. 
 
 wo-tsi'-no-ho-ma-kis, the distributor of pre 
 sents, 
 disturbed, i-ha'-i-sta, disturbed in mind. 
 
 i-ha'-i-sta'-ha-6ts, (pi.) 
 dog, ho'tum. 
 
 ho-tuin' (pi.), only change of accent to form the 
 
 plural. 
 
 ho-tum'-i-na-tots, my dog. 
 ho-tum'-i-nis-tots, your dog. 
 domestic, wi-o-i-o'-to-a, domestic cattle, 
 ko-ku'-yaii, domestic fowls. 
 
 e-nis-ton', to tame, to domesticate animals, 
 na-nis-ton', I tame, &c. 
 ni-nis-ton', thou dost tame, &c. 
 door, he-ni'-to, a door, that which covers the entrance 
 
 of the lodge. 
 
 ci-hi'-to-hi'-o-niv, at the door, 
 ho'-a-nots, shut the door, 
 o-ni'-sta-nuts, open the door. 
 
 double, mo-mi'-ka-nots, to double up with the teeth. 
 draw, e-nih-o'-ta, to draw tight, as a belt around the 
 
 waist. 
 c'-si-a-not, to draw in anything with the breath, 
 
 as dust or smoke, 
 dream, e'-o-wali, to dream, 
 na'-o-wali, I dream, 
 ni'-o-wali, thou dream est. 
 i'-o-wah, he dreams, 
 na-o-wali'-i-nam, we dream, 
 i-o-wali'-i-nam, you dream, 
 i-o-wali'-i-na-to, they dream, 
 e-o-wali'-i-na-o, " " 
 dress, ho'-is-tots, a woman's dress. 
 
 he-i-wo'-is-tots (pi.), all dresses, 
 he-i-ma-ni-he-wo-is-tots, dresses of an her 
 maphrodite. 
 
 dried, ho-oh'k', dried, hard, 
 drive, a-ma'-o-me, to drive along, as cattle, 
 drop, e'-hi-ots, to drop, like rain, 
 drowned, im-im-stan', to be drowned, 
 drunk, in-o-no'-to-wa-sish, to be drunk, 
 dry, i'-o-un, to make dry, to wipe dry. 
 dull, e'-nih'-ap, to be dull or blunt. 
 dumb, i-sa'-no-to-wins'-ci, to be dumb, 
 duodenum, his-tatst', the duodenum of ruminating 
 
 animals. 
 
 his-ta'-tots, (pi.) 
 dust, hi'-i-pin, dust, powdered earth. 
 
 E. 
 
 each one, i-ta-shi'-wa-i-no, each one, every one. 
 ear, sto-wo'-ats, external car, ear of animals. 
 
 i-sto-wo'-ats, his ear, or an ear. 
 
 na-sto-wo'-ats, my ear. 
 
 n i-sto-wo'-ats, your car. 
 
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 ni-nili'-a-ist-na-to-wo'-ats, my two ears, both my ears, 
 na-sa'-to-wo'-ats, not my ears, 
 ni-sa'-to-wo'-ats, not thy ears, 
 i-sa'-to-wo'-ats, not his ears. 
 e-o-ma'-6ts, to prick up the ears, as a horse at a sound. 
 e-c"i'-6i-ist, to move the ears, as a horse, 
 i-nis-kis-ta'-ots, to put the ears forward, as a horse, 
 i'-o-ta-ist, the orifice of the ear, the touchhole of 
 
 a gun. 
 
 eat, i-na'-so-i-no, to be full from eating, 
 na-na'-so-i-no, I am full from eating, 
 ni-na'-so-i-no, thou art full from eating, 
 i-na'-so-i-na'-sto, they are full from eating, 
 o-tsi-ti'-mi-o, to eat or gnaw wood, as a horse, 
 stah'-o-mats (imp.), give to eat. 
 nih'-o-nist (imp.), give me to eat. 
 earth, i-ho'-wo-ni, brown earth. 
 
 ho-i-tsi-woli '-po-mau, sweet earth, alkaline earth, 
 ho-i-tsi'-si-to'-wa-o, smoking or burning earth, 
 
 from the ignition of the lignite beds, 
 ish-i-ci'-wi-to, an earthen pot, vessel, jug. 
 egg, wo'-wots. 
 
 wo'-wo-tots, pi. 
 
 eldest, e-nu'-6i-ma-ait, eldest, firstborn, 
 na-ni'-ci-ma-ait, my eldest. 
 ni-ni'-di-ma-ait, thy eldest, 
 ni-ni'-ci-ma-ai'-tum, pi. your eldest. 
 elope, i-a'-si-ta-e'-wi, to elope, to run away with a wo 
 man, or another man's wife, 
 eloquent, i-pi'-wi-ist, to be eloquent, to speak well, 
 empty, i-ma'-toh -i-yots, to become empty, to decay, as 
 
 the inside of a tree. 
 encampment, moli-tanst', an old encampment, after 
 
 the lodges have left. 
 
 enemies, i-no'-tsi-to-wa-ci'-sto, those who are at vari 
 ance with each other. 
 equal, 6it'-ski, not equal. 
 
 escape, i-ha'-o-mi-ni, to be unable to escape, to be una 
 ble to extricate oneself, 
 evacuate, i-tam'-si-ka, to evacuate, to ease oneself. 
 
 e-mi-si'-to, to evacuate on any one, a term of 
 
 reproach. 
 
 evaporate, e'-po-no-i, as when a creek becomes dry. 
 even, i-si'-i-sto-to, even, just, exactly. 
 
 explain, tali-ti-i'-a-mo-un, to unfold, explain, to make 
 
 bare, as a falsehood. 
 eye, e-ili-anst', the eye. 
 
 na-ili-anst', my eye. 
 
 ni-ih -anst', thy eye. 
 
 e-ih'-ai-i-wots, pi. 
 
 e-we'-e-not, eyebrow. 
 
 e-ih-a'-e-wi'-a-nut, eye-winker. 
 
 e-ili-a'-e-wi-a-ni'-a-stuts, eyelids. 
 
 e-po-pi-ili'-a-nist, the ridge bone above the eye. 
 
 is-6ik'-o-niv-ili'-a-mst, projection formed by the 
 ridge above the eye. 
 
 shi'-ta-sho-toh, as far as the eye can reach. 
 
 i-o'-ki-ni-o-sti'-no, to strike and put out the eye. 
 
 i-o'-i-nu-na'-wi-ma'-tsin, to grow blind. 
 
 i'-ha-i-ma'-tsi-ni-ots, to wink the eye. 
 
 i-o-o'-in, to be blind, having the eyes put out. 
 
 c-wo-hin', to be blind, with the eyeball white. 
 
 i-o-ni'-mi-i-kan, to be squint or cross-eyed. 
 
 i-noli-ta'-wi-o-in, to be nearsighted. 
 
 i'-na-ko-o, to be clearsighted. 
 
 F. 
 
 fail, e'-wa-ni-ots, to come to nothing, to fail, 
 fall, e'-o-hain, to let anything fall. 
 
 in-so'-ta-mo, to fall out with, not to be on speak 
 ing terms with, 
 falsifier, i-a-sto-moli'-ta-un, a great liar. 
 
 in-i-c"i-hi'-o-niv, to fabricate a lie, to falsify 
 
 about one. 
 fat, i-ha'-i-yom. 
 
 i-ha-i-yo'-mi-o, (pi.) 
 father, he'-hu ; ili is sometimes used, 
 na-ho'-i, my father, 
 ni-ho'-i, thy father, 
 ni-he'-he-nuts, to have a father, to be the child 
 
 of any one. 
 
 he-nim-shim, his father-in-law, 
 na-nim-shim, my father-in-law, 
 ni-nim-shim, thy father-in-law, 
 he-ni'-sa-na-mon, a man's stepfather. 
 feast, ma-he-yun'-hop, a sacred feast. 
 
 ma-he-yun'-baist, to make a sacred feast. 
 
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 fence, i-ni-po-o', to fence as a field, to fasten or bolt, 
 na-ni-po-o', I fence, &c. 
 ni-ni-po-o', tliou dost fence, &c. 
 ferment, po-a-ha'-i-nis-tuts, to ferment, as yeast. 
 field, i-na-no'-is-tuts-tsi-mo'-na, a new field, one in 
 
 which there is a new crop, 
 no-ni-na-no'-is-tuts, an old field, where the crop 
 
 has been removed. 
 
 fight, pi-so-mi'-o-tats, to fight over anything, 
 file, wi-o-yo-ksi'-im, a file. 
 finger, na-ni'-so-to-yos, the fore finger, 
 na-no'-to-yos, the second finger, 
 na-so'-to-yos, the third finger, 
 na-to-oli'-i-yos, the fourth or little finger, 
 na-to'-a-no-ni-mo'-i-yos, finger nails, 
 finished, i'-shi-tna-nisc, to be done, finished. 
 fire, ho-ist'. 
 
 ho-i'-stats, (pi.) 
 na-to'-ist, my fire, 
 ni-to'-ist, thy fire, 
 na-to'-is-tam, my fires, 
 ni-to'-is-tam, thy fires. 
 
 his-to-is-ta'-mi-wo, different fires of other people, 
 e'-no-si-sto'-wo, burning coals, 
 ho-sta'-wi-no, a firebrand, 
 ho-i-sta'-wa, in the fire. 
 i-ha-ha'-i-si, sparks of fire. 
 i-no-to-wa'-6tst, to extinguish the fire, 
 e'-nu-to, there is no fire, 
 ai-sto-a-si-na-nis'-tuts, a fireplace, a chimney, 
 ma-kai'-tai-sto-a-si'-na-nis-tuts, a stove or iron fire 
 place, 
 ih-o-wa', to draw near and warm oneself by the 
 
 fire. 
 
 first, ni-i-ni'-ta, at the first. 
 fish, no'-mah. 
 
 no-man', pi. 
 no-no-no', a fish-line, 
 no-ma'-he-mik, fish-head, 
 no-maik'-sun, small fish, 
 no-ma'-he-hik, fish-bones, 
 ma-i-tsa-non', red-fin, a kind offish, 
 hc-to-to', a crayfish. 
 
 fit, i-tai'-ist, to cause to fit; to fit well, as a bullet in a 
 
 gun. 
 
 na-i-tai'-ist, I make it fit well, 
 flank, his-tsi-to'-ni, the flank of an animal, 
 flat, i-kali'-o-no, to make flat, like a board, 
 flesh, he-ma'-e, flesh that clings to a skin, 
 flimsy, e-hi'-sis, flimsy, not firm ; elastic. 
 
 e-hi'-si-so-ni'-o, pi. 
 float, e'-i-wo-it, to float along, as on the water. 
 
 in-o-mo'-i, to float down a stream, to drift by the 
 
 wind as a leaf, 
 i'-pi-no, to rise to the surface and float, as on 
 
 water. 
 
 flood, i-ya-mi-6li-whit' (last syllable pronounced strong 
 ly), to flood with water, 
 flow, in'-shi-wit, to flow or run, as water. 
 fly, i-ya'-mi-ha-ots, to fly, as birds. 
 foam, e'-ta-wo-niv-6m', to froth or foam, as when any 
 thing is thrown into the water. 
 fog, ma-i-ni'-ni-po-is, to become foggy, as when a white 
 
 fog arises, and obscures the sky. 
 fold, e'-i-mits, to fold up the arms. 
 foliage, i-ha-i-wih'-pot-siv, dense foliage. 
 follow, e-ta-ni'-hi-ot, to follow after anything. 
 
 ta-ni-he-whi' (the last syllable strong), to fol 
 low after one is gone, to pursue an enemy. 
 food, e-mi'-sa. 
 
 foolish, im-a-sa'-ni-o, foolish, to be foolish. 
 foot, ma'-is, a foot, 
 na'-is, my foot, 
 ni'-is, thy foot, 
 ma-hai'-sots (pi.), feet, 
 no'-tsi-ma-is, another man's foot, the foot of a 
 
 man of a different nation, 
 mo-mah'-a-ta, a large foot, 
 ha-po'-si-wa, a crooked foot, 
 wa-ni-sa'-ta, the feet turn out. 
 wo-woh'-ca-ta, feet with the toes turned in. 
 po-pe'-ha-ta, the ball of the foot, 
 to-tam'-ha-ta, foot with no toes. 
 hau-o-no'-is-cist, big-heeled foot, 
 tots-ki-c'is'-to-na, small-heeled foot, 
 o-iv'-ha-ta, scaly foot. 
 
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 forbid, he-wi'-no-e'-wi-ho-ist, to forbid one's house, to 
 
 prevent persons from coming in. 
 forget, e-wa-ni'-ta-nut, he is, or to be forgetful, to 
 
 forget. 
 
 na-wa-ni'-ta-nut, I forget. 
 ni-wa-ni'-ta-nut, thou dost forget. 
 forked, i-ni'-so-wa-ats, forked, as a stream. 
 
 i-ni'-sko-nat, forked, as a stick ; a stream 
 
 double or forked, 
 i-ni-sko-na'-wi-wo-ton, a forked tail, as of a fish 
 
 or martin. 
 
 foundation, i'-wa-ha, a foundation, a place to stand on. 
 fracture, e-o-ta'-ni-os-to-no, a fracture, wound, rent, 
 freeze, i-o-ma'-o-mot, to freeze over, as ice on the 
 
 river. 
 
 e'-ko-noht, stiff, hardened, frozen, 
 o-tse'-to-e'-ko-no-si-o, wood when hardened by 
 
 frost, frozen, 
 friend, ho'-wa. 
 
 he-wi'-so-nist, to have for a special friend. 
 e-na'-no-wa-cV-tom, to be friendly, to be 
 
 friends. 
 
 nis-in', your friend, 
 full, i-o-to'-mo-in (adjective), 
 i-o'-to-mot, to be full. 
 
 i-na'-so-i-no, to be full or satisfied, as with food, 
 i-sa-i-na'-su-i-non, not full, empty as to the sto 
 mach. 
 
 G. 
 
 gap, i-to-wo'-i-yo'-i-sats, to gap, to break out a piece 
 
 from the blade of an axe. 
 gather, ma-i-ni'-nuts, to gather up. 
 gentle, i-o-wan'-ha (adjective), 
 girl, he-i'-kai-kun, a small girl. 
 
 he-i'-kai-ku'-ni, (pi.) 
 girth, o-tu tai'-shi-o, a girth. 
 give, i-ta'-mit, to give. 
 
 o-wa-he'-wi-i-stuts (imp.), give it to me, let me 
 
 have it. 
 
 glad, i-a'-i-yo, to be glad, thankful, 
 glisten, i'-o-ha-se, to glisten, 
 glove, na-to'-a-e-ni'-wo-a-na'. 
 
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 gnaw, ili'-i-wa-nots, to gnaw on. 
 go, tai'-i-munst, to go off on a journey, 
 ta-no-inst', to go together, 
 ta-mi-o-nanst'-st, to go before to break the road, 
 tau-akst', to go out of doors, 
 he-um', to go up, to ascend. 
 
 wi-tsin', to go directly to anything without a me 
 dium. 
 
 6h-ta'-tau-wo-wo'-ist, to cause to go before. 
 e-ho-i-wi'-o-6i-sto, to go on a war party, 
 e-ni-so-wa'-o-hi-yo, to go different ways, separately, 
 a-stu'-ta-tsi-otst, to go beyond, or over a hill, or 
 
 any place, 
 ta-ot'-sti-ta'-no-otst, to go home and lie down to 
 
 sleep, 
 no-no'-to-ha-ninst, to take one's all and go away 
 
 and live in another place. 
 ta-si'-6sc, go, (imp.) 
 i-tau', go out, (imp.) 
 tau-wakst, go away, or go out, (imp.) 
 gold, wi-ho'-ni-ma-kai'-i-ta-tsi'-i-ho, yellow iron, 
 good, e-pi-whai'-sto, a " heap" good, very good, 
 e-po'-pi-wha'-e-wi-son, goodness, kindness, 
 grab, i-si-va'-i-ni, to grab at, to catch at, as at a per 
 son. 
 i-6i'-o-si-ots, to seize or grab at, as a fish in 
 
 water, or a fly. 
 grandchild, nih'-a. 
 
 na-nili'-a, my grandchild, 
 ni-nih'-a, thy grandchild. 
 grass, mo-is6', grass, herbs, hay. 
 
 e-si'-i-ho-nuts, grass, roots, &c. 
 wa-not', gray grass or herbs, 
 mali'-e-wa-ma-ots, clear of brush or long grass, 
 e-oli-o-si'-o-ta-tau, green, like grass. 
 graze, e'wi-nots, to graze, as cattle. 
 grease, urn (noun). 
 
 e'-ko-ma-nots, to grease over anything. 
 great, tsi-nia-ha'-a, great, large. 
 
 tsi-ma-ha'-o-ist (pi.) 
 ground, ho-ev', on the ground, 
 grouse, wa-ko-yis', a sharp-tailed grouse. 
 
 wa-ko-yis'-i-ma'-is, the feet of the sharp-tailed 
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 wa-ko-yis'-is-<5i-wa-to-nis<!, the tail of the sharp- 
 tailed grouse, 
 wa-ko-yis'-e-min, the wing of the sharp-tailed 
 
 grouse. 
 wa-ko-yis'-i-mi-k, the head of the sharp-tailed 
 
 grouse. 
 
 gun, ma-ai-tun, a single-barrelled gun. 
 ma-ai-tun-o'-ist, (pi.) 
 na-ma-ai'-tun-o, my gun. 
 ni-ma-ai'-tun-o, thy gun. 
 nih'-ut-si-na'-wo, a double-barrelled gun. 
 to-no-wo', a rifle-gun. 
 
 mali-i-mai'-i-tun-o, a long, iron gun, a cannon, 
 no-tal'i'-i-wo, a musket, a soldier's gun. 
 tsi'-ma-ha-is-cis-to-not, breech of a gun. 
 o'-to-i, loaded as a gun. 
 
 H. 
 
 hair, he-i'-wa, also he-i'-wos, hair of the head, scalp, 
 mi'-ko-nots, the whole scalp with the hair, 
 noli'-pa-e, white head of hair, 
 he-ho'-wa-e, yellow hair, 
 ma'-o-wi-sa, red hair, 
 ok'-ci-a, thin hair, 
 ma'-ma-ka-e, curly hair, 
 ha'-is-ta-e, long hair, 
 clk'-sta-e, short hair. 
 
 wo'-his-6i-a, to be bald on the front part of the head, 
 e-ki-i'-wo-to-na, hair braided with strips of otter 
 
 skin, 
 e'-wa-wo-to'-nu-stots, scalp-lock, on the back o) 
 
 the head. 
 
 i-o-ko'-tak, to cut hair, 
 na-o-ko'-tak, I cut hair, 
 ni-o-ko'-tak, thou dost cut hair, 
 i-o-ko-ta'-ki-o, they cut hair, 
 e'-ni-mo-iv, a lock of the hair on the side of the 
 
 head tied up. 
 e'-a-no-no-ish, to hang over, as the hair over 
 
 one's face, 
 eh-o-wa'-ots, to take the hair off by rubbing or 
 
 shaving. 
 i-ha-wa'-wi-St, a bunch of hair growing on the 
 
 inside of a deer's leg. 
 
 half, oh, ta-yOli'. 
 hallo, noli-a', hallo, look here, 
 hammer, ton'-ho-i-nis-tots. 
 handsome, i-pi'-wi-wi-to, he is handsome, 
 na-pi'-wi-wi-to, I am handsome, 
 ni-pi'-wi-wi-to, thou art handsome, 
 i-pi'-wi-to-wah'-to, they are handsome. 
 hand, o-wo-si'-to-yi, to raise the hand to strike. 
 handful, c-to'-si-oli-i-c'is'-i-ots, a handful, what can be 
 
 held in the hand, 
 hang, e-ho-is'-6in-ots, to hang from, to be suspended 
 
 from, as a tree. 
 
 haul, e-mo-he'-na-ninst, to haul or transport, as a cart, 
 i-tam-han', to haul wood from a great distance. 
 haw, na-ko-is-ta'-tsi-min, " bear-killer," red haws. 
 The Indians say that this fruit causes the 
 bears so much pain when eaten, that they 
 attempt to rip open their bellies, 
 e-ta-ni-mi'-nuts, black haws. 
 head, mik'k. 
 
 mi'-ko-nots, (pi.) 
 na-mik'k, my head, 
 ni-mik'k, thy head, 
 wo-ka-he-mik'k, a deer's head, 
 si-to-sta', top of the head, 
 e'-i-ho-wa, yellow head. 
 e'-ta-pes-6i'-a, a big head. 
 
 i-to-i-no'-hiv-tsi-a, a line running over the middle 
 of the head, caused by the parting of the 
 hair. 
 
 heap, ha'-is-tu, a heap, a great deal, a great many, 
 healthy, na-sa-ha'-ma-to, healthy, sound in body, not 
 
 sick, 
 hear, i-ni'-sto-mon, to make one hear, or he makes one 
 
 hear. 
 
 na-ni'-sto-mon, I make one hear, 
 ni-ni'-sto-mon, thou makest one hear. 
 i-a'-to-mon'-sto, they make one hear, 
 na-sa-ni'-sto-mon, I do not hear, or make one 
 
 hear. 
 
 ni-sa-ni'-sto-mon, you do not hear, 
 i-sa-ni'-sto-mon, he does not hear, 
 heart, hais-cist'. 
 
 hais-cis'-ta-wots, (pi.) 
 
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 heavy, i-ha'-a-nun (adjective). 
 heel, hes-6ist', the heel. 
 
 ma-dist'-to-nots, (pi.) 
 
 na-dist', my heel. 
 
 ni-dist', thy heel. 
 
 no-tsi'-ma-dist, the heel of a person of a strange 
 
 nation. 
 
 helpmeet, his-to-tsi'-o-nam, a helper, helpmeet, la 
 borer, 
 hew, e-kali-o-no, to hew a long log on one side, and 
 
 then on the other, 
 hermaphrodite, he-i'-ma-ni. 
 hiccough, a-i-so'-wa, to hiccough, 
 na-i-so'-wa, I hiccough, 
 ni-i-so'wa, thou dost hiccough, 
 i-so-nih'-to, pi. 
 
 hide, no'-o-ist, to hide or conceal, 
 high, ha'-shi-um, high, very high, lofty, 
 hill, o-ha-ni-no', piled up as a hill or a mound of stone, 
 o-si'-wa-ta-otst, at the hill. 
 
 e'-ta-tak, country with many hills, like Bad Lands, 
 hi-na-it'-sit-a'-wi-o-tum', what did you see on the 
 
 hill? 
 
 hipbone, ai-si'-tsi-o, ilium, 
 his, his-di'-ots, his, her, its. 
 hiss, wi-ho-i'-shi, to hiss at, as a dog. , 
 hog, e-ku'-si-si'-o-tum, a sharp-nosed dog, pork, bacon, 
 hold, i-ho-ist', to hold back, to withhold, to retain, 
 hole, woli, a deep hole. 
 
 ho-i-i'-o-ta-o, a hole in the ground, 
 i'-o-ta-in, to bore or make a hole in anything, 
 i'-o-ta-i-sta, to make a hole, to bore or pierce the 
 
 ear. 
 
 e-pin'-o-ist, full of holes, as cloth, 
 e-wih'-pi-o-in, holes in an animal's head, commu 
 nicating with the nostrils. 
 hollow, i-ha'-o-non, the hollow in the leg behind the 
 
 knee. 
 
 honor, i-pa'-wo-e, to honor, respect, reverence. 
 hop, i-ku-ka'-ak, to hop as a grasshopper. 
 horse, mu'-i-no. 
 
 mu'-i-no-hum, pi. 
 moli-ta'-o-hum, a black horse, 
 moh-ta'-o-hum-i, pi. 
 
 woh'-po-am, a white horse. 
 
 woli'-po-a-mi-i'-o, pi. 
 
 i-san'-stai, a wild, prancing horse. 
 
 ma'-o-wai, a bay or dun horse. 
 
 ma-o-wai-i'-yo, pi. 
 
 mo-e'-i-hai-tu, a yellow or sorrel horse, with hair 
 
 like that of an elk. 
 moh-ta'-wi-wo'-a-si, black and white spotted 
 
 horse. 
 
 mo-6i'-nu-a-mis', a colt, 
 e-ho'-wo-hum, a red-haired horse, 
 lia-ma'-no-wa, a chestnut bay horse, 
 i-ta-ni'-hum, a stallion, 
 i-i'-hum, a mare, 
 i-i-ham', pi. 
 house, i-ha'-i-no-no, a village, or cluster of houses or 
 
 lodges. 
 
 hai-sta-nuh', council-house. , 
 wi-i-tsi-ma'-yu-nim, a church, a sacred house, 
 i-noli', at the house, at home, 
 i-no-di'-o-mi-nu, away from any house, 
 ho-to-ma'-ni-ta-o, household, including persons 
 
 and things, 
 wih'-po-tsi-mai'-yo, to make leaf houses or 
 
 booths. 
 
 wili'-po-tsi-mai'-yo-na-to, pi. 
 na-wili'-po-tsi-mai'-yo, I make, &c. 
 ni-wili'-po-tsi-mai'-yo, thou dost make, &c. 
 how, i-to'-ni-ta'-i-ni-6t, how far round, how extensive. 
 howl, e'-ho-pits, to howl, as a dog or wolf, 
 hunt, i-o-mo'-o-ni'-sto, to hunt buffalo, to surround and 
 
 kill, as in a buffalo hunt, 
 husband, hi-hum', a husband, 
 hi-hum'-i-wo, pi. 
 na-i-hum', iny husband, 
 ni-i-hum', thy husband. 
 
 ice, ma'-om. 
 
 ma-o-minst', (pi.) 
 
 illiberal, i-mi'-o-ta-nud, to be stingy or illiberal, 
 immediately, e'-i-sak, suddenly, immediately, 
 inconstant, sci-wi-i'-o-si-vi-5n, inconstant, unchaste, 
 ink, is-ta-ni'-i-hos. 
 
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 intestines, ih-ai'-i-man, the large intestines of animals, 
 iron, ma-kai'-it. 
 
 ma-ka'-i-tai'-wi-kis, iron bird, humming bird. 
 
 wi-ho'-ni-ma;kai'-it, white iron, silver. 
 
 wi-ho'-ni-ma-kai'-i-tai'-wo-at, silver medal. 
 
 moli'-ta-wi-ma-kai'-it, black metal, iron, 
 itch, i-si-si'-i-nats, to have one's body to itch all over. 
 
 J. 
 
 jealous, e-o'-si-wi'-o-ni, to be jealous, envious. 
 joint, 6i-hu'-na-i'-o-na-as, joints of animals, 
 journey, i-6li'-o-wi-stan, to be journeying or travelling, 
 ni-wa'-is-ti-oli -o-wi'-stan, who is that journey 
 ing ? 
 jump, e-ko'-ka-an, to jump. 
 
 i'-ka-ak, to jump over, as a horse. 
 
 in-ha', to frisk or jump about, like a spirited 
 
 horse. 
 
 i-no'-i-tsi, to make a jump, prance about, wild, 
 o-na-is'-i-an, to plunge or jump into water, as a 
 
 frog. 
 
 K. 
 
 kettle, ma-ai'-ta-to, a kettle. 
 
 ma-ai'-ta-to'-o-nots, (pi.) 
 
 moli -ta'-wi-to, a black kettle, iron kettle. 
 
 e-ho'-ni-to, yellow iron, brass kettle. 
 
 ma'-i-to, red iron, a copper kettle. 
 
 W-ni-wi-to, white iron, a tin kettle. 
 
 ka-e'-wi-to, a kettle with a spout, a coffee-pot. 
 
 e-wal'i'-i-ni-to, frying-pan, " pan with a tail." 
 
 tsi-oli-i-wi'-sho-is-to, gridiron, cooking-iron. 
 
 is-to'-wo-kuts, the ears of a kettle. 
 
 o-ni'-o-na-ti-ni'-ma-o-i, the rim of a kettle. 
 key, wi'-o-i-mah, a wooden key. 
 
 ta-ta-ho'-i-yo, to turn a key, to unlock, as a trunk, 
 ta-ta-ho'-i-nis-tots, turning a key. 
 kick, oli-ta'-o-wi, to kick. 
 
 i-6h -ta'-o-wo, to kick one or something, 
 i-o-ni'-nili -an, to kick in pieces, 
 kidneys, ist-si'-tat, kidneys of a buffalo, 
 kill, e-ha-na'-o-wo, to kill by pressing or lying on. 
 kindle, e-natst', to build or kindle a fire, 
 kinnic-kinnic, ma-ko'-mi-his, a mixture of one-fourth 
 
 tobacco and the remainder the bark of red osier 
 (Cornus), or the leaves of the bear-berry (Arc- 
 tostaphylos uva-ursi), dried and made very fine ; 
 used by the Indians for smoking, 
 kiss, e'-wo-sim, he kisses, or to kiss, 
 na'-wo'-siin, I kiss. 
 ni'-wo'-sim, thou dost kiss, 
 e'-wo-sim-a-tsi'-o, they all kiss. 
 knee, en-stan', kneepan, patella, 
 nan-stan', my kneepan. 
 nin-stan', thy kneepan. 
 en-sta'-nio, \ 
 en-sta'-ni-i-wo ) 
 
 is-tsi'-ma-ni-wa', between the knees or feet, 
 knock, i-ha'-ni-o-sto'-no, to knock on the head, to kill 
 
 or stun by striking, 
 he-siv', the fleshy part of the leg below the 
 
 knee of an animal, 
 knife, mo'-c'ik, a knife. 
 
 na-mo'-cik, my knife. 
 ni-mo'-6ik, thy knife, 
 i-mo'-cik, his knife, 
 mo-takst' (pi.), knives, 
 na-mo-takst', our knives, 
 ni-mo-takst', your knives. 
 knob, to'-ni-a-hu'-yo, a knob, button, head of a pin or 
 
 nail, 
 know, i-he'-ni-in, to know. 
 
 ni-ton'-shi-wi, to make oneself known, to tell 
 one's name. 
 
 L. 
 
 lake, tsi-ma'-o-mo-i, a lake, 
 lame, i-no'-ni-kai'-yiits, to go lame, to limp. 
 
 i-no'-ni-ka, lameness. 
 large, im-a-ha'-o, large, great in any way. 
 
 na-ma-ha'-it, I am large. 
 
 ni-ma-ha'-it, thou art large. 
 
 im-a-ha'-it, he or it is large. 
 
 im-o'-ma-ha-i-ta'-o, they are large. 
 
 i-to'-ni-ta'-o, how big ? how large ? 
 last, hi-stol'i'-is, the last, 
 lately, e'-kas, lately, very near, very soon. 
 laugh, i'-ho-liats, to laugh at, to make fun, to ridicule. 
 
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 i'-ha-na'-tum-a-o, to laugh immoderately, 
 lay, i-na'-nuts, to lay anything aside or down, 
 lazy, c-ho'-ni-eist, lazy, laziness. 
 
 e-ho'-ni-cis'-ta-o, pi. 
 lead, wi'-ho-i-ma. 
 leaf, wili'-pots, a leaf, 
 wili'-po-tots, pi. 
 
 e-ho-wi'-wili-po-tsi-wat, when the leaves are fall 
 ing, dead. 
 
 league, no-tali'-i-o, league, covenant, communion, fel 
 lowship, a church, society, community, 
 no-tah'-iv-sto, pi. 
 
 lean, in-o-wo'-i-yo, to lean, as one tree against another, 
 e-ni'-mi-ot, leaning, or not perpendicular, 
 e-wili '-pu-na, to become poor or lean, as cattle in 
 
 the spring. 
 
 leave, wi-huh'-i-a-no, to leave the lodge, said when 
 the women and children leave the tent, for the 
 men to partake of a feast. 
 leech, wili'-o, a leech, 
 leeks, lia-o'-i-tali'-i-wots, leeks, onions, 
 leggins, e-woli'. 
 
 e-woli'-to-iv, and e-woh -to'-i-wots, pi. 
 lend, i-ta'-ho-ho, to lend, as a horse, 
 length, e-a'-i-sta. 
 
 lie, e-he'-ni-o, to lie flat on the side, as animals do. 
 ho-ta-mi-pau'-o-nast, to lie with one's back to the fire, 
 i-oli'-tai-in, to lie in wait, to spend the night out, 
 
 while hunting or killing deer, 
 lightning, i-o-i'-tsi-ots. 
 limber, e-^i-kolit', to make limber or pliable by biting, 
 
 as leather. 
 
 lip, hists ; nats, my lips ; nists, thy lips ; mats, his lips. 
 his-cT-ni-o, -\ 
 his-ci'-ni-wots, j 
 i-to'-no-wats, pouting lips, 
 i-to'-no-wa-tsi'-na-o (pi.) 
 listen, i-a'-to-wo, to listen. 
 
 na-a-toli', I am listening. 
 iii-a-toli', thou art listening, 
 na-sa-a'-to-wa, I am not listening. 
 
 ' o 
 
 ni-sa-a'-to-wa, thou art not listening. 
 a-ha-s6i'-ots, to listen, to hearken to or for any 
 one. 
 
 ni-ha'-to-wots, ~i 
 ni-ha'-to-mo-ni, j 
 
 you listen to or for any one. 
 
 live, e-wa-wo-sta'-niv, to live again, to return to life, 
 
 to revive, 
 im-a-yu'-nim, to live or dwell apart, as a woman 
 
 in her menses, 
 liver, he, liver of animals. 
 lodge, we'-e; na'-no-wan, our lodge; ni'-no-wan, your 
 
 lodge. 
 
 wi'-e-nots (pi.), a good many lodges, 
 i-to'-wo-ni-sto, to build, pitch, or put up a 
 
 lodge, 
 ho-ha'-mi-wi'-e, sides and roof of a lodge or 
 
 house, 
 wi-e-no'-tsi-ne-shi'-tanst, on both sides of the 
 
 tent. 
 
 wi'-i-hc-wi-no', that one's lodge, 
 he-wi-no'-tsi-nots, those lodges. 
 6i-ma'-mo-o-no-wi'-e, top of the tent or lodge, 
 
 hole where the smoke goes out. 
 si-ma'-mo-wa'-e-hum, top of a tent, ridge of the 
 house, the crossing of the top of the poles of 
 the lodge. 
 
 he-wi'-no-e'-wi-not, the pole of a tent left stand 
 ing, the skeleton of a tent, 
 si-to-wi-mi'-o-niv, between houses, 
 na-tai'-wa-si-ots, from a place or lodge, 
 ni-ni-wa'-si-o-tsi, to be in a place or lodge, 
 e-shi'-yu-nit-liu'-a-tu'-wa-o, hole in the lodge 
 
 for the smoke to escape, 
 sili-pa-te'-i-ho-nuts, the place in front of the 
 
 lodge, which is fastened with pins, 
 tsi-wi'-sto-na'-ta-ots, to a place or lodge. 
 6i-sti'-i-naus, household, or all the things in a 
 
 lodge. 
 
 wali-tum', place opposite the door, 
 ho-whi', lodge-poles, 
 no-tali'-i-um, a soldier's lodge, 
 no-tal'i'-i-um-mi-to'-i-ni-sto, to make a soldier's 
 
 lodge. 
 
 look, to-to'-ats, to look, to look at. 
 no'-tsi-wi'-tots, to look into, 
 i-ko'-o-tots, to look with a spy-glass, to recon 
 noitre. 
 
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 o-no'-e-yo-tots, to look upon, to have an over 
 sight. 
 
 e'-i-ko, to look into a house. 
 a-mo'-o-ma-6is'-tots, a looking-glass. 
 lose, e'-ho-nist, to lose, to have lost. 
 
 ha'-shi-e-wa'-ni-ots, to be lost, disappear, 
 i-sa'-wo-nish, not to be lost. 
 louse, s-ta'-im. 
 
 s-ta'-im-i-wo, (pi.) 
 mi-shin, a wood louse. 
 
 M. 
 
 maid, mah-i-e'-ne, an old maid. There is one old wo 
 man among the Shycnnes, who never has had a 
 husband. 
 
 mallet, to'-o, an Indian stone mallet. 
 man, wo-stun'. 
 
 wo-stun'-i-o, (pi.) 
 
 e-wo'-stu-ni-wa-o, to have attained one's growth, 
 
 to have reached manhood, 
 si-vi-o-nivst-'sh, a chief, a great man. 
 e-si'-i-o'-tsi-tan, medicine-man, 
 ksu-wa', a young, unmarried man. 
 ksu-wa'-i-he, (pi.) 
 ma-a'-kis, an old man. 
 ma-ak'-si, (pi.) 
 
 ai-ta'-ni-kai-kun, a boy 12 or 14 years of age. 
 mane, e-ma-ta'-o-in-o-to'-un, mane of a horse, 
 many, to-nist', how many. 
 
 e-tonst'-tanst, how many ? how much ? 
 e'-ni-sta-nist, only so many, only so much. 
 mark, to-toli-tsih'-wots, to mark, to cut gashes in 
 
 mourning. 
 
 marry, e-wi'-stom, he marries, or to marry, 
 na-wi'-stom, I marry, 
 ni-wi'-stom, thou dost marry, 
 na-wi'-sto-mon, we marry, 
 ni-wi'-sto-mon, you marry, 
 e-wi'-sto-o'-mo, they marry, 
 i-tais'-tsi-im, he desires to marry, or wishes a 
 
 wife. 
 
 na-tais'-tsi-im, I desire to marry, 
 ni-tais'-tsi-im, thou desirest to marry, 
 i-tais'-tsi-im-i-o, they desire to marry. 
 
 na-tais'-tsi-im-im, we desire to marry, 
 ni-tais'-tsi-im-im, you desire to marry, 
 im-a-yun'-i-wi-sto-i-ma'-tsin, to be married ac 
 cording to the customs of the whites, a 
 sacred marriage, 
 i-sa-mai'-yun-i-wi'-sto-i-ma'-tsin, to be married 
 
 after the manner of the Indians, 
 he-na-tau-hai'-nots, to be old enough to be 
 
 married. 
 
 matches, o-ha-si-ha'-si-o-nots. 
 meat, o-e'-woh-ots, fresh meat, 
 o-no-woli ', dried meats, 
 o-no-woli'-o-nots, (pi.) 
 i-ho'-so-tuli'-i-mi'-i-ots, tainted meat, 
 medicine, e-si'-i-hav'-si-wats, red medicine, poison. 
 
 tsi-ma-he-yo'-ni-vist, a doctor, or medicine 
 man. 
 
 meet, i-to'-wi-o-wa'-6is-t6m, to meet, as persons travel 
 ing- , 
 melt, i'-ma-tau, to melt or dissolve away, as snow. 
 
 his-tas'-i'-ma-tau, the snow melts, or dissolves 
 
 away. 
 
 i'-holi-pet, to fuse or melt, as metal, 
 merciful, i-shi'-wats-tai'-yo, merciful, to be merciful, 
 middle, tai'-si-to. 
 
 si-to-wom', in the middle, midst, 
 milk, ma-tun'. 
 
 ma-tun'-ai-yum, milk grease, butter, 
 im-i-ta-so'-a-mi, thick milk, 
 rna-tun'-a-e'-hi-kun, hard milk, cheese. 
 ma-tun'-i-oh'-i-6ts, hardened or frozen milk, 
 wi-ho-i'-o-to-a-ina-ta-na'-nist, a cow that gives 
 
 milk. 
 
 e-hi'-wo-i-tan-han', to draw milk, as from a cow. 
 mirage, i-e'-no-nu-hat, mirage, glimmering of vapors 
 
 in the sun's heat, 
 miss, e'-wo-nish, he misses, or to miss the road, to 
 
 wander and get lost. 
 na'-wo-nish, I miss the road, &c. 
 ni'-wo-nish, thou dost miss the road, &c. 
 mittens, i-to'-a, and to'-a. 
 
 na-to'-a, my mittens, 
 ni-to'-a, thy mittens, 
 i-to-a'-i-wo (pi.), their mittens. 
 
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 mix, he-ko'-ma-o-wo'-tsuts, to mix, as mortar, 
 moccasin, i-mok'-ci. 
 
 i-mok-ca'-ni-wots, (pi.) 
 na-iaok'-ei, my moccasin, 
 ni-mok'-ci, thy moccasin, 
 e wo-kon', to put tops on moccasins, 
 molasses, pa-nu'-i-ha-su'-i-ot. 
 money, mi-ho-ni'-ma-kai'-it. 
 moon, i'-wo-nit, the moon rising. 
 
 i-shi-i'-a-min, the moon passing over the sky. 
 i-shi-i'-ta-in, the moon passing down into the 
 
 west. 
 
 morning', en-i-wo'-ni-ots, daylight, dawn of morning, 
 morose, shu-mi'-i-whai'-i-sin'-os (adjective), 
 mosquito, ho'-o-ma. 
 mother, ish'-k. 
 
 na'-ko-e, my mother, 
 nih'-ku, your mother, 
 mourn, i-ali'-ai'-im, to cry or mourn for the loss of a 
 
 child. 
 
 move, im'-o-ino'-ots, to move about, moving about, 
 much, e-wo'-ta-ha', very much, 
 mule, a-ki'-i-wa. 
 
 a-ki'-i-wa'-ham, (pi.) 
 musk, c-ni-si-me'-hast. 
 muskrat, i-yoli'. 
 
 i-yoli'-i-o, pi. 
 
 mystery, ina-he'-yo, mysterious, medicine, mystery, 
 spiritual. Anything that the Indians do 
 not understand they consider supernatu 
 ral, or " medicine." 
 c-ma-wi'-hu, Great Medicine, Great Spirit. 
 
 N. 
 
 nail, is-to'-a-no-ni-mo'-i-o-sun, the nails of the fingers 
 and toes. 
 
 c-mi'-si-mi-os, the dirt under the finger-nails. 
 
 mi-si'-mi-o-sun, pi. form. 
 
 e-ni'-to-i-to'-ni-o, nails of iron, so called because 
 
 first used in a door. 
 
 naked, i'-o-is-tos, naked, nearly naked, poorly clad, 
 near, kaksh, near, near by, soon, presently, 
 neck, di-hu'-na-ot, nape or end of the neck. 
 
 is-ci'-ots, back of the neck. 
 
 e'-ko-tsi'-na, by the neck. 
 
 is-fi-ots'-to-i-shi, to tie around the neck, as a rope, 
 needles, e-ko'-wo-is-tots', and wi-ho-ko'-wost. 
 nephew, it-sin'-ot, his nephew, 
 na-tsin'-ot, my nephew, 
 ni-tsin'-ot, thy nephew, 
 na-tsin'-o-ta, iny nephews, 
 ni-tsin'-o-ta, thy nephews. 
 nest, who'-is, a bird's nest, 
 never, i-sa-ho-woli '-po-nit, at no time, never, 
 new, e-lio-liai'-it. 
 
 mo-ni-ma'-nistst, to make new, to renew, 
 news, ni-ni'-o-tsi-is, to tell the news, to take word to 
 
 any one. 
 
 nili -o'-tsi-is, to arrive with the news, 
 e-hi-oli '-ta-o-wa, to bring word or news to anyone, 
 tai-yoh' '-ta-o-wa, to have gone to carry the news, 
 night, ta-e'-wa. 
 
 ta-asts', pi. 
 
 oh-ta'-e-shi-to'-iv, beginning of the night, dusk, 
 nod, i-o-a'-wa-e, to nod or swing the head, as in sleep, 
 na-wa'-wo-e, I nod. 
 ni-wa'-wo-e, you nod. 
 i-a'-wa-i-sto, they all nod. 
 
 he-i-e-tai'-yuts, to nod the head, to bow to any one. 
 noise, i-ha'-i-no-wi'-o, noise, clamor, tumult. 
 
 shi-o-ha'-o-no-as, a humming noise, bustle, 
 hi-ali'-po-ni-ni', to make a grating noise with. 
 
 the teeth, 
 nose, e'-iv. 
 
 e'-iv-o-ni'-wots, pi. 
 
 na'-iv, my nose. 
 
 ni'-iv, thy nose. 
 
 e'-i-ni-ots, to wink the nose. 
 
 e-he'-e-im, to blow the nose. 
 
 he-e-em', the excretion of the nose. 
 
 e-si-e'-ma-si-ots, to sniff or snuff up the nose. 
 
 i-ku'-ko-no-me-i-sis'-tuts, the external parts of the 
 
 nose, 
 nothing, i'-ho-wa-an. 
 
 e-ho-wa'-ni-ni-he', to become nothing. 
 
 0. 
 
 obliquely, i-tali-ah', obliquely, from corner to corner. 
 
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 obstinate, sti-wi'-nis-to, to be obstinate, resolute, to 
 
 have a mind of one's own. 
 old, in-o-no'. 
 
 i'-tu-si-i-na'-o, to become old. 
 e-pi'-i-ots, to become old or rotten, as old clothing, 
 ma-tum'-ha, an old woman. 
 im'-6s, old, worn out. 
 im'-o-sots, pi. 
 
 ni-ta'-iin-os, all old, very old. 
 on, he-am', on or upon, 
 ooze, ma'-pi-im-i'-ots, to run or ooze out, as sap or 
 
 water, 
 open, i-o-ni'-ain, to open anything, as a bundle; to 
 
 untie, as a shoe, 
 si'-to-wo, an open place, a yard, 
 e-ta'-ots, to open the mouth, in yawning or 
 
 gaping. 
 
 i-ish-tsin', something that is open, as cloth, 
 na-ish-tsin'. 1st person sing. 
 oppose, ev-hav-si'-va, to check, to oppose, put a stop 
 
 to, forbid. 
 
 ornaments, hi-wo', a man's ornaments, 
 na-wo', my ornaments, 
 ni-wo', thy ornaments, 
 ho, brass rings, used as ornaments around 
 
 the wrist, 
 ho'-ho-nots, pi. 
 orphan, nil'i-hais', an orphan. 
 
 nih-hai'-son, pi. 
 overflow, i-uii'-ish, to overflow, as a flood. 
 
 P. 
 
 pack, i-sho-po-o'-inst, a pack or bundle of furs, 
 paint, i-ho'-wo-ni, to paint one's self yellow. 
 pair, e-no'-ka, a pair. 
 
 e-nih-anst', two pairs. 
 
 e-na-hanst', three pairs, 
 pantaloons, wi-shi-su'-nist. 
 pare, i'-a-toh, to pare anything with a knife, 
 pass, i-ta'-a-ain, to pass over, as a hill, in going home. 
 
 e'wo-iv, passing off, as clouds. 
 
 patient, o-wai-hai'-is-ci-wi'-mi-ist, to count as nothing, 
 to be patient. 
 
 I perhaps, probably. 
 
 paw, e-shi'-6i-tsi-wai'-yost, to paw up dust, to throw 
 
 up earth as cattle do. 
 people, his-tain', a people, tribe, nation, band. 
 
 hi-rnan-hai'-stots, his people, 
 pepper, mi'-i-mi-nuts. 
 perhaps, mu'-i-ni-su'a-ni, 
 
 hi-ya'-i-nis, 
 pimple, i-ho'-pi-in', a pimple, a rough place on the 
 
 skin. 
 
 pipe, he'-6k, a pipe, 
 he-o'-ko-nots, pi. 
 na'-tsi-ok, my pipe. 
 6i'-ok, your pipe. 
 
 na-tai'-to-an, I will fill my pipe myself, 
 he'-pots, to take the pipe, 
 si-o'-kis-to-mis, small end of the pipe-stem, which 
 
 is taken into the mouth, 
 ha-he-yo', a stick to press the tobacco down in 
 
 the pipe when smoking. 
 pitch, o-ho'ma-ni-nili'-a-mo-cist, to come and pitch 
 
 one's tent. 
 
 pithy, e-wi'-na-ots, pithy, spongy. 
 place, tu'-sa, at what place ? 
 
 tu-sa-ni'-ta-ots, where, in what place is it ? 
 si-nots', to place under the girdle, as a hatchet 
 
 or knife, to wear around the loins, 
 na-tali'-o-wi-stan, from one place to another. 
 plain, i-toli'-ton, a plain, level, 
 to pluck, o-ko-wa'-ni, to pluck out, as the hair on the 
 
 head, 
 plums, mah'-i-mi'-nota. 
 
 mali'-i-mi-sta'-im, plum pits or stones, 
 mali'-i-mi-no'-isc, plum bushes. 
 
 plunge, i-i'-i-yots, to plunge or sink down, as in water, 
 polish, i'-o-wa'-si-to, to rub and make shine, to polish. 
 poor, nsta'-mi-no, poor, miserable, destitute, 
 nsta'-m i-no'-he -hi v. 
 nsta'-mi-no'-hi-o, (pi.) 
 i-toli'-o-na, poor, not fat. 
 
 pop, c'-ni-sto'-ni-wa, to make pop, as in blowing a leaf, 
 porcupine, he-ko'-wit. 
 
 he-kost', porcupine quills. 
 
 possess, he-ni'-sco,- to possess anything, to have for 
 one's own. 
 
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 pound, e-pin'-ha-nots, to pound, as corn in a mortar, 
 pe-nots', to pound anything fine, 
 i-si'-o-i'-yats, to rani or pound hard in a hole, 
 powder, woli'-i-wusts, a powder-horn. 
 wol\'-i-wit, (pi.) 
 
 e-pa'-im, what remains after powder is ex 
 ploded. 
 
 na-pa'-im, my powder, 
 ni-pa'-im, your powder, 
 e-pa'-iin-iv, (pi.) 
 pox, i-wa'-ni-i-ist, small-pox. 
 
 i-6sh'-ki-win', pitted with the small-pox, a pitted 
 
 face. 
 
 prairie, wi-e'-no-tsi'-o-ko-manst, out in the prairie, 
 preserve, e-6li'-po-o-ist, to keep or preserve anything 
 
 with care. 
 press, o-e'-to-i, to press down on. 
 
 e-ko'-no-ho'-e-n5ts, to press on, be tight on. 
 e-nili'-pe-si'-o-wats, to press close together with 
 
 the mouth, 
 to prick, e-he'-woh-so, to prick or dot, as marks on the 
 
 skin. 
 
 proud, e-hi'-is-ta, proud, vain, 
 pulverize, i-ci'-wa-to'-i-yo, to pulverize, to plough the 
 
 ground. 
 
 i-pin', powdered, pulverized,' fine, 
 pumpkin, ma'-o. 
 
 ma'-6n, (pi.) 
 punch, i-oli'-i-wo, to punch a hole, or to make a hole 
 
 by punching. 
 
 mah-o'-yi, to punch to death in a hole. 
 purpose, e-oli'-i-mo, to purpose evil against, to desire 
 
 to take the life of any one. 
 push, sim-o-ta'-so-6ts, to push, as a boat out from the 
 
 shore with a paddle. 
 
 ai-so-o'-wo, to push against, to push along, 
 i-i'-e-yots, to push under and pry up, as a root, 
 tsi'-i-ne, to push or jog any one with the elbow, 
 wo-wo-tut'-si-mi-nots, to push into, as a stick 
 
 into the sand after turtles' eggs. 
 put, e-o-tats', to put on and wear, as leggins. 
 
 c'-hi-ma'-ma, to put on, as clothes, to wear, to be 
 clothed. 
 
 VOL. xn. 40 
 
 mi-sih'-o-pa'-i-woli, to put anything (as a child) 
 on one's back under a blanket. 
 
 Q. 
 
 quarrel, mi'-o-tats, to quarrel or fight with any one. 
 quarter, niv-sta'-ni-wo-e'-hist, one of the four quarters 
 
 of anything. 
 
 quit, i-ni-sto'-i-no, to quit the lodge, to leave it. 
 quiver, i-stus', a quiver. 
 
 na-i-stus', my quiver. 
 
 ni-i-stus', thy quiver. 
 
 i-stu-sun' (pi.), quivers. 
 
 K. 
 
 rain, i-ho'-ko, to rain. 
 
 i-wo'-o-no-ko, a long-continued rain. 
 
 no-no-no', rainbow. 
 
 e-oh'-tat, a kind of lizard that is supposed to fall 
 
 with the rain, 
 raspberries, 6ts-6i-e'-i-hew'h. 
 
 i-wi'-po-tsi-wa, raspberry bushes. 
 rattle, in'-is-to'-ni-wa'-nots, to rattle the feet when 
 
 walking, 
 e-shi'-shi-non, nails and hoofs of animals used 
 
 as rattles. 
 
 ravish, i-na'-ko-nan, to ravish, to commit a rape. 
 . ready, no-no'-to-ho-sinst, ready, prepared for anything, 
 recoil, na-po'-i-shi-ni'-o, to recoil, as a gun. 
 red, im'-a-o, to become red, reddish, 
 im-a-o'-nist. 
 
 en-i-ma-ho'-i-na, redness of the dawn. 
 rhubarb, e-si'-i-o-tsi-holi, yellow medicine, 
 reject, tsi-wi'-wi-6m, to reject, to despise, to turn away 
 
 from. 
 
 na-ta-wi'-wi-om, I reject, 
 ni-ta-wi'-wi-om, thou dost reject, 
 remember, mi'-e-ta-nots, to remember, to recollect, 
 rest, o-so'-to-mo-ist, rest, to rest, 
 resemble, i-si-i-shi'-ni-o, to be like, to resemble, to 
 
 have its father's face, 
 restore, mi'-tsi, to restore to any one, to give to one 
 
 what belongs to him. 
 na-ta'-mit, I restore. 
 
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 ni-ta'-mit, thou dost restore, 
 ni-ta'-mi-tats (pi.), they restore. 
 rice, e'-hi-son. 
 rich, i-ha'-o-wa, to be rich. 
 
 i-ha'-o-wai-yo (pl.)> they are rich, 
 na-ha'-o-wai-yo, we are rich, 
 na-ha'-o-wa, I am rich, 
 ni-ha'-o-wa, thou art rich. 
 
 ring, ili'-i-wa-ots, to ring as a bell, to make ring, 
 na-a-ni'-a-to-mats, a ringing in the ears, 
 na-sa-a-ni'-sto-mo-ni, I have a ringing in my ears. 
 rise, i-o-ha'-a, to rise or get up. 
 na-o-ha'-a, I rise, 
 ni-o-ha'-a, thou dost rise, 
 na-o-hain', we rise, 
 ni-o-hain', you rise, 
 i-o-ha'-i-o, they rise, 
 i-a-ha'-ni-sti'-wa-ha, to rise up again, to recover 
 
 itself, as grass, that is bent down, 
 im'-i-an, to rise up in sight, as one in the water, 
 a-to'-ni-wa-ni, to rise up, to stand up like the 
 
 hairs on an animal, 
 river, o'-he. 
 
 o-he-ist', (pi.) 
 
 o-he-kis', a small river or creek, 
 o-hik-so'-nots, (pi.) 
 mah-i-yo'-he, a large river. 
 mali-i-yo'-hist', (pi.) 
 o-he-i'-ho-hom, mouth of a river. 
 
 crossing a river. 
 
 e-oh'-o-who, j 
 
 road, mi'-o. 
 
 mi'-o-niv. 
 
 oh-o-wi-sta'-mi-o. 
 
 o'-ha-mas, by the way, on the road, between one 
 
 place and another, 
 roast, moh'-ta-woli'-po-no-tots, to roast or parch, as 
 
 coffee or corn. 
 
 i'-ma-shi'-ni-hu,tobe partially or wholly roasted, 
 
 to be covered with red spots from going too 
 
 near the fire. 
 
 na'-ma-shi'-ni-hu, I roast. 
 
 ni'-ma-shi'-ni-hu, thou dost roast. 
 
 na'-ma-shi'-ni-hu-i sto, we roast. 
 
 robe, ma-tsi'-o-mi-wol'i'-tsit, a summer robe. 
 
 tsi-wo'-kom-hom, a white robe. 
 rock, o-o-na'. 
 
 o-o-na'-i-o, (pi.) 
 
 o-o-na'-tson, small water-worn pebbles, 
 o-o-wai', white, crystalline gypsum, selenite. 
 wo'-i-sta'-o-na, white rock, or white, smooth rock, 
 
 quartz. 
 
 moli -ta'-wo-na, black rock, a primitive rock, 
 tsi-o'-ho-ist, "the rock that water cuts," cut 
 
 rock, forming a canon, 
 shi'-i-e, sandstone, 
 roll, e-wo-wo'-ld-tsi-un, to roll anything. 
 
 e-a-mo'-in, to roll over and over, as the wheel of 
 
 a wagon. 
 room, mi-to-mev', to make room for, as in a tent, to 
 
 give place to. 
 rosebud, he-nin'. 
 
 he-ni-ni'-o-he, the Rosebud River, 
 rotten, a-he'-ko-tali, rotten, as wood, 
 rough, i'-yo-iv, rough, roughened up. 
 ili-iv'-a-o, rough, as a country. 
 row, mi-o-na'-nist, a row, as of corn. 
 
 mi-o-na'-ni-sto, (pi.) 
 
 rub, i-o'-wo, to rub or brush off, as dirt or dust, 
 ni-o-nis'-to-kan, to rub in the hands, 
 e-ho-nin', to rub skins with the hand in dressing, 
 i-ali-e-ish', to rub or scratch the back against any 
 thing. 
 i-o-6h'-i-mali'-i-e, to rub a robe or a skin on a 
 
 rope or cord in dressing, 
 na-o-oli '-i-mali'-i-ist, I rub, &c. 
 ni-o-oli'-i-mali'-i-ist, thou dost rub, &c. 
 i-o-oh '-i-mal'i'-i-is'-6i-na, they rub, &c. 
 na-o-oli'-i-mali'-i-is'-di-no, we rub, &c. 
 ni-o-oli'-i-mah'-i-is'-6i-no, you rub, &c. 
 e-shi-oli'-i-mali '-i-e, to be done rubbing a robe on 
 
 a cord. 
 
 e-sho'-ni-o, to rub a robe or skin with the hands, 
 na-sho'-ni-oli, I rub, &c. 
 ni-sho'-ni-oh, thou dost rub, &c. 
 na-shi-oli'-ta-non, we rub, &c. 
 ni-shi-oli'-ta-non, you rub, c. 
 run, i-a-mi-mi'-o, to run. 
 
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 i'-a-mah', to run away, flee, retreat, 
 rump, aist'-slii-o, the lower part of the back, 
 nast'-shi-o, my rump. 
 nist'-shi-o, thy rump, 
 rush, i-wi'-sto-i-ni-sto, to rush on the buffalo. 
 
 o-ha'-i-si-yiis'-ta-i-si-takst', to rise up and rush, 
 
 as one excited. 
 
 rustle, wlu'-po-to'-tsi-ih -i-no'-ninst, to make rustle, as 
 leaves. 
 
 S. 
 
 sacred, i-a-ma'-wi-hot, to regard as sacred or holy. 
 sack, ho'-e, an empty bag or sack, 
 saddle, o-au-kis'-tots. 
 
 o-au-kis'-to-tuts, (pi.) 
 na-to-au-kis'-to-tots, my saddle. 
 
 ni-to-au-kis'-to-tots, thy saddle. 
 
 o-wa'-ki-stots, a pack-saddle. 
 sail, ev'-si-o, to sail round, as an eagle. 
 scabby, i-yo-iv', scabby, scabbed. 
 
 i-yo-iv'-i-o, (pi.) 
 
 scales, o-ni'-sta-na-nots, scales, steelyards, 
 scampering, e'-wo-so, scampering like colts, unre 
 strained, 
 scare, e-a-si-ha'-wo, to scare away by stamping. 
 
 i-o-a'-si-ta'-o-wo, to scare all away, 
 scattered, e'-he-ni-anst, scattered or fallen from, as a 
 
 rock. 
 scowl, e-he'-hi-oli'-tan, to scowl, to make wrinkles on 
 
 the forehead by raising the eyebrows, 
 scrape, i-shiu '-o-i-ain', to scrape, as a robe. 
 
 na-shili'-o-i-ain', I scrape, &c. 
 
 ni-shlli'-o-i-ain', thou dost scrape, &c. 
 
 ni'-ta-i-shiu'-o-i-ai'-ni-sto, they all scrape, &c. 
 
 i'-ni-to, to scrape the hair from a hide. 
 
 na'-ni-to, I scrape, &c. 
 
 ni'-ni-to, thou dost scrape, &c. 
 
 i'-ni-to-i'-sto, ) 
 
 ,''.'., r tllo y scrape, &c. 
 i-ma -m-to-i -sto, ) 
 
 e'-shi-ni-to, to be done scraping, as a skin, 
 na'-shi-ni-to, I am done scraping, 
 ni'-shi-ni-to, thou art done scraping. 
 i-shi-Ih'-o-i-sto, they are done scraping. 
 
 e-shi-ih'-o-ni-o, he was done scraping, &c. 
 na-shi-ili'-o-ni-oh t, I was done scraping, 
 
 &c. 
 
 ni-shi-ili'-o-ni-olit, thou wert done scrap 
 ing, &c. 
 na-shi-ili'-o-ni-oli'-ta-non, we were done 
 
 scraping, &c. 
 ni-shi-Ih'-o-ni-oli'-ta-non, you were done 
 
 scraping, &c. 
 i-si'-si-no, to scrape a skin. 
 won t-sit', the scrapings of skins, 
 o-ni'-o-tots, to scrape the hairs off a skin, 
 scratch, ali-e'-i-nats, to scratch, as one itching, 
 i-an-e'-i-nats, he scratches, 
 i-ali-e'-i-stai-im, they scratch, 
 i-ho'-ta-o, a scratch. 
 
 ah-i-a-ta'-o-wats, to scratch with the toes. 
 screw, ni'-to-yo, gun screw or worm, 
 scum, i-ta-wo'-ni-wi-siv, to have a scum. 
 seam, i-a'-mo-to'-i-no, seam in a buffalo robe. 
 season, i-i-mi'-a-niv, next season, next year. 
 
 a-i'-ni-shi'-i-kas, the season when the days are 
 
 short, 
 an-sta'-i-ha-as, the season when the nights are 
 
 short. 
 
 see, i-o-ha'-6ist, to see clearly. 
 na-o-ha'-6ist, I see clearly, 
 ni-o-ha'-^ist, thou seest clearly, 
 see-sawing, in-o-no-po'-i-o-a-tsi'-o, sec-sawing, an up 
 
 and down motion. 
 
 set, wi-kis-in'-o-o-na, to set, as a bird, 
 sew, a-po-nots', to sew or mend. 
 
 i'-ha-pi-nolit, to sew on, to patch, 
 o-im'-sko-nuts, an Indian woman's sewing-bag, 
 
 which contains all her sewing apparatus, 
 e'-po-i-not, to sew on a round patch, 
 e-ali'-pi-no, to sew on a long patch, over a rent, 
 shade, i-ho-wi'-o-o, shade, or shadow. 
 
 e-ya-wi'-a-o, a shade, as branches of trees ; an 
 
 umbrella. 
 shake, ma-ko'-mi-is-i-a'-si-to-to, to shake, to clean by 
 
 shaking or blowing, as kinnic-kinnin. 
 i-o-wai'-i-yots, to shake the head, 
 i-yo'-ma-ish, to motion with the head. 
 
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 e-yo'-ma-e'-uts, to wag the head, 
 in-is'-to-ni-wa, to be shaken by the wind, 
 ka-mali'-i-i-ni'-mo-tot, to shake with the mouth, 
 sharp, e-e'-kus. 
 
 di-e'-kus, ) 
 
 [ sharp-pointed, 
 ci-e-ka-kus, ) 
 
 shears, oli-to-wa'-mo, a pair of shears. 
 
 6h-to-wa'-mo-takst, pi. 
 shed, wi-ci'-su-i-ni'-si-i-na, to shed quills. 
 sheep, wo-ka'-i-tsi-wo'-ko-mast, white deer, a sheep ; 
 
 also, kos, a sheep, 
 shells, ci-nri'-o-na, shells of the genus Dentalium, used 
 
 as ornaments. 
 
 ni-mac', a land-shell, Helix. 
 ni-ma6i'-o, pi. 
 
 ma-pi'-ni-rna<5, water-shells, 
 shirt, is'-ci, a shirt. 
 
 na'-is-6i, my shirt. 
 ni'-is-6i, thy shirt. 
 e'-is-<5i, his shirt, 
 is'-ci-in, pi. shirts. 
 moli-ta'-wi-is-(5i, a black shirt, 
 wo'-ko-mi-ka-ku'-is-ci, a white shirt, 
 ka-ku'-is-ci, a yellow calico shirt. 
 o-i-shi'-nai-wai-o'-t5ts, a vest, a shirt with the 
 
 sleeves cut off. 
 kali-o'-i-shi-6n, calico cloth, 
 shoes, holi-tsim'-o-ki, round snow-shoes. 
 shoot, i-ha'-ni-mas, he shoots, 
 na-ha'-ni-mas, I shoot, 
 ni-ha'-ni-mas, thou dost shoot, 
 i-pi'-im-hist, to shoot in pieces, 
 shore, to-tu-kom', at the shore, by the shore, at the 
 
 edge, 
 oli-i-en', said of a bluff shore, where the water 
 
 is deep, 
 short, cik-sta'. 
 
 i-6ik'-sta-yo, pi. 
 shot, shi'-shi-ma-hots. 
 
 mali-i-wi'-hu-i-ma, large shot, balls. 
 shoulder, i-sta'-ta-mo. 
 
 i-sta'-tsi-i-ma'-moh-o-yi, between the shoul 
 ders, 
 i-tsi-o'-is-tak, to shrug up, as the shoulders. 
 
 shout, no'-o-nost, to shout out to any one. 
 sick, i-ha'-moli-ta. 
 
 i-sa-ha'-moh-ta, not sick. 
 side, is-ci'-a-mah'-ist, on one side, 
 ha-stu', on the other side, 
 ho-hom', on this side, 
 sight, e'-ni-mi-in, to come in sight, as people from 
 
 over a hill. 
 
 ta-si'-a-me-inst', in sight of, afar off. 
 silently, e-tsi'-a-mi, stilly, silently, as if approaching 
 
 game, 
 simmer, i-to-si'-i-so-wot, to simmer, or make a slight 
 
 noise just before boiling, as water, 
 sinew, ho'-tauli, taken from the back of an elk or 
 
 deer. 
 
 he-sis'-ton, large sinew in the neck of ani 
 mals. 
 sing, ni-minst', to sing. 
 
 na-ta'-ni-min, I sing, 
 ni-ta'-ni-min, thou dost sing, 
 i-ta'-ui-min, he sings. 
 
 wa-wa-o'-si-mi, to sing in a low tone, in a whis 
 pering, drawling manner, as the Shyenne wo 
 men do when lulling their children to sleep, 
 e'-ni-min, to sing in praise of any one. 
 sink, o-na'-i-hi-ko, to sink down, as a stone. 
 singe, wi'-he, to singe off, as the down from a fowl, 
 sister, is-ta-ta-nim', a sister. 
 
 is-ta-ta-nim'-i-wo, pi. sisters. 
 nali'-a-im, my sister. 
 i-ali'-a-im'-i-wo, pi. my sisters. 
 
 sit, en-sta-ni-wa'-e-ni-i, to sit with the knees bent up. 
 skim, mo-molit', to skim off, as grease from a pot. 
 skin, en-o-iv', all kinds of skins. 
 
 o-ev', a green skin, one just taken from the ani 
 mal. 
 
 i-o-oli'-a-niv, dried skin, parchment, 
 wo'-ka-e-wots, all kinds of deerskins, 
 o-ho'-kuts, a deerskin with the hair taken off. 
 i-no-ta'-ni-sto, a skin bottle, for holding water, 
 e-wa-e'-l'iu-wa, an instrument for scraping skins, 
 sky, wo-e-i'-a-ta-tan, blue sky. 
 sleep, i'-o-wish, to sleep. 
 
 i-na-au-si'-tan, to sleep or be sleepy. 
 
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 i-ma'-no-sliin, to sleep side by side, 
 tai-o-wisc', to sleep out, away from home. 
 slide, i-a-no'-i-o-whit, to slide, as on the ice. 
 slip, e-soh '-i-yu-ash, to slip, as on the ice. 
 
 e'-ho-ha-in, to let anything drop or slip from the 
 
 hand, 
 slippery, e-i-soh'. 
 
 e-ih-o'-a, slippery, ropy, slimy. 
 
 slits, o-he-wi'-o-tah, slits cut in a skin when stretched, 
 slushy, e-moh'-tsi-e'-no, as snow when soft, 
 small, e'-ta-ki, anything small. 
 
 i-ei-ta'-o, how small ? of what size ? 
 smell, i-hav'-si-vi'-no, smelling badly, stinking. 
 
 i-hav'-si-vi-mi'-i-ots, to smell badly, as tainted 
 
 meat. 
 
 in'-a-ton, to smell, 
 o-oli'-i-mi'-yots, a strong smell, 
 si'-to-wun, to burn incense, to make a good 
 
 smell by burning, 
 smoke, i'-vi-ndt. 
 
 im-a'-vi-not, smoky, full of smoke, 
 im'-a-wi-ta'-nist, to smoke, 
 e-wi'-no-ta-wo-ma'-no, smoky, air filled with 
 
 smoke. 
 
 smooth, i-a'-to-no-wi'-si-nats, to smooth down the hair, 
 snap, i-a-i-si', to crack or snap, as fire. . 
 
 i-oli'-o-ma, to snap or crack as ice in walking 
 
 over it. 
 
 sneeze, e-he-ta-in', to sneeze, 
 snow, is'-tas. 
 
 iin-a'-is-ta-siv, all kinds of snow, all the snow, 
 i'-ho-i-it, falling snow, to fall as snow. 
 is-ta'-si-6li '-i-a-no'-iv, a snow-drift, 
 i-wo'-o-ni-it, to snow in. 
 i-ho-it', it is snowing, 
 i-a'-ih'-to'-e-in, to snow on anything, 
 im-a-ya'-to-in, everything covered with snow. 
 soak, e-shi-ki'-o-wo, to soak a robe for dressing. 
 na-shi'-ko-wOts, I soak, &c. 
 ni-shi'-ko-wots, thou dost soak, &c. 
 e-shi'-ko-wo'-tsi-no, they soak, &c. 
 i-su'-a-ni-ots, to soak through and come out on 
 
 the other side. 
 soap, shi-shi'-wo-iv. 
 
 sometimes, once in a 
 while, now and 
 then. 
 
 soft, e-haic', soft, fine. 
 
 em-ah'-e-e, to make soft, as bread, 
 soldier, no-tali'. 
 
 no-tah'-i-yo, (pi.) 
 something, he-no-wa-e'-ton, is that something? 
 
 he-ni-na'-wo-ni-o-is-ci'-no, to lose some 
 thing. 
 
 sometimes, na-tu'-as, 
 na-tu'-sa, 
 tu-sa-nin'-hiv, 
 na-ni'-shi-ni-na, 
 na-tas'-tsi-nis-torn, 
 tu'-a-sus, 
 sores, m-o-to'-i-yots, itch sores. 
 
 i'-ma-hi-ma'-nit, to be covered with sores, 
 na-ni-o-i'-wi-uts, to come out on, as sores or 
 pimples, to break out in sores or spots on the 
 skin. 
 
 spatter, wi'-si-ots, to spatter, to fly out, as grease. 
 speak, i-mali'-i-ha, to speak with a loud voice. 
 
 i-wih'-pi-ha, to speak, growl, or sing in a hoarse 
 
 voice, 
 spill, e-ni-a'-tsits, to spill, scatter, throw broadcast. 
 
 i-hi'-i-yu-ha, to spill over anything, 
 spit, o-si-a'-nits and o-si-a'-nots, to spit, 
 spirit, ma'-hi-o-o-liap'-si-vast, bad spirit, 
 split, i-6li'-o, to split, as wood, 
 i-oli'-o-nov', they split, 
 na-oli'-o, I split, 
 ni-oli'-o, thou dost split, 
 ka-mali'-i-i-oh'-i-wo, to split wood, 
 e'-o-kali, to split with a knife. 
 6li'-i-yu-stats, to split by shaving, 
 spoon, a-mi'-ku-a-mik', a horn spoon, made from the 
 
 horn of the mountain sheep. 
 spread, o'-i-yatst, to spread out anything to dry. 
 i-tsi'-o-i-ta, to spread the knees apart, 
 o-no'-ko-nanst, to make or spread down a bed 
 
 for one. 
 spring, wo-tainst', a spring or well. 
 
 o-a-me'-wa, a bubbling spring. 
 
 o-a-mest', pi. 
 
 i-ai'-no, to have spring come to any one. 
 
 e-shi-ili'-o-o, coming up, springing up, as grass. 
 
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 sprinkle, ma-pi-i'-ni-ats, to sprinkle, as with water, 
 staff, is-tOTi'-to, a staff used iu walking. 
 
 i-holi'-to-yots, to use a staff in walking, 
 stand, ili-a-rua'-yo, he stands bent forward. 
 
 nali-a-ma'-yo, I stand bent forward. 
 
 nili-a-ma'-yo, you stand bent forward. 
 
 ili-a-ma'-yo-i-sto, they stand bent forward. 
 
 i-ni-ho'-wi-o, to stand up, to stiffen up, as the hair. 
 
 e'-yu-ha, to stand up, rise up, to stand still. 
 
 e-ha-tos'-tsi-a, to stand up, as the hair on the 
 front portion of the head. 
 
 e'-po-po-ot, standing apart, separate, as blades 
 
 of grass. 
 stars, o-tolik'. 
 
 o-toh'-i-o, pi. 
 
 moli'-uts, Little Dipper, seven stars. 
 
 si-a-me-yu', the Milky Way in the heavens, or 
 the road where the dead walk. 
 
 wo-wo'-i-wo, morning star. 
 start, na-no'-6ist, to start to come, to come, 
 steal, e'-no-mats, to steal ; also, dull '-i-no-rnats. 
 
 na'-no-mats, I steal. 
 
 ni'-no-uiats, thou stealest. 
 
 na'-no-ma'-tsim, we steal. 
 
 ni'-no-ma'-tsim, you steal. 
 
 e'-no-ma'-tsi-o, "> 
 
 [ they steal. 
 e'-no-ma -tsi-to, J 
 
 steam, e-i'-shi-o. 
 
 step, tau-nist', a step or pace. 
 
 tau-ni'-sto, pi. 
 
 stern, i-ta'-ko-win, to be stern or cross, 
 stick, c'-pa-o-i-ots, to stick, or make stick, as mud. 
 e-hi-ku'-ma-o, to mire, to stick in the mud. 
 i-sa'-ha-to, to stick to, as an opinion, continue to 
 
 assent. 
 
 lia'-nom, sticky, clammy, 
 na-po-pali'-o-i-na'-ots, sticking, like molasses. 
 stiff, c-hi'-ko-nos, to become stiff or hard, as a dead 
 
 body, or clothes, 
 i-na-tsi-o-na'-wos, to have the hands stiff or nunib 
 
 with cold. 
 
 stir, hi-yo'-yo, to stir up the earth, to plough. 
 stirrups, toli-pa-o'-o-nots. 
 
 toh-pa-o'-a-na-sit, stirrup-straps. 
 
 stomach, wi-no-ho'-ots, the stomach of animals. 
 
 e-woli-ta'-si-6m, the fat around the stomach, 
 e-to'-nish, the gizzard of fowls. 
 stone, o-i-sin', a stone for sharpening a knife, 
 o-a-na'-tson, small stones, gravel, 
 tsi-ma-ma'-o-ist, red stony hill, 
 tsi-moli -tau'-o-iuan, black stone that is used for 
 
 fuel, lignite and coal. 
 stoop, lia-ma-e'-yuts, to stoop down, 
 stop, ta-ha'-yu-hi'-tu-wi, to stop, to obstruct, to hinder 
 
 one. 
 
 i-si-va'-i-ni, to lay hold on, to stop one. 
 straighten, si'-pi-o-naut, to straighten out, as the arm 
 
 bent at the elbow. 
 
 strange, e-not'-siv, belonging to another tribe, 
 nots, a stranger, an enemy, 
 no'-tsi-o, (pi.) 
 
 strangle, e'-ko-ta-nu, to strangle with a rope, to hang, 
 e'-ko-tsi-a, to be hung, or strangled with a 
 
 cord. 
 stretch, e-si-pa', to stretch, yawn. 
 
 i-si'-ho-e-is'-to, to stretch out, as a hide with 
 
 pins. 
 
 strike, ta-si-in'-o-nu'-to-wa, to strike, to make stagger, 
 no-no-pots', to strike a stake or pin, so as to 
 
 loosen it. 
 
 e'-o-mo-no-e', to make cry by striking, 
 e'-i-ho-ni'-sto, to strike a ball with a club, 
 string, wu-ka-he'-wuts, a leather string, a thong, 
 strokes, e-ho'-e-wa, strokes or beats, as the ticking of 
 
 a watch or clock. 
 strong, i'-inali-i-ta-niv, a strong man in the prime of 
 
 life. 
 
 na'-rnali-i-ta-niv', I am strong, &c. 
 ni'-rnal'i-i-ta-niv', thou art strong, &c. 
 to stuff, e'-to-i-a, to stuff in, as hay in moccasins when 
 
 travelling in cold weather, 
 succession, i-no-o-wo'-ne-i-shin, in succession, Indian 
 
 file, 
 suck, e'-nin, to suck, as a child its mother. 
 
 ta'-mi-tsi-a-tsi'-ni-o, to give suck, as a nurse or 
 
 mother her child. 
 
 i-no-ol'i', to suck up, to make a noise with the 
 mouth in eating soup. 
 
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 ni-ta-nun'-he-po-she, to suck a teat. 
 ni'-shi-wai'-i-ni, a teat, 
 sugar, nish'-ki-mai'-i-rnap, so called from the color that 
 
 it gives to water, like soup, 
 summer, i-mi'-a-ni-o. 
 
 mi'-a-ni-a-si'-to, midsummer, 
 sun, i'-shi. 
 
 ta-e'-i-shi, night sun, moon, 
 i-shi-im'-i-e, after the sun is up. 
 i-shi'-tai-e, sun going to sleep, sun setting, west. 
 Sunday, i-shi'-ma-yu'-nu, medicine-day, Sunday. 
 
 i-shi'-i-ma-he-yu'-niv, a sacred day. 
 suppurating, i-o-mh'-u-no, suppurating, as a sore, 
 surfeited, na-in-liu'-i-nu, I am surfeited by eating ; to 
 
 be made sick by eating too much, 
 suspect, e-ni-ta'-wa, to suspect, to have an inkling of. 
 swamp, e-he-ko'-ma-o, when the surface of the coun 
 try is low, wet, or under wate r. 
 
 sweat, i-ho-pi'-ots, to sweat, to pant or give out, in 
 cluding the idea of sweating, 
 e'-uia-o, to take a sweat. 
 e'-ma-to, (pi.) 
 
 im-a'-am, a sweat-house, sweat bath, 
 e'-ha-nan, to sweat very profusely. 
 swell, e'-yu-ha, to swell, as from a wound, inflamma 
 tion. 
 
 e'-yu-ha (noun), a swelling, 
 i-o'-i-ta, a protuberance or swelling, as a bubo, 
 e-po'-a-hant, to swell, as corn soaked, 
 swift, i-ha-ta'-a-o, swift, fast, 
 swim, it-o-ham', to swim. 
 swing, i-wa'-wa-a, a swing for lulling a child to sleep. 
 
 T. 
 
 tadpoles, i-shi'-in-o-tot. 
 tall, o-otst'-tsi-sto-o, a tall tree or wood, 
 take, i-ha'-a-na-i-nots', to take up and feel the weight, 
 to weigh. 
 
 nish-ta-no'-i-otst, to take home with one. 
 
 no-wa' (imp.), take it. 
 
 ta-sta'-nots (imp.), take. 
 
 he'-tsit (imp.), take all. 
 
 hc-toh'-o-nuts-his-ta'-nuts (imp.), take those. 
 
 hc-to-he'-si-va-nuts (imp.), take these. 
 
 o-tai'-is-ta-nuts (imp.), do not take these, 
 talk, ma-ha-e-yi'-ists'sh, to talk roughly or loudly about 
 
 anything, 
 taste, i-ton'-shi-mi'-a-6ts, to have a taste or smell. 
 
 i-sa-ton'-shi-mi'-a-ots, not to possess taste or 
 
 smell, 
 tattooing, e-he'-wi-so, tattooing on the body, blue 
 
 stained, 
 tea, wili'-po-tots, all leaves, a great many leaves. 
 
 wili-po-tsi'-ho, the tea used as a drink, 
 tear, oh' '-a-6ts, to tear, as cloth or leather. 
 
 o-ni'-ni-lia'-nuts, to tear in pieces, to destroy, 
 tears, i-ha-ni-hi'-ho-to. 
 
 i-hai'-ni-oh'-i-no-wa'-i-to, the eyes full of tears, 
 i-mo-ma'-pi-i-ma'-tsin, to make the tears trickle 
 
 down. 
 tie, i-to-is6', to tie anything on to something else. 
 
 o-pu'-i-si-vist, to tie up and make into bundles and 
 
 packs, 
 tired, i-ha-ni'-wa-wo-ish, to be tired or weary, as in 
 
 walking. 
 
 that, nis-i-wo', that one ; even that, 
 thaw, ma'-o-me-i-ma'-tot, to thaw, as ice or snow, 
 them, en'-shi-no-ka, only them, 
 there, he'-to. 
 
 thick, i-ha'-o-not, to be thick, as a skin or board, 
 thief, shi-no-ma'-tsi-o-nivst, a thief, a stealer. 
 
 in-o-ma'-tsi-o, to steal, to be a thief, 
 think, i-ta'-o-wo, to think, to meditate. 
 
 i-hap-si'-vi-sta, to think very badly, to have a 
 
 bad heart, 
 ni-i-hap-si'-vi-sta, you think Tery badly, you 
 
 have a bad heart, 
 this, no'-tsi-to. 
 
 those, e-to'-is-ta-nuts, and e'-6i-sta-nist. 
 in-o-ka', those alone. 
 
 ta-to-nis'-to-whews, ) 
 
 \- all those, 
 no-nis -to-whews, ) 
 
 thread, ho'-ta-nun. 
 
 throat, he-o-tsik'. 
 
 through, so'-i-yatst, through all, through the middle. 
 
 throw, i-wo'-ho-o-ist, to throw away. 
 
 ho-no-i-wo'-ho-o-ist, to throw anything down. 
 
 no-mal'i' -i-mi, to throw over one, as a blanket. 
 
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 o'-o-mi, to throw at, to pelt with stones. 
 ta'-o-mi, a great many throw at one person. 
 thrust, e'-hi-ku-a, to thrust into with a knife. 
 thumb, na-ma-a-im'-o-ik. 
 thunder, no-no'-ma. 
 tobacco, tsin-im'-o. 
 
 tsin-im'-on, (pi.) 
 na-tsi'-ni-mo, my tobacco. 
 ni-tsi'-ni-mo, your tobacco. 
 peli'-o-wa-tots, a cutting-board for tobacco. 
 peli-o-wa'-to-tots, (pi.) 
 tongue, e-wi'-ta-nu. 
 
 e-wi-ta-nu'-wi-wots, (pi.) 
 na-wi'-ta-nu, my tongue. 
 ni-wi'-ta-nu, thy tongue. 
 mi-hi-wi'-ta-nu, a buffalo cow's tongue. 
 wo-sta'-ni-wi'-ta-na, the tongue of a man. 
 tongs, ali-pa-ni'-o, tongs, pincers. 
 tooth, e-wi'-e-suts. 
 
 e-wi'-e-si-wuts, (pi.) 
 
 na-wi'-e-suts, my tooth. 
 
 ni-wi'-e-suts, thy tooth. 
 
 e-yo'-tots, to untie with the teeth. 
 
 ih'-o-not, to peel off with the teeth, as the rind 
 
 of a turnip. 
 
 i-pa-wi-6lit', to peel or shell off with the teeth. 
 i-ko'-no-mo, to crack with the teeth. 
 i'-ni-sta-ni-wa-wot', to clatter with the teeth or 
 
 gnash. 
 
 touch, mo-mali'-a-ni, to touch, to lay the hand on. 
 towards, i-ta-si'-o, also e-wi-noli'. 
 track, si-a-uiots', a track, footprint, trail. 
 trade, e-oh'-to, to trade or barter. 
 na-6li'-to, I trade. 
 ni-6li'-to, thou dost trade. 
 e-oh'-to-wa'-o, 
 e-on -to-wa -to, 
 na-oli'-to-wam, we trade. 
 ni-oli'-to-wam, you trade. 
 travel, tam-wo-wo'-ist, to travel ahead. 
 
 i'-a-me-his'-to, to travel backwards and for 
 
 wards. 
 
 ho-i-na-pi'-ni-i-hot, I travel on good land. 
 e-ni-o-who', to travel in the water. 
 
 they trade. 
 
 tread, tsi-i'-o-wi, to tread on, to pinch with the toes. 
 ili-a-wo'-i-yu-ha, to tread or mash down the 
 
 grass with the foot. 
 tree, mili-ni-min-ust', hackberry tree, so called because 
 
 the animals crush the berries, 
 hi-sta', limbs or branches of a tree, 
 trinkets, e-nu-wa'-sin, small articles, trinkets. 
 trot, i-o-ni'-kai-yots, to trot, as a horse. 
 troubled, ma-pe'-i-ha, to be rough or troubled, as the 
 
 waves of the sea. 
 
 trust, i-ni'-sta-sta-nin, to trust in trade, to give credit, 
 turn, e-o-si'-nots, to turn over, as the leaves of a book. 
 
 tau'-i-sta-hats, to turn out of doors. 
 turtle, ma' -in. 
 
 ma-i-non', pi. 
 
 twice, i-o-ni-so-wali'-si-o, twice, in two ways, 
 twins, hi-sta' -ki, his twins. 
 
 na-hi-sta'-ki, my twins, 
 ni-hi-sta'-ki, thy twins. 
 ni-hi-sta'-ki-wo-in, your twins, 
 a-po-na-hi-sta'-ki-ni-wo'-in, I myself have twins. 
 twist, e-o-ni'-mo-tau'-in, to twist or wring a skin in 
 
 dressing it. 
 
 na-o-ni'-rno-tau'-in, I twist, &c. 
 ni-o-ni'-mo-tau'-in, thou dost twist, &c. 
 e-o-ni'-mo-tau'-i-ni-sto, they twist, &c. 
 o-ni'-mo-ta-o-i'-nuts, to turn or twist around 
 
 with the mouth. 
 
 e'-wi-ol'it, to twist anything with the mouth, 
 twitch, e'-hi-sak, to twitch or jerk involuntarily, as 
 the flesh of animals- 
 
 U. 
 
 uncovered, i-no-ma'-ha-mi, to be uncovered. 
 
 i-no-ma'-ha-mo, (pi.) 
 under, ah-to'-no. 
 undertake, sho-me'-a-to-ais-e'-ma-ist, to be willing to 
 
 do anything, to undertake anything, 
 unload, e-ho'-ma-nu, to unload, to unharness, 
 untie, o-ni'-ha-c-niits, to loose, untie, unharness, re 
 lease from confinement. 
 i'-o-ni'-ha-i-6ts, to come untied of itself, 
 urinate, ili'-a-a, to urinate. 
 
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 V. 
 
 value, im'-i-hot, to value very highly, to be very hard 
 
 with anything. 
 vermilion, ma-i-tom'. 
 
 ma-i-to'-tnon, (pi.) 
 very, c-sos', (last syllable quite emphatic.) 
 
 W. 
 
 wade, i-huh'-o-wo, to wade, as in the water, 
 walk, i-ho'-yot, to walk or follow after. 
 
 in-shi'-wi-ots, to walk rapidly, 
 wandering, e'-wo-nish. 
 
 e-wo-ni'-shi-na-o, (pi.) 
 
 war, i-wi'-o-di'-sto, to make war, to lead a war party. 
 warm, na.n-sho', hot, very warm. 
 
 nan-sho'-i-o, (pi.) 
 
 in-so'-o-mit, lukewarm, tepid as water, 
 ward, ho-lia', to ward off danger, to defend, 
 warp, im-o-mi-ka'-nant, to warp, 
 wash, in'-shi-shi-un, he washes, or to wash, as the 
 hands. 
 
 nan'-shi-shi-un, I wash, &c. 
 
 nin'-shi-shi-un, thou, &c. 
 
 nan'-shi-shi'-o-nam, we, &c. 
 
 nin'-shi-shi'-o-nam, you, &e. 
 
 in'-shi-shi'-o-na'-o, they, &c. ' 
 
 i-o'-hc, to wash, as clothes. 
 
 na-i-o'-he, I, &c. 
 
 ni-i-o'-he, thou, &c. 
 
 na-ho-nin', we, &c. 
 
 ni-ho-nin', you, &c. 
 
 i-ho-ni'-ni-sto, ") 
 
 > they, &c. 
 i-o-his'-to, J 
 
 water, ma' -pi. 
 
 ma-pists', (pi.) 
 
 ma-pi'-shi-wit, swift-running water. 
 
 ma-pi-moh'-skin, water mint. Mentha Cana- 
 
 dcnsis. 
 
 ma-pi-i-wo'-ho-ni-o, water, raised into waves, 
 i-ha'-o-tum, deep water, 
 i-do'-ki-tum, shallow water, 
 woli -po'-ma-dts, salt, sweet-water, 
 im'-a-ni-tun, to desire water, 
 in'-a-o, to fall on in drops, like water, to trickle. 
 
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 watch, ta-wi'-a-o-mi, to watch for, to look out for one's 
 
 coming. 
 
 wave, c'-is-t5n, to wave the hand, 
 wear, e-oli'-i-ni-a, to wear, as a crown or fillet around 
 
 the head, 
 i'-o-ta-o, to wear a hole in the moccasins by 
 
 walking, 
 wearied, e-ka'-ni-ots, wearied, exhausted, tired and 
 
 sleepy. 
 weasel, lia'-a, white weasel. 
 
 lia'-i-yo, (pi.) 
 weave, rno-c'i-im'-a-ha-o, to weave, as snow-shoes or a 
 
 blanket. 
 
 web, wi'-ko-no'-no-no, spider's web. 
 well, i-no-moli'-ta (imp. sing.), bo thou well, 
 i-no-moli'-tai-yo (imp. pi.), be ye well, 
 shi'-pau-a, well, done well, 
 what? he'-nu-wa-it. 
 
 hi'-no-wa, what ? what is it ? 
 when? to'-nish. 
 
 to-nish-niv'-hiv, when was it? when did it 
 
 occur ? 
 
 i-to'-ni-is, when, at what time ? 
 im-a-i-to'-ni-is, at what times ? 
 to-as', when, when is it ? 
 where ? to-nish-ni'-ta-in, where is it ? 
 whet, i-i'-ha-sin', to whet a knife, 
 which, tas. 
 
 while, i-si-ha'-i-shi-wi'-ha-tsi, for a little while, 
 whip, o-ha-me'-wo-oli. 
 
 o-ha-me'-wo-6hst, pi. 
 
 nish-ka'-ha-me'-wo-oli, a large whip, the handle 
 
 of which is made like a saw. 
 whiskey, wi'-hu-ma'-pi, the Frenchman's water, 
 whisper, ni-ni'-a-tsi-o, to whisper, 
 white, e-wo'-kom ; also, si-wo-kom'. 
 
 e-wo'-ko-mo-nist, pi. si-wo'-ko-mo'-ist. 
 whistle, e'-ish, to whistle, to call by whistling, as a dog. 
 na'-ish, I whistle, 
 ni'-ish, thou dost whistle, 
 i-i'-shi-o, they whistle, 
 e'-i-shi-non, to whistle a tune, 
 i-ni-sto'-ni-wa', the whistling or whizzing sound 
 of a bullet. 
 
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 wi-ho'-i-ma-i'-ni-sto'-ni-wa, to whizz or whistle, 
 as a bullet through the air. 
 
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 who, ni-wa'-as. 
 
 ni-wa'-si-o, pi. 
 widow, 6t-lia-e', a widow. 
 
 6t-lia-e'-i-o, pi. 
 
 wife, is-tsi'-im, wife, his wife, 
 na-tsi-im', my wife, 
 ni-tsi-im', thy wife, 
 ni-na'-tsi-im', there is my wife, 
 ta-ma'-ni-tsi-im', that is your wife, 
 e-is'-tsi-im, to have a wife, to be married. 
 e-wi'-6nst, to have more than one wife. 
 wind, a-ha', wind, windy. 
 
 a-ha'-ish, a windy day. 
 i-sa-ha'-a-han, no wind, 
 ma-ta'-in-is-to'-ni-wa'-o, the wind whistles, 
 e-wo'-wi-tas', whirlwind, 
 e'-hi-kot, calm, still, no wind, 
 window, i-ko-ots', window, port-hole, or any place to 
 
 look out. 
 
 winter, e-yai'-nu, to come winter to one. 
 wipe, na'-nots, to wipe or cleanse, as dishes. 
 withered, e'-he-konst, withered, dead, dried up, as 
 
 leaves, 
 wili'-po-to-tse'-a-na, to wilt, or wither, as 
 
 leaves. 
 
 i-ma-he'-hi-no-it, withered, palsied, numb, 
 within, ho-to-ma', within an inclosure. 
 without, a-no-sim', out of doors. 
 woman, hi. 
 
 hi'-i-o, pi. 
 
 ksi-e', a young unmarried woman. 
 
 ksi-e'-i-he, pi. 
 
 wi-o-ai'-wo-i-stots, white woman's dress, long 
 
 gown. 
 
 ma-tuin-a', old woman. 
 
 womb, is-ta-po'-a-not, womb, for a child, or animal. 
 wood, ka-mali'. 
 
 ka-mali'-i-ots, pi. 
 na-ka-mali', my wood, 
 ni-ka-niah', thy wood, 
 na-ka-mah'-i-ham, our wood. 
 
 ni-ka-mali'-i-ham, your wood, 
 ka-mah'-i-ha'-is, long wood, 
 e-a'-ma-ta-wi'-sta, wood of all kinds in the sa 
 cred language. 
 
 nm-ta'-a, a great deal of wood, a forest or grove. 
 work, i-ho'-tsi-ma-nist, to work at a difficult thing. 
 
 i-hi'-ko-na, to work hard or industriously at 
 
 anything. 
 
 worms, i-nuli'-niv, intestinal worms. 
 worthless, ni-wa-ni'-sta-tu, to be worthless, vile ; a 
 
 term of great reproach. 
 
 wound, is-a'-a-na, wounded, a wounded person, 
 wi-na'-a-mi, to wound without killing, 
 i'-to-si-i-na'-o, to recover from a wound, 
 wrap, e'-to-is6, to wrap up anything. 
 
 o'-he-i-shi, to wrap up, as a babe in a blanket. 
 e-6h'-po-o, wrapped up or around, for safe 
 keeping, 
 wrestle, e'-wa-so, to wrestle, or play like two persons 
 
 wrestling. 
 wrinkled, e-o'-si-6ts, wrinkled, not smooth, pitted. 
 
 e-he'-hi-no-it, to be wrinkled or shrivelled. 
 wrist, sin-ili-o'-wi-ats. 
 
 write, moh'-i-ots, to write, paint, sketch, figure, 
 moh-is-to', a book or writing, 
 moli-is-to'-o-nots, pi. 
 rnoh -is-to'-nis-tuts, a writing pen. 
 
 Y. 
 
 yard, i-tai'-i-wun, a measure of a yard used by the 
 
 traders. 
 yell, ta-no'-a-nost, to yell, to shout as the young men 
 
 do. 
 yellow, e'-i-yoli. 
 
 e'-i-yo'-wo-nist, pi. 
 i-ho'-wo-ni, to paint oneself yellow, 
 yes, he'-hin. 
 
 na'-he-hin, same as Dakota, cin'-to. 
 
 he'-i-he, certainly, yes, rather emphatic. 
 
 ni'-hi-tom, it is good, yes. 
 
 na-hi'-na, yes, Dakota, to, tosh, 
 young, he na-kis', young of ducks and geese. 
 
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 ABAFOHO GROUP, B. 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 IV. ARAPOHOS. 
 
 ETHNOGRAPHICAL HISTORY AND REMARKS ON THE GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURE OP THEIR LANGUAGE. 
 
 THE past history of the Arapohos is as little known as that of their relatives, the At- 
 sinas. The former regard themselves as constituting the parent stock, and believe that 
 the latter separated from them. We will now attempt to trace their previous history, as 
 far as it is contained in any of our written records. 
 
 I have searched all the works within my reach, and I cannot ascertain with certainty 
 their track of migration. Gallatin speaks of them as a detached tribe from the Rapid 
 Indians, which has wandered as far south as the Platte and the Arkansas, and formed a 
 temporary union with the Kaskaias and some other erratic tribes. At the present time 
 the Arapohos are divided into two portions or bands. The first portion call themselves 
 na-ka-si'-nin, " People of the Sage," and number one hundred and eighty lodges. They 
 wander about the sources of the South Platte and the region of Pike's Peak, also north 
 ward to the Red Buttes on the North Platte. Sometimes they extend their journeyings 
 in search of buffalo along the foot of the Big-horn Mountains in the Crow country. They 
 spent a large portion of the winter of 1859 and '60 on the branches of Powder River, near 
 the base of the Big-horn Mountains. The second band call themselves na-wuth'-i-ni-han, 
 the meaning of which is obscure. It implies a mixture of different kinds of people of 
 different bands. They number two hundred lodges, and range along the Arkansas River 
 and its tributaries. 
 
 From the fact that Pike in his journals speaks of the Atsinas as the " Minnetarees of the 
 Yellowstone," and does not allude to the Arapohos, we may infer that they did not occupy 
 their present district at the time of his explorations in the Arkansas country. There may 
 be, therefore, some ground for the belief that the Arapohos and Atsinas were at one time 
 all united, and resided together in the region of the ' Saskatchewan. This point requires 
 still farther investigation. It would seem from " Long's Expedition to the Rocky Moun 
 tains," that the Arapohos occupied nearly their present district in 1819 and '20. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Morse thus speaks of these Indians in 1820 : "Their number is estimated at 
 10,000. . Their country extends from the headwaters of the Kansas, south to the Rio del 
 Norte. They are a warlike people, and often making predatory and murderous excursions 
 on their eastern and northern neighbors." Since that time very little notice seems to have 
 been taken of them. 
 
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 During the winter of 1859 and '60, the author, attached to the United States Exploring 
 Expedition, under the command of Capt. William F. Raynolds, T. E., remained several 
 months at the Indian Agency in the valley of Deer Creek, about one hundred miles north 
 west of Fort Laramie. The Arapohos visited the Agency on their return from the Crow 
 country, for the purpose of receiving a portion of their annuities still due them, and spent 
 some days in that vicinity. Among them was an intelligent Indian, called hy the white 
 traders Friday, who had been taken from his people when a small boy, and brought up at 
 one of the trading-posts, where he learned to speak the English language with fluency. 
 When he became a man he returned to his tribe, adopting their habits and costume, and 
 is now the most influential personage among them, acting as a medium between the 
 Arapohos and the whites. From him I obtained the vocabulary given in this work, and 
 all the information I possess of their present condition. A brief account of the early his 
 tory of this man, as given by himself, cannot be devoid of interest or out of place. He 
 says, that at the time of the separation of the Atsinas from the Arapohos, they were all 
 encamped together on the Cimarron. The Mexicans usually came up from the south to 
 trade with them. At this time thirty of the Mexicans came, and the chief of the Atsina 
 band wished them all to remain at his camp. The chief of the Arapoho band said, " Let 
 half of the traders go to one camp and half to the other." A contest of words grew out 
 of this, and finally the Atsina chief stabbed the Arapoho chief, and killed him. The 
 brothers and sons of the murdered man immediately killed the first chief, and a battle 
 commenced, but the difficulty was settled before a great number were slain. The two 
 bands then agreed to separate, one portion ranging along the South Platte and Arkansas 
 Rivers, the other passed through the North Park to Bridger's Pass, thence along the 
 mountains to the Three Tetons. There they fell in with the mountain trappers, with 
 whom they had a contest, and were driven toward the Yellowstone, where they were again 
 attacked by the Crows, a large number killed, and many taken prisoners. The remainder 
 escaped to the Blackfeet. It will be seen that the above account harmonizes very nearly 
 with that given by the Atsinas. 
 
 It was at the time of the separation of the two tribes or bands, that Friday, with several 
 lads, became separated from their people, and lost their way. They had been wandering 
 about for three days, when a Mr. Fitzpatrick, an old mountaineer, and for some years a 
 United States Agent for the Arapohos, as he was taking a train of wagons across the country 
 saw Friday, and thinking him to be an enemy, raised his gun to shoot him. The boy at 
 once rose up, and Mr. Fitzpatrick saw that he was but a child, and took him to his own 
 house. He gave him the name of Friday because he found him on that day of the week. 
 
 Friday relates a tradition in regard to the origin of the Red races. The Great Spirit 
 made the Indians all one nation in the beginning. At first He made a woman, then a 
 
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 man. At the beginning the world was covered with water, and then a large mountain 
 was made, on the summit of which the Great Spirit placed the man and the woman. 
 The water continued to rise up toward the top of the mountain, until they were in danger 
 of being drowned, when the woman said to the man, " Let us shut our eyes, and when 
 we open them again there will be no water." They closed their eyes for a large part of 
 a day, and then the woman opened hers, and saw no water ; she then said : " We are 
 safe : the water is passing away !" After this, a girl was born to the woman, then a boy. 
 At the proper age the boy and girl were married, and from them sprung the human race. 
 "When the Indians became so numerous that they could not live together, the Great Spirit 
 said they must separate. He also said that they should not speak the same language, and 
 so He gave them different tongues. At first He intended to make them white men, but 
 afterwards changed His mind, and made them red. He gave to the red men the game, 
 buffalo, deer, elk, &c., and showed them how to kill the game. He also gave them wood 
 for arrows, and showed them flint for arrow-points and knives. But He says : " I will 
 make a race of white men, who shall be a superior people, who will know everything." 
 The Great Spirit then turned Himself white, and said that the white people He should 
 make, would resemble Him. " I will give you sense enough to get along well in your 
 mode of life, but the superior nation shall be the whites." 
 
 When- the Arapohos had the cholera, they would take small pieces of rotten wood, and 
 thrust them into the flesh on the painful portion of the stomach, and then set fire to them, 
 and burn them into the wounds. Friday says that many of them recovered by this treat 
 ment. ' 
 
 They do not throw away a horse when the children's ears are bored, as the Dakotas do. 
 They cut off one or two joints of the little finger of the left hand in mourning, but do not 
 mutilate themselves after the manner of the Crows. 
 
 OBSERVATIONS ON THE GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURE OP THE ARAPOHO LANGUAGE. 
 
 1. Arapoho nouns have two numbers, singular and plural, but the terminations of the 
 plural are of varied forms; as (sing.) bet-6a', a leg; (pi.) bet-6a'-wa; (sing.) bet-a', heart; (pi.) 
 bet-a'-ha; (sing.) besh, a nose ; (pi.) be'-tha. 
 
 2. So far as is yet known the gender of nouns is indicated only by the use of different 
 words to denote the sexes, and the case of a noun is distinguished by its position in a 
 sentence. 
 
 3. The pronouns are divided into simple or independent, and inseparable or fragmentary. 
 
 4. The simple or independent pronouns are as follows : 
 
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 nen-an'-a, I. 
 nen-an'-iu, thou or you. 
 in'-it, he, she, or it. 
 na-ne-ni'-na, we or ours, 
 ne-na'-nin, you. 
 in-it'-a-na, they, 
 in'-a, this one, this, 
 in'-i, that. 
 
 in-i-na'-ni, those, 
 an-i-shin'-a, both, 
 a-na-a', who ? who is it ? 
 to-shi'-hi, how is it ? 
 ta-ti'-na, where is it ? 
 to-u'-hu, when ? 
 to'-is-a, what? 
 
 5. The inseparable or fragmentary pronouns are used in connection with nouns, ad 
 jectives, and verbs. 
 
 1st. In connection with nouns ; as, 
 
 wah'-a, a knife, 
 wah'-a-ha, knives, 
 na-wali'-a, my knife, 
 a-wali'-a, thy knife, 
 i-wah'-a, his knife, 
 na-wali'-a-hin'-a, our knives, 
 a-wali'-a-hin'-a, your knives, 
 in-a-wali'-a-hin'-a, their knives. 
 
 2d. Pronouns in connection with adjectives ; as, 
 
 i'-tha-ti, good. 
 
 i-tha-ti'-hi (intensive), pretty, 
 i-thi'-na, I am good, 
 i-thin', thou art good, 
 i-thit', he is good, 
 i-thi-hin'-a, we are good. 
 i-thi-hith'-in, you are good, 
 i-thi-hith'-i, they are good. 
 
 3d. Pronouns in connection with verbs ; as, 
 
 ta-wi-thi'-na, to eat. 
 a-tun'-wun-bi-thi'-na, I eat. 
 wun-bi-thi'-hi, you eat. 
 a-ta-wun'-bi-thit, he cats. 
 a-tun'-bi-thi-hin'-a, we cat. 
 wun-bi'-thi-a-nii'-it, you eat, all cat. 
 a-ta-bi'-thi-hith'-i, they eat. 
 
 na-sa'-wi-thi'-na, I am going to cat, or I will eat. 
 a-tun'-bi-thi'-na-a, we are going to eat. 
 
 ka-ko'-i, a gun. 
 na-ka-ko'-i, my gun. 
 a-ka-ko'-i, thy gun. 
 i-ka-ko'-i, his gun. 
 na-ka'-ko-yun'-a, our guns, 
 a-ka'-ko-yun'-a, your guns, 
 i-ka'-ko-yun'-a, their guns. 
 
 at-i-hi'-thi-na, it is pretty; looks well, 
 at-i-hi'-ni-e'-na, he looks gay or pretty, 
 nali-c-e'-i-thit, I expect he is good, 
 nali-e-e-i'-thin-a, I will be good, 
 wa'-sa, bad. 
 wali'-in, I am bad. 
 wal'i'-it, you are bad. 
 
 a-tun'-bi-thi'-hith-i, they are going to eat. 
 
 i-si'-wi-thi'-na, I have eaten, or I have done eating. 
 wa-wa-nis'-wi-thit, he is done eating, 
 wa-wa-nis'-wi-thi-hin'-a, we are done eating, 
 i-ni-shi-wi-thi-hin'-a, you arc done eating, 
 ni-shi-wi'-thi-hith-i, they are done eating. 
 
 bi-thi'-hi (imp.), eat. 
 a-nu'-it-bi-thi'-hi, all eat. 
 
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 6. The following miscellaneous phrases may be of service in illustrating the grammatical 
 
 character of the language. 
 
 un-a-hu', warm yourself, you are cold, 
 a-tun'-ci-ni-bi'-thin, it is going to stop snowing, 
 na-ka'-ye-na, I am dry or thirsty. 
 6i-na-ka'-nic, get some water. 
 6i-na'-ko-he', get a bucket of water. 
 ni-he-6a-hi'-se, come here, woman, 
 ba-ya-ce'-ta, come straight here, 
 ni-to-win'-a, call to them. 
 6i-tan-a'-is-ta, get some fire, 
 a-tun'-a-nuli'-ti, we are going to run a race, 
 de-na'-hat-e, he killed himself. 
 ku-i-na-ha'-wa-wuli-u-Tia'-lia-bi, did you see the 
 
 horses ? 
 kat-nath'-ab-i-sa, are you going ? 
 
 7. The Arapoho numerals are as follows : 
 
 one, da-se'. 
 
 two, nis. 
 
 three, nais. 
 
 four, yen. 
 
 five, ya-thun'. 
 
 six, ni-ta-toh'. 
 
 seven, ni-sa-toR'. , 
 
 eight, nai-sa-tol'i'. 
 
 nine, thi-a-toli'. 
 
 ten, me-tai-tuli'. 
 
 eleven, 6a-se'-in. 
 
 twelve, ni'-sin. 
 
 thirteen, nai'-sin. 
 
 fourteen, ye'-nin. 
 
 fifteen, ya-thun'-in. 
 
 sixteen, ni-ta-toli'-in. 
 
 bi-ha'-tha, I am loved, 
 bi-ha'-thith-in, I love you. 
 bi-li a'-hin, you love me. . 
 
 ath-a'-bi-Tia-thin, he loves you. 
 bi-lia'-tha-tin-a, I love myself, 
 bi-ha'-ta-wa, I love, 
 bi-lia'-than-tus'-i-a, I love my wife, 
 bi-lia'-than-e'-ha, I love my child, 
 bi-lia'-that-i'-ha, he loves his children, 
 bi-l'ia'-that, he loves any object, 
 na-tun'-i-ni-a-ta'-nan-a, I have sold my horse, 
 i-tha-i'-tan-u, at the village, 
 i-tha-bab-i'-ta-wu, in the ground, 
 ta-shi-bi'-ta-wu, on the ground. 
 
 seventeen, ni-sa-toli'-in. 
 
 eighteen, na-sa-toli'-in. 
 
 nineteen, thi-a-toh'-in. 
 
 twenty, ni-sa'. 
 
 twenty-one, ni-sa-cV-sa. 
 
 twenty-two, ni-sa'-ni-sin. 
 
 thirty, nai'-sa. 
 
 forty, ye'-ya. 
 
 fifty, ya-tha'-ya. 
 
 sixty, ni-ta'-to-so. 
 
 seventy, ni-sa'-to-so. 
 
 eighty, nai-sa'-to-so. 
 
 ninety, thi-a-to'-so. 
 
 one hundred, me-ta'-to-so. 
 
 one thousand, mai-si'-me-ta'-to-so. 
 
 8. NAMES OF DANCES, ETC. 
 
 A'-tha-wi, Dog Dance. This is not a common dance, but when a man has a relative sick, 
 and fears his death, he promises to make a feast and a dance if the sick person, recovers. 
 Only the young men join in this dance. They are marked with the sign of the dog. 
 Among the Indians, a feast always accompanies a dance. 
 
 Ni-na-tal\'-wan, War Dance. All the braves join in this dance. The Arapohos dance and 
 sing less than any Indians I have yet seen. 
 
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 Ben-a-ti'-sin, Buffalo Woman Dance (ben'-a, a buffalo, and is'-in, a woman). Only the wo 
 men join in this dance. They have a peculiar costume or dress, the head-dress of which 
 is a buffalo's head. 
 
 ca'-ha-wi', Little Dog's Dance. The men form a circle, and the women dance in the ring. 
 
 Bi-tai'-hi-nin, People that scrape robes (hi-tai'-hi, an instrument for scraping robes). Only 
 the men join ia this dance. 
 
 A-tha-hu'-ha, Foolish Dog's Dance. This dance is performed by a band of young men, 
 about the same age, called the Foolish Dogs. 
 
 A-ha'-kai-nin, Foolish People, is a band of young men, about the same age. At one time 
 they numbered fifty persons, but the small-pox reduced them to about thirty. They have 
 a dance peculiar to themselves. 
 
 9. 
 
 NAMES OF INDIAN TRIBES, IIIVE11S, ETC. 
 
 nat-e-ne'-hin-a, Dakotas, people that cut their enemies 
 
 heads off, cut throats. 
 
 a-i-nun', Crow people, Crows; a-i-na', a Crow, Corvus. 
 ka-wi'-na-han, Blackfeet, black people, 
 it-us-shi'-na, Shyennes, the scarred people, from their 
 
 having so many scars on their arms and breasts, 
 wa-tan'-a-hith-i, black people (ith'-i, people, wa-ta'-ya, 
 
 black), 
 ni-ci'-he-nen-a, water men or people, Kiowas (ni-cT-a, 
 
 water, nen'-a, a man. 
 ca'-tha, Comanches. The Arapohos formerly called 
 
 them the Snake people, but they now call them 
 
 a name derived from the fact that they have 
 
 plenty of horses, 
 e-wu-lia'-wu-si, Snakes ; Sho'-sho-ni, people that use 
 
 grass and bark for their lodges or huts, 
 ah-i'-hi-nin, Wolf people, Pawnees ; ali-i', a wolf, 
 ka'-nan-in, people whose jaws break in pieces, Arickaras. 
 ka-ka'-i-thi, Flathead people, 
 thah-a-i-nin', Apaches, people who play on bone in 
 
 cut in one of the bones, the other is rubbed con 
 tinually backwards and forwards over it. 
 
 to-i-nin'-a, people that beg, Gros Venires of the prairie, 
 Atsinas. 
 
 wa-nuk'-e-ye'-na, Minnetarees, lodges planted together. 
 
 be-in-i-6i'-a, Shell River, pearl shells used in trade, 
 Platte. 
 
 bas-ni-ci'-a, Large River, Yellowstone. 
 
 a-hai'-ni-ni-6i'-a, Flint River, Arkansas. 
 
 ni-nun'-i-ni-ci'-a, Fat River, South Platte. 
 
 a-a-Tia'-i-te, " River with a lone house on it," Cache la 
 Poudre. 
 
 i-shit'-cun-ni-ci'-a, Deer Creek, Antelope Creek. 
 
 lia-liu'-i-sin-i-6i'-a, Box-elder Creek. 
 
 i-nali'-in-i-6i'-a, " River with many crossings," Sweet- 
 water. 
 
 thah-a'-ih-ut-un'-i, Hammer Mountains, Medicine Bow 
 Mountains. 
 
 o-i-nin-i-ni'-ni-a'-ha, Crow Mountains, Big-horn Moun 
 tains. 
 
 struraents. Buffalo ribs are used ; notches being ce-than'-i-ci-a (ce'-tha, powder), Powder River. 
 
 10. 
 
 na-kah', a^white bear. 
 
 wa-tai'-nali, a black bear. 
 
 wali '-a, a badger. 
 
 is-i'-6a, an antelope. 
 
 bi'-hi, a deer. 
 
 a-ta', a big-horn, mountain sheep. 
 
 NAMES OF ANIMALS, PLANTS, ETC. 
 ali'-i, 
 
 a-wa'-ta-tas, 
 
 ka-a', 
 
 ka-a-wo'-u, 
 
 ai-wa-ta'-ka, large hare. Lepus campestris, 
 
 na-wa-ta'-ka, small rabbit. Lepus artemisia. 
 
 y large wolf. 
 '> ' 
 
 prairie or medicine wolf. 
 
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 a-bas', a beaver. 
 
 i'-ha-l'ia, a rnuskrat. 
 
 si'-a, a weasel. 
 
 ba-liu', a large fox. Vulpes macrourus. 
 
 no'-a-ha, kit fox. Vulpes velox. 
 
 bah-un-i', large squirrel, ground hog. Arctomys flavi- 
 
 venter. 
 lio-hoi'-yun-i, spotted-backed squirrel. Spermophilus 
 
 tridecem lineatus. 
 
 na-ii', striped squirrel. Tamias quadrivitlatus. 
 <Sa-thun'-i, prairie dog. Cynomys ludovicianus. 
 ca-thun'-i-si-a, ground weasel. G. Gunnisoni. 
 
 I spotted-backed polecat, 
 na-ku'-lia, ) 
 
 o'-hu, porcupine. 
 
 yeh, otter. 
 
 ba-lia-ku', "large rat." Neotoma cinerea. 
 
 ka-ka'-sa-ni, " scar bird," so called from the spots on 
 
 the head, which look like scars. Charadrius 
 
 montana. 
 sus-ku'-it-o, a ground sparrow, a bird that frequents 
 
 the edge of a stream or bank, 
 tuth'-e-i-the'-ka-na, "a bird that the heron carries on 
 
 its back ;" from tuth'-e, a heron, and i-the'-ka-na, 
 
 to carry on the back, 
 a-wuth'-na-ku'-we-e, white-nosed duck. Mergus Ame- 
 
 ricanus. 
 ba-bi-thin'-a-he, " little red-winged bird." Leucosticte 
 
 tephrocotis, 
 
 bas-nak-than', a bush growing near Fort Bridger, and 
 used by the Arapohos as kinnic-kinnic. 
 
 ni-ha-na'-i-na, "yellow flower." Ranunculus ylaber- 
 rimus. 
 
 6a-nat'-an-a-i'-na, " blue flower," blue bell. Mertensia 
 Virginica. 
 
 ca-e'-i-hi, " wild potatoes." Dicentra. 
 
 i-tuli -ii'-u, " sharp leaves ;" a small species of Phlox. 
 
 i.-6un'-i, pomme blanche. Psoralea esculenta. 
 
 ka-i-ya'-i-no, " yellow flowers, with gum on them." 
 Grindelia squarrosa. 
 
 sath-i'-win, " little pine berries," a species of trailing 
 Juniperus. 
 
 bis-<5i'-hin, a species of Eriogonum, growing on the 
 gravelly hills ; word derived from bi, a cow, and 
 di'-hin, smoke, buffalo smoke, a weed used for 
 smoking meat. 
 
 ni-cV-6ut-e, a chenopodiaeeous shrub, salty weed or 
 shrub. 
 
 ni-da'-in-a, a plant growing on rocks in the mountains. 
 
 thi-kun-bi'-tun, a kind of moss, " dead man's porcupine 
 work." 
 
 bi-te-ba'-yak, a kind of ground lichen. 
 
 cl-wan-i'-na-ka'-si, " half sage." Artemisia Canadense. 
 
 si-si'-yi-wish, "snake-bush." Sarcolalus vermicularis. 
 Word derived from si-si'-ye, a snake, and bish, a 
 bush. 
 
 woli-u-lia'-bi-thi-it, "bush that horses eat." Oliione 
 canescens. 
 
 ba-ce-wi'-she, red willow. Cornus sericea. 
 
 it-a-he'-win-a, " hot berries." ArctoslapJiylos uva-ursi. 
 The leaves of this shrub form the real kinnic-kinnic 
 of the Western Indians, which they mix with their 
 tobacco in preference to the leaves or bark of any 
 other plant. The bark of Cornus sericea is used as 
 a substitute only in the absence of the A. uva-ursi. 
 
 sath, common pine. Pinus ponderosa. 
 tha-ki'-sath, spruce pine. Abies Douglassi. 
 a-hat', sweet cottonwood. Populus. 
 a-ha'-tin-wi'-tin, bitter cottonwood. Populus. 
 bi-tin'-a, quaking asp. Populus. 
 lia-hu'-is, box elder, "the hollow wood." Negundo 
 aceroides. 
 
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 CHAPTER X. 
 
 VOCABULARY OF THE AKAPOIIO LANGUAGE. 
 
 A. 
 
 above, nan-ah-u'-it-e, above, up the river. 
 
 afraid, i-ni'-ah-a, to be afraid. 
 
 afterwards, tali-u'-ii. 
 
 again, ci'-a, again, once more. 
 
 ago, wa-ni'-hi, not long ago. 
 
 agreeable, ya-ni-sat', pleasant, agreeable. 
 
 ahead, a-tha'-i-nin'-a, before, ahead. 
 
 alive, i-nin-ek'-ti-na, to be alive. 
 
 all, a-nu'-it, all, the whole. 
 
 always, c-nai'-yi-wu'-hu, always, forever. 
 
 angry, a-na-wilit', to be angry. 
 
 another, a-na-thilit', different, another. 
 
 antelope, is-i'-ca. 
 
 apples, ka-hu'-win-a, red thorn apples. 
 
 arm, in-ush', his arm. 
 
 nen-ush', my arm. 
 
 un-ush', thy arm. 
 
 be-nuli'-a, the whole arm. 
 
 bath'-a-in'-a, the armpit, 
 around, ka'-i-naj around the lodge. 
 arrow, ath. 
 
 ath-i' (pi.), arrows, 
 ne-nic', my arrow. 
 e-ni6', thy arrow, 
 in-ic', his arrow. 
 ashamed, a-tut-ilit', modest, ashamed. 
 
 a-ti-ti'-na, to be ashamed, bashful, 
 ashes, <5e'-tha, ashes, the same name as powder, 
 asp, bi-tin'-a, quaking asp. 
 
 assemblage, a-e'-sa, a council, an assemblage of chiefs, 
 assemble, 6i-wa'-a-nis'-a, to assemble together. 
 asunder, na-ye'-si-he, far apart, asunder, 
 autumn, ta-yu'-ni. 
 away, a-si'-sa, to go away. 
 axe, a-ha-nali ', an axe. 
 
 na-ta'-ha-nah', my axe. 
 
 a-ta'-ha-nali', thy axe. 
 
 it-a'-ha-nat', his axe. 
 
 <5i-lio'-a-na, hatchet, axe. 
 
 ka-lio'-i-te'-na-nah , a ground-axe, a hoe. 
 
 B. 
 
 back, na-ku'-lia, spotted back. 
 
 tut-a', back-bone of an animal, 
 i-thi-ka'-na, to carry on the back. 
 bad, wa'-sa. 
 badger, wali'-a. 
 bag, ca-a-tha', a bag or sack, 
 banks, a-hut-a'-na, banks of a stream, 
 bark, ben-a'-bat, to bark as a dog. 
 beads, ca-nat'-ai-yu. 
 bear, wali. 
 
 na-kali ', a white bear, 
 wa-tai'-nali, a black bear, 
 beard, bi-si-tin'-a-na. 
 beat, wat-e-ha'-ye, to beat on a drum. 
 
 ta-ta-win'-a, to beat, as to beat a person, 
 bottle, den-ith'-ca, a glass bottle, vial, 
 bottom, i-tha'-be, bottom upwards. 
 bow, bat'-a, a bow. 
 
 bat'-e (pi.)? bows, 
 na-bat'-a, my bow. 
 e-bat'-a, thy bow. 
 i-bat'-a, his bow. 
 bowels, wa-nut'. 
 
 box elder, l\a-liu'-is, the hollow wood. 
 boy, ni-a-tho'-i-sa, a white boy. 
 brains, i-tac, brains of an animal, 
 brave, ni-ha'-ha-niht', to be brave, courageous. 
 break, ka-i-na', to break open. 
 
 ta-wi-ku'-ti, to break in pieces. 
 bridle, ci-wi-te'-wi. 
 
 bright, i-ya'-a-na-kus'-a, bright, shining, glistening. 
 breast, ali'-a-be. 
 breathe, a-wuth'-on, to breathe, 
 brother, ni-thi-sa', my brother. 
 
 ni-thi-sa'-wa (pi.), my brothers, 
 in-a'-ha-wa, his elder brother, 
 na'-ha-va, younger brother, 
 ko-hu'-ni'-sa, half brother, 
 i-ni'-thi-san, father's brother, 
 ya, brother-in-law. 
 
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 na-ya', my brother-in-law, 
 beaver, a-bas'. 
 
 a-bes'-na-yat', a beaver trap, 
 bed, a'-a, a bed. 
 beg, ni-ta-win'-a, to beg. 
 behind, ka'-ba. 
 belly, in-ut'-a, a belly. 
 
 na-nut', my belly. 
 bend, na-ho'-i-si'-na, to bend. 
 
 na-nu'-i-sa, to bend forward, stooping. 
 
 a-ba-ho'-a-ta, a bend in a river or stream, 
 berries, it-a-he'-win-a, hot berries. Arctostaphylos 
 
 uva-ursi. 
 
 bind, di-ta-ya'-kut-i, to bind up, bandage, 
 bite, tai-yo-win'-a, to bite, 
 bladder, na-nis'. 
 black, wa-tai'-yo, black. 
 
 wa-ta'-nit, it is black. 
 blind, nan-i'-na-kut, to be blind, blind, 
 blood, ba. 
 
 ba-e'-ni, bloody. 
 
 ba-e'-nit, to bleed. 
 
 na-nat'-i-o-it, to be besmeared with blood. 
 blow, ci-ta'-thi, to blow, as the wind, 
 blue, ca-net'-ai-yo, fo-net'-oi-nit, it is blue. 
 board, kun'-i-uh'-u-na, a board for cutting tobacco, 
 boat, thi'-wa. 
 body, bet-un'-e-ya', body. 
 
 net-un'-e-ya', my body. 
 
 et-un'-e-ya', thy body. 
 
 it-un'-e-ya', his body, 
 boggy, oith-si-wa', boggy, marshy, 
 boil, a-na'-na-wak'-thi-nat, to boil over, as water, 
 bone, ili. 
 both, an-i-shin'-a. 
 to brush, ku-e-tith'-e-ha, to brush away, as with the 
 
 hand, 
 burn, ka-ha'-lie, to burn or blaze, as fire. 
 
 ba-tuli'-a-ha', to burn anything, 
 burst, ka-na'-in-a, to burst open, 
 bury, ka-tai'-yat, to bury, as the dead, 
 bush, bish, a bush, 
 buy, a-ta'-na-ta, to buy, purchase anything. 
 
 C. 
 calf, wa, a calf turning black, or six months old. 
 
 wa'-u, a red calf, just after birth, 
 candle, ai'-se-ya, a light, a candle. 
 care, wa-ta', take care, 
 careful, ni-ya'-lio-in, careful, to be careful, 
 cat, beli-a'-ka, a wild cat, small panther, 
 cherries, bi'-na. 
 
 chew, ses-i-ya'-ta, to chew fine with the teeth. 
 child, te-ya-na', a child. 
 
 te-ya-na'-ha, pi. children. 
 
 na-ni'-sa, my child. 
 
 a-ni'-sa, thy child. 
 
 i-ni'-sa, his child. 
 
 a-te'-ya-ne-win'-a, your children. 
 
 na-te'-ya-ne-win'-a, our children. 
 
 it-e'-ya-ne-win'-a, their children. 
 
 a-6i-hi'-sa, a child just born. 
 
 a-si-nat', to give birth to a child. 
 
 ni'-na, sister's child. 
 
 a-tun-6in'-i-sit, a young child, soon after birth. 
 
 
 
 chin, wa-tal'i'-a. 
 
 wa-tah-an'-a, pi. chins. 
 
 na-tah'-a, my chin. 
 
 a-tali'-a, thy chin. 
 
 i-tali'-a, his chin. 
 
 choke, a-thit', to choke, to be choked in eating. 
 cholera, a-sit'-at, sickness in the belly, 
 climb, ou'-ha, to climb a tree. 
 close, i'-ce-wa, close, near by. 
 cloth, wat-an'-i-hath-a'-yu, black cloth. 
 
 wu'-it, breechcloth. 
 clouds, a'-na. 
 
 i-ni'-na-nai'-tu, cloudy, 
 i-na-nait', moving clouds. 
 cluster, ban-i'-ni, a bunch, cluster, as of beads or 
 
 grapes. 
 
 coals, wa-as', burning or live coals. 
 coil, a-hi-'-a, to curl or coil about, 
 coffee, wa-tai'-yo. 
 
 wa-tai'-na-wo, coffee for drinking. 
 comb, c'a-ta-e'-hi, to comb the hair. 
 come, na-he'-ea, come here. 
 
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 ci'-te, to come in. 
 
 confusion, na-tun'-a-ho'-na, trouble, confusion, 
 cook, bi-thi-ba', to cook food. 
 
 cool, ta'-a-ta, to cool anything that is hot, by blowing. 
 cord, san'-ak, cord, twine, thread, 
 cottonwood, a-hat', sweet cottonwood. 
 
 a-ha'-tin-wi'-tin, bitter cottonwood. 
 cough, i-shi-si'-ve. 
 count, na-ye'-thi, to count, 
 countenance, tali'-a-wi'-un-e, face, countenance, 
 court, ne-wi'-a, to court a girl, courting, 
 cousin, na'-si, male cousin. 
 
 na-tha'-the, female cousin, 
 cow, bi, a cow. 
 
 bi'-hi, pi. cows. 
 
 cowardly, kun-a-nit'-ut, cowardly, easily scared. 
 crack, ta-ta-nat'-a, to crack, as the ground. 
 
 ko-liuth'-an, to crack or snap as wood burning, 
 lia-ya-win'-a-a-te, to crack with the teeth, as 
 
 lice. 
 
 cramp, i-nic-thin'-a-a-at, the cramp. 
 crazy, na-ni-sin'-o-at, to bo crazy. 
 creep, 6e-wa-ki'-sa, to creep up to, or approach, as 
 
 game. 
 
 crooked, na-ho'-is-a. 
 crupper, el-thi'-hi-na'-ya. 
 cry, ben-i-wa'-it. 
 
 cup, bas-na'-i-ni'-i-ben'-a, a drinking vessel, cup. 
 currants, ne-e'-win-a. 
 cut, na-lio-ci'-ah-a, to cut up fine, 
 di-ali-a', to cut slices, 
 na-lii-ha', to cut notches, notched, 
 ba-ya-ka'-ali-a, to cut in two in the middle. 
 
 D. 
 dance, bet-at', to dance. 
 
 ca-a-tit', a scalp dance, 
 daughter, na-ta'-na, my daughter. 
 
 i-si'-ni-shi-a, my granddaughter, 
 at-a-net'-a-ni-ha, an adopted daughter, 
 na-siv', my daughter-in-law, 
 day, i'-shi. 
 
 6in-a-a'-kak, daybreak. 
 na-kus-e<5, daylight. 
 
 thun'-a-tha-ni'-se, about the middle of the day. 
 debility, i-a-nat'-i-hu'-in, weary with heat, debility on 
 
 a hot day. 
 
 deaf, a-ye'-ci-ta, hard of hearing, deaf, 
 decayed, tha-nu'-sa, rotten, decayed, 
 deceive, nan-ta'-yi, to tell a lie, to deceive, 
 deep, ta'-wi, deep, as water, 
 deer, bi'-hi, a deer. 
 
 wa-tan-bi'-hi, black-tailed deer. 
 
 a'-tha-wa-ni'-hi, white-tailed deer, 
 die, na-ea', to die. 
 
 a-tun'-i-cin-a, we will die. 
 dig, koli-o-ha', to dig in the ground. 
 dirty, ce-hath'-a, to be dirty, as a gun. 
 disappointed, ci-ni-ith'-ca-na, sorry, disappointed, 
 discouraged, how-wu'-it-a, to be discouraged, dis 
 heartened. 
 
 distance, ci-ni-l'ia'-i-te, a long distance, 
 ditch, ben'-i-tha-ka'-ne, a ditch, hollow, ravine, 
 dive, i-i-ka'-hu, to dive as a duck under the water. 
 divide, ce'-a-na, to divide, 
 dizzy, ne-in-e'-na, to be dizzy, lightheaded. 
 do, 6in-in-in'-i, I cannot do it. 
 dog, eth, a dog. 
 
 eth'-e-wi (pi.), dogs. 
 
 na-ha-ta'-ni, my dog. 
 
 ka-ha-tai-ni, thy dog. 
 double, a-wai'-e-na, to double up. 
 dream, ka-nat', a dream. 
 
 ka-na'-na, to dream, 
 drink, na-a-ben', to drink, as water. 
 drive, a-ta-ha', to drive in, as tent-pins. 
 drop, <5a-ni-a', a drop, as of water, 
 drown, na-ta-ka'-nat, to drown, to be drowned, 
 drunk, nan-si'-he-wi, to get drunk, 
 dry, ni-ha-na'-ta. 
 duck, si'-si6, a duck. 
 
 dull, i-ha'-o-eV-ya-nis, dull, blunt, not sharp, 
 dusk, ta-wa'-be-ni'-hi-ya. 
 dust, ka-na-a'-i-ta-si. 
 dye, bali-o-hai'-yi, to dye or color red or scarlet. 
 
 E. 
 eagle, nat-sa'-i, bald eagle. 
 
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 in-a-kuth'-un-it, the war eagle. 
 ear, wun-a-tun'-a, the ear. 
 
 bi-hi'-hali, a mule, big ears, 
 earth, bi-ta'-wa, earth, dirt. 
 
 a-mu'-it-bi'-ta-wa, all the earth, all the prairie. 
 eat, a-ta'-wi-thi'-na, to eat. 
 echo, bat-ath-u'-ni-tu'-hi-nith, an echo, 
 elk, wuli'-a, a female elk. 
 
 wuh'-a-he, a male elk. 
 elbow, i-ei-a'-na. 
 empty, ou-it-dai'-es, to be empty, 
 end, na-nali'-u, the end of anything, 
 enemy, ct-sha-the'-win, an enemy, of a hostile nation, 
 envious, i-ni-a-ya-thin'-a, to be jealous or envious, 
 equal, tu-se-na', to be equal, equal to. 
 esteem, na-tan-at'-a-wa, to esteem highly, to think well 
 
 of any one. 
 
 evening, ith-o-ak', in the evening. 
 expect, ais-tha-ea'-na, I expect so. 
 explain, na-tith'-i-ca-win, to explain anything, 
 eye, besh-i'-se, an eye. 
 
 nesh-i'-se, my eye. 
 
 esh-i'-sc, thy eye. 
 
 ish-i'-se, his eye. 
 
 6i-ni'-wak-ut, squint-eyed, cross-eyed. 
 
 na-kak', white-eyed. , 
 
 na-u'-i-sa, to shut the eyes. 
 
 ka'-na-ki, to open the eyes. 
 
 V, 
 
 fan, na-nas-i'-ha-wa, a fan. 
 
 na-nas'-i-ha, to fan oneself, 
 fall, 6a-ni'-sa, to fall down, as any object, 
 fasten, a-ta'-ha, to fasten, as a door, 
 father, ni-lia', father. 
 
 ni-sun'-a, my father. 
 
 e-sun'-a, thy father. 
 
 i-sun'-a, his father. 
 
 na-shith'-a, my father-in-law. 
 feast, na-o'-het-e, to call to a feast, 
 fence, ni-tha-liai'-ya, to make a fence, 
 fill, i-ha'-ka-ha, to fill the pipe, 
 find, ben-i-in'-a, to find, 
 fingers, ba-<'-it'-in. 
 
 wah'-a, finger nails. 
 fire, sta. 
 
 i-shit'-a, a fire-place, fire-bed. 
 
 ai'-6is, a fire-steel, 
 fish, neb, a fish. 
 
 na'-wa, pi. fishes. 
 flat, sa'-a. 
 
 flavor, ni-ya-ni'-6it-a, taste, flavor, 
 float, na-wo'-a, to float, as upon water. 
 flock, nath-i-tuk'-a, a flock, a herd. 
 flower, na'-i-na. 
 fly, ca-wi'-at, to fly, as a bird, 
 fold, ni-si'-ta-na, to fold, as cloth, 
 follow, tha-ku'-i-na, to follow after one. 
 foolish, a-ha-kai'-nit, to be foolish. 
 foot, na-lie'-tan, my foot. 
 ford, ni-i'-ta-ka'-ni, a ford, crossing. 
 
 a-kai'-e, to cross, as a stream, to ford, 
 forehead, ni-tali'-a-wi. 
 forget, na-ni'-hi-no, to forget. 
 forked, ni-su'-ni, forked, as a stick or stream, 
 fountain, ali-ub', a spring or fountain, 
 fox, ba-liu', a large fox. 
 
 no'-a-ha, kit fox, animals that come out of holes, 
 to freeze, ni-a'-ta, to freeze, as ice. 
 friend, ni-tai-he', my friend. 
 
 ni-ni-tai'-eth-e'-c'at, to be friendly. 
 frog, ci-nat'-an-a'-ka-be, a green frog, 
 full, a-na-tha'-a-he, to be full. 
 
 G. 
 
 gallop, na-ha'-kut-e, to gallop, as a horse, 
 gashes, i-tus', to cut gashes, to make marks in the flesh, 
 gather, a-no'-i-tun-6i-ni'-na,to collect or gather together. 
 get, ko-hai'-e, to get up. 
 girdle, ka-ya'-ta, girdle or belt. 
 girl, is-i'-he. 
 
 is-i'-hi-ha, pi. girls. 
 give, a-ta-wi'-ni-thin, to give. 
 
 a-tun-be'-no, to give, to bestow for nothing. 
 glad, bab-i-in'-a, to be glad. 
 
 a-tha-wa'-wi-in-a, I am glad, 
 gnaw, lia-li a-yu'-it, to gnaw. 
 go, na'-e, to go out. 
 
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 a-si -sa, go away. 
 
 a-tha'-na-na-wi'-a-ta-si, to go against the wind, 
 gonorrhoea, ba-ha'-kai-ya. 
 good, i'-tha-ti. 
 
 i-tha-ti-hi', pretty (intensive form). 
 goose, na. 
 
 tuh-u-wi'-na, gooseberries. 
 gopher, ci-tat'-si-hi. 
 grapes, ta-ta'-ci-wiu'-a, grapes, berries that grow on 
 
 vines, 
 grass, woli -u'-i-na. 
 
 ni-ah'-u, sweet-smelling grass. 
 ni-a-ce'-he, a grasshopper, 
 se-na-se-yat'-a, to graze, to eat grass, like cattle. 
 gravel, di-hi-na'-kai-na, gravel, earth, 
 grease, ni-nun'-i. 
 
 grind, mo-ku'-i-ti, to grind, as coffee, 
 ground, i-tha'-ba-bi'-ta-wu, in the ground. 
 
 ta-shi-bi'-ta-wu, on the ground. 
 grow, bi-shi'-a-ha, to grow, as grass. 
 growl, ses-ilit', to growl like a dog, or a cross person. 
 gum, ku'-i-ya, a gum or resin, 
 gun, ka-kil'i', a short gun. 
 
 ni-si-ti'-ne-na, a double-barrelled gun. 
 ha-lia-it'-in-an, a rifle-gun, one with creases in 
 
 the inside of the barrel, 
 na-sa', a gun-flint. 
 
 H. 
 
 hackberry, na-tai'-ye-ci-wish. 
 hair, bi-tha-a'. 
 
 bi-tha-a'-na, (pi.) 
 ne-tha-a', my hair, 
 e-tha-a', thy hair, 
 in-i'-tha-a, his hair. 
 6i'-nan, all kinds of hair, 
 half, ka-u'-he, half of anything, 
 hammer, thali-a', a stone hammer, to drive pins. 
 hand, ba-6et', the hand, 
 na-cet', my hand, 
 a-cet', thy hand, 
 i-cet', his hand, 
 ba-cet'-in-a (pi.), hands. 
 
 ba-wa-tha-ta-wi'-na, to wave the hand. 
 
 ka-hu-it-o'-i-no-wat, a handful, 
 hard, bath'-a. 
 
 hasten, na-ha-ni', to hasten, to be in a hurry. 
 he or it, in'-it. 
 head, i-ni'-thi-a. 
 
 i-ni'-thi-a'-na (pi.), heads, 
 health, nat-un-a-jV. 
 hear, ni-tun'-a, to hear, 
 heart, bet'-a. 
 
 bet'-a-ha (pi.), hearts. 
 
 net'-a, my heart. 
 
 at'-a, thy heart. 
 
 it'-a, his heart. 
 
 hiccough, i-tha-nat', to hiccough, 
 hide, ya-ti', to hide from, to conceal anything, 
 high, ea-o'-it-a, high, anything high, 
 hill, ca-ut'-e-yu, a hill. 
 
 na-ha-hu'-he, up hill, 
 cen-a-hu'-he, down hill, 
 ali'-a-bi, a side hill, 
 hiss, si-win'-a, to hiss, 
 holes, (ii-nat-un'-a-ti, full of holes, 
 horn, ni'-nis. 
 
 a-ta', big-horn. 
 horse, woli'-a-hali, a horse. 
 
 wol'i'-a-hah'-a-wi (pi.), horses. 
 
 na-ta'-ni, my horse. 
 
 a-ta'-ni, thy horse. 
 
 i-ta'-ni, his horse. 
 
 na-ta-ni'-ha, my horses. 
 
 a-ta-ni'-ha, thy horses. 
 
 i-ta-ni'-ha, his horses. 
 
 na-kit', a white horse. 
 house, a-a'-wi. 
 
 ya-huth'-it-ni'-na, a good house. 
 
 <5i-ta-wu', in the house, 
 how is it ? to-shi'-hi. 
 hungry, ash-i-nan'-a, to be hungry, 
 hunt, i-na'-e, to hunt, as for game. 
 husband, il\. 
 
 nas, my husband, 
 hush, te-ta-nuk'-u, hush ! be still ! 
 
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 I. 
 
 I, nen-an'-a. 
 
 ice, wa'-o. 
 
 implements, ci'-na-te, tools, implements. 
 
 inquire, ta-ti'-na, to inquire, to ask a question. 
 
 iron, be-cith'-a. 
 
 na-ku'-wi-cith'-a, white iron, silver. 
 
 ni-ha-ni-be-cith'-a, yellow iron, brass. 
 
 ba-ali'-a, red iron, copper. 
 itch, yun-eis'-it-sha, to itch. 
 
 J. 
 
 jump, cen'-a-a, to jump. 
 
 K. 
 
 kick, tali'-un-a, to kick, as dust. 
 kidney, ti'-thith. 
 kill, ne-hin'-a, to kill, 
 kindred, in-i-ni'-tun-a, family, kindred, 
 knee, ba-ca-e'-tai-yi. 
 
 ba-6a-e'-tai-yi-ili'-o-na, kneepan, patella, 
 knife, wali'-a. 
 
 wali'-a-ha, (pi.) 
 knock, tat-a'-ta, to knock, as on a door. 
 
 L. 
 
 i 
 
 lake, ni-ac', a little lake or pond, 
 lame, <$i-ni-iht'. 
 large, ben-a'-sa, great, large, 
 ben-a-si'-tha, very large, 
 na-ath-i'-a, so large. 
 lariat, a-ni-tha'-tan. 
 last, tah'-sa, last, youngest, 
 lately, wa-ni'-hi, lately, a little while ago. 
 laugh, a-lio'-an, to laugh, 
 laziness, tha-nu'-it, lazy, 
 lead, ka-ku'-ya-na'-thi, balls, lead, 
 leaf, bi-6ish', a leaf of a tree, 
 leak, thi-ni-i'-kut-e, to leak, as a vessel of water. 
 lean, ni-ha'-shi, to lean against anything, 
 leg, be-6a', the leg. 
 
 be-ca'-wa (pi.), legs. 
 
 ne-da', my leg. 
 
 e-cY, thy leg. 
 
 it-cV, his leg. 
 w.a-a'-ta, the whole leg. 
 leggins, wa-ta'. 
 
 lend, ni-ca'-ta-nan-an, to lend anything, 
 lengthwise, ba-ya-tha'-tha-ni-hi. 
 less, ni-ta-ci'-i-ni. 
 
 lick, ni-sa-ta', to lick, as with the tongue, 
 light, wut-un'-e, to make or light a fire, 
 lightning, ci-ha'-ko-hu'-it, to lighten, lightning, 
 like, bi-lia'-tha, to be like to, like anything, 
 lip, is'-is. 
 
 listen, ci-hath'-te, to listen, 
 little, a-ka-di'-hu. 
 lizard, san-i'-wa, a rock lizard, 
 load, bi-na-tha', to load up, as horses, 
 lodge, ne-i-nun', a lodge or tent. 
 
 ne-i-nun'-a (pi.), lodges. 
 
 na-ye'-i-hi, my lodge. 
 
 a-yc'-i-hi, thy lodge. 
 
 i-ye'-i-hi, his lodge. 
 
 na-ye-hin'-a, our lodges. 
 
 a-ye-hin'-a, your lodges. 
 
 i-ye-hin'-a, their lodges. 
 
 ne-i-nun'-a-ben-e'-ni-se', only two lodges. 
 
 shi'-sin-a, to take down the lodge. 
 
 i'-tan, a cluster of lodges, a village. 
 
 i-sa'-a-ta, the door or entrance to the lodge. 
 
 a-kali'-in, lodge-poles. 
 
 nith-nu'-it-a-6ith'-it-a, the hole in the top of the 
 
 lodge for the smoke to pass out. 
 look, na-ni', look here ! 
 lose, a-nuth-i'-na, to lose anything. 
 
 an-i-ti'-na, lost. 
 
 loud, a-nun'-a-un-et'-i, to speak loud, 
 loved, bi-lia'-tha, I am loved. 
 low, ta-ko'-it-a, low, low down. 
 lungs, i-kun'-a, lungs, lights. 
 
 M. 
 
 magpie, wo-u'-he. 
 
 make, nish'-ti, to make anything, to form, 
 man, in-en', a man. 
 
 in-en'-a (pi.), men. 
 
 ni-a'-tha, a white man. 
 
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 married, ni-wi'-na, to be married, to take a wife, 
 meat, wa-na-se'-na, fresh meat. 
 
 a'-wa-na, dried meat. 
 medicine, woli'-in, medicine or mystery. 
 
 bat'-at, a medicine-man, 
 melt, ta6'-liu-ha, to melt, as lead, 
 middle, na-i-thi', in the middle, 
 midnight, na-hi-thi'-tut-6i. 
 mine, ni-nis'-tat (pronoun), 
 mire, ka'-thi-6a, miry, muddy. 
 
 kath-<5i'-si, to mire, to get stuck in the mud. 
 mist, cin-i-a-sa', mist, fine rain. 
 mix, nali'-ut-i, to mix, mingle together. 
 moccasins, wa'-na. 
 
 more, ni-has'-i-ni, more, over, more than, 
 morning, na-ku'-se<5, this morning, 
 mother, na'-a. 
 
 ne'-na, my mother. 
 
 e'-na, thy mother. 
 
 i'-na, his mother. 
 
 na-he'-ha, my wife's mother. 
 
 na-tus'-i-ha'-ni-wa, my wife's grandmother, 
 mould, ni-na-ku'-si, mould, mouldy, 
 mountain, a'-he. 
 
 a'-he-ni (pi.), mountains. 
 mourn, as-e'-shit, to mourn for the dead, 
 mouse, a-ku', a rat or mouse, 
 mouth, bet'-i. 
 
 bet'-i-na (pi.), mouths. 
 
 net'-i, my mouth. 
 
 et'-i, thy mouth. 
 
 i'-ti, his mouth. 
 
 ni-thi-a'-ta-wa-ni, a mouthful, 
 mud, ali-ush'. 
 niuskrat, i-lia-l\a, named from the melt in cattle. 
 
 N. 
 
 name, a-si'-hit, a name, names of persons. 
 navel, ith, both. 
 neck, bes-un'-a, the neck. 
 
 nes-un'-a, my neck. 
 
 es-un'-a, thy neck. 
 
 is-un'-a, his neck. 
 
 wai-e'-nun-a, a necklace of beads, &c. 
 
 never, a-ti-na'-a-sin', never, ever, 
 night, bi-ka'. 
 no, ci-ni'-ni. 
 
 ka-ko'-yun, nowhere. 
 
 nodding, ni-si'-nun-ai'-a-ha'-na, nodding as in sleep. 
 nose, besh, the nose. 
 
 be'-tha (pi.), noses. 
 
 nesh, my nose. 
 
 esh, thy nose. 
 
 ish, his nose. 
 
 na-ho-ish'-i-va, crooked nose. 
 
 ni-i'-wa, to blow the nose. 
 nothing, i-ka-ku'-a. 
 now, i-wan'-ha. 
 numb, ben'-i-sa-nu'-kut-i, numb, stiff with cold. 
 
 0. 
 
 obey, i-tha-wat'-a-ni, to be obedient, to obey. 
 oftentimes, ni-hou'. 
 old, ba-a-ye'. 
 one, na-na-ye'-shi-ni, each one. 
 
 ta-na'-ni-si-thet'-6at, neither one. 
 in-i-6a'-sa, the other one. 
 only, ben-e'. 
 
 ooze, ta-sa-6i', to ooze out, as sap from trees. 
 open, ta-tin'-a, to open, as the mouth. 
 
 ka-nin'-a, to open, to make an opening in any 
 thing. 
 
 ka-nit'-a-na, open the door yourself, 
 ornaments, 6e'-ta-na, ear-rings, or ornaments, 
 orphan, e-nuh-u'-i-sa, an orphan, fatherless and 
 
 motherless. 
 
 overhead, i-6i'-wa-ni'-than, overhead, above, 
 overtake, wa-ni-ta'-wa, to overtake one in travelling. 
 owl, bath-i', an owl. 
 
 P. 
 
 pace, ba-he'-kut-e, to pace, as a horse, 
 pack, i-ni'-nuli-it, a pack, a load, 
 paddle, i-thu-ha', to paddle a canoe, 
 paint, ha-ha', to paint, 
 parch, ka-ye-na', to parch, as corn or coffee. 
 parfleche, o-wa'-na. 
 pass, ni-the-na', to pass the pipe. 
 
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 passionate, i-ni-no'-wu-it, to be passionate, to get 
 
 angry quickly. 
 peace, i-ni'-tai-wa'-na, a peace. 
 
 na-ti-ni'-tai-wa'-na, to make a peace, 
 peel, ka-ku'-i-na, to peel, as bark. 
 
 cin-ali'-a, to pare, to peel off, as the rind, 
 perhaps, nah-u'-i-he, perhaps, maybe, 
 pheasant, na-na'-be-6en'-a, drumming pheasant, 
 bas-cen-an', wild turkey, spotted-wing. 
 pick, ka'-i-ye, to pick, as berries. 
 
 ku-i-tan-a', to pick off, as a scab. 
 
 ba-lia-ku'-na, to pick off, as ears of corn from a 
 
 stalk. 
 
 pinch, a-lio'-as-i-na, to pinch, 
 pine, sath, a pine. Pinus. 
 tha-ki'-sath, spruce pine, 
 ba-thi'-na, and to-sath', Junipcrus. 
 pipe, e-da, a pipe. 
 
 e-cY-ha-na (pi.), pipes, 
 na-ti-ca', my pipe, 
 a-ti-ca', thy pipe, 
 i-ti-ca', his pipe, 
 a-ti-ca'-a'-nin, your pipe. 
 i-ti-6a'-en'-a, their pipe. 
 pity, a-we'-nun-i, to take pity on one. 
 plain, i-tha-be', a level plain. , 
 
 plan, tas-6i'-ni-na, to plan anything, 
 plenty, wa-na'-the, a plenty. 
 
 wa-na-the'-thi (intensive form of the above), a 
 
 great number or quantity. 
 
 plough, bi-ta-wu-ni'-tha-ku, a plough, a ground-breaker 
 plums, ba-si'-win-a. 
 
 point, ni-thi-so'-hai-a, to point with the finger or hand, 
 poor, a-ci'-ni-na-ni'-ni, poor in flesh, 
 pounce, ith-ku'-te, to seize or pounce on anything, 
 pound, is-tha'-ba, to pound fine. 
 
 ha-ya'-lie, to pound or crush, as bones, 
 pour, e-ta-na', to pour out, as water, 
 powder, cV-tha. 
 
 praise, bi-with-tun'-a, praise, compliments. 
 prairie, i-tha-wu'. 
 to prick, kut-a-ha', to prick with a pin. 
 
 tha-wut'-a-ta-ka'-it, to prick up the ears, as a 
 
 horse. 
 VOL. xii. 43 
 
 pride, i-sit', pride, to be proud. 
 
 prisoner, wa-wa-c-na', a prisoner, captive. 
 
 pull, ka-nan'-a, to pull out the hair from the skin. 
 
 ka-ku'-na, to pull in pieces, 
 push, un-ku'-i-ti, to push down. 
 
 ka-ha-e'-na, to push aside, to separate, as high 
 
 grass, 
 put, ci'-tha-wi, to put on, as clothes. 
 
 ka'-wo, to put anything in the mouth. 
 na-6e', to put up the lodge. 
 
 Q. 
 
 quick, na-hu'-hu, to be quick, in a hurry, 
 quiver, di-tuth'-a, a quiver for arrows. 
 
 bali-a'-ka-6i-tuth'-a, a panther-skin quiver. 
 
 bali-a'-ka, a panther. 
 
 R. 
 rabbit, ai-wa-ta'-ka, a large rabbit. 
 
 na-wa-ta'-ka, small rabbit, left, or not pure 
 
 breed, 
 rain, a-na'-sa. 
 
 a-sa'-ti-nit, it rains. 
 
 na-yat', a rainbow, the Great Spirit's fishing-line, 
 ramrod, ci-ta-hai'. 
 
 rattle, koli '-un-a-ku'-i-te, to ring or rattle anything, 
 ravine, ka-ha'-wo-e, a ravine or hollow among the 
 
 hills. 
 
 reach, 6e-ti', to reach out the hand, to take anything. 
 red, ba-a'. 
 
 ba-ilit', it is red. 
 relationship, i-ni'-ta-in. 
 rest, tai-yu-nu'-shi, to rest, to take rest, 
 revenge, wa-wa-ni'-shi-ni'-tai-wa, to get revenge, 
 rib, i-ca'-na, ribs of any animal, 
 rich, ni-thai'-ye-ti, to be rich, 
 ride, ta-hu'-ki, to ride, as a horse, 
 ring, ni-h'a-nath'-a-tha, finger-ring. 
 rip, ta-tin'-a, to rip. 
 river, ni-cT-a, a river. 
 
 ni-ci'-a-he, a little river, 
 road, na-na'-ca-ba', milky way, white road, 
 roast, a-ku'-ha,' to roast. 
 robe, na'-6a, a buffalo robe. 
 
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 rock, a-bet'-a-na'-ka, a large rock. 
 
 ni-ha'-na-na'-ka ; yellow rock, rock with thick 
 
 moss on it. 
 
 roll, ta-tu6-ku'-i-te, to roll, as a ball or stone. 
 root, the'-ci, roots of a tree or a bush, 
 rough, tha'-thi-a, rough, uneven. 
 
 e-tus-shi'-ne-et, pimpled, rough, 
 round, 6a-a', round, as a ball, 
 rub, i-tha-ha', to rub anything, 
 run, ceth'-ko-ha, to run. 
 
 di-wa'-a, to rush on, to make an attack. 
 
 S. 
 sacrifice, bi-ta'-tha, to make a sacrifice to the Great 
 
 Spirit. 
 
 saddle, a-ka-ali'. 
 saliva, ku-i-thai'-yat, spittle, saliva. 
 
 ku-i-thai'-ye, to spit. 
 salt, ni-6a'-o. 
 same, na-a-thu', the same. 
 
 ni-sti-ath-i'-a, of the same size. 
 sand, na'-ba. 
 
 satisfied, ni-ith-i-ca'-na, to be satisfied, to have enough. 
 scalp, bi-thcs'. 
 
 scattered, ni-e-i-ni'-hi, scattered about, 
 scorch, a-ku'-he, to scorch, as meat held over a fire, 
 scrape, a-na-liu'-lia-ha, to scrape. 
 
 bi-tai'-hi, an instrument for scraping robes. 
 
 wuth-ta'-the-a, to scrape off with the foot. 
 scratch, 6es-ca'-a, a scratch on any part, 
 kot'-cin, to scratch, 
 na-liu'-a, to scratch with the foot. 
 secretly, nes-ta-ni'-hi, secretly, slyly, covertly, 
 sell, at-ni-a-tan'-a-na, to sell anything, 
 sensible, a-eht', to be sensible, to have good sense, 
 sew, ko-i-ya-ta', to sew on a patch, 
 shake, ka-kun'-ku-i-ti, to shake, to clean by shaking, 
 shell, a-hi', a mussel-shell. Unio. 
 
 a-hi'-ha, small shells. 
 
 shelter, tu-ka-ha', a shelter, covering, booth, 
 shield, a-ci'-hi, a shield. 
 
 a-eY-hi-na (pi.), shields. 
 
 ni-ta'-ci-hi, my shield. 
 
 a-ta'-<5i-hi, thy shield. 
 
 i-ta'-ci-hi, his shield, 
 shine, na'-ha-e, to glisten, to shine, 
 shirt, bi-l'm'-it. 
 shoe, na-a'-na, a shoe. 
 
 ne-ni-na-a'-na, a man's shoe, 
 is-i-na-a'-na, a woman's shoe, 
 bih-a'-na, snow-shoe, 
 shoot, 6e-ba', to shoot. 
 shore, sus-hith', on or along the shore, 
 shoulder, te'-ya. 
 
 shut, a-wet-in'-a, to shut, as the mouth, 
 sick, na'-ko-wi, to be sick. 
 side, na-sit'-ath-an'-i-ni, on one side, 
 ali'-a-na, on the other side. 
 6a'-thi, on the outside, 
 ci-tal'i'-a-na, on this side, 
 i-tun-i'-hi, on both sides. 
 signs, bath-sa'-win, to make signs to any one. 
 bath-sa'-hai-e, to make signs. 
 ben-ath-sa'-hai-e, to make signs at a distance, 
 sing, ni-be', to sing. 
 
 ni-ba'-ti-na, a song. 
 sink, e-nu'-wo-a, to sink, as in water, 
 sister, na-tus'-i, my sister. 
 
 na-tus-i'-wa (pi-), m y sisters. 
 na-tus'-i-wa, younger sister. 
 ka-hu'-e-na-tus-i, half sister, 
 ni-thub'-i, sister-in-law, 
 sit, ce-nuk'-a, to sit down, 
 skilful, ni-tha'-wa-tc, skilful, smart. 
 skim, <5i-na'-ka-ha, to skim off, as grease on a pot. 
 skin, ya-des'-ci-liu'-in, irritation of the skin when heated 
 
 by the fire, 
 sleep, na-ka'-it, to sleep. 
 
 na-wun'-in, sleepy, drowsy, 
 slip, i-lia-lm'-ci-hi-shi, to slip, 
 small, na-ath'-i-u, so small. 
 
 a-ka-di'-u-hu-hu, very small, 
 smell, a-ben-a'-to-wa, to smell. 
 smoke, 6e'-i-ta. 
 
 ka-na'-ta, smoky. 
 i-shi-a'-lia-ha, to smoke a skin, 
 smooth, a-shi'-thi-ya, to make smooth. 
 
 i-ha'-li a-nan-a, to smooth down, as the hair. 
 
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 snake, si-si'-ye. 
 
 snarled, ci-ni'-na-eT-ya, tangled up, snarled as thread. 
 
 sneeze, i-thi'-vi, to sneeze. 
 
 snow, i, snow. 
 
 ben-a'-6i, it snows. 
 
 soak, ni-o-i-thi'-ti, to soak a skin, preparatory to dress 
 ing it. 
 
 ni-a-ka'-nat-i, to soak, or make soft. 
 soft, sa-si-na', soft, tender, as meat. 
 something, a-i-thu'. 
 somewhere, a-e-to-hin'-i. 
 son, ne'-ha, my son. 
 
 e'-ha, thy son. 
 
 i'-ha, his son. 
 
 ne-shi'-a, my grandson. 
 
 e-shi'-a, thy grandson. 
 
 in-i-shi'-a, his grandson. 
 
 na-thali', my son-in-law. 
 
 a-tun'-i-hc-wa, an adopted son. 
 soon, na-ha-ni'-hi, soon, after a while, 
 sore, wa-lia'-lia-nat, sores on the body, small-pox, 
 sonp, a-kuk', broth, soup. 
 sour, ya-sis'-i-nak-dat. 
 
 source, ath-ai'-sin, at the head or source of a stream, 
 speak, ka-an-a'-i-net'-i, to speak slow. 
 spear, ha-wa'. i 
 
 spill, a-kush'-ku-te, to spill, as water, 
 spirit, ih-eT-wa-ni-a'-tha, the Great Spirit, half white 
 
 man. 
 
 splinters, an-an'-as-iht-a-sin'-en-a, stuck full of splin 
 ters or briers, 
 split, ta-ti'-l'ia, to split, 
 spoon, a-wi'-ya, a spoon, 
 sport, ak-se-si'-hin-a, to play, or sport, 
 spotted, ka-kut-an'-i, spotted, speckled, 
 spring, ban-i-o-nu'-in. 
 
 sprinkle, e-6i'-i-ku'-te, to sprinkle, as water, 
 squat, thi-yuk'-a, to squat down on the ground, 
 squeeze, ni-6i'-na, to squeeze. 
 
 tat-a-e'-na, to press or squeeze the hand, 
 squirrel, bali-un-i', large squirrel, ground hog. 
 stab, koh-o-hum', to stab one with a knife, 
 stamp, ta-lia', to stamp in pieces with the foot. 
 star, a'-tha. 
 
 starve, as-na'-tin, to be starving, to starve. 
 
 steal, a-wi'-ta, to steal. 
 
 step, a-ku'-hu, to put the foot on, to step on anything. 
 
 stick, thi-a'-ku-te, to stick or thrust, as in the ground. 
 
 still, na-ni-tha'-ni, still, quiet, to be silent. 
 
 stingy, <5i-ni-ka'-a-tili, stingy, covetous. 
 
 stink, woli'-a-ba, to stink, to become putrid. 
 
 stirrups, ci-thi-uk'-in. 
 
 stomach, be-6at', stomach. 
 
 ne-6at', my stomach. 
 
 e-6at', thy stomach. 
 
 i-cat', his stomach, 
 stone, a-na'-ka. 
 straight, ba'-ya. 
 
 hu-ben-a', to straighten, make straight, as a 
 
 stick. 
 
 strangle, ni-ca'-na-wa-tha'-wa, to strangle, to suffocate, 
 streaked, ha-lia'-ye, striped, streaked, 
 stretch, thili-o-ha', to stretch,, as a skin, 
 strike, ta-win'-a, to strike. 
 
 kai-ye'-thi-ha, to strike and knock loose, as a 
 
 stake or pin. 
 strong, ti-ni-ilit'. 
 
 a-tha'-na-tm'-i-in-a, I am strong, 
 stumble, ta-ush'-i, to stumble, 
 suck, ni'-na, to suck, as a child, 
 sugar, ni-sis'-6a. 
 summer, bid. 
 
 
 
 sun, is-is'. 
 
 bi-ku-sis', night sun, the moon, 
 i-shish'-bi-set, sunrise, 
 na-is-et', sunset. 
 
 surround, ali-o-in'-a, to make a surround, as of buf 
 falo. 
 
 suspend, o'-i-ti, to hang up, suspend anything, 
 swallow, a-ta-wa-ku'-i-te, to swallow anything. 
 
 bi-te-bi'-lio-hu'-hu, mud swallows, birds 
 that build their nests of mud, like the 
 muskrat. 
 
 sweat, 6i-ba', to take a sweat. 
 <5i-bat', a sweat-house. 
 
 ko-no'-wa-na, to perspire freely on a hot day. 
 sweet, ya-ni-sis-6at. 
 swell, ka-na'-a-na, to puff out, swell like inflammation. 
 
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 swift, ni-nan'-a, swift, swiftly. 
 
 swim, tu-i-si'-vi, to swim. 
 
 swing, eVca-i'-hi, swinging backwards and forwards. 
 
 T. 
 
 take, na'-tha-wi, to take off, as clothes, 
 a-thi'-wi-hut'-un-e, to take it over, 
 talk, a-na'-ti, to talk with any one. 
 tear, tut-e-ku'-i-ti, to tear or rend. 
 
 tho-wu'-thi-a, to tear anything with the foot. 
 tent, na-tun'-i, flaps of a tent. 
 
 thi-fia-an'-a, tent pins, 
 thankful, a-hou', to be glad, thankful, 
 that, in'-i. 
 
 thaw, a-na'-ku-a, to thaw, as ice. 
 they, in-it'-a-na, they or them, 
 thick, na'-kai-ya, thick, thickly, 
 thigh, it-sa'-wi. 
 
 think, i-wi-na'-ais-tha-eV-na, to think, consider, 
 thirsty, na-ka'-ye-na, thirsty, to be thirsty, 
 this, in'-a, this one, this. 
 those, in-i-na'-ne. 
 thou, na-ne'-nit. 
 
 thunder, be-ha'-ni-tu-it, to thunder, 
 threaten, a-tun-a'-ha, to threaten one. 
 throw, to'-o, to throw. 
 tickle, a-na-ha-hai'-in-a, to tickle. 
 tie, to'-kte, to tie. 
 tight, ne'-a-na, to hold tight. 
 toad, ka-na-na'-ka-we, a large toad. 
 tobacco, si-sa'-wa, tobacco. 
 
 si-sa'-wan, pi. 
 
 na-si'-sa-wa, my tobacco. 
 
 na-si'-sa-wan, our tobacco. 
 
 i-si'-sa-wan, their tobacco. 
 to-day, i-wan'-hat-i-shi'-na. 
 together, i-uli'-a-ti'-ni-hi, close together, 
 to-morrow, na-kak'. 
 tongue, wi-thun', the tongue. 
 
 ni-sa-ta', to lick, as with the tongue. 
 tooth, bi'-6it-a, a tooth. 
 ne'-6it-a, my tooth, 
 e'-dit-a, thy tooth. 
 in-i'-6it-a, his tooth. 
 
 te-ci'-na-na'-ta, to make a grating noise with the 
 
 teeth. 
 kak-si-nan'-at-a-he6'-ta, to rattle with the teeth, 
 
 to chatter. 
 
 top, ta-shi'-he, on the top. 
 touch, bes-in-a', to touch with anything. 
 
 ti-en'-a, to touch one, to call his attention to 
 
 anything. 
 
 track, nali-u-liit', the track of any animal, 
 trade, a-ta'-ne, to trade anything. 
 
 a-ta'-ni-hi, a trader, a merchant, 
 trail, ba, path, road, trail. 
 
 ba'-na, pi. 
 
 trample, a-na-liin'-i, to trample down, as grass. 
 transparent, wa-hu'-i-na-a, clear, transparent. 
 travelling, noli'-a-na, to meet any one travelling. 
 
 a-ta-bi'-hi, to pass by any one travelling. 
 tree, a-hat', a tree, 
 a-ha'-tin-a, pi. 
 
 tremble, a-hi'-na-e, to tremble, 
 trot, sas-es'-kut-e, to trot, as a horse. 
 trouble, na-tun'-a-he'-yat, to trouble, vex, annoy, 
 turn, thet-ci-na', to turn over anything, 
 ith-et-ci-na', turn him over, 
 na-a-ku'-i-ti, to turn around, as a wheel, or spin 
 
 a top. 
 
 turtle, ba-en'-a. 
 twins, ka-ka-u'. 
 twist, <5i-thi'-wi-na, to twist. 
 
 U. 
 
 uncle, na-tha'-i-tha, my mother's brother, uncle, 
 understand, ka-in'-a, to understand, to know what is 
 
 meant. 
 
 unload, a-wa-6a'-in-a, to take off, unload, 
 untie, a-kun'-a, to untie anything. 
 
 V. 
 
 village, i-tha-i'-tan-u, at the village, 
 vomit, bath-an'-a, to vomit. 
 
 bath-an'-o-wa-te'-nu, to nauseate, so as to wish 
 to vomit. 
 
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 W. 
 
 wadding, a-ko-ha', wadding for a gun. 
 wade, si'-a-he, to wade out after anything. 
 wag, nan-ak'-a-ni, to wag the tail, as a dog. 
 walk, di-wi'-sa, to walk, 
 warm, ash-ta', to be warm. 
 
 un-a-hu'-a-toi, warm yourself, you are cold, 
 wander, an'-a-ha, to wander, to lose one's way. 
 war-party, nut-i-kun'-it. 
 
 ta-wa'-he, a war-club, 
 wash, a-he'-si-ta, to wash, as the hands, 
 watch, a-na'-yi-ha'-ta, to watch, to look out. 
 
 a-na-ye', watching, waking, 
 water, nio, water, 
 ni'-ci, (pi.) 
 
 kali-a'-ya-wi-kut'-e, shallow water, 
 ben-a-lia'-wi-te, wide water. 
 way, i-tha-ba'-ya, in that direction, in that way. 
 we, na-ne-ni'-na, we or ours, 
 weak, na-tih t', weak, feeble. 
 
 wear, a-liu'-be, to wear on the shoulders, as a blanket, 
 weasel, si'-a. 
 
 weather, wa-h u-sa'-ti-hi-ni, to be bad, stormy weather, 
 weave, ni-tha-tan'-a, to weave or braid, 
 well, i-nin-tan', to be well, 
 wet, sa-ya-ka'-na. > 
 
 what, to'-is-a, what is it ? what ? 
 
 to-shi'-hi, what is the matter ? 
 
 to-u'-hu, how long? at what time? 
 
 a-ha', what ? is it possible ? is it so ? 
 
 to-huc'-ha-ta, how far ? to what place ? 
 when, to-u'-hu. 
 where, ta-ti'-na, where is it ? 
 whetstone, i-ta'-ha-ha. 
 which, an-a'-a-huk. 
 while, ku-thi'-hi, a long while, 
 whip, is-ko-ha', a whip. 
 
 is-ko-ha'-na, (pi.) 
 
 nis-ko-hin'-a, to whip or flog any one. 
 whirlpool, ka-ka-ai'-na-wa, an eddy, whirlpool. 
 whisper, i-wi-na-ye'-ti, to whisper. 
 whistle, ni'-si-hi, to whistle, 
 white, nun-a'-6a. 
 why, tat. 
 
 who, an-a-a', who is it ? 
 widow, i-ni-wi'-si. 
 
 wife, i-nain', a wife, or married woman, 
 na-tus'-i-ha, my wife, 
 a-tus'-i-ha, thy wife, 
 it-us'-i-ha, his wife. 
 
 willow, ba-<5e-wi'-shi, red willow. Cornus sericca. 
 noh-than', bark of red willow, 
 ba-o-i-ya'-ka, a large willow, growing near the 
 
 foot of the mountains, 
 wind, a-se'-si. 
 
 na-kai'-si-si, with the wind, 
 window, na-e-ha'. 
 
 wink, na-o-si'-6i, to wink with the eyes, 
 winter, ce6. 
 
 wish, at-i-na-e'-na, wish, disposition. 
 with, na-ku'-in, with, together with. 
 6i-ta'-wo, inside, within. 
 cY-i-thi, out of doors, without, 
 wolf, ka-a', prairie wolf. 
 
 ka-a-wo'-u, same as last, 
 ali'-i, large wolf, 
 a-wa'-ta-tas, same as last, 
 woman, is'-i. 
 
 is-i'-na, (pi.) 
 
 a-na'-e-ha-wu'-is, an unmarried woman, 
 wood, beli'-a. 
 
 ali-u'-in-i, green wood, 
 wa-thi'-ni, dry wood, 
 it-ush', pith of wood, 
 wrinkles, wa-tha-na'-hain. 
 write, <5a-thun-a-he', picture-writing on a robe, 
 wa-thun-a-he', to write with a pen. 
 
 Y. 
 
 yawn, na-ka'-ni, to gape, to yawn, 
 yellow, ni-ha'-ya. 
 
 ath'-i-na-ni-ha'-ya, very yellow, 
 yes, a. 
 
 yesterday, un-hu'-bat-i-i'-shi-in-a. 
 yonder, in'-a, yonder, there. 
 you, ne-na'-nin. 
 young, wa-na-nilit'. 
 yours, ai-nis-tat'. 
 
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 CHAPTER XI. 
 
 V. ATSINAS. 
 
 ETHNOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 
 
 THE Atsinas arc undoubtedly a branch, of the Arapoho nation, as the great similarity in 
 the two languages would indicate. The cause of their separation from the Arapohos 
 probably originated in some feud, so common among savage tribes. They then crossed 
 the Rocky Mountains (the nearest route to the Blackfoot country from the Platte is to 
 cross the mountains near the sources of Snake River, and recross at the sources of the 
 Missouri), and associated themselves with the Blackfeet. When this division took place 
 is not now correctly known, though we think it must have occurred some time within the 
 last century. Their former hunting grounds, as indeed were those of the whole of the 
 Blackfoot nation, were on the tributaries of the Saskatchewan, in which region buffalo and 
 other game was abundant. Previously to the opening of the trade with these Indians on 
 the Upper Missouri, they sold all their skins to the Hudson's Bay Company, seldom 
 visiting the country about the sources of the Missouri except for hostile purposes. 
 
 It is said that the Atsinas captured one of the English forts, murdered the people, and 
 were, on that accoxint, obliged to change their location for the one they now occupy. 
 This is very probable, as they are a subtle, revengeful people, social and united in their 
 undertakings, and easily influenced and guided by their chiefs. At the present time, and 
 for many years past, their range has been along Milk River, on the east side of the Mis 
 souri, extending nearly as far as Cypress Mountains. From this line to the Marias River 
 stretches a beautiful, level country, well covered with grass, and adapted to the pasturage 
 of buffalo. Here the Indians under consideration may be found at all seasons, in the 
 winter, along the banks of Milk River, where wood can be obtained, and on the plains in 
 summer, where fuel is not so necessary. 
 
 As we have before stated, the Atsinas were originally a portion of the Arapoho tribe, 
 now occupying the country about the sources of the Platte River. We may here say, in 
 giving an account of their past wanderings, that the precise time of their separation from 
 the Arapohos is not known. For the last hundred years or more they have lived on the 
 Saskatchewan and near the sources of the Missouri. With the Blackfeet they have 
 always been on terms of peace and amity, having intermarried with them and learned to 
 speak their language. It is worthy of remark, that while nearly all of them speak the 
 Blackfoot language fluently, very few, if any, of the Blackfeet have ever acquired that of 
 the Atsinas. They usually converse in a low, quiet tone, and there is apparently such a 
 similarity and monotony in the words, as well as sounds, that their language is regarded 
 by the traders and Indians as the most difficult to learn of any on the Upper Missouri. 
 
INDIAN TRIBES OF THE MISSOU1U VALLEY. 341 
 
 No trader has ever acquired it sufficiently to carry on even an ordinary conversation, much 
 less to make a speech, though some of the old residents can pronounce the names of 
 different articles of trade with tolerable accuracy. All dealings or intercourse with them 
 by whites or Blackfeet are conducted through the language of the latter nation, which 
 abounds with interpreters. 
 
 In the year 1818, the Atsinas, having surprised and robbed one of the forts of the 
 Hudson's Bay Company, on a tributary of the Saskatchewan, fled to the sources of the 
 Missouri, where they passed the winter; but, finding no traders there to furnish them with 
 supplies or purchase their peltries, they continued their route across the mountains, and 
 joined once more their old relations the Arapohos. Here they resided and hunted in 
 common with the latter tribe for the space of five years, during which time the small-pox 
 passed among them, having been communicated through other tribes with whom they 
 were at peace or carried on a traffic. This disease, at that time, destroyed about half 
 their number, but secured the remainder from the next attack, which occurred in 1838. 
 At this latter period the small-pox only acted upon the young, and destroyed numbers of 
 them, but the chiefs and elderly men escaped, so that the tribe was not reduced to the 
 disorderly and helpless condition of the Blackfeet and other surrounding nations. 
 
 In the summer of 1823, the Atsinas became dissatisfied with the country of the Ara 
 pohos, and longed for their old district, or at least, for some place where the buffalo were 
 to be found in greater abundance than among the valleys of the mountains. The Crow 
 nation had been on terms of peace with the Arapohos for several years, but not being ac 
 quainted with the Atsinas, regarded them as enemies, from their previous union with the 
 Blackfeet. This fact the Atsinas well knew, and to avoid, meeting with the Crows on 
 their journey to the Missouri, they made a circuit of many miles west of the Crow dis 
 trict, passing near the Columbia. During this trip across the mountains, they came in 
 contact with a few white men trapping for beaver, some of whom they killed and robbed 
 of their property, while others escaped, and carried the intelligence of the murder of their 
 comrades to the main body of trappers. This was a company of sixty to eighty men, all 
 well armed, and versed in the different modes of Indian warfare. They were brave men, 
 headed by renowned leaders, Sublette and Fontinelle. Most of these trappers were as 
 sembled at their rendezvous, on a tributary of Big Snake River, not far from the place 
 where the murders were committed. 
 
 Always ready to avenge the death of any of their party, and to drive hostile Indians 
 from the mountains, they at once started to attack the advancing camp of the Atsinas. 
 The latter discovered their approach in time to erect several small forts and other breast 
 works, with such materials, hastily thrown together, as the country afforded. The trap 
 pers arrived, and one of the most severe engagements took place ever known in the Rocky 
 
342 ON THE ETHNOGRAPHY AND PHILOLOGY OF THE 
 
 Mountains. The Indians had the advantage of position and defensive barricades, the 
 trappers that of arms, ammunition, and skill. For two days a sharp firing was kept up on 
 both sides, the whites from behind trees and rocks, aiming at the openings in the forts, 
 and the Indians shooting any trapper that exposed his person to view. A number of ex 
 hibitions of individual daring occurred on the part of the trappers ; some of them leaped 
 into the middle of one of the defences, which contained about twenty Indians, whom they 
 killed and scalped, losing a few of their own party at the. same time. Mr. Sublette, the 
 leader, received a severe, though not mortal wound, from a ball passing through his body, 
 after breaking his arm. At the end of forty-eight hours, the trappers left the place, being 
 unable to dislodge the Indians from their barricades. In this conflict, fifty-six of the At- 
 sinas were killed, and about double that number wounded. The trappers had nine men 
 
 * 
 
 killed, and several wounded, some of whom subsequently died from their wounds. 
 
 As soon as possible after this battle, the Atsinas decamped, and pursued their journey 
 by long and rapid marches. Considering themselves out of the reach of their white 
 enemies, and beyond the limits of the range of the Crows, they travelled more leisurely, 
 and inclined more northward, with a view of reaching a portion of the Blackfeet, near St. 
 Mary's Valley. Even when they considered themselves most secure, still greater misfor 
 tunes were impending over them. It so happened that the whole Crow nation had been 
 on a visit to the Flatheads to obtain horses by barter, as was their usual custom. Having 
 concluded their traffic, the Crows returned home in two camps, about the same time that 
 the Atsinas were travelling through that region. Neither tribe was aware of the proxi 
 mity of the other, this portion of the mountains being unoccupied by Indians, and seldom 
 visited by war-parties. The Crows, also, were travelling from west to east, whilst the 
 others marched from the southwest in a northern direction. One of the Crow camps was 
 about two days' journey in advance of the other, when four young men started from the 
 hindmost camp to join the one in front. In the meantime, the Atsinas had advanced 
 nearly to the trail when the Crows had passed, and these young men, seeing the lodges, 
 supposed them to be their own people, and went directly to their village. They soon dis 
 covered their mistake, for the Atsinas at once killed three of them. The fourth, escaping 
 among the rocks and bushes, fled back to his people, and informed them of the fate of his 
 friends. To secure a signal revenge without farther loss, the Crows waylaid the Atsinas 
 in a certain pass which they knew their enemy would be obliged to travel through. This 
 spot they surrounded, and lay in ambuscade until their enemies entered and filled it with 
 out suspicion. The Crows then fired upon them from behind rocks and trees with safety. 
 The Atsinas were panic-stricken, and fled, leaving behind them their wounded, and some 
 of their women and children. They scarcely attempted a defence : only a few shots were 
 fired at the Crows, but without effect. Sixty-seven Atsinas were killed, and double that 
 
INDIAN TRIBES OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 343 
 
 number of women and children taken prisoners, many of whom can be seen among the 
 Crows at this time. The remainder of the Atsinas reached their people, the Blackfeet, 
 without farther loss, with whom they have continued to reside to this day, and are 
 classed as Blackfeet when that nation are spoken of as a body. 
 
 We have now given as correct an account of this nation as can be obtained from the 
 most intelligent Indians and traders of the country at the present time. We have 
 searched in vain among all the old books of travel for any definite account of the Atsinas 
 or Arapohos, and consequently, any accurate information in regard to them must be im 
 portant. 
 
 Umfreville, as far back as 1790, seems to have known of the Atsinas, and to have ob 
 tained a vocabulary of forty-four words of their language. According to his account, the 
 Hudson's Bay Company and the Nehethewas or Crees, called them Fall Indians, from the 
 fact of their inhabiting a district on the southern branch of the Saskatchewan, where the 
 rapids are frequent. He says : " As they are not very numerous, and have a harsh, gut 
 tural language peculiar to themselves, I am induced to think they are a tribe that has de 
 tached itself from some distant nation, with which we are not yet acquainted." He also 
 alludes to the impropriety of calling them Big-bellies, inasmuch as they are as comely and 
 as well made as any of the surrounding tribes. " They seem not to be acquainted with 
 the hunting of beaver, dressing skins, and killing small peltries, for they bring us nothing 
 but wolves, which they take by a variety of contrivances. Though we have interpreters 
 for all other Indian languages, none as yet have been able to attain a fluency sufficient to 
 be understood, and the general method of conversing is by speaking the Blackfoot tongue, 
 which is agreeable and soon acquired." 
 
 Mackenzie, in 1801, merely alludes to the Fall or Big-bellied Indians living on the Sas 
 katchewan. 
 
 Brackenridge* says : " The Gros Ventres of the Prairie speak the Crow language, and 
 wander on the South Fork of the Saskatchewan." 
 
 Morsef speaks of them as Rapid Indians, and remarks that they call themselves Paw- 
 is-tuck'-i-e-ne-wuck. From what source he obtained his information, he does not say. 
 
 GallatinJ also seems to have procured very little accurate information in regard to these 
 Indians, and in his comparisons, he used the small vocabulary of Umfreville. 
 
 The brief list of Atsina words given in these pages seems to be the only one, so far as I 
 can learn, that has ever been secured, except that of Umfreville, in 1790. It is a matter 
 of great surprise, that so little is known of this tribe, though it may be due to the fact, 
 that the Atsinas have always been classed with the Blackfeet. 
 
 These Indians have received a great variety of names, as Paunch, Fall, Eapid Indians, 
 
 * 1819. f 1822 - t 183G - 
 
 VOL. xii. 44 
 
ON THE ETHNOGRAPHY AND PHILOLOGY OF THE 
 
 Gros Ventres of the Prairie, Minnetarees of the Prairie, &c. They have also been con 
 founded with the Minnetarees of the Missouri, and one author says they speak the Crow 
 language. I will now endeavor to correct some of the errors which authors have fallen 
 into, in regard to these Indians. 
 
 The tribe tinder consideration call themselves Atsina, the meaning of which I could 
 not ascertain. They now live in and about the valley of Milk River, in latitude 48, 
 longitude 108, while the Minnetarees, or Gros Ventres de Missouri, as they are called 
 by the Canadians, reside in a permanent village on the left bank of the Missouri River, 
 near latitude 47, longitude 102. The latter speak a dialect of the Crow language, and 
 know very little, if anything, in regard to the former, for they have never met, either in 
 war or peace. 
 
 Their numbers have been variously estimated by different authors. The Prince Neu- 
 wied, in 1832 and '3, made their number about 200 lodges, and 400 to 500 warriors. 
 Gov. Stevens, in 1853, estimated them at 360 lodges, 900 warriors, and a total popula 
 tion of 2520. The last estimate is probably correct for the present time. In 1855, I took 
 a careful census of 60 lodges of Atsinas, and found that there was an average of a fraction 
 over five persons to a lodge. 
 
 VOCABULARY OF THE ATSl'NA DIALECT OP THE ARA'POHO LANGUAGE. 
 
 alive, life, na-tba'-ni-ta. 
 all, ba'-hi. 
 arm, nin'-is. 
 arrow, uts. 
 axe, a-nas'. 
 
 bad, wun'-a-tba. 
 
 bark, na'-si. 
 
 beard, bi-a-thut'-i. 
 
 bear, wa'-si. 
 
 beaver, a'-bit. 
 
 belly, wa-nut'-a. 
 
 bird, ni-i'-ha. 
 
 blood, ba-uts'. 
 
 boat, tse'-e-wa. 
 
 body, ni-tun'.i-ya. 
 
 bone, mun-i'-ya. 
 
 bow, ma-ta'. 
 
 boy, a-na'-he. 
 
 bread, kat'-san. 
 
 brother (older), ni-ti'-wa. 
 
 younger, na-tha'-wa. 
 
 buffalo, it-a'-nun. 
 bull, a-ni'-ke-a. 
 
 chief, ni-ke'-a. 
 child, te'-a-na. 
 corn, mis-ka'-ta. 
 cow, bi. 
 
 day, ba-a'-a. 
 darkness, bi'-hi-ka. 
 daughter, ni-ta'-na (my). 
 dead, death, na-kik'. 
 deer, ut-i-vi'-a-nin'-a. 
 dog, a'-te. 
 duck, ni-hi'-a. 
 
 ear, ke'-ta, mo-no-tun'-i. 
 earth, pi'-ton. 
 egg, nau'-na. 
 evening, i-to'-a. 
 eye, ba-si'-the. 
 
 face, it-a'-thi-wi'-a. 
 
 father, ne'-ha. 
 feet, i-thet'-ton. 
 finger, ba-kit'. 
 fire, sit' -a. 
 fish, na-qua'-a. 
 fox (red), ba'-thew. 
 
 (gray), no. 
 forehead, wa-tliaut'. 
 friend, ba'-ni. 
 
 girl, i-the'-e. 
 go, ke-tats'. 
 good, i'-ta. 
 goose, ne'-i. 
 grass, wa-se'-na. 
 great, be-na-thi'-a. 
 
 hair, mi'-ta. 
 hand, ma-kit' -in. 
 handsome, sin-i-sa'-ti, 
 hare, nat'-sa. 
 head, bi'-ta. 
 
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 heart, nut'-a. 
 hen (prairie), kin'-a. 
 hill, ka-te'-ni. 
 house, hut, ni'-nun. 
 husband, na'-si. 
 
 I, ni-na'-ni. 
 ice, wa'-ku. 
 Indian, ni-thit'. 
 iron, bct'-ste. 
 island, ka-a'-pu. 
 
 kettle, bet'-stc-na. 
 kill, nan-a'-a. 
 knife, wa-tha'. 
 
 leaf, bi-cish'-c. 
 leg, na-ats'. 
 light, ni-sin'. 
 lightning, c-sa'-an. 
 love, pi-tha'-ta. 
 
 man, ni-thun'-a. 
 many, much, wun-a-tauts'. 
 meat, a' -than, 
 moccasins, wa'-a. 
 moon, bi-ko'-is-is. 
 morning, na-na'-ka. 
 mother, e-naun'. 
 mountain, a-ha'-ni. 
 mouth, it'-i. 
 
 nails, wa'-us. 
 near, ek-i'-ba. 
 neck, wa'-thun. 
 
 night, tu'-ki. 
 no, tse. 
 nose, ba'-is. 
 
 old, bi-e-a'-wa. 
 
 pail, pi'-nats. 
 pipe, c'-tsa. 
 
 rain, na'-tha. 
 
 sea, ti-yo-ni'-ca. 
 see, na-na'-ha-qua-ki. 
 sing, ma'-ki-ha'-ke. 
 sister, te'-ya. 
 sleep, na-kas6'. 
 sky, un'-u. 
 small, a-ksi'-o. 
 snake, si'-sa-a. 
 snow, hi. 
 son (my), ni'-kun. 
 speak, na-ne'-kik. 
 spring, bi-ni'-ka. 
 squirrel, ba-thaut'-si. 
 star, ou-to-ha'. 
 stone, a-na'-ken. 
 strong, tin-a'-ik. 
 sun, is'-is. 
 
 this, i'-na. 
 thou, na'-na. 
 thunder, pa' -a. 
 tobacco, se-tha'-wa. 
 to-day, wa-ni'-i-hu-sin. 
 toe, wa-tha'-a. 
 
 to-morrow, na-kast'. 
 tongue, ni'-tun. 
 tooth, bi-it'-a. 
 town, ni'-i-nun. 
 tree (pine), tha'-a-ta. 
 
 ugly (bad heart), na-ta-wun'-a-tha. 
 
 walk, bc-oi-ta'-pc-ki. 
 warm, a-sit'-o. 
 warrior, nc-ta'-tit. 
 water, nets, 
 white, nun'-au-co. 
 who, hai'-yo. 
 wife, na'-ti-tha. 
 wind, a-tha'-tha. 
 winter (cold), na-ka'-U. 
 wolf, kai-i-ki'-tba. 
 woman, ith'-a. 
 wood, bes'-a. 
 
 yes, a'-e. 
 
 yesterday, a-ta'-ni. 
 young, wun-a-he'-ku. 
 
 one, nin-i-thi'-ki. 
 two, nin'-I-sits. 
 three, ni'-nid. 
 four, kin'-a-nits. 
 five, kin-a-ta'-nits. 
 six, ni-ka-ta'-sits. 
 seven, nin'-i-ta-ta'-sits. 
 eight, nin'-a-tha-ta'-sits. 
 nine, e-na'-na-pe-ta'-sits. 
 ten, ma-ta-ta'-sits. 
 
 PAWNEE GROTTP, C. 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 VI. PAWNEES. 
 
 ETHNOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 
 
 IT is somewhat remarkable that so little information of a definite character should have 
 been placed on record in regard to a nation which has been so long known as the Pawnees. 
 
346 ON THE ETHNOGRAPHY AND PHILOLOGY OF THE 
 
 I have searched with much care all the works within my reach, and can find no detailed 
 account of their history, only incidental allusions to them in the writings of various travel 
 lers. Gallatin remarks that they were visited by Bourgmont as early as 1724, and observes 
 that they occupied very nearly the same district of country over which they range at the 
 present time. I can find no reliable account of their migration from any distant point to 
 their present location. It is the opinion of Mr. Shea that Caviller alludes to them under 
 the name of Panismahans, in his account of " La Salle's Voyage to the Mouth of the 
 Mississippi, in 1688," where he notes the information given him by three Shawnee In 
 dians, " that there were other nations to the northwest, who had kings and chiefs, and 
 observed some forms of government, honoring and respecting their kings as Europeans do 
 theirs." Again, in the narrative of Father Doway, who, it seems, was a member of La 
 Salle's party, in his attempt to ascend the Mississippi, in 1687, we find the following 
 paragraph, which throws much light upon the location of numerous other tribes now in 
 habiting the Missouri Valley: "We crossed the Ouabache (Wabash) there on the 26th of 
 August (1687), and found it full sixty leagues to the mouth of the River Illinois, still 
 ascending the Colbert. About six leagues above this mouth there is on the northwest 
 the famous river of the Massourites, or Osages, at least as large as the river into which it 
 empties ; it is formed by a number of other known rivers, everywhere navigable, and in 
 habited by many populous tribes, as the Panimaha, who had but one chief and twenty- 
 two villages, the least of which has two hundred cabins ; the Paneassa, the Pana, the 
 Paneloza, the Matotantes, each of which, separately, is not inferior to the Panimaha. They 
 include also the Osages, who have seventeen villages on a river of their name, which 
 empties into that of the Massourites, to which the maps have also extended the name of 
 Osages. The Arkansas were formerly stationed on the upper part of one of these rivers, 
 but the Iroquois drove them out by cruel wars some years ago, so that they, with some 
 Osage villages, were obliged to drop down and settle on the river which now bears their 
 name, and of which I have spoken." The above account seems to me to be somewhat 
 confused, according to our present ideas of the geography of the Mississippi Valley ; but I 
 am inclined to think that the various tribes of Indians alluded to were located in the 
 Missouri Valley. In the narrative of the " Travels of Lewis and Clarke," may be found 
 the most reliable account of the location and condition of the Pawnees at the time when 
 these enterprising explorers ascended the Missouri. At that time, 1803, their principal 
 village was situated on the south side of the Platte, about forty-five miles above its mouth, 
 and contained about five hundred warriors. Not many years previously were added the 
 Republican Pawnees, so called from their having lived on a branch of the Kansas of that 
 name. This band numbered two hundred and fifty warriors. The third band was called 
 the Pawnee Loups, or Wolf Pawnees, who resided on the Wolf or Loup Fork of the 
 
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 Platte, and numbered about two hundred and eighty men. There was also a fourth band, 
 who originally ranged over the country bordering on the Kansas and Arkansas, but were 
 so often defeated in their wars with the Osages that they removed to Red River, forming 
 a tribe of four hundred men. "All these tribes live in villages and raise corn; but during 
 the intervals of culture rove in the plains in quest of buffalo." The band last mentioned 
 undoubtedly includes the Huecos and Witcliitas, whose villages are now located near each 
 other, between the Washita and Red Rivers. According to Gregg, these two tribes have 
 been called Pawnee Picts, from their habit of profuse tattooing. 
 
 At the time of Major Long's Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, in 1820, three bands, 
 Grand Pawnees, Pawnee Republics, and Pawnee Loups, all resided on the Platte and its 
 branches, and numbered about ten thousand souls. They seem to have been at that time 
 in a prosperous condition, and much devoted to agricultural pursuits. 
 
 The Pawnees at this time reside on the Loup Fork, a tributary of the Platte, having 
 been assigned a reservation on that river by the United States Government. 
 
 Very little attention has been given to the language of the Pawnees, as well as to their 
 history. So far as I can learn, the first vocabulary of their language was taken by Mr. 
 Say in 1820, and published in the report of Long's Expedition to the Rocky Mountains. 
 The Prince Neuwied also obtained a few words, and Gallatin, in his " Synopsis" (Archaeo- 
 logia Americana, Vol. II, pp. 305-367), simply repeats Say's list of words. Rev. Mr. Dun- 
 bar, for a long time a missionary among the Pawnees, prepared a small elementary work 
 in their language for the use of the mission, but as yet I have been unable to secure a 
 copy. No attempt has ever been made to work out the grammatical structure of the lan 
 guage. The following vocabulary was obtained for me by the Rev. William Hamilton, of 
 Bellevue, Nebraska, and, from his great experience in such matters, it is entitled to much 
 confidence. I have simply made some changes in the letters employed, to render the 
 orthography uniform throughout the entire memoir, and arranged the words in alphabetical 
 order. 
 
 VOCABULARY OF THE PAWNEE LANGUAGE. 
 
 A. 
 
 alive, ki'-si-kit. 
 
 all, kit'-o. 
 
 ant, pit'-a-ru. 
 
 antelope, a-pi'-ka-tos, flat horns. 
 
 arm, pe'-ru. 
 
 arrow, li'-ksu. 
 
 autumn, lits'-ko-ki. 
 
 axe, ka-ta'-ra-ki. 
 
 ka-ta'-ra-ta'-It, a battle-axe. 
 
 B. 
 
 back, lik-sta' ku, lek-sta'-ku. 
 bad, kau-ku'-ra-lii. 
 bag, ka-doa'. 
 
 dat-ka-tos', a woman's bag or satchel. 
 bark, laks-kus'. 
 beak, cos, beak, or nose, 
 bean, at-it'. 
 
 at-it'-di-wi'-ru, round bean, or pea. 
 bear, ko-roks'. 
 
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 beast, i'-ta, and i'-to. 
 
 beard, a-ka'-da-rus, and a-ku'-da-rus. 
 
 beaver, ki-tuk'. 
 
 bird, li-kuts'-ki. a bird. 
 
 kit-o-ka'-ru, all kinds of birds. 
 black, ti'-ka-tit. 
 bladder, ka-slt'-ki-ra'-ku. 
 blood, pa'-tu. 
 blue, ta-ri-us'. 
 boat, la-ku'-hu-ru. 
 
 tu-wau'-ruks-ti, a ship, sacred, medicine. 
 
 la-ku-ha-wau'-slks-ti, steamboat, medicine-boat, 
 body, ki-si-kit'-ri, a living body. 
 bone, ki'-su. 
 bow, ti-ra'-kish. 
 boy, pi'-ras-ki, and pi'-riis-ki. 
 bread, i'-de-ta. 
 
 breechcloth, kau'-di-o-kau'-i-o. 
 brother, i-da'-di-ko-ta'-ti, my brother. 
 buffalo, ta'-ra-ha. 
 
 ta'-ra-ha-ta'-ka, domestic cow, white buffalo. 
 to burn, ti-ta'-ra-ri. 
 
 C. 
 
 call, ti-wa'-ko-la'-ru, he calls. 
 cat, pak-sits'-ha-wi'-ru, wild cat. 
 pak-sits-ka'-ki-ats, panther. 
 chief, ni-sha'-ru. 
 
 chicken, puks, prairie chicken. Tetrao ciipido. 
 coat, na-ha'-si. 
 cold, ti-pit'-si. 
 
 corn, li-kis', ) 
 
 J- corn in the car. 
 leks, ) 
 
 le-ki-sha'-kuts, coarse grass, corn, 
 copper, pa-pi'-ci-spa. 
 cry, ti-ki'-kat, he cries. 
 
 me-ti'-ki-kat, crying. 
 crow, ka'-ka. Corvus. 
 
 D. 
 
 darkness, ta-ti'-sta-ha. 
 death, we-si'-kit. 
 
 we'-ti kot, dead. 
 
 ti-ko'-kOt, he is dead. 
 
 he-te'k, he dies. 
 
 daughter, fo-ra-ki'-ko-ta-ti, my daughter. 
 deer, a-ri'-ki-ra'-ru, a male deer, 
 toh, a female deer, a doe. 
 dog, as-ak'-i. 
 door, le-ka'-wi-u. 
 drink, ti-ki'-ha, he drinks. 
 
 wc-ti'-ki-ka, drinking, 
 duck, ki'-waks, and ki'-sat. 
 
 E. 
 
 eagle, llli'-ta-kats. 
 earth, a-ra'-nu. 
 eat, ti-wa'-wa, he eats. 
 
 we-le-wa'-wa, he is eating. 
 ear, ut-ka-ha'-ru. 
 
 a-do-ru'-sa-ka'-ha, long ears, a horse. 
 egg, li-pi'-ku. 
 elbow, pa-ro-c"uc'-kis. 
 elk, nali. 
 
 enemy, (5a-hlks-o'-pi'-in. 
 evening, wa-ti-sak'-u, dark, evening. 
 
 F. 
 
 face, ska'-u. 
 far off, kits-ti-lmts'. 
 fat, a-hit'-ki. 
 father, a-ti'-as-ko-ta'-ti, my father. 
 
 a-ti'-as-ko-ta'-se, your father. 
 
 a-ti'-as-ko'-ta, his father. 
 feather, hi'-tu. 
 
 finger nail, iks-pi'-to, and iks-pi'-to. 
 fire, lak-tit'. 
 fish, kat-se'-ik, 
 flesh, ki-sats'-ki. 
 flint, ta-hi-u'-ru. 
 flour, a'-rih -i-tu. 
 flower, ki-dek'-ta-rali'-a-ta. 
 fly, pi-ra-ras'-a-llt, horse-fly. 
 foot, as'-u. 
 
 forest, o-kat'-u-ha'-ri. 
 forever, lo-ho'-ri-ret. 
 forenoon, ki-ka'-rus. 
 friend, i-ra'-ri, 
 
 i-ra-n, 1 
 
 . , , . \ fnc 
 
 i-da-n, ) 
 
 friend or brother. 
 
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 G. 
 
 girl, o-da'-o, sha-lo', a boy, any of the Loup Pawnees. 
 
 co-wat', a little girl. 
 
 ti'-ki, a little boy. 
 
 6o'-ras-ki-ta-lus'-ki, a little girl. 
 
 pi'-ras-ki-ta-lus'-ki, a little boy. 
 god, ti-ra'-wa-kau-ku'-rau-hi, bad gods. 
 good, tu-ra'-hi. 
 gone, ne-tet', he has gone. 
 goose, kat-o'-rut. Loup Pawnees say ko-hat'. 
 
 kat-o-rut'-a-ka, white goose, 
 grass, ka'-ta-ru. 
 
 ha-rut'-ki-i-di, cut grass, hay. 
 great, ti'-ri-hu. 
 green, tit-a-ri-us'. 
 gun, ti-ra'-ku. 
 
 H. 
 
 hail, nih'-ots. 
 hair, o'-sa. 
 
 a-kau-da'-rus, hair of the mouth, 
 half, huks. 
 hand, ek-su. 
 handsome, tali'-ni. 
 hare, pa'-rus. 
 
 hawk, pi'-a-ki. i 
 
 he, ti-ra'-ku. 
 head, paks, puks. 
 hear, tat-kok', he hears, 
 heart, pi'-tsu. 
 heel, as'-kau-ki'-tu. 
 hill, pa-o-ti'-di-ho, a large hill, 
 hog, kol'i'-o, ko-shan', a word derived from the French 
 
 traders. 
 
 hot, ta'-wi-rits-to. 
 house, we'-ti-kau, in the house. 
 
 ak-a'-ra, a house. 
 husband, ta-wa'-ri-ko'-ta-ti, my husband, my married 
 
 one. 
 
 I. 
 
 I, lat. 
 
 ice, ta-si'-tu, hu-ra'-o. 
 
 in, ti-hak'. 
 
 Indian, ca'-hiks-i-ca'-hiks, literally, men of men, or the 
 
 last of men. 
 island, a'-wa-u. 
 
 K. 
 
 killed, we-tih'-o-tit', he killed it. 
 knife, let'-sik. 
 
 L. 
 
 laugh, ti-was'-ko, he laughs. 
 
 we'-ti-was'-ku, laughing. 
 lead, ti-ra-ka'-wi-u, lead balls. 
 leaf, sh'ki'-ka-la. 
 leg, kau-su'. 
 leggin, a-ka'-o-ku. 
 life, ki'-si-kit. 
 light, uks-e-kut'. 
 lightning, te-wau-wau'-pits. 
 liver, ka-di'-ku. 
 
 lodge, ak-a'-ska-rit'-ki, a skin lodge. 
 looked, to-ti-ri-ku', he looked on. 
 long, kau-ki-ra'-ki, not long. 
 love, ti-ra-pi'-ri-hu, 
 ti-ki'-si-kit , 
 
 . 
 
 he loves. 
 
 M. 
 man, pet'-a. 
 
 ti-pa'-hat, red man. 
 6a-hiks-ta-ka', white man. 
 ta-wa'-re-plt, 
 
 ta-wa -re-pit, 1 
 pi-to-ko'-ta-ti, ) 
 
 my man. 
 
 meat, ki-suts'-ki, fresh meat, 
 midday, sak-u-i-ka-ri'-kat. 
 midnight, i'-das-i-ka'-u-kat. 
 moon, ko'-ru. 
 
 ki'-waks, Duck moon, November. 
 
 lut, Snake moon, October. 
 
 kat-i-ha'-ru, six months, six moons, 
 morning, wet-a-he'-sha. 
 mother, a-ti-ra'-ko-ta-ti, my mother, 
 mouth, a'-ka-u. 
 muskrat, kit'-a-ka. 
 
 N. 
 navel, kau-su', and la-wats'. 
 
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 near, tr-ks'-ku-rat. 
 neck, pa-hiks'-kis. 
 no, kau'-hi. 
 nose, 60s. 
 nothing, kau-hdt'. 
 
 oar, kits-ka'-wi-tsa'-ku. 
 oats, li-ki'-sha-kuts, 
 
 0. 
 
 Ii-ki -sha-kuts, ) 
 
 J- food for horses, 
 a-ru -sa-ko -ta, J 
 
 old, ku'-ra-hush. 
 on, ti-hu'-ki-ta-sa. 
 otter, kit-a'-pat. 
 outside, o-ki-ta-ha'-hi-ri. 
 owl, pa-ho'-ru. 
 
 P. 
 
 part, kau'-ki. 
 partridge, ot-kis'-is. 
 perhaps, ki'-ri-ku. 
 
 ki'-ri-ku-i'-rit, perhaps so. 
 pepper, kats-kau-pit', black pepper, 
 pipe, not'-a-wi-ska'-ru. 
 
 ka'-ta-ra-pik'-sklt, tomahawk pipe, 
 plover, tit. 
 potato, its, ets. 
 powderhorn, a-di'-i-ki. 
 pumpkin, pa-haks'. 
 
 i pa-hak'-sa-las, ripe pumpkins. 
 
 R. 
 
 rain, ta-tson'. 
 
 red, ti'-pa-hat'. 
 
 river, kits-wa'-ruk-sti, Medicine River. 
 
 kits-ka-tiis', Shallow River, Plattc. 
 road, hat-o'-ru, a trail or road. 
 rose, pa'-hat. 
 
 S. 
 
 salt, kau'-it. 
 scalp, puks-slt'-skus. 
 sea, ki-ra-rlk'-shis. 
 seat, ki-di'-ru, seat or rump, 
 see, si-sit', he sees. 
 
 September, ki-shot'. 
 
 sheep, a'-ri-ka-rits'. 
 
 shoe, as-o'-ru, shoe or moccasin. 
 
 shoulder, kit-ska'-su. 
 
 silver, wa-pi'-(5i-sta-pi'-ri-hu, best metal. 
 
 sinew, as-kats'-ki. 
 
 sing, ti'-ra-ruli. 
 
 sister, i-la-he', used by the men, iny sister. 
 
 i-da-di', women use this form, 
 skin, ska-rit'-ki. 
 sky, ska'-u, sky, heaven, 
 slough, ki'-wa-ha'-ru, lake, slough, 
 ki-wa'-ha-kuts, big slough, 
 small, ki-ta-lus'-ki. 
 smooth, ki-ri-bats'-ki. 
 snake, lut'-ki. 
 snipe, paks-ki-ra'-ruts. 
 snow, we-toh'-sha, it snows. 
 
 toh'-sa, snow. 
 
 son, pi-ras'-ko-ta'-ti, my son, or my boy. 
 speak, ti-wa'-ku, he speaks, 
 spear, u-ruk'-sis. 
 spirit, tc-ra'-wa, Great Spirit. 
 
 le-kat-sa'-ro, a ghost, wandering spirit, 
 spring, a-ra'-ri-ka. 
 
 kits-taks', spring or fountain, 
 squirrel, ski'-pis. 
 stomach, la-ca'-kits. 
 stone, ka-rit'-ki. 
 
 ka-rit'-ki-ti-di-hu', large stone, rock, 
 strike, ti-ta'-hi, he strikes, 
 strong, tit-a'-rali-ish'. 
 sugar, la-ki'-tsu. 
 summer, li'-at. 
 sun, sak'-o-ru. 
 
 T. 
 
 thigh, pa'-ki-su. 
 
 thistle, pi-ra-ha'-tus. 
 
 thou, las. 
 
 thumb, skits' -kuts, big finger. 
 
 ske'-tsi, finger. 
 thunder, toh-i'-ri-ru. 
 tie, sta-dlt', he ties. 
 
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 toad, sko-roli'-iks. . 
 tobacco, na-wifl'-ka-ru. 
 
 toe nail, as-pi'-tu. 
 to-morrow, la-hi'-sa. 
 tooth, _a-do', a-du'. 
 tree, la-klsh'. 
 
 la-hi'-di-buts'-ki, a shrub, or small tree. 
 
 ti-lm'-ki-ta-hu, on the tree, 
 turtle, i-caus', i-tus'. 
 
 ugly, kau-holi'-ui. 
 
 U. 
 
 V. 
 
 valley, kat-os', kat-us'. 
 
 vein, pa-tu-hu'-ru. 
 
 village, a'-hi-ta-ra, a town or village. 
 
 W. 
 
 walk, ti-wa'-ri, he walks. 
 
 wampum, ki-dlks-iit'-ka-u-da'-wia. 
 
 war-club, a-da-ke'-du-eu'-ku. 
 
 warrior, a-ri-pu'-kus. 
 
 water, ki-tsu'. 
 
 wasp, pats'-bu, wasp, bee. 
 
 we, a'-hats. 
 
 weak, kau-ki-ta'-rali-ish. 
 
 weed, i'-du. 
 
 what?ka? (asking a question.) 
 
 ta-ki'-ru-da'-hiks, what person ? 
 white, ti-ta'-ka, ta'-ka. 
 who, ta-ki'-ru. 
 wife, eV-nat-ko-ta'-te. 
 wind, o-to'-ru. 
 winter, pi'-6i-kat. 
 wish, ti-wits'-ke, he wishes, 
 within, kau'-wi-hi-ri. 
 without, o-ki'-ta-ha'-hi-ri. 
 woman, ea'-pat. 
 
 do'-ras, ) 
 
 Y a young, unmarried woman. 
 co-ra-ke, j 
 
 worm, pi'-ras. 
 woodcock, kau'-pat. 
 
 Y. 
 
 year, ti-ra'-ku-i-kat'-i-ha'-ru. 
 yellow, ti-rali'-at-a. 
 yes, i'-rit. 
 
 yesterday, ti-ruks'-a-ha'-ta-ki. 
 young, pi'-ras-ki. 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 VII. ARI'KAEAS. 
 
 ETHNOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 
 
 
 
 THE Arikaras, or Rees, as they are called by the French traders, were originally the same 
 people as the Pawnees of the Platte River, their language being nearly the same. That 
 they migrated upward, along the Missouri, from their friends below, is established by the 
 remains of their dirt villages, which are yet seen along that river, though at this time 
 mostly overgrown with grass. At what time they separated from the parent stock is not 
 now correctly known, though some of their locations appear to have been of very ancient 
 date, at least previous to the commencement of the fur trade on the Upper Missouri. At 
 the time when the old French and Spanish traders began their dealings with the Indians 
 of the Upper Missouri, the Arikara village was situated a little above the mouth of Grand 
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 Elver, since which time they have made several removals, and arc now located at Fort 
 Clark, the former village of the Mandans. 
 
 The Arikaras have never manifested a very friendly disposition toward white men ; in 
 deed, it is said, that feelings of bitter animosity and hatred toward them are taught to their 
 children, as soon as they are able to understand. This appears to have been a traditionary 
 custom handed down from their ancestors, originating, no doubt, in some difficulties with 
 the first settlers of the Western borders, which also were the probable cause of their emigra 
 tion. Whatever the cause may have been, this system of education has been persisted in 
 with the young even to the present time, and the consequences have been severely felt 
 through successive generations. It was with great difficulty that a trade could be opened 
 with them, when they inhabited their old village near Grand River, and individual enter 
 prise had established trading-posts for the Dakotas and other tribes lower down. Their 
 thieving and murderous propensities were so great, that but few men would run the risk 
 of living among them, and repeated attempts resulted in the deaths of those who tried the 
 experiment. Still others ventured, and in the course of time a trade in their village was 
 begun, though not established on a veiy secure basis. At the time the trade commenced 
 on the Upper Missouri, the Arikaras numbered from one hundred and eighty to two hun 
 dred cabins, and eight hundred warriors. 
 
 The cabins or huts of the Arikaras and other stationary tribes are built by planting four 
 posts in the ground in the form of a square, the posts being forked at the top to receive 
 transverse beams. To the beams other timbers are attached, the lower extremities of 
 which describe a circle, or nearly so, the interstices being filled with small twigs, the whole 
 thickly overlaid with willows, rushes, and grass, and plastered over with mud, laid on very 
 tliick. A hole is left in the top for the smoke to pass out, and another in the side for the 
 door. This is the position of the building above ground, but within the circle an excava 
 tion is made two to four feet deep, and thus persons can stand upright or walk about with 
 case in the interior, except at the portion of the circle where the beds of the inmates are 
 made. The door opens a few steps distant from the main building, on the surface of the 
 ground, from which by a gradual descent through a covered passage of about ten feet, the 
 interior of the hut is reached. The door is of wood, and the aperture large enough to 
 admit a favorite horse to the family circle, which is often done. Around the house on the 
 outside a small trench is dug, to carry away the rain. 
 
 These buildings are located within fifteen or twenty feet of each other, without any 
 regard to regularity ; nothing like streets are formed, and the houses are so much alike 
 that a stranger is liable to lose his way in the village. 
 
 These Indians cultivate small patches of land on the Missouri bottom, each family till 
 ing from a half to one and a half acres, which are separated from each other by rude brush 
 
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 and pole fences. The land is wrought entirely with hoes by the women, and the vegeta 
 bles raised are Indian corn, pumpkins, and squashes of several kinds. The corn is said 
 to be the original kind discovered with the continent, and is quite different in appearance 
 from that raised in the States. The stalk is from three to six feet in height, seldom more 
 than four or four and a half feet, and the cars grow in clusters near the surface of the 
 ground. One or two ears sometimes grow higher upon the stalk, which appears too slen 
 der to support any more. The grain is small, hard, and covered with a thicker shell than 
 that raised in warmer climates. It does not possess the same nutritive qualities as food 
 for animals as the larger kind, but is more agreeable to the taste of the Indians. It is 
 raised with so little labor that it seems well calculated for them. An acre usually pro 
 duces about twenty bushels. When green, a portion is gathered and partially boiled, 
 after which it is dried, shelled, and laid aside. This is called sweet corn, and is preserved 
 any length of time, and when well boiled it differs little from green corn fresh from the 
 stalk. The Indians plant about the middle of April or the beginning of May, according 
 to the mildness or severity of the spring, and the ears are gathered about the beginning 
 of August. The crops are not uniformly good, being subject to inundations from the 
 Missouri, or to long periods of drouth. A moderately wet season is always favorable, and 
 from two thousand to four thousand bushels of corn are raised by this nation. Cellars are 
 dug within the houses, in which the various kinds of produce are stored. 
 
 Many superstitious rites and ceremonies are performed at the time of planting corn, and 
 also at different periods during the growth of the crops ; some or perhaps all of which 
 take their rise in ancient tradition, and are very singular, and exhibit the original modes of 
 thought and worship practised by their forefathers. Some of them are very indelicate in 
 their character, and indicate the lowest state of animal degradation. 
 
 After corn, squashes next claim their attention in agriculture. They grow on large and 
 very strong vines, and are of various sizes and shapes. They are either boiled and eaten 
 when green, or cut up and dried for winter use. In the latter case they become very hard, 
 and are scarcely edible when cooked, except by the natives, who seem to devour them with 
 a gusto and a preference not shown for any other vegetable except sweet corn. 
 
 The crops being gathered in, are stored away in the cellars before alluded to, or buried 
 on the field in different places, in what are called by the Canadian traders caches, so con 
 structed as to be impervious to rain, and so well covered that no one could discover them 
 without a knowledge of their locality. Whatever is concealed in this way is intended to 
 remain in the ground until the succeeding spring, at which time buffalo usually being far 
 distant, it is their only resource for food. Besides the great advantages accruing to them 
 selves over other wandering tribes, by tilling the soil, they have two markets for their sur 
 plus produce. The first is the fort of the American Fur Company, located near their 
 
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 village, at which they trade from five hundred to eight hundred bushels in a season. This 
 trade on the part of the Indians is carried on by the women, who bring the corn by pan- 
 fuls or the squashes in strings, and receive in exchange knives, hoes, combs, beads, paints, 
 &c., also ammunition, tobacco, and other useful articles for their husbands. In this way 
 each family is supplied with all the smaller articles needed for a comfortable existence ; 
 and though the women perform all the labor, they are compensated by having their full 
 share of the profits. 
 
 The second market for their grain is with several bands of the Dakotas, who are at peace 
 with them. These Indians make their annual visits to the Arikaras, bringing buffalo- 
 robes, skins, meat, &c., which they exchange for corn ; and the robes and skins thus ob 
 tained enable the Arikaras to buy at the trading-post the various cloths and cooking 
 utensils needed by the women, and the guns, horses, &c., required by the men. 
 
 At the commencement of the winter the Arikaras leave their village in quest of buffalo, 
 which seldom approach near enough to be killed in the vicinity of their cabins. They 
 then encamp in skin tents, in various directions from the Missouri or along its banks, 
 wherever the buffalo may chance to range. They pass the winter in hunting, and return 
 to their permanent village early in the spring, bringing with them their skins in an un 
 prepared state, with a great supply of meat. The buffalo skins are then dressed into robes 
 before the season for planting arrives, and the meat with their reserves of corn enables them 
 to live well. The Arikaras are also good fishermen, and take the fish by placing pens 
 made of willows in the eddies of the Missouri. The fish entering the door of the pen or 
 basket, it is closed, and often large numbers are thus secured. The Arikaras arc also 
 good swimmers, venturing out on floating cakes, of ice when the Missouri breaks in the 
 spring, and bringing ashore the bodies of drowned buffalo that are drifting by. Multitudes 
 of these animals, in attempting to cross the river in the fall before the ice is strong enough 
 to support them, break through, and often whole herds are thus drowned, their bodies 
 remaining in the mud until the ice moves in the spring, when they are carried down by 
 the current. They are often piled up along the shore, impregnating the air with their 
 decomposing flesh. Even in this condition the Arikaras seem to prefer the meat, which 
 is eaten raw, and though one would suppose that disease in its worst forms would be 
 engendered, no injurious results follow. 
 
 The gathering of drift-wood in the spring is also a very hazardoiis employment, and is 
 performed almost entirely by the women. There being but little timber for fuel in the 
 vicinity of their village, it becomes necessary for them to secure the drift-wood in the time 
 of high water in the spring, and then the women sail out on the masses of ice, attach cords 
 to the floating trees, and haul them to land. Whenever there is an unusual quantity of 
 wood floating down the current, all the village, men, women, and children, turn out, and 
 
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 the river is alive with them from shore to shore, leaping from one cake of ice to another, 
 sometimes falling in and whirling by in the rapid current. It is very dangerous employ 
 ment, yet they are so nimble, so expert swimmers, and such good judges of the solidity 
 of the ice-cakes, that comparatively few accidents occur. Such arc some of their resources 
 for living, and poor as they are they are better than those of the Dakotas and other wan 
 dering tribes. 
 
 The Arikaras, though stupid in many respects, show considerable ingenuity in making 
 tolerably good and well-shaped vessels for cooking purposes. They arc wrought by hand 
 out of clay, and baked in the fire, though not glazed. They consist of pots, pans, por 
 ringers, and mortars for pounding corn. They are of a gray color, stand well the action 
 of fire, and are nearly as strong as ordinary potter's ware. For pounding corn and other 
 hard substances, they make also mortars of stone, working the material into shape with 
 great labor and perseverance. These utensils, though clumsy, seem to be preferred by 
 them to metallic ones, for though the latter can now be had at a trifling cost, they con 
 tinue their manufacture, and will scarcely exchange them for others, to us, more conve 
 nient and durable. They also possess the art of melting beads of different colors, and 
 casting them in moulds of clay for ornaments, some of which are very handsome. In 
 common with the Mandans and Minnetarees, they make skin canoes, which are of great 
 service to them. The body of the boat is made of willows, bent round like a basket, and 
 tied to a hoop at the top, which forms a circle about three or four feet in diameter. The 
 hide of a buffalo, either fresh from the animal, or if dry, well soaked in water, is stretched 
 over the frame, the hair side within. It is then turned upside down, dried, and sometimes 
 smeared with tallow. The whole is made of a single skin, can be carried easily by a 
 woman from place to place, and will convey three men across the Missouri with tolerable 
 safety. 
 
 The domestic character and habits' of the Arika,ras are decidedly move filthy than those 
 of any other tribe on the Upper Missouri. In their dress, they are greasy and slovenly, 
 both men and women, and their hair is seldom untangled by a comb, though frequently 
 amongst the men stuck together in tufts with gum, and then plastered over with clay, 
 grease, and paint, affording excellent pasture-ground for vermin, which grow to a great 
 size, multiply and spread over the cranium and clothes, and even into every nook and 
 corner of their cabins. There are neither handsome men nor women among them ; the 
 former have sharp, sneaking, thieving looks, shabby in their dress, and ungraceful in their 
 general deportment, and the latter coarse features, thick lips, short and thick-set persons, 
 and both young, and old are often more or less tainted with syphilitic diseases. 
 
 Many of the Arikara families are said to sleep indiscriminately together, the father 
 beside the daughter, the brother with the sister, and this is the only nation in which 
 incest is not regarded as disgraceful and criminal. 
 
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 The literature of the Arikara language is quite brief. They call themselves Sa-nish' 
 or Ta-nish', which means " the people," a common form of expression among the Indian 
 tribes, indicating their supposed superiority in their own estimation, llces, Ricaras, 
 Aricaras, Arickaras, &c., are names which have been given them by the early traders, but 
 their origin is obscure. The first vocabulary of their language, which is quite an exten 
 sive and excellent one, was obtained by the Prince Neuwied, in the winter of 1833 and 
 '4. At that time, the Arikaras did not occupy their village on the Missouri, but had re 
 moved the year before, far into the prairie country toward the southwest, and were said 
 to live somewhere near the sources of the Plattc Elver. The exact time of their return is 
 not known to me, but it must have been soon after, or rather their absence could not 
 have been more than three or four years. At the time when Catlin visited the Upper 
 Missouri, the Arikaras lived in their dirt village near the mouth of Grand lliver. In 
 the appendix to his important work on the North American Indians, he has given an ex 
 cellent though brief vocabulary. No others of importance have been published, so far as 
 I can learn. The following vocabulary, which is more extensive than any ever before 
 obtained, was taken by me from the lips of an Arikara chief, aided by Mr. Andrew 
 Dawson, an intelligent Scotchman, who was superintendent of Fort Clark for many years, 
 and spoke the Arikara language with a good degree of fluency. From the Indian chief 
 I obtained the correct pronunciation, and from Mr. Dawson the true meaning of the 
 words. I therefore publish it in this memoir, with a good degree of confidence in its ac 
 curacy. 
 
 rilllASES, NUMERALS, ETC. 
 
 ti-hc-po'-nti-he, on the tree yonder, 
 a-ka'-nu-tik-a'-ku, inside the house, 
 wet-heu'-kut-a, go across the water, 
 shish-hau'-kut-a, come across the water, 
 ka-weu'-trc-ha-na'-ni-ku, are you married ? 
 (5e-kun-hau-whit', where are you going ? 
 sku'-hu-ne-sic-ah-u, give me a knife, 
 koh'-ti-kut'-cish, I will be glad, 
 tut-i-tik'-ush, I am strong, 
 tre-tik'-ush, you arc strong, 
 aps-ko'-tik-ot, he will die. 
 koh'-he'-kot, you will die. 
 koli-tik-ot', I will die. 
 we-te-ko'-te-hem', I am dying, 
 we-tuh-nu'-ba-ik, he speaks bad of me. 
 na-tu-tesh'-h'a, I am wise. 
 tash-lia', you are wise. 
 
 ka-kesh'-ka, you are not wise. 
 
 koh -tcsh'-ka, I will be wise. 
 
 koh -esh'-ka, you will be wise. 
 
 c'c-kiin'-hau-kre, where have you been ? 
 
 we-tut-swin'-heu, it rains hard. 
 
 wi-ta'-su, it is raining. 
 
 wi-ta'-ha, it is snowing. 
 
 shuh-kre'-nit, put some wood on the fire. 
 
 tir-aub'-sha, it is smoking. 
 
 ta-we'-ris-ta, it is a warm day. 
 
 tir-i-wi'-it, it is hot. 
 
 tip'-,si, it is cold. 
 
 wet-ik'-ot, it is dead. 
 
 wet-ster'-it, it is tied. 
 
 kak-stcr'-it, it is not tied. 
 
 shiih-he-re'-pi, 
 
 shuh-ster'-it, 
 
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 - tie it, (imp.) 
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 shuli-o'-tit, kill him. 
 
 sh fili-tail', strike him. 
 
 ta'-ku-to-tit, I killed him. 
 
 we-ta-tuli'-o-tit, I have killed him. 
 
 koli-tik-o'-tit, I will kill him. 
 
 wet-a-tuli'-ster-it, I have tied it. 
 
 koh-ster'-it, I will tie it. 
 
 ta-tu-te'-rit-ku-nuTi, I saw a bear. 
 
 ta-tu-te'-ri-ku, I see it. 
 
 we'-ta-tu-ter'-it, I have just observed it. 
 
 ka-ka-ku'-ter-it, I do not see it. 
 
 te-ku-na'-rit, where does it stand ? 
 
 ti-it'-ne-sic, this is a knife. 
 
 sa-nish'-ta-ka-a-ka'-nu-tish-ku'-nit, the white man's 
 
 house is near, 
 wc-ta'-ti-kut'-cish, I am glad. 
 
 we-tre-kut'-cish, you are glad. 
 
 kuli-e-kut'-eish, you will be glad. 
 
 ni-ku'-ta-wi-ku'-su-na'-ka-wa, where the sparrowhawk 
 builds its nest, Square Butte Creek. 
 
 wi-sa'-sa-nin'-i, Heart River. 
 
 wi-tcts-han-sa-nin'-i, Gros Ventres Creek. 
 
 wa-hu-tu'-nu, Wind Butte. 
 
 sa-ka-nin'-i, our village, the Eee Village. 
 
 ka-nu-na-e'-wat, the stone that reveals the news. This 
 rock is seen about two days' journey from the lice 
 Village, and is considered sacred by the Indians. 
 
 ka-nit', Mandans. 
 
 wi-tets'-han, Minnetarees, well-dressed people. 
 
 sun-nun'-at, the Dakotas, meaning of the word un 
 known. 
 
 sa-nish', "the people." 
 
 NAMES OP BANDS. 
 
 1. suli-ut'-it, Black Mouths. 
 
 2. ho-suk'-hau-nu, Foolish Dogs. 
 
 3. ha-cV-pi-ri-i-nu', Young Dogs. 
 
 4. hi'-a, Band of Crees. 
 
 5. o-kos', Band of Bulls. 
 
 6. ka-ka', Band of Crows. 
 
 7. ho-suk'-hau-nu ka-ke'-ri-hu, Little Foolish Dogs. 
 
 8. pau-shuk', Band of Cut-throats. 
 
 NAMES OF PRINCIPAL MEN OP EACH BAND. 
 
 1. su-ta'-ka, The White Shield. 5. ku-nu-te'-shan, Chief Bear. 
 
 2. sit-hau'-ce, The one who first rushes on the enemy. 6. tuh'-ni-na-ka-ta'-au-u-kut, lie who strikes the foe 
 
 3. ci-na'-ni-tu, The Brother. between two fires. 
 
 4. de-re-na'-kut-a, Yellow Wolf. 7. ti-ga-ra-nish', He who strikes many. 
 
 NUMERALS. 
 
 one, ah'-o. 
 
 two, pit'-i-ku. 
 
 three, ta-whit'. 
 
 four, cV-tish. 
 
 five, she'-hu. 
 
 six, sha'-pis. 
 
 seven, tup-sha'-pis-wan. 
 
 eight, tup-sha'-pis. 
 
 nine, nuli-i-ni'-wan. 
 
 ton, nuh-i-ni'. 
 
 eleven, pit'-i-ku-nfih-i-ni'-wan. 
 
 twelve, pit'-ik-oli'-in-i. 
 
 thirteen, na'-ku-git'-a-wan. 
 
 fourteen, na-ku'-git. 
 fifteen, ah'-ko-git'-u. 
 sixteen, wi-tuc'. 
 seventeen, wi-tu6'-is-ku'-git. 
 eighteen, wi-tau'-an. 
 nineteen, wi-tau'-ali-ko-ka'-ki. 
 twenty, wi-tau'. 
 twenty-one, wi-tau'-ali-o. 
 twenty-two, wi-tau-pit'-i-ku. 
 twenty-three, wi-tau'-ta-whit'. 
 twenty-four, wi-tau'-na-6e'-tish. 
 twenty-five, wi-tau'-na-she'-hu. 
 twenty-six, wi-tau'-na-sha'-pis. 
 
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 twenty-seven, wi-tau'-na-tup-sha'-pis-wan. 
 twenty-eigh t, wi-tau'-na-tup-sha'-pis. 
 twenty-nine, wi-tau'-na-nuli-i-ni'-wan. 
 thirty, sa-wi'-u. 
 
 thirty-one, wi-tau-pit'-i-ku-nuli'-i-ni'-wan. 
 thirty-two, wi-tau-pit'-ik-oli'-in-i. 
 thirty-eight, pit'-i-ku-na-nu-wan'. 
 thirty-nine, pit'-i-ku-na-nu'-ali-o-ka'-ki. 
 forty, pit'-i-ku-na-nu'. 
 forty-one, pit'-i-ku-na-nu'-na-ah'-o. 
 fifty, pit'-i-ku-na-nu'-na-nuh'-i-na. 
 fifty-one, pit'-i-ku-na-nu-pit'-i-ku-nul'i-i-ni'-wan. 
 fifty-eight, ta-whit'-ku-na-nu'-wan. 9 
 
 fifty-nine, ta-whit'-ku-na-nu'-al'i-o-ka'-ki. 
 sixty, ta-whit'-ku-na-nu'. 
 sixty-one, ta-whit'-ku-na-nu'-na-ali'-o. 
 seventy, ta-whit'-ku-na-nu'-na-nuh'-i-ni. 
 seventy-eight, cV-tish-ta-nu-wan'. 
 seventy-nine, cV-tish-ta-nu-ah'-o-ka-ki. 
 eighty, cY-tish-ta-nu'. 
 eighty-one, cY-tish-ta-nu'-na-ali'-o. 
 ninety, cV-tish-ta-nu'-na-nuli'-i-ni. 
 ninety-eight, shc'-hu-ta-nu-wan'. 
 ninety-nine, she'-hu-ta-nu-na-ali'-o-ka-ki. 
 one hundred, she'-hu-ta-nu. 
 one hundred and one, she-hu'-ta-nu'-na-ah'-o. 
 one hundred and eighteen, sha'-pis-ta-nu-wan'. 
 one hundred and nineteen, sha'-pis-ta-nu-ali'-o-ka-ki. 
 one hundred and twenty, sha'-pis-ta-nu. 
 one hundred and thirty, sha'-pis-ta-nu-nuh'-i-ni. 
 one hundred and thirty-eight, tup-sha'-pis-wan-a-nu'- 
 wan. 
 
 one hundred and thirty-nine, tup-shu'-pis-wan-sa nish'- 
 
 ali'-o-ka'-ki. 
 
 one hundred and forty, tup-sha'-pis-wan-sa-nish'. 
 one hundred and fifty, tup-sha'-pis-wan-sa-nish'-nuli'- 
 
 i-ni. 
 
 one hundred and fifty-eight, tup-sha'-pis-ta-nu-wau'. 
 one hundred and fifty-nine, tup-sha'-pis-ta-nu'-ali-o- 
 
 ka'-ki. 
 
 one hundred and sixty, tup-sha'-pis-sa-nish', or, ta-nu'. 
 one hundred and seventy, tup-sha'-pis-ta-nu'-na-nuh'- 
 
 i-ni. 
 one hundred and seventy-eight, nuli'-i-ni-wan'-na-nu- 
 
 wan'. 
 one hundred and seventy-nine, nuh'-i-ni-wan'-sa-nish'- 
 
 na-ali-o-ka'-ki. 
 
 one hundred and eighty, nuli'-i-ni-wan'-sa-nisli'. 
 one hundred and ninety, nuh'-i-ni-wan'-sa-nish'-na- 
 
 nuli'-i-ni. 
 
 one hundred and ninety-eight, nuh'-i-ni-na-nu-wan'. 
 one hundred and ninety-nine, nuh'-i-ni-na-nu'-uh-o- 
 
 ka'-ki. 
 
 two hundred, nfili'-i-ni-na-nu', or, sa-nish'. 
 three hundred, ali-o-git'-u-sa-nish'. 
 four hundred, wi-tau'-sa-nish'. 
 five hundred, wi-tau'-na-she'-hu-sa-nish'. 
 six hundred, sa-wi'-u-sa-nish'. 
 seven hundred, wi-tau'-ah-o-git'-u-sa-nish'. 
 
 
 
 eight hundred, pit'-i-ku-na-nu'-sa-nish'. 
 
 nine hundred, pit'-i-ku-na-nu'-na-she'-hu-sa-uish'. 
 
 one thousand, pit'-i-ku-na-nu-na-nuh'-i-ni-sa-nish'. 
 
 VOCABULARY OF THE ARl'lCARA DIALECT OF THE PAWNEE LANGUAGE. 
 
 A. 
 above, as'-kut. 
 
 as-kut'-nu-he, far above, in the sky. 
 afar, ci'-stit, afar off, away, 
 alive, tit-cit-cit'. 
 all, git'-u, all, the whole. 
 
 we-ku-tu'-ut, all the time, always, 
 ankle, in-e-sa-wi'-o. 
 
 antelope, na-nu-na<5'. 
 ant, pit'-a-ru. 
 arm, wi'-nu. 
 arrow, ni-shu'. 
 ash, cin-i-na'-ku. 
 
 autumn, nis-kuli'. 
 
 
 awl, tuli'-ni, an awl. 
 
 axe, ka-ta-rue. 
 
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 B. 
 
 back, sta'-ku. 
 bad, ka-ku'-na-he'. 
 bark, na-sku'-hu. 
 bead, c7-nish. 
 
 ci'-nish-ai-rc-push', small beads. 
 
 ci'-nish-ta-ka'-ta, yellow beads. 
 
 di'-nish-ka-tik', black beads. 
 bean, at'-it. 
 
 at'-it-hu-na'-nun. 
 bear, ku-nuli'. 
 
 ku-nuh'-ta-ka, white bear. 
 
 ku-nul'i '-a-tik, black bear. 
 beard, a-ra'-nu-hu'. 
 beaver, git-ul\'. 
 
 belt, sah'-se'-ish, a leathern belt, 
 bird, niks. 
 
 he-rus', a snow-bird. Junco Jiyemalis. 
 black, ti-ka-tik'. 
 bladder, kali-ci'-ra-nu. 
 blanket, nau-wi'-nu. 
 
 nauli-ta'-ka, gray or white blanket, 
 nauh-ta'-ka-re-liu', blue blanket, 
 nauh-ta'-ka-ka-tik', black blanket, 
 naul'i-ta'-ka-pa, a red blanket, 
 blood, pa'-tu. 
 blue, tit-e-re'-uli. 
 boat, na-ko-hon'. 
 
 na-ko-hon'-ska-ru6, a skin boat. 
 
 na-kuli-wa'-na-kuh, steamboat, roaring boat. 
 
 ku'-su, a large boat. 
 
 nac, a wooden boat. 
 
 c'er'-i-pasc', a small boat. 
 body, tan-ith'-tan. 
 bone, di'-shu. 
 bow, na'c. 
 box, ha'-ku. 
 boy, ini-nuli'c'. 
 
 bread, iz-et'-ta-ta-ish'-u, hard bread, 
 breast, wa'-ku-ka'-u. 
 bridle, a-ka'-ra-ka'-ra-ku. 
 brother, a-ti'-tat, a brother, 
 i na'-ni, big brother. 
 
 shi-na'-ta-ni, my brother, 
 na-ra-nit'-ish-u, elder brother, 
 ka-wi'-ta, younger brother. 
 brush, wa-pe'-i-sus, a brush for clothes, 
 buffalo, ta'-na-ha. 
 
 6i-wi'-e-ku, a male buffalo, 
 wa-tash', a female or cow. 
 burning, wct-whcu'*-ni-wit. 
 burn, t'whcu'-it, to burn. 
 
 C. 
 calf, ha-nit'. 
 
 ha-ni'-pat, a red calf, 
 cap, su-na-we'-wa. 
 chief, ne-sha'-nu. 
 child, pi'-ra-o. 
 
 pi-re-ha'-re, a young child, a year old, or more. 
 
 pi-re-cip'-e-ri, a new-born child, 
 cloth, na-wi'-nu. 
 
 na-wi-na'-wish, strouding, or blue cloth. 
 
 ka-ni'-u-ka-bi'-u, a brecchcloth. 
 club, na-kuli'-sin-it-i-wa'-ru, a war-club, 
 coal, a-ni'-tu-a, a coal of fire, 
 coat, u-ka'-wic. 
 
 u-ka'-wi6-ti-pas'c', a shirt, thin coat. 
 coffee, ska-tit', 
 cold, tip'-si. 
 
 cord, liat^se'-i-shu, a string or cord, 
 corn, ne-<5i'-i-shu. 
 cow, wa-tash'. 
 
 ta-na-ha'-ta-ka, white man's cow. 
 crow, ka'-ka. Corvm. 
 crying, ti-di'-kut. 
 
 D. 
 
 darkness, tik-a-tis'-tit. 
 
 daughter, su-nac'-ku-ta'-ti, my daughter, or the girl 
 
 belonging to me. 
 su-nac'-kut'li-ra, your daughter, or the girl 
 
 belonging to you. 
 su-nae', a girl, 
 day, sha-ker'-i-6ish'-kut. 
 
 sha-u'-nu-ker'-i-kut, midday, 
 wait-hi'-i-sha, daj'dawn. 
 shak'-u-git'-u, all the day. 
 
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 * Pronounced like whew. 
 
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 dead, tik'-aut. 
 deer, nu-na6'. 
 
 ta'-pat, red deer. 
 
 a-rik'-a-ra'-nu, a male deer. 
 
 ta-ka-tit', black-tailed deer, 
 did, ta-tuli'-na, I did it. 
 dish, tiih-ci'-ka, a cup or dish, 
 disposition, wi-su-tuli'-ni, a good heart, a good dis 
 
 position, 
 dog, hanc. 
 
 ha-ta'-ka, a white dog. 
 
 ha-kun'-hauf, an old dog. 
 
 ha-suli'-tit, an old, female dog. 
 door, ne-kub'-i. and ne-ka-wi'-o. 
 dove, wac. Zenauhtra Carollnentfg. 
 dress, ah-kn'-ku, head-dress, 
 drink, wi-tut'-ska-ni'-is, 
 ci-ka'-hu, 
 
 to drink. 
 
 E. 
 eagle, pi-ac', gray eagle. 
 
 ne-tuk'-us, war eagle, 
 ar-et', bald eagle. 
 ear, at-cT-isb-u, and a-tik-a'-nu. 
 earth, hu-na'-nu, ground, earth, 
 eat, ti-wa'-wa-a, to eat. 
 egg, ni-pi'-kn. 
 elk, na. 
 
 l wa-o-kos', a male elk. 
 wa-wa'-tash, a female elk. 
 wa-ha'-nic, a calf elk. 
 enemy, pa'-tu, and hish. 
 eye, ci-ri'-ku, and hcr-i-i'-ku. 
 lier-i-nu-nan', sore eyes. 
 
 F. 
 
 face, ka'-u. 
 fat, hi<;. 
 
 father, at-i-uh', my father, 
 ha-uh', your father, 
 i-nh'-tik, his father, 
 at-i-uli-wa-ruh-te, my medicine father, the 
 
 Great Spirit, 
 feather, he'-tu. 
 
 few, sali'sh, a few. 
 finger, sei'-shu. 
 
 shu-wi'-tu, finger-nails, 
 fire, ti-kai'-it, and ha-ni'-tu. 
 fish, gi-wac'. 
 
 han-we-ru'-kut-oh, flatfish. 
 
 gi-wa-nan'-shish-u, catfish. 
 
 hish, a pike, 
 flint, ne-sit'-a-nu. 
 flower, pa-kish'. 
 fly, sup-i-na'-nu. 
 
 foolish, ti-sa'-ko, foolish, crazy, a lewd woman, 
 foot, ah'-u. 
 forest, tu'-hu-na'-de. 
 forever, ti-ra'-nau6. 
 fort, na-wi'-u, a fort, 
 fowl, nuks-ci'-re-kuc'. 
 fox, gi-wa-ku', a gray fox. 
 
 gi-wa-ku'-ku-su, a large fox. 
 friend, si-nun'. 
 
 G. 
 
 girl, su-nuh'c'. 
 good, tuli'-ne. 
 
 nun-hi-nan-tuli'-ni, beyond good, better, 
 tuli-ni-nun'-hi-nan-git'-u, good beyond all, best, 
 tuli'-ni-su-shu'-hin-i, good among inferior objects, 
 
 used only in comparison, 
 ka-kiih'-ne, not good, bad. 
 goose, ko'-ut, so named from its cry. 
 grass, kut-a'-nu. 
 grease, eiz'-hic, marrow grease. 
 great, ti'-er-wheu. 
 green, ti-ta-re-hu', green or blue, 
 ground, tuli-na-nin'-e, plain or smooth ground. 
 
 hu-na-nin'-e, in the ground, 
 gun, na'-ku. 
 
 na-ku'-ti-pa'-kut, an old gun. 
 c-na'-ta-ra', a double-barrelled gun. 
 ka-wi'-u, a gun-flint. 
 
 II. 
 
 hail, kat. 
 hair, o-hu', and pah'-tis-kun. 
 
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 pah'-ta-ka-ta, yellow hair, 
 hand, ish'-u, and sha-na'-ku. 
 
 ska-tus'-u, inside the hand, 
 hare, wa-ruh'. Lepus campcstris. 
 
 nis. Lepus artemisia. 
 hawk, ('in'-'it, a small hawk, 
 hay, ha-ta'-nu, dried grass. 
 head, pa-hu'. 
 
 6i-ni'-tu, back of the head, 
 ti-ku-pah'-tau, headache, 
 heart, wi'-su. 
 heel, ali-a-ci'-ne-tu. 
 hen, tit, prairie hen. Pedlueccles pJiasianellus. 
 
 ut-ka-wit', sage hen. C'entroccrcus urophatlCHHU, 
 hill, wa-u', a mountain, 
 wa-hin'-i, a hill. 
 
 wa-kut'-e-buh, a place called Cut Butte. 
 kut'-e-buli, cut off. 
 hog, ku-kuli', pork, hog. 
 horse, lia-wa-ruht'. 
 
 ha-ci-za-wet'-a, a white horse, 
 ha'-wa-ruh-te, medicine dog, horse, 
 hot, ta-ba-ris'-ta. 
 
 house, a-ka'-nu, and a-ka-nuh'-ner. 
 husband, nali-tuk-u'. 
 
 ni-koli-tuk'-u, my husband, 
 te-na-ta'-ku, your husband. 
 
 I. 
 
 I, na'-tu, I, me. 
 ice, nali'-e-tu. 
 insect, pi-ruh'. 
 iron, waps'-ish-u. 
 
 waps'-ips-wat, red iron, copper. 
 island, a-wa'-u. 
 
 K. 
 
 kettle, ko-shap-shi'-shu. 
 
 knee, pa-6i'-shu, and na-hu'-na-6i'-shu. 
 
 knife, ne-sic'. 
 
 L. 
 
 lake, ib-wha'-nu. 
 
 land, tuli-na-nin'-i, fine land, fine country. 
 
 git-u'-hu-na-niu'-i, the whole land. 
 lariat, ha-wi'-shi. 
 laugh, te-bah'-u. 
 lead, nish-6i-su. 
 leaf, na'-ga-ru'-ku. 
 leg, ka-hu'. 
 leggins, no-ko'-kic. 
 
 nauli-ta'-ka-pa-o-ko'-kic 1 , red blanket leggins. 
 light, tits-er'-i-c'ish. 
 lightning, ti-wa-waps'. 
 limb, nut-di'-ta-wi-u, a limb or branch. 
 little, ka-ki-ra'-ni-hu, not much, little. 
 liver, ka-ri'-ku. 
 lizard, st'cer'-ut. 
 lodge, te-ka'-ni-hu. 
 
 a-ka-pa'-tu, skin lodge, or an enemy's lodge. 
 love, te-sish'-ta, to love. 
 
 II. 
 
 man, ter'-i, and wi'-ta. 
 
 sa-nish', a man, a people. 
 
 sa-nish-ta'-ka, a white man. 
 
 ti-ger'-ish, a weak man. 
 
 te-tir'-a-(5ish, a strong man or animal. 
 
 ne-sha'-nu-nau-6ish'-u, a great man. 
 
 wi-te-shuc, a young unmarried man. 
 
 kun'-hauf, an old man. 
 many, ter-heu'. 
 
 ta-ra-ni-hu', a great many, a heap. 
 marsh, tuh'-nu-nan'-ai-i-wun'-u, a bog or marsh. 
 me, na'-tu. 
 meat, sus'c, 
 
 sus'c, ) 
 
 } 
 
 dashV', j 
 
 fresh meat. 
 
 ta-kali'6', dried meat. 
 mine, ku'-ta-tc. 
 mirror, na-nu'-ka-te'-ris-ku. 
 mist, speu. 
 mink, c-ruli'. 
 moccasin, hanc. 
 moon, pah. 
 morning, hin-uh'-tit. 
 mother, at-na', my mother. 
 hali, your mother. 
 
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 shuli'-te, his mother, 
 mouth, ka-ka'-u. 
 
 a-ka'-ra-nuli, hairy mouth. 
 mud, ho-rul\'-tu. 
 
 t'wheu'-rut, muddy. 
 muskrat, git-uk-a. 
 
 N. 
 
 nail, shi-ni'-tn, also the claws of an animal. 
 
 navel, nis-ka-ku'-hu. 
 
 near, tish-ku'-nit, near by, not far off. 
 
 nan-shu'-tish-ku'-nit, very near. 
 
 tish-ku'-nit-nun'-in-i, near ten, or about ten. 
 neck, na-ti'-nu, and sen-a'-nu. 
 night, hi-nuli', and nut-ik'-a-nu. 
 no, ka-ki'. 
 nose, si-ni'-tu. 
 
 O. 
 
 oak, ska-nuli'. 
 
 off, 6is-tit', far off. 
 
 old, ti-pa'-kut. 
 
 one, o-pi-nu'-te, the other one. 
 
 a-re-isht', either one you like. 
 
 ti-6e-nu'-tu, -which one is it ? 
 otter, get-a'-put. 
 owl, p'hau'-ru. 
 t 
 
 P. 
 
 paddle, wi-er-ha'-ku. 
 part, heuc". 
 penknife, <Si-rak'. 
 people, sa'-nish, people. 
 
 san-ish-ta-ka, white people. 
 
 git-u-san'-sta-ka, the whole people, 
 pepper, a-kat'-i-tic". 
 perhaps, ci-ra'-to. 
 pine, na-hi'-shu, pine, pine wood. 
 
 nuc-e-ish'-u, a pine tree. 
 pipe, na-wis'-ko6. 
 polecat, ni-bit'. 
 potato, is-ku'-su. 
 powder, liit-i-ka'-nu. 
 
 R. 
 
 rain, ta-su'. 
 
 we-ta'-tu, it rains, 
 ramrod, nu<5. 
 red, ti-pa'-at, and pa'-at. 
 river, u-sa'-nu, and hu-ka-ha-nu'. 
 
 ka-to-hu'-ni, a small river, a branch, 
 road, a-ta-nu', a road or trail, 
 robe, sa-uc', a buffalo-robe. 
 rock, kau'-i-ta-wi'-ut. 
 rotten, tih'-o-ut. 
 run, shu-nuh' (imp.), run. 
 
 S. 
 
 saddle, na-ni'-di-tan-i. 
 salt, ka'-it. 
 scalp, pah'-sku-hu. 
 
 ha-wah'-ka-wi, scalp-lock, 
 seat, ka-tuks', and shuh'-wi-ta. 
 see, ti-re-wat', to see. 
 
 net-i-re'-wat, seeing. 
 sheep, a-ri6'-in-is. 
 shirt, o-kau-i6'. 
 
 shoe, hauli'-e-shu, a leather shoe. 
 shot-pouch, par-e-tak'-u-hu. 
 shoulder, ska'-nish. 
 
 ha-ha'-re-shu, shoulder-blade, or hoe, so 
 called because the shoulder-blade of a 
 buffalo was formerly used as a hoc. 
 silver, waps-ips-tap'-er-wheu. 
 sinew, ah'-a-su. 
 sister, i-ta'-ni, his sister. 
 
 a-ti'-tat, my. sister, 
 skin, ska-u6'. 
 
 wa-ruh'-tu, a dressed skin, 
 sky, ska-a-kat'-ha-wu. 
 sleep, to-kris-6i'-pi, to sleep. 
 small, ka-ker'-wheu. 
 small-pox, s6i-ri-6i'-shi-wa-ta. 
 smoke, ni-wi'-shu. 
 snake, nut. 
 snow, hu-na'-u. 
 
 we-ta'-ha, it snows, 
 son, na-ti-na'-hu, my son. 
 
INDIAN TRIBES OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 
 
 363 
 
 na-hi-na'-hu, your son. 
 
 ni-ha'-o, his son. 
 sour, ka-koli'-ta-ne, not sweet, 
 spear, hu-nuli'. 
 spirit, fi-ci'-tu. 
 spring, ish-cip'-it. 
 
 ne-ka', spring, fountain, 
 squash, wa-hauli'. 
 star, sa'-ka. 
 
 o-per'-i-ku-su, a collection of stars, constellation, 
 stirrup, lia-ka-ta-tau'. 
 stomach., wa-ku'-kre-ni, and ni-ku'-ci-shu. 
 stone, kas-nic', a stone, rock, 
 stream, sa-nin'-i, a stream or creek, 
 strong, tik-liash'. 
 
 ka-ke-liash', weak, not strong. 
 sugar, ka-e'-na-ka-ta. 
 summer, ha-wi-rit'-i-kut. 
 sun, sha-ku'-nu. 
 sunset, nit-suk'-o-nish. 
 swan, sha'-tu. . 
 sweet, tuli'-ta-ne. 
 
 T. 
 
 thigh, ka-taks'. 
 thin, ti-pas'c'. 
 thou, na-hu'. 
 thunder, wa-ruh'-te. 
 toad, sku-na'-ka-ku. 
 tobacco, na-kush'-ka-nu. 
 to-day, ti-wen-sa'-ker-ic'. 
 toe, ali-cT-shu. 
 tongue, ha-tu'. 
 tooth, a-nu'. 
 true, t'ha'-pe. 
 
 ti-wac', it is true, it is so. 
 turkey, nu. 
 turtle, sali. 
 
 ugly, pir-a-nin'-o-c'i. 
 
 U. 
 
 V. 
 
 valley, ta-wat-e-ru'-hu-nu. 
 
 vein, pa-te'-hu, a road for thu blood, 
 village, i-tu'-nu. 
 
 W. 
 
 warrior, nu-ti-wun'-u-hu, one who goes to war. 
 water, sto'-h u. 
 
 t'6in-wheu, big water, sea. 
 ka-kuli'-p'si, bad water. 
 
 weather, ta-wi'-ris-tu, a fine day, fine weather, 
 what ? ti-cV-nu, what is it ? 
 
 ti-6e'-nu-wi'-ta, what man or person ? 
 ta-ce'-nu, who, or which one? 
 where ? 6u-hu-ni-he', where is it ? 
 whip, pin-liu', a small riding whip, 
 whiskey, 6i-sin'-ah. 
 white, ta'-ka, and 6i-sha'-wa-ta. 
 whole, 6i-tu', the whole of anything. 
 wife, na-ti-na'-ta-ku, and ta-wi'-ni. 
 wind, t'whcut, and hu-tu'-nu. 
 
 t'wheut'-a-her'-heu, a strong wind, 
 windpipe, pali-nj'-shu, and o-ka-kuli'. 
 winter, p'si-kut'. 
 within, o-ki'-i-kut. 
 without, o-wat'-ik-ut. 
 wolf, sti-cer'-ic". 
 
 6i-wa'-ku, a small wolf, 
 pa-kac', medicine wolf, 
 pa-kac'-ti, it is a prairie wolf, 
 woman, sa-put'. 
 
 ta-cV-nu-sa-put', what woman ? 
 sul'i'-tit, an old woman, 
 su-nali', a young, unmarried woman. 
 wood, nu6. 
 
 na'-kun, logs or drift-wood. 
 
 Y. 
 
 year, ti'-kut-i'-a-nu, the whole year, 
 yellow, ti-ra-kut'-a. 
 yes, an, and ni-ku'-ti. 
 yesterday, ti-su'-sa-ker-i6. 
 you, ua'-hu. 
 young, tit-cip'-er-i. 
 
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 DAKOTA GROUP, D; 
 
 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 
 
 VIII. DAKOTAS. 
 
 ETHNOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 
 
 THE country claimed by the Great Sioux or Dakota nation, prior to the organization of 
 the Territories of Nebraska, Dakota, and Minnesota, was very extensive. Commencing 
 on the northeastern limit at Lac qui Parle, an imaginary line would run in a northwest 
 direction, taking in Lac du Diable, thence inclining south by west, including Turtle Moun 
 tain and the head of Pembina River, would strike the Missouri River at the mouth of 
 Apple River, below the Gros Ventres village. Crossing the Missouri, it would proceed 
 up the Grand River of the Arikaras (or even some distance west of this river), bearing 
 west by south until reaching near the head of Powder River. From this point it would 
 continue along the range of mountains called the Black Hills in a southern direction, until 
 reaching Fort Laramie on the Plattc, thence down that river for some distance, afterwards 
 extending east to the junction of the Niobrara with the Missouri River, thence down that 
 stream to the mouth of Big Sioux River, this being the boundary line to which their 
 claims had been extinguished by the United States. Proceeding along the Big Sioux 
 River inclining northeast, taking in the Vermilion and James Rivers, their lands would 
 terminate by a junction with the starting-point at Lac qui Parle. Within a few years, 
 the United States Government has purchased of the Indians much of the territory com 
 prised within the above limits. 
 
 That portion of their lands east and north of the Missouri is quite sterile, and with the 
 exception of some coulees .and hills, formed by the rivers and creeks, presents a most 
 monotonous prairie, many hundred miles in length and breadth, very level, and devoid of 
 trees, or even shrubs. The soil is loose and sandy, grass rather thin, and in no great 
 variety, that known as the short, curly, buffalo grass being the most abundant. In former 
 times, this was the great range for the buffalo, but of late years, they are found in greater 
 numbers west of the Missouri. The soil is generally too dry for agricultural purposes, 
 except along the borders of streams, where it is for the most part quite fertile. In some 
 parts where the vegetation is luxuriant, the grass is very nutritious, and would, in common 
 with most of the Northwest Territory, afford good grazing for horses, horned cattle, and 
 sheep. Small lakes are to be met with in this region, from which the Indians get their 
 supply of water when travelling across the prairies, which they do not attempt to do 
 except in the summer and autumn, when the " buffalo chips" answer the purpose of fuel. 
 The terrible snow-storms that sweep over these plains in the winter, compel them to place 
 
INDIAN TRIBES OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 365 
 
 their camps along the rivers where timber is to be found. Along the Coteau de Prairie, 
 or dividing ridge between the waters of Iowa and Missouri, near the source of James 
 River, is found the celebrated Red Pipestone Quarry, to which the Indians pay yearly 
 visits, to procure materials from which to make their pipes. This material is found in no 
 other portion of their country, and is considered by them of great value. 
 
 The surface of the country west and south of the Missouri River, is more rolling and 
 diversified, on account of the large streams that course their way through it. The princi 
 pal rivers on that side of the Missouri are Niobrara, White, Medicine, Tcton, Big Shy- 
 enne, Moreau, Cannon-ball, Heart, and Grand Rivers. Most of these streams have been 
 navigated by the traders with skin boats during the spring thaws. They are well tim 
 bered along their banks, the trees growing in large groves or points, frequently reaching 
 from one bluff to the other, the whole width of the valley. The largest and most common 
 trees are the cottonwood, elm, and ash, though others of smaller growth are found. 
 Though there are many tributaries to the rivers named, running through the interior, most 
 of them are short, and only convey the water produced by rain or snow to the parent 
 stream. These are termed by the traders and voyageurs coulees, seldom extending more 
 than from one to three miles in length, and usually covered with various bushes, small 
 trees, grass, and weeds. Between rivers, and beyond the heads of the coulees or dry 
 valleys, are large tracts of table land, from ten to fifty miles in breadth, on which no 
 timber is seen, but where the spontaneous grasses are very thick, and of excellent quality. 
 It is in such spots as these that the buffalo delight to remain undisturbed, quietly crop 
 ping the choice blades in happy ignorance of the hordes of hunters roving through the 
 country. Springs impregnated with saline substances are often met with, and the water 
 is drank with eagerness by these animals. The most fertile region, however, and the one 
 approaching nearest to a habitable district, is on the head waters of the Shyenne and 
 Moreau Rivers, commencing at the eastern base of the Black Hills, and running north 
 east for the distance of sixty or eighty miles. The prairies here are undulating, well 
 wooded, well watered, and present much varied, beautiful, and enlivening scenery to the 
 eye of the traveller. Indeed, with but the exception of that portion of the Dakota lands 
 situated west of the " Mauvaises Terres" or " Bad Lands," on the source of White River, 
 the rest cannot be regarded as an entirely barren district, though to what extent grain 
 could be produced has not been determined. 
 
 Many fabulous stories in regard to the Black Hills are related by the Indians, and are 
 believed by them even to this day. They say that rumbling noises, like the sound of distant 
 thunder, arc not infrequent, and one of the principal peaks is called by them the Hill of 
 Thunder. In 1833 they supposed it to be on fire, and on almost any clear day they say 
 large volumes of smoke could be seen, which they regarded as the breathing of the great 
 
366 ON THE ETHNOGRAPHY AND PHILOLOGY OF THE 
 
 white man buried beneath. Unnatural noises are said to be heard, which, whether ori 
 ginating in their fancy, or caused by wild beasts, are thought to be the moans of the great 
 white giant when pressed upon by rocks, as a punishment for being the first aggressor on 
 their territory. They say that he issues forth occasionally, and his tracks seen in the snow 
 are twenty feet in length. He is condemned to perpetual incarceration under the moun 
 tain as an example to all white men to leave the Indians in quiet possession of their 
 hunting grounds. This story, though fabulous, shows their ancient and intense repug 
 nance to the encroachments of other and distinct races. 
 
 Southeast of the' Black Hills is a large area of country known as the "Mauvaiscs 
 Terres," or " Bad Lands," which is very remarkable for its unique scenery and the organic 
 remains entombed in its strata. The portion of country to Avhich this name has been espe 
 cially applied is about one hundred and fifty miles in length, and sixty miles in width. 
 There are many other portions of the Northwest to which this term is applicable, but no 
 other area so large possesses this uniform character. It is hardly possible to describe this 
 singular country. Along White River, for sixty miles in length and fifteen to twenty in 
 breadth, the country presents the appearance in the distance of one vast city, and but 
 little imagination is required to see immense public edifices, towers, churches, &c., with 
 people on their summits. What tends to make the illusion more perfect, is that the 
 mountain sheep (Ovis montana), sometimes alone and sometimes in small bands, are seen 
 on the tops of these towers, several hundred feet high, and entirely inaccessible to the ap 
 proach of man. Here they remain in security, rolling their large horns from side to side, 
 and casting suspicious glances at the traveller below. It is somewhat strange that this 
 animal should prefer the most rugged and inaccessible places where scarcely a spear of 
 grass is seen, and no shrubs but here and there a solitary bunch of stinted sage. A few 
 small grassy spots, like oases, are found in this region low down at the base of these lofty 
 ridges and towers, to which the mountain sheep descend early in the morning to feed. 
 Although the absence of vegetation in their favorite places of resort would induce the 
 belief that they fared badly, yet when killed they are invariably fat, and the meat is su 
 perior even to that of our domestic sheep. The Indians prize it next to the meat of the 
 buffalo. The road from Fort Pierre across the country to Fort Laramie runs directly 
 through this region, and is the only road that can be travelled with safety with carts or 
 wagons. In the spring of 1855, the writer passed up the valley of White Itiver with 
 carts, but scarcely a day passed that they were not upset, and their contents more or less 
 injured. Water is very scarce, though a few springs and small streams occur, and these 
 are of great importance to the Indian as he winds his devious way through this region. 
 But the objects of the greatest interest to the scientific man, and curiosity to the Indian 
 and voyageur, are the organic remains which abound here. They consist for the most 
 
INDIAN TRIBES OP THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 367 
 
 part of the remains of vertebrata, which have been described by Prof. Joseph Leidy in the 
 Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. They all belong to ex 
 tinct species, representing with a good degree of completeness the mammalian Fauna of a 
 district. All the remains of Turtles appear to belong to a single species, but the indivi 
 duals are very numerous and of large size, some of which were estimated to weigh from five 
 hundred to one thousand pounds. The materials of which the rocks are composed are light- 
 colored clay, grits, and marls, more or less indurated, and worn into these fantastic shapes 
 by atmospheric agencies. The presence of land and fresh-water shells, and the absence of all 
 indications of marine origin, show this region to have been a vast inland lake some time 
 during the Miocene Tertiary period. For some distance up the White River Valley from 
 its mouth, the country is very fine, and clothed with an excellent growth of vegetation, 
 but towards its source for two or three days' march the sandy desert prevails, and travelling 
 is very difficult. Passing across the country to the Niobrara, toward the Platte, the prairie 
 assumes its usual character, and travelling is much better ; and though much of that region 
 is occupied by patches of bad lands and denuded places, still the greater portion is clothed 
 with good grass, and has a cheerful appearance. Along the Platte, Loup Fork, and por 
 tions of the Niobrara, are the Sand Hills, a large area of not less than twenty thousand 
 square miles, composed of loose sand, which has been thrown up into hills and ridges fifty 
 to two hundred feet in height by the wind. The material, is derived from the eroded 
 portions of the more recent Tertiary beds in this region, and as the winds are mostly from 
 the west and northwest, this loose sand is slowly moving onward toward the east and 
 southeast. Though totally unfit for agricultural purposes, this tract of country cannot be 
 said to be destitute of vegetation. In the valleys and depressions among the hills are 
 many fine spots of grass, and sometimes the hills are covered with varieties of grass 
 adapted to so meagre a soil. The soap plant, Yucca angustifolia, grows here very abun 
 dantly, and sending its roots deep into these sandy hills, protects them from being dimi 
 nished by the winds. The sand plum, Prunus pumila, grows very abundantly all through 
 the Sand Hills, and supplies an astringent but not unpalatable fruit. On the head of Loup 
 Fork, and between that stream and the Niobrara at various localities, are numerous saline 
 and fresh-water lakes. The fresh-water lakes contain a great profusion of various species 
 of water-plants and their peculiar animal life, while those that are impregnated with 
 saline matter present the appearance of desolation, no vegetation growing in their vicinity 
 except a few weeds adapted to a saline soil. In former years these Sand Hills were a 
 famous resort for the buffalo, and even at this time a few may be found, but they have 
 been for the most part driven away by the Indians to other and less frequented parts. 
 
 Among the many objects which come under the observation of the traveller in the 
 Dakota country, none are of more interest than the numerous villages of the prairie dog, 
 
 VOL. xii. 47 
 
888 ON THE ETHNOGRAPHY AND PHILOLOGY OF THE 
 
 scattered all over the dry and gravelly plains. Sometimes they are situated upon the high 
 terraces along the rivers, but generally they are upon the high, arid plains, many miles 
 from water. A good deal of a fabulous character has been written in regard to the habits 
 and habitations of this little animal. Some have even observed a council-house in the 
 centre of the village, which is supposed to be laid out in regular streets, reserving a public 
 square for meetings and discussions for the general good of the community. Others have 
 imagined a particular large sleek dog to be the chief, and contend that they have seen 
 him receive visits and apparently give directions to many of the citizens, who, after re 
 ceiving the same, departed to give others an opportunity to state their requests. With a 
 zeal for knowledge, and a perseverance in labor, truly creditable in many respects, attempts 
 have been made to dig to the bottom of their subterranean abodes, as well as to drown 
 them out, but most of these experiments have resulted in failure. It does not occur to 
 the laborious hunters that the dog can dig as well as they, and that if their holes are so 
 constructed as not to be affected by the heavy rains that fall on the level places, where 
 their villages are always situated, they would not be likely to be disturbed by a few pails 
 of water. The truth is, the animal does not dig deep, seldom more than four or five feet, 
 but penetrates the earth in a horizontal direction. It lays up no stock of provisions for 
 the winter, but lives on the roots of grass, which it reaches by digging up toward the 
 surface when the ground is covered with snow. This explains their extensive burrowing 
 in different directions, seeking support, and crossing each other's routes in many places, 
 leading persons to suppose their different chambers are thus connected for convenience, to 
 associate and talk over their national and domestic affairs during the long winter evenings. 
 The uncertainty of success in digging them out is thus seen, and a man might continue 
 his excavations for miles without securing the inhabitant. The dog must have food, and 
 having but little hair upon his body cannot endure the cold on the surface, therefore he 
 finds his food below it in winter, and in his subterranean travels comes across others of 
 his village friends engaged in the same pursuit. In this manner they destroy in the 
 course of time all the vegetation in their immediate vicinity, and arc obliged to remove 
 to some other locality, and abandon their holes to the owls and rattlesnakes. 
 
 Crossing the Dakota country through the middle portion south and west of the Mis 
 souri, from the Niobrara to Grand River, the prairies, though occasionally twenty to fifty 
 miles in breadth, cannot come under the head of level plains like the district on the 
 opposite side. The distance is not great between the rivers on the west side. Although 
 their junctions with the Missouri are widely separated, yet their sources all occur near 
 each other, as they take their rise in and near the Black Hills. In travelling across this 
 portion of the country in a transverse direction, a man on foot is seldom obliged to camp 
 without wood or water, the heads of the valleys or ravines of one watercourse extending 
 to within a distance from five to forty miles of the tributaries of another. 
 
INDIAN TRIBES OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 369 
 
 Springs and small groves of trees frequently occur in the intervening prairie, and good 
 encampments can usually be found by any one familiar with the geography of the country 
 throughout the length and breadth of the interior. In the winter, however, it happens 
 that persons are frozen to death in crossing these prairies ; for when storms occur it is 
 often impossible to travel, the sun is invisible, and all objects are hidden at the distance 
 of from fifty to one hundred paces by the particles of snow that are whirled through the 
 air by the wind. This is called by the Canadian voyageurs jwucierie, and when occurring 
 in extreme cold weather, leaves but two alternatives to the traveller, to ramble on at 
 hazard, in the hope of keeping himself warm by walking and stumbling on timber, or to 
 lie down and let the snow blow over him, remaining in this temporary grave until the 
 atmosphere becomes clear, and his course can be determined by the sun or stars. Both 
 of these methods are often resorted to by the Indians and traders Avhen caught in snow 
 storms, where timber is not at hand, and sometimes success and sometimes failure attends 
 their efforts. 
 
 The three streams, Shyenne, Moreau, and Grand Rivers, approach so near each other 
 that there is no broad stretch of level prairie between them. As we proceed west, the 
 surface becomes more broken and intersected by valleys, which are clothed with excellent 
 grass. In all the small streams beaver are very abundant. Grand River has the largest 
 valley, is best wooded, and best stocked with game. Buffalo are found along this river 
 when there are none in the country around. Elk rove in large bands through the wooded 
 bottoms, and antelope arc abundant upon the grass-covered hills. Many deer, both white- 
 and black-tailed, are found in the valleys of the little tributaries. 
 
 The fruits and succulent roots indigenous to this region are few but quite palatable, and 
 form no small item in the bill of fare of the Indian in times of scarcity. The prairie 
 turnip, Paoralea esculenta, ti'-psi-na of the Dakotas, Pomme blanche of the voyageurs, is 
 found everywhere on the high prairies. It may be eaten raw or boiled, and is collected 
 in large quantities and dried by the Indians for winter use. It is quite farinaceous, and 
 when dried and pulverized makes a very good substitute for flour, and in any form it will 
 sustain life for several months without the assistance of animal food. This root is also the 
 favorite food of the grizzly bear. 
 
 The wild artichoke, Hdianthus tuberotiis, pan'-ci, grows in great abundance along the 
 marshy banks of the rivers. It is roasted or boiled, but often eaten uncooked. 
 
 Dakota peas, Apios tuberosa, om-a-ni'-<?a, grow very abundantly in the rich valleys of 
 the streams. This plant has a vinelike top, and the tuberous roots form the edible por 
 tion. In the fall of the year large quantities of these tubers are collected by a species of 
 field-mouse for its winter store, which is in turn robbed by the Indian squaws, who often 
 secure half a bushel from a single nest. They are boiled with dried buffalo-meat, and the 
 
370 ON THE ETHNOGRAPHY AND PHILOLOGY OF THE 
 
 writer can testify from personal experience that they make a most palatable dish to the 
 hungry traveller. 
 
 The plum, Primus Americana, kun'-ta of the Dakotas, grows very abundantly along the 
 Niobrara and White Eivers. The fruit is ripened usually in October, and is much sought 
 after by the Indians. 
 
 The choke-cherry, Prunus Virginiana, cag'-pa, and the bullberry, grain de Iceuf of the 
 voyageurs, mash-tin'-pu-ta of the Dakotas, grow in the greatest quantities all over the coun 
 try. These fruits, with the plums, form, in their season, the principal food of the bears and 
 wolves. Both of these fruits are dried, the former pounded with the seed and cooked in 
 various ways, sometimes made into soup, but more often mixed with dried buffalo-meat 
 and marrow-grease. This is called pemican among the voyageurs, and is very convenient 
 in travelling, on account of its nutritious and concentrated character. The gram de loeuf 
 is a small red berry, with an acid taste, and when dried is often made into soup, or takes 
 the place of cherries in the composition of pemican. 
 
 A few service-berries, Amelancliier Canadensis, and here and there a patch of wild 
 strawberries, are found, but not in sufficient quantity to be relied upon as a means of sup 
 port. The Indians are very fond of fruit of any kind, and seem to prefer that grown and 
 preserved in their own country to the dried fruits introduced from the States by the 
 traders. It is impossible, except from actual observation, to form an idea of the immense " 
 quantities of cherries and other kinds of fruit eaten by them in their season, and these, 
 with certain edible roots, constitute a most important resource to a people dependent upon 
 the chase for their subsistence. They can be easily preserved, packed, and conveyed from 
 point to point, and they are of special service to their children when meat is not to be ob 
 tained. The fruits of the wild rose, which are very plenty and remain on the bush during 
 the winter, are eaten both raw and boiled, but are quite indigestible, as are also the red 
 thorn-apples, called tas'-pan by the Dakotas. 
 
 Some of the dishes prepared by the Indians in the yet undeveloped condition of their 
 culinary science are not enticing even to the eye of the hungry traveller, and are by no 
 means adapted to delicate stomachs or fastidious palates. In this class may be placed a 
 favorite dish of theirs, made of blood boiled with brains, rosebuds,* and the scrapings of 
 rawhide, until the whole assumes the consistency of warm glue. Pounded cherries boiled 
 with meat, sugar, and grease, are esteemed a rare dainty, and are eaten with great relish. 
 The prairie turnip boiled with the dried stomach of the buffalo, or the Dakota peas ab 
 stracted from a mouse's nest and cooked with dried beaver's tail or a fat dog, arc dishes 
 much admired and regarded fit to set before soldiers, chiefs, and distinguished visitors. 
 
 A great variety of roots, leaves, barks, and plants are used by these Indians, in common 
 
 * The seed-vessels of the Eosc, which remain on the bushes during the winter, and often supply a scanty nou 
 rishment to the famishing voyageur, are called by the Indians and traders " rose-buds." 
 
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 with other nations on the Upper Missouri, for medical purposes, the principal of which, 
 together with their manner of application, will be alluded to elsewhere. 
 
 The animals inhabiting the Dakota country, and hunted more or less by them for cloth 
 ing, food, or for the purposes of barter, are buffalo, elk, black- and white-tailed deer, big 
 horn, antelope, wolves of several kinds, red and gray foxes, a few beaver and otter, grizzly 
 bear, badger, skunk, porcupine, rabbits, muskrats, and a few panthers in the mountainous 
 parts. Of all those just mentioned the buffalo is most numerous and most necessary to 
 
 
 
 their support. Every part of this animal is eaten by the Indians except the horns, hoofs, 
 and hair, even the skin being made to sustain life in times of great scarcity. The skin is 
 used to make their lodges and clothes, the sinews for bowstrings, the horns to contain 
 powder, and the bones are wrought into various domestic implements, or pounded up and 
 boiled to extract the fatty matter. In the proper season, from the beginning of October 
 until the 1st of March, the skins are dressed with the hair remaining on them, and are 
 either worn by themselves or exchanged with the traders. 
 
 In the year 1833, that part of the Dakota nation residing on the Missouri and its 
 tributaries, and trading there, was divided as follows : 
 
 Se-cang'-6os, Brulees, Burnt-Thighs, 500 lodges. 
 
 O-ga-la'-las, 300 " 
 
 a 
 ft 
 
 Min-ne-kaij'-zu, those who plant by the water,' 260 
 
 Si-ha-sa'-pas, Blackfeet-Dakotas, 220 
 
 Wo-he-nom'-pa, Two-Kettle-Dakotas, 100 
 
 Hunk'-pa-pas, 150 
 
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 I-ta'-zip-co, Sansarcs, Without-Bows, 100 " 
 
 Lowcr-Yanctons, 300 " 
 
 Pa-bak'-sa, TCte-Coupees, Cut-Heads, 250 " 
 
 Wa-ge'-ku-te, Gens des Pin, the Pine-Band, 100 " 
 
 Band, name not obtained. 50 " 
 
 I-sag'-tis, 30 " 
 
 These 2360 lodges, averaging five souls to a lodge, would make a total of 11,800 souls. 
 The above estimate may be relied upon as correct at that time. The nomadic Dakotas 
 have slowly but steadily increased in numbers since that time, and in 1857, Lieut. 
 Warren estimated that the same bands mentioned above numbered 3000 lodges and 
 24,000 souls. From various causes, as the introduction of contagious diseases, and other 
 calamities, some of the bands have diminished in numbers, while others have greatly in 
 creased, and it is believed that at the present time the Missouri Dakotas are in the aggre- 
 
 
 
 gate more numerous than at any former period. 
 
 These bands at that time (1833), occupied separate districts, though they could if they 
 chose, hunt unmolested by each other, in any portion of the common territory. But 
 being generally intermarried, and connected by societies of dances and clans, they usually 
 
372 ON THE ETHNOGRAPHY AND PHILOLOGY OF THE 
 
 preferred locating at a distance from each other, that their hunts might be better carried 
 on, and their domestic arrangements and tribal government conducted by the chiefs and 
 soldiers appointed to these positions by the general consent of each band. When two 
 camps are joined, each having its own head, opinions and interests clash, quarrels follow, 
 and separation, with angry feelings toward each other is the result, often extending to the 
 stealing of each other's horses. But by each band confining its limiting operations as 
 nearly as practicable to a certain tract of country, accustomed to the rule of its own chief, 
 
 
 
 and its own domestic associations, differences that arise when several bands who are com 
 parative strangers are thrown together, arc prevented. Partly with this view, and partly 
 to occupy their entire country where game is found, but mainly on account of the hunting 
 advantages, the following sections were agreed upon as the residence of the different bands 
 mentioned, which arrangement has been continued, with little deviation, up to the present 
 time. 
 
 The portion of the country inhabited by the Si-c'aij'-dos, or Burnt Thighs, is on the 
 head waters of the White and Niobrara Rivers, extending down these rivers about half 
 their length. The Teton lliver formed the northern limit. For many years, this band 
 was headed by a chief named Ma-ka'-to-za'-za, or the Clear Blue Earth, who governed 
 them wisely and well. He was very friendly to the white man, and few Indians have 
 had the power, dignity, and influence which he held over this band. Though some have 
 been more feared, others more brave, yet by his constant and uniformly good management 
 and just government, he kept his people in order, regulated their hunts, and usually 
 avoided placing them in the starving situations incident to other bands, led by less judi 
 cious rulers. They Avere good hunters, usually well clothed and supplied with meat, had 
 comfortable lodges, and a large number of horses. They varied their occupations by 
 hunting buffalo, catching wild horses, and making war expeditions against the Arikaras, 
 then stationed on the Platte, or the Pawnees, lower down on that river. Every summer, 
 excursions were made by the young men into the Platte and Arkansas country, in quest 
 of wild horses, which abounded there at that time in large numbers. Their mode of 
 catching them was by surrounding them, and running them down on their own horses. 
 Taking their positions at different points, they pursued them from one to the other, until 
 they became so fatigued as to be lassoed, after which they were thrown down, bridled, 
 and packed or rode by these fearless cavaliers. Often forty to sixty of these wild horses 
 were brought home as the results of a single expedition. 
 
 In their wars with the Pawnees and Arikaras, the Brulees were usually victorious, and 
 seldom a -summer passed that they did not secure many of the scalps of their enemies. 
 Indeed, the periods of time at all seasons were short that the scalp-dance was not going 
 on, and the monotonous war-song heard through the village, accompanied by the lamen 
 tations of the friends of those who had fallen in battle. Their foes did not remain idle. 
 
INDIAN TRIBES OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 373 
 
 Every now and then some of the Bailees' horses would be stolen, or some lone wanderer 
 outside the camp killed. In 1835, some Pawnees and Arikaras stole forty or fifty of the 
 Brulees' horses from their camp on the Niobrara, when the latter pursued and defeated them 
 within a short distance of the village. Twenty-two of their enemies were killed, their 
 horses recovered, and the successful warriors returned bringing the heads, hands, feet, and 
 other parts of the enemies' bodies into camp. The hands and feet were thrust on sticks 
 and paraded through the village by old women, and the scalpless heads were dragged about 
 with cords, followed by small boys shooting them with arrows and powder, and pelting 
 them with stones, encouraged by the old women, who followed after heaping abuse upon 
 the helpless and mangled remains of their once dreaded enemies. 
 
 One of the amusements of this band is the driving of antelope over precipices into pens 
 made for the purpose, thus inclosing and destroying several hundred at a time. The 
 broken country about the source of White River is very favorable for this object. The 
 animals being surrounded by several hundred people are driven through some gap in the 
 hill, beyond which is a perpendicular descent of many feet, inclosed around the base with 
 logs and brush, raised to a sufficient height to prevent them from jumping over. The 
 antelope once through the gap or pass, cannot recede, and the pressure of those from 
 behind forces those in front over the descent, the rear being followed up quickly by the 
 pursuers. 
 
 Since the emigrants to California and Oregon have passed through the Dakota country, 
 the Brulees have suffered more from diseases thus introduced than any other division of 
 these Indians, being located nearest to the trail. Small-pox, cholera, measles, &c., have 
 year after year thinned their ranks, so that comparatively few of this once numerous band 
 remain, and these are hostile towards the whites, to whom the cause of their destruction 
 is attributed. Their tics of relationship have been severed by the deaths of their friends, 
 their head men have fallen victims, their former good order and flourishing condition have 
 been deranged ; and thus they have acquired a sullen arid permanent hatred towards .the 
 white man. They now comprise about one hundred and fifty lodges, scattered through this 
 district in small divisions, the inmates poorly clothed, with very little game and but few 
 horses. They have paid some attention to the cultivation of the soil, and with proper encou 
 ragement might be made an agricultural people. The game has left their country, and with 
 it the means of obtaining supplies from the traders, and now they are mainly dependent upon 
 the small amount of annuities or presents given them by the United States Government. 
 
 The Ogala'las occupy that portion of the Dakota country from Fort Laramie on the 
 Platte, extending northeast, including the Black Hills, the sources of the Teton River, 
 and reaching as low down as the fork of the Shyenne. They sometimes range as far west 
 as the head of Grand River. This region, until a recent period, was well stocked with 
 
374 ON THE ETHNOGRAPHY AND PHILOLOGY OF THE 
 
 buffalo, and even at this time elk, antelope, deer, and mountain sheep are found in suffi 
 cient numbers to afford the Indians a moderate support. A portion of this band have 
 obtained rifles, and are expert in their use, and the consequence is that they are better 
 clothed and less subject to extremes of want than some of their neighbors. They arc 
 remarkable for having the most handsome women in the nation, who are neat and tidy in 
 their dress and modest in their deportment. 
 
 The Mi-nc-kaij'-zus are usually found from Cherry Creek on the Shyenne to Slender Butte 
 on Grand River, in which section the buffalo, until within a few years, were very abun 
 dant. This band, though peaceable when ruled by good chiefs, has always been very 
 wild and independent, seldom visiting the trading-posts either on the Platte or on the 
 Missouri, and having no intercourse with white men, except with a few traders during the 
 winter season. 
 
 The Hank'-pa-pas, Si'-ha-sa'-pas, I-ta'-zip-cos, occupy nearly the same district, and are so often 
 encamped near each other, and otherwise so connected in their operations, as scarcely to 
 admit of being treated of separately. That part of the country under their control lies 
 along the Moreauj Cannon-ball, Heart, and Grand Rivers, seldom extending very high up 
 on Grand lliver, but of later years reaching to the Little Missouri. Although the bands 
 just mentioned are often stationed near each other, they are sometimes found several 
 days' journey apart, and each is headed by its own chief. Of the leading men, the Little 
 Bear Chief is the most prominent. He wields great influence over all the bands, and 
 from his youth up he has manifested an intense hatred toward the white man. 
 
 The Two-Kettle band, Wo-he-nom'-pa, confine themselves to the Shyenne and Moreaii 
 Rivers, seldom going higher on the former river than the mouth of Cherry Creek, but 
 passing up and down the Shyenne, Moreau, and Grand Rivers, but not uniting with the 
 bands just described. The principal chief of this small band is Ma'-to-to'-pa, or Four Bears, 
 a man of moderate capacity, but exercising a good influence on his people. They live 
 entirely in the plain country, seldom go to war in any direction, are good hunters and 
 shrewd in their dealings with the traders. Very few complaints have ever been made 
 against them. They have observed faithfully the stipulations of their treaty with the 
 United States, and have always treated white men who came among them, either as traders 
 or visitors, with respect, but they are too few in numbers to give direction to the actions 
 of large and more powerful bands. Neither contagious disease nor war seems to have 
 reduced their numbers, and it is believed that they have remained nearly stationary in 
 that respect for the last twenty-five years. Many portions of their country could be cul 
 tivated with success, and with their tractable disposition they could be made an agricul 
 tural people. 
 
 The Cut-Heads and Pine Indians, all come under the head of Yanctonais. In 1833 
 
INDIAN TRIBES OF THE MISSOURI VALLET. 
 
 375 
 
 the whole of this division of the Dakota nation was governed by the great chief Wa'nata, 
 but after his death in 1840 it became separated into three distinct bands, each having its 
 own rulers. All of them, however, range and hunt on the east side of the Missouri, and 
 very rarely are found beyond its western shores. They range in their hunting excursions 
 from Apple lliver down to the mouth of the Little Shyenne, north to the neighborhood 
 of the Lac du Diablc, and east along the Coteau de Prairie, but never going as low down 
 as the source of James lliver. Most of this district, though formerly the favorite range 
 of the buffalo, is now nearly abandoned by them, and at the present time these animals 
 are found only near the northern and western boundaries. In 1830, the Yanctonais, and 
 a few Indians from other bands, being encamped opposite Fort Pierre, on the east side of 
 the Missouri, killed fifteen hundred buffalo at a single surround. This is the largest 
 number that was ever known by the traders to be destroyed at any one time. The fact 
 was ascertained by the trader securing the tongues as the Indians returned from the hunt. 
 Since this period the buffalo have gradually retired from the eastern districts, moving 
 westward and northwest, and thus compelling the Indians to follow. From 1833 to 1844 
 they were found in considerable numbers on the head branches of the Little Shyenne, and 
 east in the direction of the Coteau de Prairie, but since that time few are seen so low 
 down, which accounts for these Indians occupying their western limits, and hunting north 
 as far as Pembina lliver. In their travels during the fall they not unfrequently come into 
 collision with the half-breeds from the Red lliver of the North, who sometimes hunt 
 buffalo in this country in parties of from three to six hundred men, bringing with them a 
 thousand carts or more to transport the meat and skins to their settlement. Several 
 skirmishes have occurred, in most of which the half-breeds have been the victors, and they 
 are known to be better warriors than the Indians. The latter, not gaining much in 
 actual contests, retaliate by stealing the horses of the former at their village near Pembina 
 in the absence of the men on their hunts. Of late years their visits in that direction have 
 been more frequent and bold, several residents have been killed in the village, and -many 
 horses stolen. This predatory warfare becoming very serious and annoying, the half- 
 breeds applied a few years ago to the United States Government for permission to make 
 war on the Indians on a large scale. They claimed that they would be compelled to make 
 war or remove to their original homes in the English possessions. 
 
 NAMES OP DAKOTA BANDS, WITH TUEIR PRINCIPAL CHIEFS. 
 
 DAKOTA BANDS. PRINCIPAL CHIEFS. 
 
 imn-i-sha',* Hod water band, 
 ta-shunk-'c-o-ta,f Plenty of horses, 
 wak-po'-ki-an, Flying river band, 
 
 c7in-te-ni'-tku, Foolish Heart, 
 kan-ge-ni-a'-ke, Crow Feather, 
 he-wa-zin'-c'a, One Horn. 
 
 * This band numbers eighty lodges. 
 VOL. xii. 48 
 
 f Seventy-five lodges. 
 
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 ON THE ETHNOGRAPHY AND PHILOLOGY OF THE 
 
 DAKOTA BANDS. 
 
 i-na-ha'-o-wln, Stone car-ring band, 
 wa-lia-le'-zo-wen, Striped snake ear-ring band, 
 shunk'-a-yu-tesh'-ni, Hand that eat no dogs, 
 min-i-kan'-zu, Band that plants near the river, 
 wak-to-ni'-la, The band that kill no people, 
 o-he-nom'-pa, Two kettle band, 
 pa-ha-hi'-a, Those who camp at the end, 
 min-i-sha', Red water (an Oglala band), 
 pe-hi'-pte-fi-la, Short hair band, 
 og-la'-la (meaning not known), 
 si-dan'-gu, Brulees, Burnt thighs, 
 watu-bi-li'-ne-da, Orphan band, 
 wa-6i'-om-pa, The band that roasts meat, 
 si-ca'-wi-pi, Band with poor guns or bows, 
 a-a'-ko-za, Big ankle band, 
 wa-za'-za, Band rubbed out, 
 hunk'-pa-pa (meaning unknown), 
 ta-lo'-na-pi, Fresh meat necklace band, 
 cV-lia-na-ka',* Half-centre cloth band, 
 6i-o-ho'-pa, Sleeping kettle band, 
 6an-ho-ham'-pa, Band with bad backs, 
 si-ha'-sa-pa, Blackfeet, 
 6i-hu'-pa, Jawbone band, 
 pa-a'-bi-a, Those who camp at the end, 
 
 PRINCIPAL CHIEFS. 
 
 wi-a-ka'-o-wln, Feather Ear-ring. 
 
 ma-ka-ci'-ka, Little Ground. 
 
 caij-te'-wa-ni'-ce, No Heart. 
 
 o-pa'-no-to-no'-ma-ni', The Elk that whistles running. 
 
 ta-tan'-ka-6i-ka'-la, Little Bull. 
 
 mi-wa-ta'-ne-harj'-ska, Long Mandan. 
 
 wa-min'-i-uii-du'-za, Whirlwind. 
 
 wam'-bi-li-shi'-a-na, The Eagle that sails. 
 
 ho-po'-ma-za, Iron Arm. 
 
 ta-shunk'-a-wlt'-ku, Foolish Horse. 
 
 wa-ki'-a-ci-la, Little Thunder. 
 
 cV-wi-wam'-bi-li-shi, Eagle's Body. 
 
 wi-sa'-pa, Black Moon. 
 
 ki-u-kam'-pi, He who gives praise. 
 
 a-ha'-ka-harj-ska, Long Elk. 
 
 wak-pe'-sha, Red Leaf. 
 
 ma-to'-ci-uk-sa, Bear Rib. 
 
 shi'-o-tarj'-ka, Large Pheasant. 
 
 shi'-o-ci-ka'-la, Little Pheasant. 
 
 ma-to'-ci-ka'-la, Little Bear. 
 
 ma-to'-wa-na'-l'ie, Bear's Spirit. 
 
 wa-wa-caij'-ka-to, The Blue Shield. 
 
 si-6o'-la, Bear's Foot. 
 
 rna-to-wa-ku'-a, The man who runs the bear. 
 
 NAMES OF MONTHS OR MOONS, RIVERS, ANIMALS, ETC. 
 
 1st moon, ma-ga-ga'-li-wi, when the geese come up 8th moon, dan-wak-pe-inl'i'-pa, when the leaves fall, 
 
 from the south, March. October. 
 
 2d moon, pe-^zi'-to-i-wam'-pi-wik, when the grass springs 9th moon, wik-to-ka-i-ca'-mi-na, when the first snow 
 
 up, April. falls, November. 
 
 3d moon, shunk-a-ma-ni-tu-c'in'-c'a-ton-wik, when the 10th moon, pte-yu'-kta-ha-shi'-na-wash'-te, when the 
 
 wolves have their young, May. robes are good, December. 
 
 4th moon, pte-ki-u'-lia-wik, the rutting time of the llth moon, pte-i-cu-la-wash-tc-yu-ta-wik, the time 
 
 buffalo, June. when the young buffalo (in utero) are good to 
 
 5th moon, cam'-pa-sha-wik, when the cherries are red, eat, January. 
 
 July. 12th moon, shunk-a-ma'-ni-tu-ga-nash'-ki-wik, when 
 6th moon, eam'-pa-sa'-pa-wik, black cherry moon, when the wolves go mad, February. 
 
 the cherries are ripe, August. we'-tu, spring, three moons, coming in of spring. 
 
 7th moon, <5an-wak'-pe-hi'-wik, when the leaves be- bel-o-ke'-tu, fair weather, coming of summer. 
 
 come yellow, September. ptarj'-e-tu, coming in of autumn, three fall months. 
 
 wa-ni'-i-tu, coming in of winter, three winter months. 
 
 * Cloth cut from corner to corner, tri-cornered clothing. 
 
INDIAN TRIBES OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 
 
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 roa-ka-si'-ca, Mauvaiscs Terres, or Bad Lands of White 
 
 River, 
 wi-wi'-la-wak'-pa-la, Spring Creek or Bear Creek, in the 
 
 Bad Lands. 
 
 pe-zi-lio'-ta, Sage Creek, or Gray Grass Creek. 
 c"an'-wi-ta, Wood Island Creek, 
 wak-pa-si-ea-o-inli-pa', Pinaus Spring, source of Tcton 
 
 River, 
 ho-ki-ha'-lo-ka, hole through the hill, or Opening 
 
 Creek, a branch of the Shyenne. 
 i-rtih'-a-pa-ha', Whetstone Hills, where the Indians 
 
 procure sandstone for whetstones, 
 pa-ha'-sa-pa, Black Hills. 
 wag-a-cai/-han-ska, Long Cottonwood Creek. 
 pi-spi-za-o-ti-tan'-ka, Big Prairie Dog Village Creek, 
 wi-da-ag-e-wa-ka'-pi, where they place the dead on 
 
 scaffolds, Shepoi Creek, 
 shunk'-a-kaij-pa'-o-ta, where the Indians lost many 
 
 horses, the Great Hole, 
 doli-wag'-zi-ca, Willow Creek, 
 wak-pa-wash'-te, Good River, Great Shyenne. 
 kan-ta-o'-ta, a plenty of plums, Plum Creek, 
 cam'-pa, the cherry, Cherry Creek, 
 o-ki'-za-te, forks of any river, 
 hi-haij-wak'-pa, Owl River, Morcau River, 
 wak-pa-shi'-ca, Teton, Little Missouri, Bad River, 
 ma-ka-i-zi'-ta, Smoking Earth River, 
 ta-to'-ka-la'-o-ti, where there are plenty of antelopes, 
 
 Antelope Creek, 
 tan-te-sha', Cedar Creek, 
 pa-ha'-wa-kan, Medicine Hill Creek, 
 mi-la-han-ska', Long Knife, or American Creek, 
 pa-la-ni-ta'-wa, where the Rees had their village, Ree 
 
 River, Grand River. 
 
 i-an'-wa-ka-ha'-pi, the river that makes rocks, Cannon- 
 ball River. 
 
 sha-he'-e-la-wo'-zu, the river where the Shycnnes planted 
 
 corn, Little Shyenne. 
 min-e'-tan-ka, Big River, L'eau qui Court, running 
 
 water, 
 o-pa-wo'-zu, where the Indians make cornfields, Ponka 
 
 River. 
 ma'-to-pa'-ha, Bear Butte. 
 
 mash-tin'-ska, white rabbit, in winter pilage. Lepus 
 campeslris. 
 
 he-tonk'-tan-ka, a wood rat. Neotoma. 
 
 wam-bi-li', the bird that sails, golden or war-eagle. 
 
 pa-ca-shi'-wa-ta, short bill. Junco liyemalis. 
 
 wa-zi-zit'-ka-la, yellowstone bird. Leucosticte tepliro- 
 cotis. A bird that lives among the yellow ferru 
 ginous sandstones. 
 
 mash-tin'-ca-la, sage rabbit. Lepits arlemisia. 
 
 shi'-o, birds that eat rose-buds. 
 
 shi-o'-6i-ka'-la, sharp-tailed grouse. 
 
 wa-zi'-shi-o, yellow wood bird, pine pheasant. 
 
 iink-ci'-ki-da, a magpie. 
 
 i-ha'-mi-ko-ti-la, the owl that lives with the prairie dogs. 
 
 zo'-a-to-pi, poor-will, so named from its note. 
 
 can'-ska-sa-pa, blackbird. 
 
 hi-hu', the hooting owl, named from its note. 
 
 pa'-pe-sto-la, "sharp-nose," fish-duck. 
 
 zit-ka'-to, bluebird, Maximilian's jay. 
 
 ho-pa-wa'-to-to, blue wings, blue-winged teal. 
 
 can-o-hu'-ya, "wood-color," cheewink. 
 
 pi-spi'-za, the animal that calls to people "come here," 
 prairie do'g. 
 
 pa-hh/, derives its name from its quills, porcupine. 
 
 psi-psi-dai'-la, jumping mouse. Hesperomys. 
 
 het-ka'-la. Spermophilus quadrivitlatus. 
 
 sink-po'-la, flat-foot, muskrat. 
 
 zi-cY, "yellow-wood," a pine squirrel. 
 
 alive, ni. \ 
 
 all, si-to'-mi-ni. 
 arm, ish'-to. 
 arrow, wa-hink'-pi. 
 autumn, pta'-c-tu. 
 axe, ma-zun'-spe. 
 
 VOCABULARY OF THE DAKOTA LANGUAGE. 
 
 black, sa'-pa. 
 blue, to. 
 body, taij'-can. 
 bone, hu'-hu. 
 bow, i-ta'-zi-pa. 
 
 bad, shi'-6a ; si'-ca. 
 bear, ma'-to. 
 beard, pu-te'-hi. 
 beaver, <?a'-pa. 
 belly, te'-zi. 
 
 bird, zit-ka'-la. 
 
 bread, a-hu'-e-a-pa, flour. 
 
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 ON TIIE ETHNOGRAPHY AND PHILOLOGY OF THE 
 
 brother, ci'-e. 
 buffalo, pte. 
 
 canoe, wa'-ta. 
 
 chief, i-taij'-ca. 
 
 cold, us'-ni. 
 
 copper, ma-za'-sha, red iron. 
 
 dance, wa-ci', to dance, 
 daughter (my), mi-cunk'-she. 
 dead, ta. 
 deer, tali'-6a. 
 dog, shunk'-a. 
 drink, at'-lia, to drink, 
 duck, ma-ga-si'-6a. 
 
 earth, ma'-ka. 
 eat, yu'-ta. 
 eye, is'-te. 
 
 face, i'-te. 
 father, at'-e. 
 finger, shash'-te. 
 fire, pe'-ta. 
 foot, i'-ha. 
 forehead, na-su'-na. 
 fox (red), shnnk-u'-la. 
 friend, ko'-la. 
 
 good, wash'-te. 
 grass, pe'-zi. 
 great, tag'-ka. 
 grouse, shi'-o. 
 
 hail, wa'-su. 
 
 hair, pe'-hi. 
 
 hand, na'-pe. 
 
 he, i'-ye. 
 
 head, pa. 
 
 heart, caij'-te. 
 
 hill, pa-ha'. 
 
 husband (my), mi-hing'-a-na. 
 
 I, tni'-ye. 
 ice, ca'-ra. 
 
 infant, ok-shi'-ca-la. 
 iron, ma'-za. 
 island, wi'-ta. 
 
 kettle, ce'ra. 
 kiU, ktc'-pi, to kill, 
 knife, mi'-na. 
 
 lake, bi-le'. 
 
 leaf, wak'-pe. 
 
 leg, 1m. 
 
 lightning, wa-ki'-an. 
 
 lodge, ti'-pi. 
 
 love, tc-wa'-ka, to love. 
 
 maize, \va-ka-me'-za. 
 man (red), wi-<5a'-sha. 
 many, mi-6o'-ta, much, 
 meat, cek'-pi. . 
 morning, am'-pa. 
 mother, in'-a. 
 mountain, lia. 
 mouth, i. 
 
 nail, sha'-ke. 
 near, ki'-e-la. 
 neck, ta'-hu. 
 night, aij-hi'-pi. 
 no, hi'-ya. 
 nose, pa'-su. 
 
 old, e-ha'-na. 
 pipe, ca-nom'-pa. 
 
 rain, ma-ra'-zu. 
 red, lu'-ta. 
 river, wali'-pa. 
 
 sea, min-i-wa'-6a. 
 see, wai-a'-ka, to sec. 
 shoe, naui'-pa. 
 sister, tank'-e. 
 sky, mal'i-pe'-a-to. 
 
 sleep, is-ti'-ma, to sleep, 
 small, cis'-di-la. 
 snow, wa. 
 soldier, a-ki'-ci-ta. 
 son (my), mi-cink'-shi. 
 speak, wo-ga la'-ka, to speak- 
 strong, wa-za'-ka. 
 summer, bi-lo-ki'-tu. 
 
 this, le. 
 
 thou, ni'-ye. 
 
 thunder, wa-ki'-an-o-tomp. 
 
 tobacco, <5ar)'-li. 
 
 to-day, le-am-pe'-tu. 
 
 toe, si-hu-ka'-za. 
 
 to-morrow, am-pa'-ke. 
 
 tongue, 6e'-shi. 
 
 tooth, hi. 
 
 turtle, ke'-a. 
 
 water, min'-i. 
 white, ska. 
 who, tu'-a. 
 wife (my), mi-ta'-wi. 
 wind, ta'-te. 
 winter, wa-wi'-e-tu. 
 wolf, shunk-to'-ke-ca. 
 woman, wi'-a. 
 wood, 6an. 
 
 yellow, zi. 
 
 yes, tosh. 
 
 yesterday, uk-ta'-le-ha. 
 
 one, wund. 
 two, nom'-pa. 
 three, ya'-mi-ni. 
 four, to'-pa. 
 five, za'-pta. 
 six, sha'-ko-pi. 
 seven, sha'-ko-wi. 
 eight, sha'-ge-lo'-ga. 
 nine, na-pci'-6n-ka. 
 ten, wik-eim'-i-ni. 
 
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 CHAPTER XV. 
 
 V. ASSINIBOINS. 
 ETHNOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 
 
 IN regard to the origin of the Assiniboin tribe, but little authentic information can be 
 obtained from their traditions, though many singular and fabulous tales are related con 
 cerning it. As a portion of a people, however, once inhabiting another district, and being 
 incorporated with another nation, their history presents a connected and credible chain 
 during the last century. 
 
 The Assiniboins were once a part of the great Dakota nation, residing on the tributary 
 streams of the Mississippi, as the head of the Des Moines, St. Peter's, and other rivers. 
 This is evident from the similarity and almost identity of the language spoken by the 
 two tribes or nations. Moreover, there lived a few years since, on the Missouri, a very 
 old chief, known to the traders as " Le Gros Frangais," though his Indian name was 
 Wali-e'-umz-a, or the " Iron arrow-point," who recollected perfectly well the time of their 
 separation from the Dakotas, which, according to his data, must have been about the year 
 1760. He stated that when Lewis and Clarke came up the Missouri in 1805, his band, 
 about sixty lodges, called Les Gens des RocJies, had, after a long conflict, made peace with 
 those bands of the Dakotas who resided on the Missouri, and that he saw the expedition 
 referred to near the mouth of White Earth River. This was the first party of white men 
 ever seen by them at their camps, though they had been accustomed to deal with the fur 
 traders of the Mississippi, who visited the interior of their country in the winter. After 
 their first separation from the Dakotas, they moved northward, made a peace with the 
 Crees and Chippeways, and occupied a portion of the country on or near the Saskatchewan 
 and Assiniboin llivers, in which district some two hundred and fifty or three hundred 
 lodges still reside. 
 
 Some time after the expedition of Lewis and Clarke, or at least after the year 1777, the 
 rest of the nation, at that time numbering about twelve hundred lodges, migrated towards 
 the Missouri, where superior advantages for game and trade presenting themselves, they 
 located permanently, and continue to reside there to the present time. 
 
 The principal incident, and one which forms an era in their history, which they have 
 every reason to remember, is a visitation of the small-pox in 1776 or 1777, when they 
 occupied the British territory. Even yet there are two or three Indians living (1855) 
 who are marked by the disease of that period, which greatly thinned their numbers, 
 though owing to their being distributed over a large district, some bands escaped entirely. 
 However, the small-pox does not appear to have been as destructive to them at this period 
 as it was on the Upper Missouri in 1838, which will be noticed hereafter. 
 
380 ON THE ETHNOGRAPHY AND PHILOLOGY OF THE 
 
 Before proceeding further with their history as obtained from the old men of the tribe, 
 let us present a summary of the notices of different travellers as far back as we have the 
 means of ascertaining. Inasmuch as an extended history of the Indian tribes of the Mis 
 souri Valley is in process of preparation, only the more important and standard works of 
 travel will be referred to in this memoir. 
 
 Umfreville calls these Indians Assinnee-Poetuc, and says that they obtained their name 
 from the Crees, which signifies in their language Stone Indians. He also states that they 
 are a " detached tribe from the Naudawissees of the Mississippi, who anciently separated 
 from the general stock on account of some intestine commotion." He gives a vocabulary 
 of forty-four words of the Assiniboin language, and, so far as I can ascertain, the first 
 ever published. Henry speaks of them as Osinipoillcs- or Assiniboins, who at that time 
 lived in the vicinity of and traded at Fort de Prairie. He says that they are the " Issati 
 of older travellers, and have sometimes been called Weepers." He gives much interesting 
 information in regard to this tribe, and suggests that their language connects them with 
 the Nadouwesis. La Hontan merely alludes to them as " Nadouessis or Scioux." Gal- 
 latin, who seems to have had access to works beyond my reach at this time, thus sums up 
 their ancient history : " The Assiniboins (Stone Indians) are a Dakota tribe, separated 
 from the rest of the nation, and on that account called Ho-lia, or Eebels, by the other 
 Sioux. They are said originally to have formed a part of the Yanktons, but we are not 
 acquainted with their real name. Their separation must have taken place at an earlier 
 date than has been presumed by late writers. Father Marquette, writing in the year 
 1669, from the Chagouadmigong Mission, after having mentioned the Nadouessies as a 
 formidable nation, speaking a language altogether different from the Algonkin and the 
 Huron, adds, that the Assiniponiels have almost the same language as the Nadouessies, 
 and live about fifteen days' journey from the Mission on a lake, which, from a map 
 annexed to that volume of the Relations, must have been Lake Winnipek." 
 
 Carver (1796) alludes to the " Assinepoils" as having revolted from the "Naudowessie 
 nation," and formed a league with the " Killistinoes," keeping up a continual warfare, how 
 ever, with other neighboring tribes. Mackenzie (1801) also alludes to the Assiniboins as 
 a detached tribe of the " Nadowasis," and residing upon the river which bears their name. 
 
 A number of vocabularies of the Assiniboin language have been published from time 
 to time. So far as I am able to learn, the first one given to the public was published by 
 Umfreville (1790), consisting of forty-four words. 
 
 The Prince of Neuwied, in his excellent work, " Travels in North America," 1839-41, 
 gives quite an extended vocabulary, with some interesting remarks in regard to their 
 manners and customs. Prior to this time, however (1817), Major S. H. Long obtained a 
 small but accurate list of words of their language, which was published in the appendix 
 
INDIAN TKIBES OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 381 
 
 to his " Account of an Expedition from Pittsburg to the Rocky Mountains, in 1819 and 
 1820." 
 
 The most important vocabulary of the language of this tribe ever published may be 
 found in the fourth volume of Schoolcraft's great work, which consists of over four hun 
 dred words, prepared by Mr. E. T. Denig, an intelligent trader, who resided for many 
 years at the junction of the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers, as superintendent of Fort 
 Union, the trading-post for the Assiniboins. I know of no others that are of sufficient 
 importance to mention here. 
 
 We will now continue the history of the Assiniboins as given by the most intelligent 
 men of the tribe. The name of this tribe among themselves is Dakota, the same as that 
 of the numerous tribes along the Missouri and the sources of the Mississippi, and with 
 them it signifies " our people." By the Dakotas they are called " Ho'-he," or Fish-eaters, 
 perhaps from the fact that they lived on fish while residing in the British possessions, as 
 most of the Indians do in the absence of other food. By the Crees and Chippeways they 
 are called A-si-ni-poi'-tuk or Stone Indians, thence the name of Assiniboins is derived. 
 As has been stated, at the earliest date known they roved about the sources of the St. 
 Peter's and Des Moines Rivers, Lac du Diable, Lac qui Parle, &c., and were then joined 
 with the Dakotas proper, who inhabited and claimed all the land between the Mississippi 
 and Missouri as low down as Big Sioux River, reaching to the source of James River, and 
 stretching thence northward as far as Lac du Diable. There were also other bands of 
 Dakotas (Tetons), occupying the country west of the Missouri. The number of the As 
 siniboins when they separated could not have been much less than fifteen hundred lodges, 
 averaging six souls to a lodge. Their migration has already been alluded to, and the ex 
 tent of territory which they traversed in search of game, in the Hudson's Bay country, 
 along the Saskatchewan, was very great, but at the present time their location is entirely 
 different, which we may as well define at this time. 
 
 The northern Assiniboins roam over the country from the west banks of the Saskatche 
 wan and Assiniboin Rivers, in a western direction, to the Woody Mountains, north and 
 west amongst some of the small outliers of the Rocky Mountains east of the Missouri, and 
 on the banks of the small lakes frequently met with on the plains in that district. They 
 consist of about two hundred and fifty or three hundred lodges, and they occasionally 
 make peace with some of the most northern bands of Blackfeet, which enables them to 
 extend a little farther Avest, and deal with those Indians, but these peace arrangements 
 are usually of short duration, and thus they are, for the most part, limited in their hunt 
 ing operations, and confined to the prairies east and north of the Blackfoot range. The 
 remainder of the tribe, now reduced to two hundred and fifty lodges, occupy the district 
 defined as follows. Commencing at the mouth of White Earth River on the east, extend- 
 
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 ing up that river to and as far beyond its source as the Grand Coulee and the head of La 
 lliviere aux Souris, thence northwest along the Coteau de Prairie, or divide, as far as the 
 beginning of the Cypress Mountains, on the north fork of Milk River, down that river to 
 its junction with the Missouri, thence down the Missouri to White Earth River, the 
 starting-point. Formerly they inhabited a portion of the country on the south side of the 
 Missouri, along the Yellowstone, but of late years, having met with great losses in that 
 direction, from war-parties of the Blackfeet, Dakotas, and Crows, they have been obliged 
 to abandon it, and now never go there. 
 
 Until the year 1838 the tribe still numbered from a thousand to twelve hundred lodges, 
 trading on the Missouri, when the small-pox reduced them to less than four hundred 
 lodges. They were also surrounded by large and hostile tribes, who continually made 
 war upon them, and in this way their number was diminished, though at the present time 
 they are slowly on the increase. 
 
 The chief rivers running through the Assiniboin country are, first, the Missouri, which 
 is so well known that it needs no description here. The next is Milk lliver, on the north 
 west boundary, a very long and narrow stream, rising in some of the small mountains east 
 of the Missouri, and lakes on the plains, runs a southwest course, and empties into the 
 Missouri about a hundred miles above the mouth of the Yellowstone. Its bed is about 
 two hundred yards wide, though the water seldom occupies more than one-third of that 
 space, except during the spring thaws, when for a week or two it fills the entire bed, and 
 even overflows the valley. It is fordable on horseback the year round, except at the time 
 above mentioned, or Avhen swollen by continued rains, and it might even be navigated 
 with Mackinaw boats, when full, though the undertaking would be attended with some 
 risk, owing to the large quantity of drift-wood, snags, and other obstructions. The water 
 in a high stage has a white and milky appearance, caused by its flowing through beds of 
 white clay, which are found along nearly the entire length of it, but more especially near 
 the sources of most of its tributaries. 
 
 The Riviere aux Tremble, or Quaking Asp River, empties into the Missouri about fifty 
 miles below Milk River, is about half the length and breadth of the other, and takes its 
 rise in the range of hills constituting the divide called the Woody Mountains. It is ford- 
 able at all times, except during spring freshets, or when filled by heavy rains, at which 
 times it could be navigated with small Mackinaw or flatboats, if floating ice and drift-wood 
 would permit. 
 
 Several creeks or small streams, of comparatively little importance, flow into the Mis 
 souri lower down on the east side, called Porcupine, Big Muddy, Little Muddy, Knife 
 River, &c., none of which contain much water. These, with several small coulees, serve 
 to drain the plains of the waters caused by snow and rains, and are for the most part miry, 
 and only fordable on horseback in certain places where gravel bottoms are found. 
 
INDIA.N TRIBES OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 383 
 
 After these comes White Earth lliver, on the eastern boundary of the district now 
 under consideration, which is about one hundred miles in length, and at the mouth over 
 one hundred yards wide. This like the others becomes very full from the melting of snow 
 in the spring, but falls low enough in course of the summer to be fordable in most places, 
 either on foot or on horseback. This stream could be navigated with small canoes during 
 the months of April and May. It takes its name from a kind of white pipe-clay, which 
 occurs about half way to its source, and is supplied with water from springs in the Coteau 
 de Prairie. 
 
 The entire country occupied by the Assiniboins, or hunted in exclusively by them, the 
 outline of which has been given, embraces an area of about 20,000 square miles, and pre 
 sents the same general features as the rest of the Upper Missouri territory, on the east side 
 of the Missouri River. From James River up, it may be said to be one great plain, hills 
 and timber only occurring where rivers run, and even the small streams are wooded only 
 a short distance above their mouths, so that the traveller may pass for days over large 
 tracts without meeting with a tree or shrub. In the valleys of the rivers, there is some 
 good land for agricultural purposes, but the level plains present a sterile aspect, and can 
 only be adapted to the grazing of cattle. The soil for the most part is not deep, but light 
 and sandy, absorbs rain readily, and the hills, which are usually composed of indurated 
 sands and clays, are often washed by atmospheric agencies into most grotesque and singular 
 forms, called by the Indians ma-ka-si'-6a, or " Bad Lands." 
 
 The indigenous grasses are quite numerous in species, and very nutritious, affording 
 most excellent pasturage for horses, horned cattle, and sheep. The dry season of autumn 
 gradually desiccates the vegetation, so that all the nutritious substances remain, and it is 
 not until the melting of the snows of spring that their nutritious character is lost. At this 
 period, all the herbivorous animals of the plains become quite weak and thin in flesh, but 
 quickly recover in the months of May arid June. This monotonous and barren surface of 
 the country only terminates after crossing the Coteau de Prairie, which divides the waters 
 of the Missouri from those of the Red River of the North, where both the nature of the 
 soil and the general appearance present an entirely different character, to Avhich allusion 
 has already been made in our description of the Crees. 
 
 Though wood cannot be found to any extent in the Assiniboin plains, and dried buffalo - 
 dung, usually called " buffalo chips," is used by the natives for fuel during the summer 
 season, or any portion of the year when the ground is not covered with snow, yet water 
 can be had at all times from small lakes, or rather large ponds. These are met with in 
 many places on the prairie, are formed by rain or melted snow, and have no visible outlet, 
 but diminish by evaporation and saturation. They differ in size from one hundred 
 yards to two or three miles in circumference, usually contain tolerably good water, are 
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 surrounded by a border of tall flags and rushes, and in the autumn covered with myriads 
 of wild fowl. A few small springs are seen occasionally, but most of them have a mineral 
 taste, and possess active cathartic properties. 
 
 Notwithstanding the dull and dreary appearance always presented by naked and exten 
 sive plains, there are no places that could properly be termed deserts, though there are some 
 marshes, pools, and swamps, which, however, are not very near together, or of a nature to 
 present any formidable obstruction to travel, neither do they seem to affect the health of the 
 natives, any farther than being the breeding-place of hosts of mosquitoes, which are very 
 annoying to man and beast. 
 
 The principal hindrance to foot travellers in this district, is the great abundance of a 
 few species of Cacti, or as they are usually called, " prickly pears," some of which are 
 armed with long, sharp, barbed spines, and readily pierce the moccasined feet of the In 
 dian or voyageur. The dogs, also, used by the Indians for carrying burdens on the plains, 
 suffer severely from these spines, though the older and more experienced have the faculty 
 of perceiving and avoiding them even while running. The principal varieties known in 
 this region are Opuntia Missouriensis and 0. fragilis, both species of which cover thou 
 sands of acres over the West. The smaller and most annoying form is the. 0. fmgilis, 
 the joints of which separate very readily, and adhere by the spines to the legs of horses or 
 the clothes of travellers, and owing to the barbed character of the thorns, produce often 
 quite serious and painful results. 
 
 The climate in this latitude is pure and dry, and perhaps the healthiest in the world. 
 In the months of April, May, and to the middle of June, when east winds prevail, much 
 rain falls, but during the rest of the summer and autumn, the weather is dry and mode 
 rately warm, there being only a short period in July and August of intense heat. There 
 are not unfrequently severe thunderstorms during the hot season, accompanied by rain or 
 hail, which in a few hours swell the small streams so that they overflow their banks, but 
 with the cessation of the rain, they fall as suddenly as they rise. The Missouri and most 
 of its tributaries inundate the neighboring valleys, when rain falls for ten or fifteen days 
 in succession. This usually happens in the month of June, when they are already nearly 
 full of water from the snow melting near their heads. This is not, however, of very fre 
 quent occurrence. Strong gales of wind also come from the west and southwest in form 
 of sudden gusts, prostrating numbers of trees along the banks of the Missouri, but these 
 storms only last for a few moments, and are not common. The summer season, being 
 short, leaves vegetation but little time to decay, and the firing of the prairies, which 
 happens more or less every year in different parts, burns up all the old grass, fallen timber, 
 and underbrush along the river bottoms. Owing partly to these facts, partly to the very 
 equable temperature, and the absence of excessive moisture, the air is pure and invigorating, 
 
INDIAN TRIBES OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 385 
 
 and few epidemics rage among the migratory Indians. Fevers are almost unknown, and 
 nervous diseases seldom met with. 
 
 The transition from summer to winter is very sudden ; no long period of time intervenes 
 equivalent to the Indian summer of the States. A few days arc often sufficient to deprive 
 the trees of leaves, freeze up the running streams, and clothe the yet partially green plains 
 with a garment of snow. The winters arc variahle, mostly very cold, with deep snow. 
 During the period of greatest cold, the mercury freezes. It often remains frozen for seve 
 ral days, and for weeks together the temperature ranges from thirty to forty degrees below 
 zero. The snow-storms at this period are terrible, and almost certain death befalls those 
 who are so unfortunate as to be caught on the plains. During every extremely cold 
 winter Indians are frozen to death, many instances of which might be recorded here. 
 Other winters are mild, but little snow falls, though there is always a short spell of in 
 tense cold, mostly in the month of January. When the winter proves mild and open, a 
 disagreeable spring follows, snow falls in May, and March and April produce cold winds, 
 rain, snow, and sleet. Occasionally, however, the spring opens finely, and the change 
 from winter to summer is as sudden as from warm to winter weather. The constant ex 
 posure to cold, inseparable from the lives and occupation of the Indians, sleeping on damp 
 ground, wet feet, and insufficient clothing, bring on bronchitis, pulmonary affections, 
 rheumatism, and sometimes quinsy. These diseases do not-often prove immediately fatal, 
 but usually enfeeble the constitution. By reference to some tables of temperature kept 
 at Fort Union, we find the longest winter on record to be that of 1844, when the Missouri 
 closed on the 9th of November, and opened on the 21st of April. 
 
 The Assiniboins do not raise any cattle or sheep, but judging from the stock reared at 
 Fort Union, near the mouth of the Yellowstone, the country is well adapted to grazing 
 purposes. The grasses of spontaneous growth are very nutritious, and their supply inex 
 haustible. The only obstruction seems to be the severe cold of winter and the deep snow, 
 though if animals arc housed and provided for during a month or two in midwinter, it 
 has been proven that no hardier or better stock can be raised in any country than in this. 
 Sheep especially would thrive well if properly cared for, as far as grazing is concerned, 
 though the great number of wolves with which the country abounds would present a for 
 midable objection. Large quantities of good hay can be cut either on the Missouri 
 bottoms or in the valleys of other streams, and, by experiments made near Fort Union, it 
 has been ascertained that oats, corn, potatoes, and all garden vegetables grow well in 
 favorable seasons. The soil, being light and sandy, requires frequent rains to produce 
 a good crop, which happens about one year in three, the others failing from drouth and 
 destruction by grasshoppers and other insects. The natural productions of the soil which 
 are useful for food to man arc not very numerous, but are held in high esteem by the 
 
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 Indians. Wild turnips (Psoralea esculentii). artichokes (Helianthus tuberosud), bullberries 
 (Shepherdia argentea), choke-cherries (Prunus Viryinuma), red plums (P. Americana), ser 
 vice-berries (Amelancliier Canadensis), rose-buds, gooseberries, currants, sour grapes, and 
 a plant resembling the garden rhubarb, are the principal fruits, and are eagerly sought for 
 at their proper season. When dried or cooked in various ways, they are considered great 
 luxuries. Wild hops (Humulus lupulm var. Amcricanus), are found in abundance, pos 
 sessing all the properties of the cultivated plant. 
 
 When the Assiniboins migrated to the Missouri and the contiguous territory now occu 
 pied by them, they numbered, as has been observed, from ten to twelve hundred lodges. 
 They did not all come at the same time, but by bands, at different periods, from 1800 to 
 1837, when the whole tribe may be said to have established themselves on their present 
 lands, except that portion which still remains in the British territory. Their first inter 
 view with white people was at the time when the traders of the Mississippi pushed their 
 traffic as far as their camps, when joined with the Dakotas proper, at which time they were 
 the poorest of all Indians. They used knives made of the hump-rib of a buffalo, hatchets 
 of flint, cooking utensils of clay or skin, awls and other tools made of bone, and arrow-points 
 and spear-heads of stone, some of which articles can still be found among them, though 
 most of them have been replaced by more durable metallic instruments obtained from the 
 traders. As soon as enough had arrived on the Missouri to afford a trading establishment, 
 the American Fur Company built a fort on White Earth lliver for their trade, which post 
 was removed in a year or two and a large substantial fort built three miles above the 
 mouth of the Yellowstone, on the east side of the Missouri. It required some years to 
 bring these savages to anything like an appreciation of order or system, and ammunition, 
 guns, knives, &c., had to be furnished them gratis ; horses were sold to them very cheaply, 
 and every inducement held out to them to improve their condition by labor. Though 
 wretchedly supplied with arms, clothing, and other necessary articles, and subject to ex 
 treme want at all times, yet they were so lazy and improvident, their wants were so few, 
 that many years passed before the proceeds of their hunts more than paid the expenses of 
 their trading establishment. They were also of a thievish and malicious disposition, 
 seldom bloodthirsty, but perpetually annoying the traders by stealing their horses, robbing 
 and insulting the men in their employ when found on the prairie, killing their domestic 
 cattle, and obstructing them in their operations in every way. They were the most impu 
 dent beggars, and having been supplied with many tilings to induce them to work, they 
 at once came to the conclusion that this state of things must continue, and any refusal to 
 supply their demands was resented in some of the ways just mentioned. This condition 
 of affairs continued to grow worse and worse, until the gates of the fort were closed upon 
 them, and they were compelled to trade within range of a loaded cannon. 
 
INDIAN TRIBES OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 387 
 
 The first calamity which cast a gloom over this nation occurred when the small-pox 
 visited them in 1838. This disease made its appearance at Fort Union when the steam 
 boat arrived in the month of June with the annual supplies for the post. No Indians 
 were then in the vicinity, except the wives of the employes of the Fur Company in the 
 fort, every one of whom caught the infection, and in a short time thirty persons were 
 attacked. When the first band of Assiniboins came, they were met a mile or more from 
 the fort by good interpreters, who represented to them the danger of going near, and 
 goods were taken out to them with the intention of trading with them at a distance ; but 
 all efforts of that kind were disregarded, and they passed on to the fort, and two hundred 
 and fifty lodges, or upwards of one thousand persons, contracted the disease at the same 
 time, and in a short period they were reduced to about thirty lodges, or one hundred and 
 fifty persons, old and young. Other bands coming in from time to time caught the dis 
 ease, some of which remained at the fort, where the dead bodies were daily thrown into 
 the river by scores. Others attempted to escape by running away, and the different roads 
 leading from the fort were dotted with dead bodies, and occasionally lodges were standing 
 in which whole families lay dead. The Indians in vain tried their own remedies, and the 
 disease continued until midwinter, when it seemed to have spent its power and ceased. 
 Out of one thousand lodges of Assiniboins only four hundred remained, and of these two 
 hundred were saved by having been vaccinated in former years by the Hudson's Bay 
 Company. 
 
 At the present time the Assiniboin tribe is separated into the following bands : 
 
 1. wah-to'-pali-an-da-to, Gens du Gauche, 100 lodges, averaging four persons. 
 
 2. min'-i-shi-nak'-a-to, Gens du Lac, 60 " " 
 
 3. i'-an-to'-an, Gens des Roches, 50 " " 
 
 4. wi-ic'-ap-i-nali, Gens des Filles, GO " " 
 
 5. wali-to'-pap-i-nali, Gens des Canots, 220 " " 
 
 6. wah-zi-ah, or to-kum'-pi, Gens du Nord, 30 to 50 " " 
 
 Several smaller bands are also found near the Montagnc du Bois, but these, for the most 
 part, belong to and reside in the English territory. The Gens du Gauche 1 , above named, 
 inhabit that part of the district described, along the Woody Mountains on the west side 
 in summer, often moving westward to the sources of the Quaking Asp Kiver, and toward 
 autumn locate their camp at or above Big Muddy River, or along the first-named stream. 
 In this direction, along the east shore of the Missouri, wintering-houses are built by the 
 Fur Company for the convenience of the Indians, and also for collecting the buffalo-robes 
 and other skins they obtain by hunting. 
 
 The Gens des Canots are commonly found along AVhitc Earth River, and extend their 
 travels, in the summer season, as far north as the sources of La Riviere aux Souris, Grand 
 
388 ON THE ETHNOGRAPHY AND PHILOLOGY OF THE 
 
 Coulee, and Pcmbina River. Indeed, the entire extent of country east of Fort Union as 
 far down as the Great Bend is hunted in by them at different times ; but owing to the 
 absence of fuel on this broad plain, they are obliged to place their camp on or near the 
 Missouri during the winter season. They are, therefore, usually found at that time either 
 on White Earth River or above that point, where trading-houses are established for their 
 benefit. Some fifteen or twenty lodges of this band trade at the posts of the Hudson's 
 Bay Company, or with the half-breeds of lied River, who visit their camp during the 
 winter with dog-sledges loaded with merchandise. The remaining bands mentioned, are 
 scattered over the intervening region between those of the two bands just mentioned, moving 
 from point to point near the Coteau dc Prairie in summer, approaching the Missouri in 
 the autumn, and stationing themselves on its banks or low down on some of its tributaries. 
 These bands commonly make their winter hunt near the Quaking Asp River, and along 
 that stream, but when the weather permits them to travel over the unwoodcd plains, pro 
 ceed as far north as the Cypress Mountains. Some of them, especially the Gens du Nord, 
 go still farther, and trade either at some of the Hudson's Bay Company's posts on the 
 Assiniboin River, or with the Red River half-breeds. 
 
 The Assiniboins subsist almost entirely on the proceeds of their hunts. The buffalo is 
 the principal animal killed, which is found in greater numbers through this territory than 
 in other districts. The meat of this animal, either fresh or cured by drying, is their prin 
 cipal food. Smaller game, such as elk, deer, and antelope, are not killed to any extent. 
 Some indigenous fruits and roots aid considerably in their support, at times when buffalo 
 are too far from camp. The skins of the animals killed by them serve for their clothing, 
 and lodges, or are exchanged with the Fur Company for articles of use and comfort, assorted 
 to suit their wants. Owing to their nomadic life, they seldom have a supply of meat laid 
 up for the future, and consequently often live on a short allowance for a time ; but Avlicn 
 buffalo are near at hand, there is continual feasting throughout the camp. It also some 
 times happens that from an entire disappearance of these animals, they are distressed by 
 actual want, which was the case in 1846, when they ate their dogs and horses, and, in 
 some instances, even their own children. They have but few horses, and these are re 
 quired to transport their tents and children when travelling. Dogs are used to a great 
 extent for carrying burdens, but they cannot carry heavy packs, and when killed for food, 
 their means for migrating from point to point is taken away, especially in the winter, 
 when the snow is so deep that horses cannot travel. This inability to transport provisions 
 prevents the desire to lay up for the future, and militates against any economy. They 
 are compelled to follow the buffalo at all times when one day's travel from their camp. 
 In this respect they are not as comfortable as those tribes who live in stationary villages, 
 as the Mandans, Minnetarces, &c., who take care to lay up a good store of provisions 
 
INDIAN TRIBES OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 
 
 389 
 
 for the future. Their roving habits prevent the accumulation of much baggage. All 
 useless articles must be thrown away to make room for those that are necessary, and thus 
 personal property cannot be acquired to any amount. Even their horses, the main stay of 
 their existence, are .very precarious stock, being subject at any moment to be taken away 
 by the hostile tribes in the neighboring territories. These things united produce a care 
 lessness of character and an apathy of disposition which runs through most of their 
 actions. 
 
 In their personal appearance, they are not remarkable for either beauty or homeliness. 
 The men average about the middle height, and usually have a determined, dogged look, es 
 pecially when in a strange place. In their homes, however, they are more sociable. Each 
 master of a lodge preserves a degree of dignity in his family circle, and exhibits a deter 
 mination to be respected. They do not play or joke much with their women or children, 
 nor do they enter into useless quarrels or recriminations. Trifling differences are settled 
 by decision of the master in a tone of authority, and more serious quarrels are ended by the 
 sudden application of the tomahawk. They are affectionate to their children, kind to 
 strangers, distant in their manners to each other unless to kindred, and very revengeful 
 when roused into passion. 
 
 There arc but few handsome women amongst them, and virtue is somewhat rare except 
 in very young females. In these matters, however, they ate very sly and modest, exhi 
 biting none of the bold and barefaced vulgarity of the Arikaras and Crows. They do not 
 seem to be an amorous people, and marriages are often contracted for the first time at 
 twenty-five or thirty years of age. 
 
 VOCABULARY OF THE ASSINIBOIN DIALECT OP THE DAKOTA LANGUAGE. 
 
 above, a-kan'. 
 alive, ni. 
 all, o-was'. 
 ankle, si-kun'-paz-o. 
 arm, ish-to'. 
 arrow, wa-hink'-a-pa. 
 autumn, pi-ti'-i-tu. 
 axe, Gns'-pe. 
 
 back, ta-po'-ta. 
 bark, ouy-ha'. 
 bear, ma-to'. 
 beard, pu-tc'-hi. 
 beaver, ea'-pa. 
 belt, i-pi'-ya-ka. 
 
 bird, tit-ka'-na. 
 
 black, sa'-pa. 
 
 bladder, ta-ne'-ha. 
 
 blood, o-we'. 
 
 blue, to. 
 
 boat, wa'-ta. 
 
 body, ta-eun'. 
 
 bone, hu-hu'. 
 
 bow, i-tas'-i-pa. 
 
 boy, oli-shi'-na. 
 
 breast, maij-ku'. 
 
 breechcloth, < : c-gi-mm'-ka. 
 
 brother, 6in-cu', elder brother. 
 
 sun-ka'-ku, younger bro 
 ther. 
 
 buffalo, wo'-ta-ca, buffalo in a herd. 
 
 ta-tun'-ga, a bull, 
 burn, spaun, to burn. 
 
 call, ki-paun', to call. 
 
 cap, wa-pa'-ha, hat or cap. 
 
 certainly, tok. 
 
 chicken, 5m-pau'-ho-to. 
 
 chief, hiin-ga'. 
 
 coat, c'a-i-gi-nunk'-a. 
 
 cold, sni. 
 
 copper, muz'-a-zi, gold or brass. 
 
 cow, pte. 
 
 crow, a'-a-na. 
 
 cry, 6e'-a, to cry. 
 
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 dance, wa-ci'. 
 darkness, i-oh'-paz-a. 
 daughter, ei-wint'-ku. 
 day, aum'-pa. 
 dead, ta, to die. 
 deer, tali'-ca, red deer. 
 
 sin-te'-sa-pa, black-tailed deer, 
 dog. shunk'-a. 
 door, ti-o'-pa. 
 drink, yat-ka', to drink. 
 
 eagle, wa-min-di'. 
 ear, noh'-a. 
 earth, man'-ka. 
 eat, wo'-ta. 
 
 wo'-tap-i, eating. 
 egg, wlt'-ka. 
 enemy, to'-ka. 
 evening, h'ti'-i-tu. 
 eye, ish-ta'. 
 
 face, i-te'. 
 far off, to'-hund. 
 fat, wa-shi'. 
 father, at'-e. 
 feather, wi'-ya-ka. 
 finger, nap-e'-wash-i. 
 fire, pe'-ta. 
 fisher, ske'-ca. 
 flesh, <k>-ni'-ca. 
 flint, caij-ki'-a-pa. 
 flour, ah-u'-a-pi. 
 flower, wal\-ca'. 
 foot, si-ya'. 
 forest, c'aij-no'-ha. 
 fox, to-ka'-na, gray fox. 
 
 slmnk-a-sha'-na, red fox. 
 friend, ko-du'. 
 
 give, wi-c'in'-din-na. 
 go, i'-a, to go. 
 good, wash'-te. 
 
 wi-wash'-te, a handsome 
 woman. 
 
 goose, ma-lia'. 
 grass, pc-zi'. 
 gray, lio'-ta. 
 grease, wa'-su-ua. 
 great, tun'-ga. 
 green, wi'-to. 
 grouse, shi-o'. 
 gun, co-tun'-ga. 
 
 hail, wa-su'. 
 
 hair, pa-ha'. 
 
 hand, nap-e'. 
 
 hawk, 6e-tun'. 
 
 he, i'-a. 
 
 head, pa. 
 
 hear, na-lio'. 
 
 heart, caij'-te. 
 
 heel, si-e'-te. 
 
 hill, pa-ha'. 
 
 horse, shun'-ga-tun'-ga. 
 
 hot, ka'-ta. 
 
 mash'-ta, hot weather, 
 house, ti'-pi, house or lodge. 
 
 ti-ma'-hon, in the house. 
 husband, hi-ku'-nun-ku. 
 
 I, mi'-a. 
 
 ice, dali'-a. 
 
 Indian, iks-dc'-wi-6as'-ta. 
 
 infant, ta-ku-ski'-na. 
 
 iron, muz'-a. 
 
 island, wi'-ta. 
 
 kettle, de'-lia. 
 kill, kit'-e, to kill. 
 knee, ta-hun'-kc. 
 knife, mi'-na. 
 
 lake, min-de'. 
 
 laugh, i-ha'-l'ia, to laugh. 
 
 lead, muz-a-su'. 
 
 leaf, wali-pe'. 
 
 leg, hu. 
 
 leggin, hon'-ska. 
 
 lightning, o-wa-ni-hink'-an-du-ka. 
 
 little, to'-nun-a. 
 
 live, ni-wa', I live. 
 
 liver, pi. 
 
 love, dan-te'-do-za. 
 
 maize, wa-ko-mo'-hi-za. 
 man, wi-cas'-ta. 
 
 wa-si'-c"u, a white man. 
 meat, ta-do', raw meat. 
 
 wa-c-o'-ni-ca, dried meat, 
 midday, wi-cV-kun. 
 midnight, hi'-i-tu-co'-kun. 
 mink, i'-ku-sa. 
 mole, wi-ash'-pu-na. 
 moon, ha-wi'. 
 moose, tali', 
 morning, Li-a'-ki-ni. 
 mother, i-na'. 
 mountain, he. 
 mouth, i. 
 much, o'-ta. 
 muskrat, sink'-po. 
 
 nail, shak-e'. 
 navel, eC-k-pa'. 
 near, ash-ka'-na. 
 neck, ta-hu'. 
 night, hi'-i-tu. 
 no, hi-ya'. 
 nose, po-lia'. 
 nothing, ta-ko-nish'. 
 
 oar, wa-ti'-ca-ga-bo'-ga. 
 old, we-ca'-ca. 
 otter, pi-tun'. 
 owl, hi-hun'-a. 
 
 part, a- pa', 
 perhaps, da. 
 pipe, can-du'-pa. 
 plain, o-min-da'. 
 polecat, ma-ha'. 
 potato, pa-lie'. 
 
 rabbit, mus-tin'-ca-na. 
 
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 red, sba. 
 
 rock, i-ya-tun'-ga. 
 
 run, du-za'-ha, to run. 
 
 scalp, wi-da'-pa-ha'. 
 
 sea, min-i-wa'-zi-ca. 
 
 seat, on'-za. 
 
 see, wa-ya'-ka, to sec. 
 
 shirt, ma-hen'-ta-um-pi. 
 
 shoe, caij-ham'-pa. 
 
 shot-poucll, tah-e-ik-un'. 
 
 shoulder, a'-min-do. 
 
 sinew, ik-un', sinew of a man. 
 
 ta-kun', sinew of an animal. 
 sing 1 , do-wan', to sing, 
 sister, tunk-shi'. 
 skin, ha. 
 sky, moli-pi'-a-to. 
 small, di-ka'-na. 
 snow, wa. 
 
 soldier, a-ki'-di-ta, warrior, 
 son, di-hint'-ku. 
 speak, i-a', to speak. 
 spear, wa-hu'-ka-za. 
 spirit, nali-e'. 
 
 wa-kaij-tun'-ga, Great Spirit. 
 spring (of water), wi'-wi. 
 spring, we'-tu, a season, 
 star, wi-ca'-pi. 
 
 stomach, ali-cY. 
 stone, i'-yay. 
 stream, wal'i-pa'-na. 
 strike, a-pa', to strike, 
 strong, su-ta'. 
 summer, min-do-ke'-tu. 
 sun, wi. 
 
 swan, ma-ha'-ska. 
 sweet, sku'-ya. 
 
 thigh, de-da', 
 think, i-uk'-a-dan. 
 this, de. 
 thou, ni'-a. 
 thunder, o-te'. 
 thy, i-utu'-pi. 
 tobacco, can-di'. 
 to-day, am-pe'-ha. 
 toe, si-ya'-ink-pa. 
 to-morrow, hi-ak'-a-da. 
 tongue, de-ze'. 
 tooth, i. 
 town, wi-do'-te. 
 turtle, pat-ka'-sha. 
 
 ugly, shi'-ca, bad. 
 
 wi-da-si'-da, an ugly man. 
 under, o-kun'- 
 
 valley, kcili'-a. 
 vein, kun. 
 
 walk, ma'-ni, to walk, 
 war-club, cun'-pi. 
 water, min'-i. 
 
 inin-i-o'-han, through the 
 
 water. 
 we, un-ki'. 
 weak, wan'-ka-na. 
 what, ta'-ko. 
 
 which, tuk-te'-wash-i, which one ? 
 white, ska. 
 who, tu'-a. 
 wife, tau-i'-du. 
 wind, ta-te'. 
 windpipe, lo-te'. 
 wing, hu-pa'. 
 winter, wa-ni'-i-tu. 
 wish, wa-dink'-a. 
 within, ma-hen', 
 without, tun-kad'. 
 wolf, shunk-to'-ka-da. 
 woman, we'-ya. 
 wood, can. 
 
 yellow, zi. 
 yes, ho. 
 young, kosh'-ka. 
 
 CHAPTER XVI. 
 
 X. AUB-SA'-RO-KE, OR CROW INDIANS. 
 
 ETHNOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 
 
 THE Crows were once united with the Minnitarees or Gros Venires, who now occupy 
 a stationary village on the Missouri. They resided with them, they say, at different 
 places along the banks of the Missouri, where the remains of dirt villages are still to be 
 found. About eighty years since, a quarrel arose which divided them. The nation was 
 governed by two factions, each headed by a separate chief, both of whom were desperate 
 men, and nearly equal in the number of their followers. Jealous of each other, and striving 
 
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 after supreme command, many difficulties and differences arose from time to time, though 
 they had never proceeded to extremes on these occasions, there being always a sufficient 
 number of wise, cool heads to check or quell such disturbances. At one time, when both 
 the chiefs with their followers Avere on a hunt together, and a large number of buffalo 
 had been killed, the wives of the leaders quarrelled about s6me portion of one of the 
 animals. From words they came to blows, and from blows to knives, and finally one of 
 the women killed the other. The relatives on both sides then took part, and each faction 
 headed by its chief joined in the affray, and a sharp contest ensued, in which several 
 were killed on both sides. The result was that about one half left the other portion on 
 the Missouri, and migrated to the llocky Mountains, through which wild extensive region 
 they still continue to rove. Why they are called Crows we cannot tell ; the word Aub-sa'- 
 ro-ke, the name they give themselves in their own language, does not mean a crow in 
 particular, but anything that flies. Since leaving the Missouri, their language has changed 
 to some extent, but still they can converse with ease with the Minnitarees. 
 
 The country usually inhabited by the Crows, is in and near the llocky Mountains, 
 along the sources of Powder, Wind, and Big-horn Eivers, on the south side of the Yellow 
 stone, as far as Laramie Fork on the Biver Platte. They are also often found on the 
 west and north side of that river, as far as the source of the Mussel-shell, and as low down 
 as the mouth of the Yellowstone. That portion of their country lying cast of the moun 
 tains, is perhaps the best game country in the world. From the base of the mountains to 
 the mouth of the Yellowstone, buffalo are always to be found in immense herds. Along 
 that river, elk may be seen in droves of several hundreds at a time ; also large herds of 
 deer of both species, Cervus leucurus and C. macrotis. Antelope cover the prairies, and 
 in the "Bad Lands" near the mountains, the moimtain sheep (Ovis montana), and the 
 grizzly bear are found in the greatest abundance. Every creek and river teem with 
 beaver, and almost every stream furnishes a great supply of fish and fowl in the proper 
 season. 
 
 The once almost fabulous country of the Rocky Mountains is now so well known as 
 scarcely to need description here. The scenery of the district now under consideration 
 does not differ materially from other portions of the mountain region. The same high 
 stony peaks and eternal snows are seen, interspersed with fertile valleys of rich land. 
 Most of the rivers whose sources are in these mountains are clear, rapid streams, formed 
 from springs, which widen into lakes of different sizes, according to the nature of the 
 obstruction the water meets with in its descent. In their course through the prairie 
 country, these rivers usually assume a muddy character, from the alluvial nature of their 
 banks. The valleys between the different ranges of mountains are clothed with thick grasses, 
 many flowers, shrubs, and trees, presenting numerous beautiful landscapes. The higher 
 
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 ranges of mountains may be divided into three different zones. The first third, from the 
 base up, is well covered with tall pines, poplars, and other trees of large growth. The 
 second portion is composed of gigantic masses of rock, overhanging in such a manner as 
 to present a frightful appearance to the traveller below. Among these, a few stinted 
 cedars and pines, with some other shrubs struggle for an existence, sometimes taking root 
 where there is apparently no earth. In the last zone, the vegetation has ceased, and the 
 snow commences, which continues to the summit. This snow is perpetual, though a por 
 tion of it melts annually, which loss is supplied the ensuing winter, yet it is presumed 
 that no thaw takes place on the summit, but on the sides some distance down. When 
 the snow accumulates on the projections -so as to lose its balance, it is precipitated below 
 in the form of avalanches, something like those of the Alps. Taking in their way large 
 rocks, and increasing in size as they descend, trees give way before them, until they find 
 rest in some portion of the lower zone, where they melt away, and aid in forming the 
 sources of rivers. Snow-slides are also common, by which piles of snow miles in extent, 
 are detached, and force their way into the valleys, or at least as far as the thickly tim 
 bered section. Some of the springs near the sources of the Yellowstone are bituminous, 
 sending forth an inflammable substance like tar ; others are sulphurous, and a few are 
 hot, or boiling. The water of the last is hot enough to cook meat readily. Most of the 
 tributaries of the Ye^>wstone are well fringed with timber, though the river itself is 
 wooded only about half the way from its mouth to the base of the mountains, that is, many 
 portions of it for considerable distances are destitute of trees. The lower portion of the 
 valley contains wide belts of cottonwood, and the soil is moderately good for agricultural 
 purposes. Considering the Crow district as a whole, it can never become thickly settled, 
 and all the land that can ever be rendered useful for cultivation, is found only in the valleys 
 of the streams, and along the base of the mountains. 
 
 The Yellowstone, like the Missouri, rises to the top of its banks every spring, owing to 
 the melting of the snow along the sides of the mountains. This rise usually commences 
 about the middle of May and continues until the middle of June, when it begins to fall, 
 unless kept up by heavy rains. During this high stage of Avater steamers of light draught 
 might navigate it to the first rapids, which are about one hundred and fifty miles from its 
 mouth. The ice commonly yields about the first of April, and when broken up suddenly, 
 by pressure of water from the mountains, it forms dams quite across the valley, raising the 
 water fifty or sixty feet, and inundating the neighboring country. The Crow Indians are 
 greatly in fear of the water on these occasions, and suffer severely when taken unawares. 
 One of these breakings up occurred a few years ago, early in the nionth of February. 
 About one hundred and thirty lodges of the Crows were encamped in the valley of the 
 Yellowstone, where the distance from bluff to bluff is more than three miles. The water 
 
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 came down upon them in the night so suddenly, that they had barely time to escape with 
 their lives by running to the hills. But the land near the bluffs is often lower than that 
 near the bank of the stream, and consequently in running that way they encountered 
 water, Avading and swimming through it and carrying their children. They lost the pro 
 ducts of their whole winter's hunt, besides nearly all their arms, ammunition, and other 
 property. When the water fell it left immense quantities of ice piled up around their 
 lodges, causing great difficulty in securing them again. Their entire loss on this occasion 
 could not have been less than ten or twelve thousand dollars worth of robes and merchan 
 dise. At another time the American Fur Company's fort at the mouth of the Big-horn 
 was inundated in the same way, and a large amount of property destroyed. This river is, 
 when high, very rapid and dangerous to navigate, on account of the rocks, snags, and 
 other obstructions. Mackinaw boats descend it every year, but they are often lost and the 
 men are drowned. 
 
 The Crow Indians live in skin huts like the other migratory tribes. They formerly 
 numbered about eight hundred lodges or families, but from the usual causes of diminu 
 tion, disease and war, are now reduced to four hundred and sixty lodges. These are 
 separated into different bands, each governed by a chief, and occupying different parts of 
 their territory. Those belonging to the band headed by the " Big Robber," usually make 
 their hunt on the head of Powder River, and of late years take thq^; robes to the trading- 
 houses along the Platte River in the spring. Here they obtain supplies to continue their 
 operations, and move back to winter quarters early in the fall. The largest band is led 
 by a chief named "Two-face," and numbers about two hundred lodges. These range 
 through the Wind River mountain region, and deal with the traders of the American Fur 
 Company located on the Yellowstone. A third portion, under their chief, " Bear's Head," 
 wander along the valley of the Yellowstone, from mouth to source, sometimes passing the 
 winter with the Assiniboins near Fort Union. The whole nation have a rendezvous every 
 summer, when, after performing several national solemnities, they move across the moun 
 tains to exchange the greater part of the merchandise for horses. This traffic is carried 
 on with the Flat-heads in St. Mary's Valley, or with the Snake and Nez Perce' Indians on 
 the head waters of the Yellowstone. With the nations just named the Crows have been 
 at peace for many years, and also with the Assiniboins since 1850. But their natural and 
 perpetual enemies are the Blackfeet on the west and the Dakotas on the east, with both 
 of which nations they have kept up a continual warfare from time immemorial. 
 
 I have before me the materials for an extended sketch of the manners and customs, toge 
 ther with biographical sketches of the principal chiefs of this tribe, but, as they will doubt 
 less appear in a future work now in course of preparation, I will close with a brief notice of 
 . the different vocabularies of the Crow language which have been published from time to time. 
 
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 The first one ever taken, so far as I can learn, was published in " Long's Expedition to 
 the Rocky Mountains," and consists of about thirty words. In the " Reise in das Junere 
 Nord Amerikas, in 1832-1834," Vol. II, Prince Neuwied gives us twenty words. Mr. 
 Gallatin also obtained brief but excellent vocabularies from Mr. Kenneth Mackenzie, who 
 Avas for many years superintendent of Fort Union, near the mouth of the Yellowstone. 
 In Vol. Ill of Schoolcraft, twenty-two words are compared with the Minnitaree. No 
 idea, however, has ever been given in regard to the grammatical structure of the Aub-sa'- 
 ro-ke or Crow language. The following vocabulary and grammatical sketch I obtained 
 from the Crows, with the aid of an intelligent Scotch trader, Mr. Robert Meldrum, who 
 has lived thirty-three years with that tribe and speaks the language with the fluency of a 
 native. I was also very much aided by a MS. vocabulary of over a thousand words, ob 
 tained by Rev. Mr. Brauninger, a Lutheran missionary among the Crows during the 
 years 1859 and 1860, who was killed by a wandering war-party of Dakotas in the 
 valley of Powder River during the summer of 1860. 
 
 REMARKS ON THE GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURE OF THE AUB-SA'-RO-KE OR CROW LANGUAGE. 
 
 I. NOUNS. 
 
 1. As a general rule, no change occurs in the termination of nouns to indicate number 
 or case. There are a Ww exceptions to this rule, however, as, it-si'-ri, a horse, it-si'-ru, horses ; 
 da-ka'-ka, a bird, da-ka'-ku, birds. 
 
 2. No change is made in the termination of nouns to indicate gender, but different 
 words are used for male and female ; as, di'-ro-pe, a bull ; bi-shi'-e, a cow ; bat'-si, a man ; mi'-a, 
 or, mi-a-kat'-e, a woman. 
 
 II. ADJECTIVES. 
 
 3. Adjectives follow the nouns which they qualify ; as, it-si'-ri-ma-ni-tum'-a-kat, a gentle 
 horse ; mi'-a-ha-bu'-ro-ka, a virtuous woman. 
 
 4. Sometimes the adjective assumes the plural termination ; as, it-si'-ri-ship-it'-uk, black 
 horses ; mi-ship-it'-uk, black rocks. 
 
 5. The idea of comparison is expressed in the following graduated form ; as, it'-si, good ; 
 it-sc'-e-shek, better ; it-se'-bat-sac', very good, or powerful good ; ka-wi', bad ; ka-wi-ka'-to, a little 
 bad ; ka-wi'-e-shek, quite bad, or worse ; ka-wi'-a-bat-sac', worst, or exceedingly bad ; bat-sac', 
 strong, or powerful ; a-ha6'-kat, a little ; i-a'-kat, very small ; i-san-ic'-kat, a little larger ; i-sa'-e-slu-k, 
 larger than the last ; i-sa'-bat-sa6', very large. 
 
 6. Wherever adjectives or nouns are used as verbs, they are conjugated like verbs ; as, 
 hin-i-ct'-dek, healthy, or well : mi'-hin-i-et-dCk, I am well, &C. 
 
 7. The cardinal numerals are as follows : 
 
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 one, ha-mat.' 
 
 two, nop. 
 
 three, naiu. 
 
 four, shop. 
 
 five, tsih'-op. 
 
 six, a-ka'-mak. 
 
 seven, lia'-pu-a. 
 
 eight, no'-pa-pe. 
 
 nine, a-ma'-ta-pe. 
 
 ten, pi-ra-ka'. 
 
 eleven, pi-ra-ka'-ma-ta. 
 
 twelve, pi-rak'-nop. 
 
 thirteen, pi-rak'-naru. 
 
 fourteen, pi-rak'-shop. 
 
 fifteen, pi-rak'-tsili -op. 
 
 sixteen, pi-rak-a'-mak. 
 
 seventeen, pi-rak'-sah-pu'-ak. 
 
 eighteen, pi-rak-no'-pa-pili'-tc. 
 
 nineteen, pi-rak'-a-ma'-ta-pil'i'-te. 
 
 twenty, no-pa-pi'-ra-ka. 
 
 twenty-one, no'-pa-pi'-ra-ka'-ali'-pa-mat-kat. 
 
 twenty-two, no'-pa-pi-ra-ka'-ah-pi-no'-pa. 
 
 twenty-three, no'-pa-pi-ra-ka'-ah'-pi-na'-mo. 
 
 twenty-four, no'-pa-pi-ra-ka'-ali'-pi-shop. 
 
 twenty-five, no'-pa-pi-ra-ka-ah'-pi-tsih'-op. 
 
 twenty-six, no'-pa-pi-ra-ka'-ali-pa-ka'-mak. 
 
 twenty-seven, no'-pa-pi-ra-ka'-ah-pi-sa-pu'-a. 
 
 twenty-eight, no'-pa-pi-ra-ka'-ah-pi-no-pa'-pi. 
 
 twenty-nine, no'-pa-pi-ra-ka'-ah-pi-ma-ta'-pe. 
 
 tliirty, na'-ma-pi-ra-ka'. 
 
 forty, sho'-pa-pi-ra-ka'. 
 
 fifty, tsili'-a-pi-ra-ka'. 
 
 sixty, a-ka'-ma-pi-ra-ka'. 
 
 seventy, ha'-pu-pi-ra-ka'. 
 
 eighty, no'-pa-pe-a-pi-ra-ka'. 
 
 ninety, a-ma'-ta-pe-pi-ra-ka'. 
 
 one hundred, pi-ra-ka-sa'. 
 
 two hundred, no'-pa-pi-ra-ka-sa'. 
 
 three hundred, na'-ma-pi-ra-ka-sa'. 
 
 four hundred, sho'-pa-pi-ra-ka-sa'. 
 
 five hundred, tsili'-o-pi-ra-ka-sa'. 
 
 six hundred, a-ka'-ma-pi-ra-ka-sa'. 
 
 seven hundred, lia'-pu-pi-ra-ka-sa'. 
 
 eiglit hundred, no'-pa-pe-a-pi-ra-ka-sa'. 
 
 nine hundred, a-ma'-ta-pejai-ra-ka-sa'. 
 
 one thousand, pi-ra-ka-sa'-^-ra-ka'. 
 
 The Aub-sa'-ro-ke, or Crows, like all the Indians with whom I am acquainted, use their 
 fingers in counting, bending them down temporarily against the inside of the hand as 
 they proceed, until they reach ten, when one finger is allowed to remain down. They do 
 not usually count higher than a thousand, as they say honest people have no use for larger 
 numerals; ali'-pi, means added to, as 20 + 1 = 21. 
 
 8. There are also, though rarely in use, numerals of the adverbial form ; as, a-ma-tak', 
 once ; en-e-nom'-pe, twice, a second time. 
 
 III. ADVERBS. 
 
 9. Adverbs precede the words which they qualify ; as, a-ma-ta'-ah'-pik, I shot it only once ; 
 i-uk-us'-na-ra, go there. 
 
 IV. PREPOSITIONS. 
 
 10. Prepositions follow the nouns which they govern ; as, mo-na-ke'-da, up a tree ; niin-mo- 
 in'-a, in the water ; shi-cY-ke-da, up a hill ; shic-bu-uk'-i-sa, down a hill ; min-a-sa', by the shore ; 
 a-she'-a-ke'-da, on the top of the house ; a-she-mo'-na, inside of a lodge. 
 
 V. CONJUNCTIONS. 
 
 11. Conjunctions iisually follow the nouns which they connect; as, a-pe', and; ('i'-ro-pe-bi- 
 
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 shi'-a-po', bulls and cows ; da-ka'-ka-na-ka-a'-pa, the bird and its young. Sometimes the con 
 junction is repeated after both nouns; as, ci'-ro-pe-ho-it-si'-ri-ho, a bull or a horse; uli-ho', it is 
 either the one or the other. 
 
 VI. INTERJECTIONS. 
 
 12. There are but few interjections; as, ha-hi'-a! halloo there! to call to one at a dis 
 tance ; di-du'-ka-za ! hurrah ! to one only ; di-du-ka-za'-ra ! hurrah, my boys ! a common word 
 used in the act of fighting ; ho ! come ! nos-ha'-ra ! get out ! nah'-a-ra ! go away ! 
 
 VII. PRONOUNS. 
 
 13. Pronouns are of two kinds, the simple and the fragment pronoun. The simple 
 pronouns are complete in themselves ; the fragment-pronoun is found only in connection 
 with other words. The simple personal pronouns are, 
 
 bi, I. bi'-rud, we. bi'-ru, us. 
 
 di, thou. di'-rud, you. di'-ru, you. 
 
 i, he. i'-rQd, they. i'-ru, them. 
 
 14. The possessive personal pronouns are declined in the following manner: 
 
 AFFIRI^TIVELY. b'i-ru'-duk, it was ours, 
 
 bi-bek', it is mine. di-du'-duk, it was yours, 
 
 di-dek', it is thine. i-du'-duk, it was theirs, 
 i-dek', it is his. 
 
 bi-ru'-dak, it is ours. HXJATITEIT. 
 
 di-ru'-dak, it is yours. bi - be '- sa ' ' li is not raine ' 
 
 i-ru'-dak, it is theirs. di - de '- sa > U is not thine ' 
 
 i-de'-sak, it is not his. 
 
 bi-di'-duk, it was mine. bi-ru-.be'- sa, it is ours, 
 
 di-di'-duk, it was thine. di-ru-de'-sa, it is yours, 
 
 i-di'-duk, it was his. ko-de'-sak, it is theirs. 
 
 15. The fragment-pronouns are used in conjugating verbs and declining nouns, and are 
 placed at the beginning, in the middle, and sometimes at the end of the word, as the form 
 of the noun or verb may seem to require. Those pronouns denoting possession are 
 attached to all nouns which represent objects of ownership. The following illustrations 
 will explain themselves without further remark. Changes of vowels occur according to 
 the form of the word or particular vowel with which they stand connected. 
 
 ini-nup'-he, my father. ba-din'-a, my husband, 
 
 ni-nup'-lie, thy father. da-cin'-a, thy husband, 
 
 i-nup'-he, his father. is-6in'-a, her husband. 
 
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 ma-nak'-mi-n, my daughter. mu'-u, my wife. 
 
 na-nak'-rui-a, thy daughter. nu'-a, thy wife, 
 
 ko-nak'-mi-a, his daughter. u'-a, his wife. 
 
 ba-ku'-pe, ray brother. , , , 
 
 J ma-nak -ba-tse, my son. 
 
 da-ku'-pe, thy brother. na-nak'-ba-tse, thy son. 
 
 ko-a-ku'-pe, his brother. ko-nak'-ba-tse^his son. 
 
 ma-shu'-a, my head. 
 
 na-shu'-a, thy head. ba-smi'-a, my sister. 
 
 i-shu'-a, his head. da-smi'-a, thy sister. 
 
 ko-i-siui'-a, his sister. 
 bi-sas'-ku, my horses. 
 
 diW-ku, thy horses. bas-ba'-ze, n,y boat. 
 
 i-sas'-ku, his horses. das-da'-ze, thy boat, 
 
 bi-ru-ba-sas'-kuk, our horses. is-ba'-fe, his boat, 
 di-ru-di-sas'-kuk, your horses. 
 
 i-ru-i-sas'-kuk, their horses. 
 
 mi-ba-rut'-shik, I have got good sense. 
 
 ba-sali'-e, my mother. a-mu'-kak, I saw or have seen, 
 
 da-sah'-e, thy mother. i-rud'-mi-ic'-ish-Ck, they love me. 
 
 i-sah'-e, his mother. bet-dis-ic'-a-da, you love each other. 
 
 16. The adjective-pronouns are quite numerous : 
 
 First, distributive, as, ko'-ta, each, every, or all ; bi-rup'-tse-pi'-ra-ka-ko'-ta, each one ten charges 
 of powder j ma-e-ha', neither, or something else. 
 
 Second, demonstrative, as, hin-e', this or that ; hin-e-ma-nu'-a, this object or thing ; hi-ded, 
 these ; hi-ded-bi-ruli'-pa-ke, these persons. 
 
 Third, interrogatives, as, sap, or sa'-pa, what I sa-pe', who, or who is it 1 sap'-te, why, or why 
 is it 1 sho or sho'-rak, where, or where is it 1 
 
 VIII. VERBS. 
 
 17. (1.) In Aub-sa'-ro-ke verbs, there are three moods, indicative, imperative, and infini 
 tive. 
 
 (2.) Three tenses, past, present, and future. 
 
 (3.) Two numbers, singular and plural. No dual form has as yet been observed. 
 The following list of forms, imperfect as it is, will convey some idea of the character of 
 the conjugation of the verbs in this language. 
 
 ba-shik', I am dead. ka-re-suk', they are dead, 
 
 sa-hik', thou art dead. sa-ha'-kek r to die, or it is dead, 
 
 ka-rish'-e, he is dead. sa-match'-e (imp.), die. 
 ba-sulc', we are dead. 
 
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 nia-ne'-sliik, I am hungry, 
 na-ne'-shik, thou art hungry, 
 a-ne'-shik, he is hungry, 
 ma-ne-shis'-a, I am not hungry, 
 na-ne-shis'-a, thou art not hungry, 
 a-ne-shis'-a, he is not hungry, 
 ma-ne-shi'-ink, I will be hungry, 
 na-ne-shi'-ink, thou wilt be hungry, 
 a-ne-shi'-ink, he will be hungry. 
 
 bi-ba-ku6'-ik, I am thirsty, 
 di-da-kuc'-ik, thou art thirsty, 
 a-kuc'-ik, he is thirsty. 
 bi-ba-ku6'-is-a, I am not thirsty. 
 di-da-ku6'-is-a, thou art not thirsty. 
 a-ku6'-is-a, he is not thirsty. 
 
 mi-a-pak', I am cold, 
 ni-a-pak', thou art cold, 
 i-a-pak', he is cold, 
 bud-e-a-pak', we are cold, 
 i-ru'-da-pak', they are cold, 
 mi-a-pa-sak', I am not cold, 
 ni-a-pa-sak', thou art not cold, 
 i-a-pa-sak', he is not cold, 
 bud-e-a-pa-sak', we are not cold, 
 i-ru'-da-pa-sak', they are not cold. 
 
 ba-bu'-she, I eat, or am eating, 
 ba-du'-she, thou eatest, or art eating, 
 ba-bush'-mik, I will eat. 
 ba-dush'-mlk, thou wilt eat. 
 ba-de-dush'-nik, wilt thou eat? 
 ba-biish-is-a'-nik, I will not eat. 
 kun-ba-bu'-she, I am done eating, 
 kun-ba-du'-she, thou art done eating, 
 ba-de-dush'-kom-tiak, art thou done eating ? 
 kun-ba-bush'-ko-mak, I am done eating, 
 nam-ba-bush'-mok (imp.)) let us eat. 
 du'-she (imp. sing.), eat. 
 ba-ru-sa'-ra (imp. pi.), eat. 
 
 
 
 ba-di6'-ik, I strike, 
 da-dic'-ik, thou dost strike. 
 
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 i-di6'-ik, he strikes, 
 bi-ded'-ba-did'-ik, I myself strike. 
 di-ded'-da-di6'-ik, thou thyself dost strike, 
 i-de-dic'-ik, he himself strikes, 
 bi-ric'-ik, I will strike, 
 di-ric'-ik, thou wilt strike. 
 i-ri6'-ik, he will strike, 
 bi-ded'-ba-ric'-ik, I myself will strike. 
 di-ded'-da-ri6'-ik, thou thyself wilt strike, 
 i-ded'-a-ric'-ik, he himself will strike, 
 it-a-ba-dit'-nak, I am going to strike. 
 
 bi-6z'-ik, I am burnt. 
 di-62'-ik, thou art burnt. 
 i-oi'-ik, he is burnt, 
 bi-ded-ash'-tak, I myself burnt them, 
 di-ded-ash'-tak, thou thyself didst burn them. 
 
 tui-huui-ish'-ik, I am sleepy, 
 ni-hum-ish'-ik, thou art sleepy, 
 hin-um-ish'-ik, he is sleepy. 
 
 ba-rek', I go. 
 
 ba-re-mi'-a-mak', I would like to go. 
 
 ba-re-mi'-ink, I shall go, or shall I go. 
 
 ba-re-sa'-mlk, I will not go. 
 
 ba-re'-mlk, I will go. 
 
 da-de'-nik, thou wilt go. 
 
 de-sa' (imp.), do not go. 
 
 na-ma'-ra (imp.), go, all of you. 
 
 di-tut'-da (imp.), you go alone. 
 
 da (imp.), go. 
 
 mi-ne-ki'-a (imp.), let me go. 
 
 ba-she'-6ik, 1 mashed it. 
 de-she'-cik, thou didst mash it. 
 i-she'-cik, he mashed it. 
 bi-rud'-ba-she'-6ik, we mashed it. 
 i-rud'-a-she'-cik, they mashed it. 
 
 ma-ma'-nik, I did shoot, 
 bi-ma'-nik, he shot me. 
 di-ma'-nik, he shot you. 
 bi-ru-ma'-nik, he shot us. 
 
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 bi-pu-a'-mlk, I will shoot. 
 ma-di-pu-a'-nrik, I will shoot yon. 
 di-pu'-a-ka'-ni, thou mayst shoot. 
 
 ba-de-dush'-ni-shik, dost thou want to eat? 
 ba-bush'-mi-shik, I want to eat. 
 nii-uh-push'-ik, I am full, i. e., I have eaten 
 enough. 
 
 mi-ie'-ish-ek, I am loved. 
 ni-i6'-ish-ek, thou art loved. 
 ko-i6'-ish-ek, he is loved. 
 mi-6e'-muc-ish'-e, I love myself. 
 nic-e'-nuc-ish'-e, thou dost love thyself. 
 a-mu6-ish'-ek, I did love, 
 a-muc-ish'-e-sak, I do not love. 
 it-a-a-mu6-ish'-e-nak, I am about to love, 
 a-muc-is'-a-mek, I will not love, 
 bud-e-its'-ish-ek, thou lovest us. 
 ni-e-muc-ish'-ek, I love you. 
 mi-its-ish'-e-ki-a (imp.), let me love. 
 i<5-is-sa'-ra (imp.), love, 
 mi-ic-ish'-e (imp.), love me. 
 
 bu-ru-pi'-uk, I hate, 
 du-ru-pi'-uk, thou hatest. 
 i-ru-pi'-uk, he hates, 
 bat-bu'-ru-pi'-uk, we hate each other, 
 bu-ru-pi'-a-mink, I will hate, 
 du-ru-pi'-a-mink, thou wilt hate, 
 i-ru-pi'-a-mink, he will hate, 
 ni-bu'-ru-pi'-uk, I hate you. 
 
 mi-hin'-i-et'-dek, I am well, 
 di-hin'-i-et'-dek, thou art well, 
 hin'-i-et'-dek, he is well, 
 bud-e-hin'-i-et'-dek, we are well. 
 
 a-ma'-ka, I see. 
 a-da'-ka, thou seest. 
 i'-ka, he sees. 
 a-ma'-ku, we see. 
 a-da'-ku, you see. 
 i'-ku, they see. 
 
 a-mak-is'-ak, I do not see. 
 a-dak-is'-ak, thou dost not see. 
 i-kis'-ak, he does not see. 
 a-na'-ka, do you see. 
 
 i-ki'-a (imp.), look at. 
 
 mi-hu'-shik, I run. 
 di-hu'-shik, thou dost run. 
 hu'-shik, he or it runs, 
 mi-ho'-suk, we run. 
 di-ho'-suk, you run. 
 ho'-suk, they run. 
 ka'-na (imp.), run away. 
 
 aub-sa'-ro-ke-nii-ic'-ish-ek, I am loved by the Crows, 
 ish'-mlk (participle), drinking, 
 bi-min-ish'-mi-mlk, I am drinking water 
 ba-hi-ri'-pa-sa, there is no scarcity. 
 bi-dup-ish'-e, or bi-dup'-det, there are no beaver, 
 a-ma-su-a-di-e'-ba-mik, I am going to build a fort, 
 bat-se'-da-de, have you been out hunting? 
 sap'-du ? what did you kill ? 
 mi'-dak-pe-sak, if you do not kill me. 
 di-bak'-pe-mik, I will kill you. 
 
 bi-ruh-pa'-ke-ba-si6'-e-bak, ) 
 
 } I love the people, 
 bi-ruli -pa -ke-a-muc-ish -ek, ) 
 
 i-e-ke'-be, to wear. 
 
 i-a'-ra (imp.), wear that as a blanket, 
 da-hin'-e-et-a'-ra (imp.), go and do it. 
 ba-a-ta'-na, I steal, 
 a-ta'-na, it steals. 
 
 ba-a-tan'-mi-uk, I would like to steal. 
 do-tu6'-ik, you bite it. 
 bi-ru-tuc'-ik, he bites us. 
 bo-ro-ta'-hek, I break it in two. 
 do-ta'-hek. you break it in two. 
 hu-a'-mac, to come and sit down. 
 bi-dC'd-ba-da'-mac, we come and sit down, 
 a-muc-ish-im-ink'-pak, I think I love, 
 a-uc-ish'-e-tats, you think you love. 
 min-e-ska'-pik, he fell into the water, 
 ship-i-a-sic', he threw it into the mud. 
 ship-i'-a-ko-sic', it was thrown into the mud. 
 
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 bi-de'-sic", I threw it in the fire, 
 a-she-ku'-kak, he is in the village, 
 bat-sali'-puk-na-ra (imp.), go all together, 
 bat-sa-buli'-me-muk (imp.), let us all go together, 
 i-co-ken'-i-cek, he has whitened himself with clay. 
 
 ba-ret-in-e'-pac, I think not. 
 ba-re-ta'-ra (imp.), let it not be. 
 ba-ra-ta'-rik, it shall not be. 
 bi-nop'-ka-ti'-a-ma-ku, we all see two of them. 
 
 18. There are certain words used only by the women and children; as, i'-ka, attention, 
 used when a woman calls to her friend ; hi'-na, comrade or companion ; ba-sa'-ka, mother ; 
 a little girl addresses her mother as ba-sa'-ka, and a little boy his father as, ali'-c ; ba-sa'-na, 
 older brother ; ba-sa'-kat, older sister ; ba-so'-ka, younger sister. 
 
 19. 
 
 PHRASES AND SENTENCES. 
 
 ba'-ze is-a-kat'-a cT-a-ka-ta min'-a-ta da-ka'-puk 
 canoe beautiful white on water floats 
 bu'-uk i-sa'-dek. 
 goes down. 
 
 A beautiful canoe floats on the water, or goes down 
 the stream. 
 
 ba-hu'-ra bat-sa'-da e'-kus na-na'-mek. 
 
 blackbird great the other side flies. 
 
 A great blackbird flies to the other side. 
 
 ah' -pa-nali'-e a-she' a-ho' wai-sa6'. 
 
 in the sky house a great many very large. 
 In my Father's house are many mansions. 
 
 ba-sa-pe' ah-i-ta' ka-wi'. 
 moccasins wet bad. 
 Wet moccasins arc bad. 
 
 ah'-pa-nah'-e a-she' ka-wi' ka-wi-ka-wi-ti'-a-sa. 
 in the heavens house bad bad bad very. 
 In the heavens are houses, bad, bad, very bad. 
 
 i-sa'-ka-wat'-e ali-pa-nali'-e he'-rc-re. 
 Great Spirit heavens among. 
 The Great Spirit is among the heavens. 
 
 bi-ruli-pa'-ke ta-pi'-ok pat-pa-tsi'-uk. 
 
 a person has been killed in the war. 
 A person has been killed in the war. 
 
 ali-pa-nah'-e a-she' a-mah'-e ak-tsi'-se. 
 in the heavens lodge sky on the other side. 
 In the heavens, in the lodges on the other side of the 
 sky. 
 
 it-si'-re a-huk' bi-she' a-ho' wat-sa6'. 
 horses plenty buffalo a heap very great. 
 A plenty of horses, and a very great abundance of 
 buffalo. 
 
 A Prayer to tJie Great Spirit. 
 
 Mi wa-tsesh'-yat ka-wi' mi mba-tse'-tse-rik it-si'-re 
 I am poor ; that is bad ; make me a chief; give me 
 
 a-ho' be'-mi ba-sap'-ka-te it-sili-at'-te-be i-mi-a'-wa. It-si'- 
 a plenty of horses, give me fine clothing. I ask for good 
 
 re it-si-ka'-ta ma-ka'-ku shi'-a-kat a-she'-i-sa' be-i-mi'-a- 
 spottcd horses ; give me a large tent, give me a great 
 
 wa it-si'-re a-ho' be-i-mi'-a-mo it-si'-re it-sili-a' a-ta'-nu-a 
 many horses ; let me steal fine horses ; grant it to me. 
 
 be-i-mi'-ma. O-mat-ma-nali'-e gu-ru-tats be-mili' mi-a it- 
 Give me guns by cheating; give me a beautiful woman; 
 
 si-ka'-ta a-pah'-pa-mili bi-shi'-a-tc-kat. Fi'-a na-mo' ba'- 
 
 bring the buffalo close by. No deep snow ; a little 
 
 
 
 ret pi'-a h'ep'-kat it-si'-ka ish-te-pit'-e a-tc-kat'-ham ba- 
 snow is good. Give me Blackfeet to kill or to die, close 
 
 ba'-mih h'a-h'u'-a. Pa-pe-mih' bi-ruh'-pa-ke su'-a ka-ra- 
 by, all together. Stop the people from dying, it is 
 
 ko'-me-o it-sili'; ma-nah'-u-a sap'-ka-te-e-i-ru'-ke it-si- 
 good; instruments for amusement, blankets too; fine 
 
 ka'-ta tu'-shi bi-ruli'-pa-ke ba'-ka ba-kak-shi'-at bi-she' 
 meat to eat; give the people altogether a plenty of fine 
 
 it-si-ka'-ta a-huk' tu'-sbi a-huk'. 
 buffalo, and plenty to eat. 
 
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 Mi-nup'-lie ak-ma-ku'-ko a-ma'-ca; do-lia'-ra da-za- ku'-a ku-re-shit' bud-e-ku'-a-ra e-rup-a'-re bi'-rud aup- 
 My Father above resides ; let thy name be give 
 
 a'-she a-mis'-ce ba-ka'-wi a-ku'-sa-ni ku-ru'-tu a-mc' it- 
 6ik'; is-a-me-hu-ka'-ra ; a-na-mis'-6e ko-mik'-a-ra ma- 
 
 good ; let thy country come ; thy will let be done above ^ ^ 
 
 ku'-ko a-hin'-e a-ine.ko-mik'; hin'-e ma'-pc e-bud'-e 
 on high as here on earth is done ; this day food 
 
 NAMES OF TRIBES, CHIEFS, ETC. 
 
 ba . ko ^_ te ka . ra . ko . mi '. sa . 
 forever ' forcver > let it be done. 
 
 Ka-ra-ko'-mik. May it be so. 
 
 aub-sa'-ro-ke, the Crows, the original people. 
 
 da-ko'-ta or ma-ko'-ta, the Sioux, or Dakotas of the 
 Missouri. 
 
 i-sonsh'-pu-she, the Shyennes: meaning undetermined. 
 
 ba-ra-shiip'-gi-o, Dakotas or Sioux : meaning undeter 
 mined. 
 
 bik-ta'-sa-te-tu'-se, 
 
 a-shi-ap'-ka-wi, 
 
 bik-ta'-she, and sho'-sho-ni, Grass lodges or Snakes. 
 
 a-ra'-po-ho or -hose, the Arapohos. 
 
 tse'-twa-tse, tuft of hair. 
 
 u-ka'-she (uk, earth, a'-she, a house), earth houses. 
 
 a-shu'-e-ka-pe, the Flat-heads. 
 
 a-pu-pe', to paddle, paddles. 
 
 ak-min'-e-shu'-me, the tribe that use canoes. 
 
 |- very bad lodges. 
 
 a-pi'-mi-she, people having beards. 
 
 ish-te-pit'-e, the Blackfeet. 
 
 kam'-nc, Blood Indians. 
 
 i-c-wat-se' (i'-e, mouth, wat-se', men), mouth men. 
 
 a-ma'-te-wat-se', iron men. 
 
 a-me-she' (a' -me, earth, a-she', a house), people who 
 
 live in earth houses, Gros Yentrcs of Missouri, 
 
 Minnitarees. 
 a-pan-to'-pse, Arickaras. 
 as-a-ka-shi, the Mandans. 
 bat-se'-e-a-ka6, Gray chief, 
 bi-ruli'-us, the Ice. 
 a-ra-cu'-ra-sash, the Big Robber, 
 au-ma-ha'-be-cl'-se, Mountain Tail. 
 
 CHAPTER XVII. 
 
 VOCABULARY OF THE AUB-SA'-RO-KE, OR CROW LANGUAGE. 
 
 A. 
 
 abdomen, be'-re-a-reli', sickness in the abdomen, 
 abominable, ban-di-shi'-i-nit, horrible, abominable. 
 above, ma-ku'-ku-re. 
 
 ma-ko'-ko, above, upward, in the sky. 
 
 a'-ga-tsi-sa'-re, 
 
 ma'-gu-gu-re, 
 absent, a-tsi'-sak, away. 
 
 i-ha', 
 
 re, ) 
 
 [ above, over, uppermost, 
 e, ) 
 
 i-ba, ) 
 
 [ away, not here, 
 i-ha-kuk, ) 
 
 abuse, ban'-dac, to abuse, to misuse. 
 
 accompany, bat-sah'-pak, to accompany, to go together. 
 
 ache, a-rek', 
 
 -U, 
 
 to feel pain. 
 
 active, in-i-she'-tuk. 
 
 added to, ali-pe'-ta, and ali-pe', or ali-pi'. 
 advanced, i'-se-ko, a long time, advanced in age. 
 afar off, a-ma-te'. 
 
 a-ma-te'-me'-mok, to go afar off together. 
 affable, ba-e-de'-te, affable, courteous. 
 afraid, ta'-sash, 
 
 ta -sa-si-o, 
 
 tsi'-tik, to be afraid, as of enemies. 
 after, in-sa-ku'-sa, after a while. 
 
 to be afraid. 
 
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 ago, ba-ku'-ske, long ago. 
 
 i-sko'-ka-e-shi'-e-ka-she, a long ago. 
 agriculture, a-ra'-cik, tilling the ground. 
 aid, at-bak', to aid, to assist. 
 
 aim, mish-cush'-niin, to take aim at anything, to take 
 sight with a gun. 
 
 ma-is-cu'-se, to aim at anything, 
 alder, ma-nis'-ce, white alder. 
 alike, ba-tsi-cek', two things alike, it is alike. 
 all, ko'-ta, the whole. 
 
 a-a-tsi'-e-cek, all around, about, 
 alone, tats'-yat. 
 
 ha-ma'-ta-tats-kat, to be alone, or anything 
 
 standing alone. 
 
 altogether, ha-Tm'-e-ka-se, and ba-kak'-she. 
 amorous, to'-ka-sak. 
 and, a-pe'. 
 
 ankle, at-sa'-ra-bi-she. 
 annoy, is-is-dis-ce-shi'-e, to annoy one. 
 annually, a-me-shi'-i-she, yearly. 
 
 a-me-tsu'-se, semi-annually. 
 arm, ba-ro-pa'-ko-ba-re, the right arm. 
 ba-rah -tsi'-sko-ba-re, the left arm. 
 
 da-ca-mu'-a, hollow of the armpit, 
 arrow, a-nu'-e-te. 
 
 .ba-sa'-e, > 
 
 [ an arrow-point, 
 ma-sa -e, J 
 
 ba-sa'-e-wa-pah '-mill, to cut off an arrow-point, 
 ba-rak'-she, arrow-stick, wood part of an arrow. 
 
 a-no-mut'-a-i'-sha, ) 
 
 , i > a qui 
 ma-rc-wa-is -ko, ) 
 
 quiver for arrows. 
 
 ash, min-e'-pit-e, the white ash. 
 
 ask, ma-ku', ) 
 
 } to ask, to beg. 
 ha-ma-ku'-c, j 
 
 mi'-e-ba6-u'-e-ma-ku', to ask a wonjan for an awl. 
 assist, a-rali-di'-a-hu, to assist, 
 autumn, ba-se'. 
 
 avoid, ti'-a-su, to avoid, to cease from doing, 
 awl, ba-tsu'-c, a sewing awl. 
 
 ba-tsu'-e-ta-rc, an awl blade. 
 axe, ma-ci'-pe. 
 
 B. 
 
 back, shu'-a. 
 
 shu'-a-pu'-a, a sore on the back of a horse, 
 backbone, a-ruli'-a-ro. 
 bad, ka-wi'. 
 ap-ka-wi', 
 
 ap-ka-w!', i 
 
 > very bad. 
 ti'-a-sa, j 
 
 a-ni-ka'-wi, Bad Pass in the Kocky Mountains. 
 badger, tsi-pa'-mu-ne. 
 band, tsili-ba-wa'-ik-tse, a band of Crows, 
 bank, ma-pe', a bluff, bank, 
 bark, wa'-ak-she, the inner juicy bark of the sweet 
 
 cottonwood, of which the Indians are very fond, 
 bead, ba-ro. 
 
 ba-ro-pu'-she, a bunch of beads. 
 
 teli'-at," i 
 
 > ash-colored beads, 
 ban-teli -at, ) 
 
 ba-sali'-ba-ro, beads on moccasins, 
 ba-sa'-tse-ba-ro, beads on leggins. 
 a'-shi-she, yellow beads, 
 bear, dali-pit-se', a grizzly bear, 
 dali-pit-soh'-e, a hog, swine, 
 dah-pit-seli'-ne-she, a kind of berry, of which 
 
 bears are fond, 
 beard, mi'-e-tsi-e. 
 
 mi'-e-tsi-e-wa-tse'-re-shu'-i-tse, to shave the 
 
 beard, 
 mi'-e-tsi-e-wa-ku-rush'-tse, to pluck out the 
 
 beard, 
 beat, wat-wu-ru'-6k, to beat another. 
 
 ba-rit'-mih, to beat or strike any one. 
 bed, o-ma'-6e, a coverlet for a bed. 
 before, ishb-tsi'-sa-re. 
 beggarly, ba-ka'-ni-tuk. 
 
 beginning, hu-ku'-se, at the beginning, formerly, 
 behind, bish-tsi'-sa-re, behind, in the rear. 
 
 hau'-ga-she, to be behind, 
 bell, ba-te-bu'-e, and ba-te-wi'-e. 
 
 ba-te-wi'-e-a-mu'-e, a bell-tongue. 
 bellowing, sah'-ik, the bellowing of bulls, 
 belt, mi-he'-ru-pde, 
 
 mi-pe-tali'-e, 
 bend, a'-ra-bat'-sak, to bend. 
 
 ta-ka'-ke-we, to bend the bow. 
 bird, da-ka'-ka, birds in general. 
 
 da-ka'-ki-sko-ci, wild turkey, or the birds' enemy. 
 
 belt. 
 
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 to bleed. 
 
 da-kak-shu'-ak, bluebird, 
 da-ka-kim'-po-ka-te, the bird whose tail rattles. 
 da-kak-ci'-a, red-headed woodpecker, 
 da-kak'-ba-de'-de-pe, a bat, winged mouse, lips 
 
 of the vagina. 
 
 da-kak-is-<5i'-tse, a bird's nest, 
 tsi'-nah-da-ka'-ke, a feather, 
 a-ma-sha'-is-da-ka'-ko-sha, hay-bird. Icterus. 
 is-ka'-ce, a yellow singing bird, 
 ba-hi'-ri, blackbird. 
 bitter, ba-e-sali'-a-ba, a bitter root. 
 blanket, bi-ka-sa'-pi, and ba-sa'-she. 
 
 ba-sa'-she-hu'-a-ka-\ve, give me the blanket, 
 bi-she-pit'-e, a dark blue blanket, 
 bi-sho'-shi, a red blanket, 
 bi-shu'-e-ka-te, a light blue blanket, 
 blister, ba-tsih', blisters from friction. 
 blood, i'-de. 
 
 i-dln'-de, vein, 
 i'-de-e-tali'-e, 
 i'-rih, 
 
 a-hu'-a-nom'-pe, mixed blood, a half-breed. 
 blue, sho'-shu-kat. 
 boat, ba'-ze. 
 
 ba'-fe-bi'-de, a fireboat, steamboat, 
 ba-^e'-aks-mok, the boats are crossing the river, 
 boil, a-tak'-e, boils on any part of the body, 
 bone, tu'-shi-to-cV-se, the white bones lying on the 
 
 prairie. 
 
 hu-a-rek', pains in the bones, 
 min-ok'-se, large mammoth bones in the West, 
 du'-pe, marrow-bones. 
 
 book, ba'-re-ma-ma-na-tse-i'-she, a writing or painting. 
 boot, rush'-te. 
 
 rush'-te-a-wu'-e-mih, to pull off the boots. 
 borrow, ba-ka'-nik, I borrow. 
 bowel, i-smu'-a, the internal parts of an animal. 
 
 i-smu'-a-re, any bowel disease, 
 bowstring, ma-nali'-e-ka-she-ali-c'. 
 box-elder, mish-pe'. 
 boy, ba-ko'-te, and shi-ki'-a. 
 
 ba-i-c-ka'-te, a small boy. 
 brave, bi-ruli-pa'-ka-ri'-ce, a warrior, a brave, 
 bread, bali'-a-wa, and bali'-a-ba, bread or flour. 
 
 to break. 
 
 { a bri 
 
 bridle for a horse. 
 
 bali-a-bu'-e-ri'-e-wa-mili, kneading dough, 
 bali'-a-wa-ta-reli', to bake bread. 
 break, deli-shi'-she, 
 ta-huk', 
 bu-ru-ta'-i, to break off. 
 breast, buli-u'-e, and du-shu'-a. 
 breath, ku-di-ri'-ak, to breathe. 
 breech-cloth, ba-da-in'-ca-sa-ce, and ba-sa-shi'-ah-tsi. 
 bridle, ba-sa-shi'-ali-tsu'-me-tc, ' 
 
 i-ali-tse'-o-ma'-te, 
 bring, o-ka'-be, to bring, 
 o (imp.), bring. 
 
 a-na'-ku, to bring, as a message. 
 broad, shuli'-ak, large, broad. 
 broken, bu-ruli'-shisli', broken, it is broken. 
 
 hu-dali'-shi-she, a bone broken in any other 
 
 way than by a bullet, 
 brother, mi-ke', an elder brother. 
 
 ma-na-sha', my brother-in-law, 
 brush, bik-ta-sa-pi-a-ku-ru-ka'-tu-a, a clothes-brush. 
 bud, a-si'-rik, a bud of a tree or flower, 
 buffalo, bi-she'. 
 
 bi-she'-a, a cow or female buffalo, 
 bi-sheli'-tse, a white buffalo, 
 bi-she'-i'-ce, buffalo tracks. 
 bug, pa-re-a-pu'-she, a coleopterous insect about the 
 
 excrement of animals. 
 
 bullet, a-ro-pa-pa'-she'-a-huk, a great quantity of bullets, 
 burn, a-ra'-peh, it burns. 
 
 hu'-pa-mili, to burn a hole in wood with a hot 
 
 iron. 
 
 burr, ba'-ke, a sticking burr, of the Glycyrrhiza lepi- 
 dohi, very annoying to travellers, by clinging to 
 the clothes. 
 bush., bish-yali-tsi'-e. 
 
 ak-bud-e-tsi'-she, a hawthorn bush, 
 button, be-ro-sho'-ma-te, and o-muc'-e-cuh'-c. 
 buy, ma-e'-sce-be, to buy anything. 
 
 C. 
 
 cactus, i-fi-ri'-e-hi-e, Opuntia, 
 
 ba-sac', the pricking of the spines of the cactus. 
 calf, nah-up-ka'-te. 
 
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 call, ta'-sash, to call. 
 
 care, ba-bu-sili'-i-se, I care nothing about them. 
 
 carry, tsi'-ok, to carry. 
 
 ba-6i'-ak, I carry anything, 
 carve, i-dank'.' 
 
 wa'-tats, to carve or cut. 
 
 wa-tats'-e-rnih, I carve or cut. 
 cat, i-spi'-o-ha-she, a wild cat. 
 
 i-spi-i'-sa, a panther, 
 cattle, bi-she'-i-tsi'-re, domestic cattle, 
 cedar, Ip-tse-tsi'-lia-lie, Juniperus, running cedar. 
 
 min-ali'-pe, the upright cedar. 
 
 min-ali'-pe-bat-su'-e, the fruit of the cedar. 
 
 o-ma-ko'-ci-ru-e, the ground cedar. 
 
 o-ma-ko-ma'-na-ke, kinnic-kinnic. 
 
 min-ali'-pe-az-ka'-te, Little Cedar River, 
 chain, i-tsi-ti'-e, a chain. 
 
 challenge, bat-si-eksh'-mi, to challenge to conflict, 
 charge, to-ka-ld'-shi-ke, to charge a gun. 
 chase, ko-mak', to give up the chase, 
 cheat, tsu-se-a-tu'-se, to cheat. 
 cheek, i-se-ruli'-e. 
 child, na'-ke, a child, any young animal. 
 
 ma-na'-ke, my child. 
 
 ma-na'-ke-lia-hu'-a, all my children. 
 
 i-san'-det, a step-child, 
 chilliness, a-pah'-te. 
 chop, de-puli'-e, to chop. 
 clap, ti'-shi, to clap the hands. 
 claw, i-tah'-pu-a, the claws of a bear, 
 clay, o'-ke. 
 
 o-ke-ci'-e, white clay, 
 clean, o-kin'-i-tuk, to clean. 
 
 bah-u-ru-shi'-tsh, to clean a gun. 
 clear, sa'-shik, and ta'-shik. 
 
 min-e-ta'-shik, clear water. 
 
 min-e-pili'-tak, clearly, 
 clench, bash-tih-nu-he', to clench the hand, 
 close, ali'-ta-kat, near at hand, close, 
 cloth, ba-sap'-ka-te, any kind of clothing, 
 cloud, a-pah'-e. 
 coat, mi'-ta-shi-ne. 
 
 mi'-ta-shi-ne-a-mu'-ke, a vest or undercoat. 
 
 ba-da-sho'-i-shi'-stc, chief's coat, 
 ba-da-i-tash'-ne-hap-ka'-te, an Indian shirt, 
 cold, ho-te-shi'-re, and tsi-ni'-ak. 
 comb, ma-ne-shu'-ge-ru-ga'-tse, a coarse comb, 
 mbe-ta-ni'-o, a fine comb, 
 ba-de-a-shu'-e-ku-ro-ha'-tse, a comb made of 
 
 porcupine's tail, 
 come, ho, (imp.) 
 
 hu'-be, come here, in speaking to a child, 
 hu-ka'-be, come here, in speaking to a grown 
 
 person. 
 
 hu'-e (imp.), bring it. 
 hu-a-ma'-ka-mili, come, let me see. 
 hu-a-mae', to come and sit down, 
 bo'-niek, come back. 
 comrade, min-e-pali'-e, a male comrade. 
 cook, ti-o'-ka-wi, 
 
 to cook. 
 
 ti-o -Ka-wi, I 
 
 ti-e'-ka-wi, J 
 
 bu-ruk', to cook or roast meat, 
 cord, bi-shili'-pe, a rope or cord, 
 corn, ho-pa'-ste, corn, or maize. 
 
 nikt-ya'-pa ; pa-she', the ear of corn or wheat. 
 
 a-mu'-e, a grain or kernel of wheat or corn, 
 count, ma-ne-mik', to count, 
 courageous, ba-e'-tse-ret, spirited, brave, 
 crack, i-nu'-a, a crack or split, 
 crippled, man-dek'. 
 crooked, shi-shu'-pili, not straight. 
 cross, man-tu'-pah-e, used in the Catholic worship, 
 cruel, ba-tah'-te. 
 cup, be-dali'-de-a. 
 
 cure, di-a-ma-kuh'-e, to cure the sick, to make medi 
 cine for the sick. 
 curlew, o-hae'-ke, long-bill, 
 cut, wa-pash'-tsu-mih, to cut off. 
 bash'-ki-o, to cut off the neck. 
 
 a-sa'-tu, ") 
 
 > cutting through with a knife, 
 a-sa-tsi, J 
 
 a-sat-mili', I cut through with a knife, 
 a-me-ko'-wah-e, to cut with a knife. 
 
 a-pa-hu'-a, 
 % de-ci'-pc, 
 
 > to cut with an axe. 
 cry, i'-bek, to cry. 
 
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 D. 
 dance, bas-wat-si'-pe, a stick with numerous figures on 
 
 it, used in dancing, 
 daughter, ma-nak-mi'-a, my*daughter. 
 day, ma'-pe. 
 dead, she-ek'. 
 
 she-i-uk', dying. 
 
 ba-dali'-te, to be in the agonies of death, 
 a-mu-sa-ma'-niili, to bury or inter, as the dead, 
 deafness, a-kuli '-de-tuk.. 
 deep, na'-mo, deep, as water or snow. 
 deer, ol\'-bish-ke. 
 
 - oli'-bish-kat, a young deer. 
 
 oli'-a-te, an antelope. 
 dependent, mi-um'-i. 
 
 die, sa-ha'-kek, ) 
 
 \ to die. 
 ka-ra-she, J 
 
 bash-mek', I will die. 
 
 difficult, ma-ma-ni'-stek, it is difficult, with difficulty, 
 dig, a-ma-e6'-ka, to dig. 
 dip, ab-e-'stek', to dip, as water with a cup. 
 
 wa-shik', f 
 
 ,.,, \ to dip up. 
 o-zek , ) 
 
 direct, min-e-shi'-o, to direct, 
 disease, ba-di-sa'-de, any kind of contagious disease, 
 ba-du-pu'-pe, cholera, spasms, 
 na-se-ta-a'-re, disease of the chest, 
 a-sha'-re, any disease of the heart, 
 be'-re-a-reh', sickness in the abdomen, 
 a-rali'-a-he-ra-be-pu'-a, disease in the neck of 
 
 a horse, poll evil, 
 dish, ba-te'. 
 dismount, ba-tsi-nali'-pi-mil'i, | to get off from a 
 
 tsi-nah-pe', ) horse, 
 
 disposition, ma-na-sic'-ik, a good disposition, 
 distribute, ba-wu-mat'-mih, to spend, 
 do, di-e-ba'-mik, I will do it, or I am willing to do it. 
 dog, bis'-ka. 
 
 bis-ka-bu'-ra, a male dog. 
 bis'-ke-mi'-e, a female dog. 
 bis'-ke-na'-ke, young dog, puppy, 
 bis'-ka-me-na'-pali-u-e, dogs biting each other, 
 bis-ke-a'-ma-ma, a dog song, 
 tsih-pe', a prairie dog. Arctomys. 
 
 door, bi-di'-a, a door of a lodge. 
 double-tongued, mi'-shik, a hypocrite, 
 doubtful, ba-re-na'-se-nop, two hearts, deceitful. 
 dove, ma-i'-pae-ka'-she, a turtle dove. 
 
 down, bak'-se, 1 
 
 > below, as down the river, 
 bu-a-ka-re , ) 
 
 draw, tuh'-puk, to draw down anything. 
 drink, is-mi'-mik, to drink. 
 
 ish-i' (imp.), drink. 
 
 ma'-ku-si-a, to drink out. 
 
 ku-ta-ki-shi' (imp.), take and drink. 
 
 ka'-ku-tse, to be drunk. 
 drop, he, to drop anything. 
 drum, bi-rali'-e. 
 duck, mi-hah'-e. 
 
 dung, na-tse'-re, the fresh excrement of a buffalo. .. 
 dusty, u'-ke-shik, to be dusty. 
 dry, ka-ru'-tsili. 
 
 ta-shi'-tsih, to dry anything. 
 
 E. 
 
 each, shi'-she, each one, every. 
 eagle, da-a^ka'-l'ia, war-eagle. 
 
 ear-ring, mali-pa-ma'-na, ) 
 
 [ ornaments, 
 mili-pu -e-te, J 
 
 early, tsi-na'-ki-sa, early in the morning, 
 earth, a-me-ko'-ta, the whole earth, the world, 
 a-ma-pi'-ni-e, rich earth, a fertile soil, 
 a-me'-lia-tsi-e, earthquakes, explosions in the 
 
 mountains, 
 a'-ma-she, earth houses, like those of the Min- 
 
 nitarees. 
 
 easily, ba-i-tu'-ka. 
 eat, tu'-shik, 
 
 tu -snik, -) 
 
 [ to eat. 
 ti-ru -shik, ) 
 
 ba-bu'-she, I eat. 
 egg, i-ke-ka'-te. 
 
 elbow, mish-bah-e', and is-pa'-ba. 
 eloquent, ba-i-di'-tuk. 
 
 embroider, bam-pash'-tsik, to garnish or embroider, 
 empty, ham-nets'. 
 
 enemy, bas-ko-ci', an enemy at home, in camp, 
 enjoy, ba-si'-tsc-wak, to be glad, to enjoy, to take 
 
 pleasure. 
 
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 enough, ka-ra-ha'-mik, ~\ enough ; I am done, usual- 
 ka-ra-ko'-mik, V ly said when a speech is 
 ka-ra-ko'-mi-o, } finished. 
 
 exchange, bat-ba'-ke-re, in exchange. 
 
 exist, ma-ka'-ku, to live, to exist. 
 
 eye, is'-te. 
 
 is-te-i'-e, ) 
 
 > eyebrows, 
 mish-ti-e, ) 
 
 is-tal'i'-pe, eyelids. 
 
 is-to'-a-re, sore eyes. 
 
 is'-te-wa'-tsi-bali -u'-c-mih", to rub the eyes. 
 
 is-te'-pi-ok, to have the smoke come into the eyes. 
 
 is'-te-o'-ma-te, iron for the eyes, spectacles. 
 
 is-te-re'-de, to be blind. 
 
 is-ta'-re-tuk, blindness. 
 
 F. 
 face, i'-se, ni'-se, ni-shi'-se. 
 
 ni'-se-bi'-shi-kat, a red face. 
 
 ni'-se-lu-ri-shi'-tse, to wash the face, 
 fall, ta-ni'-o, to fall down, 
 farther, na'-ne. 
 fat, shi-me'. 
 
 ta-ra', the fatty portions of an animal, 
 father, ah-e'. 
 
 n)i-nup'-lie. my father, 
 feather, ma-ep'-l'ia-ha, a quill or feather. 
 
 ma-ep'-lia-h a-ipsh, the tail feather. 
 feel, bu-ru-shi'-cik, to feel, feeling, 
 find, a-mo-nup'-ik, to find anything, 
 fire, bi'-de. 
 
 bi'-de-ka'-te, a small fire, a candle. 
 
 a-rali'-i-a, to light, as a candle or a fire. 
 
 bi'-dc-go'-hi-a, the fire blazes up. 
 
 bi'-de-a-ra'-peli, the fire burns. 
 
 bi-ra'-do, the fireplace. 
 
 bi'-di-tu'-a, fire-wood. 
 
 bi'-di-tak, matches, friction. 
 
 a'-ce-bi-de, a fire-horse, locomotive, furnace, 
 fish, bu'-a. 
 
 bu-a-na'-ka, all kinds of small fishes. 
 
 bu-a-hali'-a, spotted fish, trout. 
 
 bu-e-du'-sha, the blue heron, fish-eater. Ardea 
 
 herodias. 
 VOL. XII. 52 
 
 bu-e-ku-ku'-e, fish-hook, 
 i-min-deli'-o-me, the fins of a fish, 
 float, da-ka-pe', to float, 
 flower, ba-ha-bu'-e, and om'-pe. 
 fly, ma-na-me', to fly. 
 
 i-nu'-shu-shik, to fly in pieces. 
 ma-pu'-e-te, a fly, insect. 
 ma-pu'-e-cV-se, the common house-fly, 
 min'-e-te-i'-shc, a butterfly, 
 foam, po'-he. 
 foe, is-ma-hi'-he, all foes. 
 foolish, ma-ma-nah'-e, a foolish man, one with no 
 
 sense. 
 
 foot, ba-tse', and ic-e-ta'-re. 
 ba-tsi-ni'-ce, foot-racing, 
 it-mu'-a, sole of the foot. 
 forehead, mi-e-hi'-e. 
 forever, ko-ce-te'. 
 fork, a-ra-sali'-ta, and ba-cV-e. 
 
 ba-cu'-e-sa-te-ka'-te, a small fork. 
 forwards, i-se'-ko. 
 freeze, a-ka-pe'j it is freezing, 
 a-ka-pak', it is frozen, 
 mi-a-pak', to be cold, to freeze, 
 friend, a-mats'-c ; ik, and min-e-ba'-a-tse. 
 ma-na'-ke, my friend, 
 hin-a-ke', my friend, used in addressing a 
 
 person. 
 
 ma-na-se', my heart, my friend, a term of en 
 dearment in social life, 
 frighten, ah-pa-ret', to terrify, 
 frog, sa'-ke. 
 
 sa-ka'-re-cu-ka'-re, a large toad, 
 fruit,. ma'-na-pa-pa, berries. 
 
 ma-nit-nauk', to bring berries or fruit, 
 ma-nit-na'-kiik, to gather fruit, 
 o-zik', ripe fruit, 
 o-zi'-se, green fruit, 
 ma-ne-shi'-she, bullberries. 
 ma-ne-shi'-she-ba'-ra-da-ru'-a, to beat the bull- 
 berries off the bush, 
 ma-na-ka'-she, service-berry bush, 
 bi-tse'-tili-te, a black edible berry growing on 
 the high mountains. 
 
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 bish-kat-mu'-e, a red berry, species not known. 
 
 bi-tash-tse', white berries. 
 
 ba-e-sali'-pit-e, black fruit, a kind of service- 
 berry. 
 
 ba-e-sali'-es-tse, a small, edible fruit, growing in 
 clusters. 
 
 ba-dup'-i, a palatable dish formed of cherries and 
 meat mixed. 
 
 ba'-tsu-a, small cherries. Ccrasus Virginianus. 
 
 ba'-tsu-a-ra-tsi-tu'-e, to beat the cherries off of 
 the bushes. 
 
 ba'-tsu-a-mu'-ni-te, black haws. 
 
 i-sko'-shi-ke, a kind of red berry. 
 
 iht-ye-pi'-ti-eht, red berries growing on the 
 Rocky Mountains. 
 
 hum'-ba-ta-te, a species of blackberry. 
 
 ka-pud'-i-i-ste, the whortle-berry. 
 
 i'-ali-she-di-a-wa'-me-nak'-mih, to make a soup 
 or stew of meat and berries. 
 
 G. 
 
 gall, a-pi-tsu'-a. 
 gallop, a-pash'-kuli-gi-a-hu'-i-tsc, galloping, as a horse. 
 
 ba-ge-rush'-i-mch, galloping on horseback, 
 gamble, ba-de'-ah'-pe-dik, to gamble, 
 game, ma-no'-pe-de, a favorite game with the women, 
 
 in which plum-pits are used, 
 ah-o'-a-da, to hide the dish, a favorite game 
 
 with all. 
 
 a-ba-tsink'-i-sha, a game somewhat like billiards. 
 gather, bac-ki-o'-kik, to gather, to collect. 
 get, hin-e-6i'-nek, to get up, as from a bed. 
 nes-ha'-ra (imp.), get out. 
 ba-tsi-nek', I got up. 
 girl, ma-nac-ka'-te, a little girl, 
 give, be'-mili, to give, as a present, 
 ba-ru'-sa-uk, a present, a gift. 
 ha-ho'-ka-shi'-na, to give thanks to the sun for 
 
 any favor. 
 
 tu'-sauk, to give up anything, 
 glass, ba-de'-e-tsi-eT-ke, a looking-glass, mirror, 
 glue, ba-i-co'-sa. 
 go, a-sa'-nup, 
 
 a-sa-nup, ) 
 
 \ to sp. 
 na -ma-nin, ) 
 
 dek (imp.), go. 
 
 mi'-ma-mili, to go in. 
 hin'-a-be-wa'-mili, to go across the river, 
 ka-me'-mok, to go together, 
 kan-tu'-i-tse-nok-tsi-na'-ne, to pack up and go on a 
 
 journey. 
 
 na'-ne-kan-tek', to go farther, 
 tu'-hi-nan, to go to the war. 
 bu-rc-shik', I let it go. 
 
 hi-ris-pa'-rili, I am going outside, or out of doors, 
 in answer to the question : " Where are you 
 going ?" 
 
 nah'-a-ra (imp.), go away, 
 ko-tu-ceh'-pa-da (imp.), go with one only, 
 ali'-pa-da (imp.), go with them, 
 a-ma'-su, to descend, to go down, 
 goitre, ap-hi'-she. 
 good, it'-sik, it'-sili. 
 
 ko-tuc'-it-sik, he alone is good. 
 goose, mi'-ne, and mi'-na. 
 grass, bik-te', grass of any kind, generic term, 
 bik-ta'-kat, short, low grass, 
 bik-ti-a'-shu-a, the grass growing, 
 bik-ti-a'-sa-ti, edible roots of plant like a carrot, 
 bat-su'-a-te, sweet-smelling grass, 
 ah-pa-nah'-e-sip-sih-she', horsetail grass. Eqid- 
 
 setinn. 
 
 pu-pa'-e, dry grass, hay. 
 nali-pit'-e, black grasshopper, a cricket, 
 mi-shu'-ke, common grasshopper, 
 great, bat-sa6', strong, powerful. 
 
 i-se', I 
 
 i-sa', J g ' SC< 
 
 green, shu'-e-kat. 
 
 ground, a-mi'-a-mo-na, in the ground. 
 
 grow, ba-a-pi'-ni, anything that is growing. 
 
 a-pa'-na, to grow. 
 gum, i-u'-she, gums of the teeth, 
 gun, be-rup'-tse-ma-nali'-e. 
 
 ma-nali'-i-she, a gun-cover. 
 
 ma-i'-a, a gun-flint. 
 
 bash-tah'-e-ma'-e, percussion caps. 
 
 H. 
 
 habit, is-e-ta'-be, custom, habit. 
 
 is-e-ta'-be-it'-sik, good habits. 
 
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 is-e-ta'-bc-ka-wi', bad habits, 
 hail, ma-ka-pe'. 
 hair, mi'-shi-e, my hair. 
 
 init-su'-a-nu'-mi-ne, a tuft of hair, scalp-lock on 
 
 the back of the head, 
 nu'-nii-ne, a tuft or lock. 
 mili-e'-a-nu-iui'-ne, tuft or lock of hair on the 
 
 forehead, 
 hallo, u-ka-he' ! an exclamation. 
 
 ha-hi'-a ! hallo there ! to call to one at a dis 
 tance. 
 hand, ba-sku'-re, and bash'-tse. 
 
 bash'-tse-a'-ke, the upper part of the hand, 
 bash'-tse-mu'-e, the hollow or inside of the 
 
 hand. 
 
 mash'-tse, my hand, 
 tesh'-tse, thy hand, 
 tesh'-tse-pah-u-ru-shi'-mih, to wipe the hands 
 
 on anything. 
 
 bas-mi-tsu'-a, a wart on the hand, 
 hang, i'-shi-e-wa'-mili, to hang up. 
 hard, ba-ra-hip'-sat, indurated, 
 hat, ba-da-e'-ain-pe', a hat or bonnet. 
 
 mit-yuh -pe', a cap. 
 hate, mi-du'-pi-uk, they hate me. 
 
 mi-du'-shi-ci'-se, they care nothing for me. 
 hawk, a-pi-te', seems to be a generic term of that 
 
 class of birds, 
 be'-rets, a kind of hawk, 
 be-rets-ge-na-hi'-o, a branch of Wind River, 
 is-a-ci'-sa, a small hawk, 
 is-e-ke-ki'-she, a mosquito-hawk. 
 head, a'-shu. 
 
 a-shu'-a-<5o-se, white skull, as of a buffalo, long 
 
 exposed on the grorfhd. 
 a-skep'-ka-wi, a bad head, a Dutchman, 
 hear, mi'-ka-kuk, to hear. 
 heart, na'-se. 
 
 na'-se-it'-si-ka, a good heart. 
 
 nas-ka-wi', a bad heart. 
 
 na'-se-kosh'-te-kat, little heart, despondent, 
 
 faint-hearted. 
 
 na-se-hi-ni'-a, undoubted, firm, to be depended 
 upon. 
 
 na'-se-nop, uncertain, deceitful, two hearts, 
 heavy, tash-ta-tsip'. 
 herd, man-c'i-c'uh'-e, a herd or drove. 
 hexagon, a-ka'-mak-a-tak, six-cornered, 
 hill, sin-da'. 
 
 shi-ca'-ke-da, up a hill, 
 shlc-bu-uk'-is-a, down a hill, 
 i-she', the height of a hill, 
 hin'-e-sha-ke'-ma-kufc, at the foot of a hill, 
 hold, ta'-Iiash, to hold anything, as a book. 
 
 bu-ru-ba'-shik (imp.), hold on. 
 hole, lia-hi'-e-pak, to make a hole in the ground. 
 
 a-wat'-sit-mi, to look through a hole, 
 horn, az-ka-ru'-de. 
 
 az-i'-si-a-de, a horn spoon, 
 horse, it-si'-re. 
 
 it-si'-re-tsi-ri'-tu-a, to drive the horses, 
 it-si'-re-i-ne-ka'-su-a, picket stakes for horses, 
 it-si'-re-tsi'-she, horsehair, 
 tse'-shi-shi-a, a horse-blanket, or other cover, 
 i-shu'-e, the mane of a horse. 
 it-si'-ri-ka.-she, elk, or real horse, 
 it-si' -ri-ka-she-ru'-pa, male elk. 
 it-si'-ri-kash-bi-shi'-a, female elk. 
 it-si'-ri-ka-nak', to become frightened and run 
 
 away, as a horse, 
 it-si'-ri-na'-ka, a colt, 
 it-si'-ri-ak-se'-re-te, a free or wild horse, 
 it-si'-ri-ma-ni-tum'-a-kat, a gentle horse, 
 it-si'-ri-i-ni'-she-tuk, an active horse, 
 it-si'-ri-i-tali-pu'-e, the hoof of a horse, 
 it-si'-ri-mi-ne-shi'-te, to water the horse, 
 it-si'-ri-man-dek', a crippled horse, 
 it-si'-ri-ba-tsi-ni'-ce, horse-racing, 
 hospitable, ba-ke-tuk'. 
 
 ba-tse-ba-ke'-tuk, a hospitable man. 
 hot, ta-men'. 
 house, a-she'. 
 
 a-she'-a-ke'-da, on the top of the house, 
 how do you do, ba-tsa'-bali-a'-pe, "how do you do?" 
 
 literally, " we find each other." 
 hungry, na-ni'-she, to be hungry, 
 hunt, ba-ce-tsi'-mik, I hunt for anything, 
 hurt, i-ah'-ok, to hurt or injure. 
 
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 I. 
 
 ice, bi-ruli'-e. 
 
 ignorance, rna-nah'-e, ignorance, simplicity. 
 
 ma-nali'-at, ignorant, simple. 
 
 ma-nali '-tuk, I do not know, 
 ill-natured, in-i-shi'-plk, badly disposed, 
 imitate, ka-rc-kot', to imitate, 
 increasing, ali-pa-tak'. 
 independent, ba-du'-she-tsi'-a. 
 Indian, bi-ruli-pa'-ka-ra. 
 indigo, mi-shu-ali'-shu-pit'-e. 
 
 mi-shu-ali', bluestone, sulphate of copper, 
 industrious, i-sam'-bat-sa, an industrious man. 
 influential, i-sa'-ke-ka-te, large, influential, a great 
 
 innocent, ma-ni-tum'-e-ka-te, good-natured, 
 inside, ko'-rak-ma, the inside of anything, 
 intelligent, bat-si'-tan. 
 iron, o'-rua-te, any kind of iron or metal, &c. 
 
 o'-ma-te-a-pi'-a, a medal, literally, iron on the 
 neck. 
 
 o'-mat-shi-re, yellow iron, brass. 
 
 o'-ma-6i-di'-e, the iron that rattles. 
 
 i-mali'-o-pi'-a, a kind of iron wire. 
 island, min-e-pi'-ze. 
 
 J. 
 
 jawbone, du-de-pe'. 
 
 jump, a-na-push'-a-ma-ta, where the buffalo jump a 
 great distance. 
 
 K. 
 
 kettle, bi-rah'-e, a kettle, or kettle drum, 
 bi-rah' '-a-te, a small kettle. 
 bi-rali'-te-tu'-e, to beat the drum or kettle, 
 bi-rah'-tsi-e, a white kettle, 
 bi-rah'-i-tsi-ti'-e, the chain on the kettle, 
 bi-rali'-e-ci'-nu, a tripod, from which a kettle is 
 
 suspended. 
 
 bi-rali'-e-i-cu'-sa-tse, a kettle cover, 
 bi-rah'-e-i'-de, the bail or handle of a kettle or 
 
 pail. 
 
 bi-rali'-e-ra'-tsi-ka-tse, the seam on the side of 
 
 a kettle. 
 bi-rali'-e-a-pe', the ears to which the handle of 
 
 a kettle is attached. 
 
 bi-rali'-e-i-tsi'-she, the bottom of a pail. 
 kill, ha'-mi-o, to kill. 
 kiss, mis-bash'-tse, a kiss. 
 
 mis-bash-tse'-mili, to kiss any one. 
 knee, i-shu'-de, and i-shu'-she. 
 ba-shu'-she, my knee, 
 di-shu'-she, thy knee, 
 knife, mit-si'-c. 
 
 mit-si'-e-nop'-kat, a pair of scissors, two knives. 
 mit-si'-e-bat-si-shik', to sharpen a knife, 
 mit-si'-e-it-she', to sharpen any edged tool, 
 mit-si'-e-tsi-re-tsi'-she, a pocket-knife, one that 
 
 opens and shuts, 
 mit-si'-she, knife-scabbard, 
 mit-si-hin'-ek, here is a knife, 
 mits-ka-hat'-ska, long knife, an American. 
 knock, mi-ta-me'-a-mit-nak, to knock, or strike, 
 wa-pali'-mili, to knock anything loose. 
 
 L. 
 
 lame, a-nali'-uk. 
 land, a-me', 
 
 a-me , 1 
 a-re', I 
 
 both words used. 
 
 large, i-sa'. 
 
 i-sa-ni6'-kat, rather large, 
 i-sa-e-shek', still larger. 
 i-sa-bat-sa6', very large. 
 
 lariat, i-ali-cV, and i-nal\ -tu'-e. 
 
 last, a-ha'-ka, at last, last. 
 
 laughing, ba-ruk', we arc laughing. 
 
 lay, lia-pik', to lay down anything. 
 
 lazy, i'-shi-tuk, indolent, lazy, careless, 
 i'-shi-tek, a lazy fellow, 
 ba-am-be'-ret, to do nothing, to be lazy. 
 
 lead, is-ba-se', to lead or conduct- 
 lead, i-e'-re-pc-pu'-she, a mineral. 
 
 leaf, a'-pc. 
 
 a-pe'-ta-ni'-o, leaves falling from the trees, au 
 tumn. 
 
 lean, mi-wah' -puk'-mili, to lean on another. 
 
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 mi-sak'-spah -e, to lean on any one, used in social 
 
 intercourse. 
 leg, mi-hu'-re. 
 
 mi-hu'-re-a-ka'-ta-wa-rnili', to put the legs into 
 another's lap. 
 
 leggins, i'-shi-she, ) 
 
 [ leggins or pants, 
 ho-ce', ) 
 
 ho-ce'-e-a-she', garnishing for leggins. 
 lengthwise, bac'-ku-ko-ni'-a. 
 lie, bash-tsit'-mili, to lie on anything, as a bed. 
 ho-pik', to lie down, 
 hu-pa'-re (imp.), lie down, 
 da-ka'-pik, lying down on any place, 
 ba-hop'-nik, I will lie down, 
 lift, du-e', to raise or lift up. 
 
 ba-ru-e', I lift up. 
 light, tah-pih'-at, light, not heavy, 
 lightning, shi-re-sho'-re. 
 
 ka-ni'-tsi-e, to lighten, as just before a 
 
 storm. 
 
 lignite, om-bi-dah'-i-tali-pu'-a, "stone coal." 
 lips, i-e-ali'-pe. 
 listen, hin-e', look here ! say ! listen ! used to call 
 
 attention. 
 
 little, i-e-ka'-shi-at, little, applied to any child, 
 live, in-ek', to live, 
 in-e', alive, 
 in-e-shi'-uk, long life. 
 
 hi-ri-tsi'-sa-re, to be or to live close by or near, 
 lizard, ma-ka'-pe (species unknown), 
 mi-shu-ka'-re, a ground lizard. 
 lodge, a-she', a tent or lodge. 
 
 a-she'-mo-na, inside of a lodge, 
 ash-kum'-u-a, inside of a house, 
 a-she'-il'i-i-mo'-a, the tent is full of persons, 
 a-she'-kan-tuk'-puk, to break down the lodge, 
 ash-it-sik', a good house, 
 bi'-ro-pe-ash'-u-a, a beaver lodge, 
 a-she'-e-kat'-kat, a red tent or lodge, 
 ash-ali'-tsik, a white tent or lodge, 
 a-she'-ap'-ka-wi, a very bad lodge, 
 bik-ta'-she, grass lodge, a house built of grass, 
 is-ki-she'-pu-a, rotten medicine lodge (Clarke's 
 Fork). 
 
 bish-kish'-e, to place buflalo-mcat in a lodge. 
 
 ba'-tsi-e, ) 
 
 Y lodge-poles, 
 i-e'-m-e, ) 
 
 ba'-tsi-e-a-nuk', to bring the lodge-poles, 
 ba'-tsi-a'-^e, -> Pine Wood Creek, or Pole 
 i-e'-ni-e-a'-ze, j Creek. 
 
 ma-su'-a, ) 
 
 J- to live in a tent or lodge, 
 ili-a-mo -a-re, ) 
 
 is-miz'-pe-re, a lodge-skin that has been used, 
 look, a ! look here ! 
 
 ba-te-ek'-yak, he is looking at us. 
 
 a6-kah'-a-ka-ba, go and look out. 
 lose, ko'-re-sak, to lose anything, 
 louse, mbe. 
 
 love, a-ma-tsi'-she, ") 
 
 J- to love. 
 m-6i -sa-kits, ) 
 
 lungs, da-ho', lungs or lights. 
 
 M. 
 
 magpie, Im-pi'-a-kat. 
 make, wali-sa'-ko, 
 
 wali-sa -ko, ) 
 
 [ to make anythit 
 tr-a-wak, ) 
 
 ic-ek', to make up. 
 
 male, ba-a-sa'-ne, the male of any animal, 
 mallet, nii-pac'-ke, a stone mallet, used for driving 
 
 down lodge-pins. 
 man, bat-se', and wat-si'. 
 
 bat-se'-tse, a chief or warrior, 
 bat-se'-it-sik, a good man. 
 is-ah'-a-she, a young man. 
 wali-pek', medicine-men, 
 ma-ste-shi'-re, yellow eyes, a white man. 
 ma-ste-shi'-re-ship-it'-e, a black man, a negro, 
 ma-ste-shi'-re-is-de-ka'-ke, white man's birds, do 
 mestic fowls, 
 bi-ruli'-pa-ke, a human being, person, a man, the 
 
 people. 
 
 ak-ba-di'-o, a doctor or medicine-man, 
 manoeuvre, wa-tsi'-ek-tsuk, to drill. 
 marrow, tu'-pe. 
 marsh, ma-ha'-shi-pi-e'. 
 meat, i-ru'-ke, any kind of meat, 
 i-riih'-pu-a, stinking meat, 
 i-ru'-ka-lia-piu, the meat falls down. 
 
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 i-ru'-ke-bu-e-biish'-mik, to bring meat and eat. 
 is-du'-she-she, fresh meat. 
 nia'-ni-she, dried meat. 
 
 huk'-pi-e, louillon, the liquor after boiling meat. 
 meet, a-ni-eli'-teh , to meet another. 
 melt, ba'-kats, to melt. 
 
 ba-ka'-6ik, to melt, as ice. 
 memory, a-wats'-kap-ma, to commit to memory. 
 mend, ic-e-ha-kuk, to mend, 
 middle, ku'-a-de, in the middle. 
 milk, at-si-mi'-na. 
 mine, bas, (possessive pronoun.) 
 bas-mit-si'-e, my knife, 
 bas-mit-si'-e-hu'-e, give me my knife, 
 bi-be', it is mine, 
 mint, shu-shu'-e, a kind of mint, MentTia. 
 
 shu-shu'-e-re-eu'-ku-re, horse-mint, balm, 
 miss, ba-ru-sak', to miss the mark in shooting, 
 mistake, ka-bi'-uk, to make a mistake, 
 mix, wa-rc-ba'-o, to mix. 
 moccasin, ba-sa-pe', and ba-sali-pe'. 
 
 ba-sa-pe'-bu-retk, moccasins torn or broken, 
 ba-sali'-pa-ke, moccasin strings, 
 homp-ta'-re, shoes or moccasins, 
 hom-pi-she-dah'-pe, white man's shoes. 
 moose, o-pis'-pi, seen by the Crows in the North, 
 mortification, a-no-mut-si'-rus-tse, mortification in dis 
 ease. 
 
 mosquito, a-pa'-ka. 
 mother, ba-sali'-u-e. 
 
 ba-sali-'e, my mother, 
 bu-sha', my mother in law. 
 mountain, a-ma-ha'-be. 
 
 a-ma-ha'-ba-i-a-ka'-te, little mountain, 
 mourn, mi-ma'-tse-shi-a'-te, to mourn, to be in mourn 
 ing. 
 
 ba-ta'-6k, mourning. 
 
 mouse, i-su'-e-ka-te, a kind of field-mouse, 
 mouth, a-ma-tsi'-e, the mouth of a stream, 
 move, ali -a', to move away, from one place to another 
 
 dos-ha' (imp.), move up close. 
 much, a-huk, a " heap," a great deal, 
 a-ho'-i-shuk, more, very much, 
 na'-niih, how much '! 
 
 mud, shi-pi'-e. 
 
 shi-pi'-e-dc-sa'-cik, to stick in the mud. 
 mule, ali-pi-se'. 
 mystery, bali-pa, medicine or mystery. 
 
 N. 
 
 nail, is-mah'-pe, the finger nail, 
 bas-mah'-pe, my finger nail, 
 it-ah'-pu-a, toe and finger nails, the claws of any 
 
 animal. 
 it-ali'-pu : a-shi'-tik, a claw or nail when broken 
 
 off. 
 neck, ma'-a-pe. 
 
 nia-a'-pi-e, a necklace of beads, 
 ba-de'-e-ah-pu'-a-te, a necklace of bears' claws, 
 needle, mit-se'-wat-su'-a, a sewing needle, 
 neither, ma-i-he', neither, something else, 
 nest, ish-tsi'-se, a nest of any kind, 
 news, ko-te'-ba-re-ta'-re, ill news, bad news. 
 
 a-ni-tsi'-me-bi'-she, I have received the news, 
 night, o'-tsi-ek. 
 nipple, a'-at-se, teat or nipple. 
 no, ba-ret'. 
 
 a-ra-di'-a-wa-sa, same as ba-ret'. 
 ba-re-ta'-re, not at all. 
 ba-re-ta'-re-ba-re-ta'-re, no, never can be. 
 a-rln-det', for no purpose. 
 nose, ba-pe'. 
 nothing, ham-net', nothing, there is none. 
 
 now, hin-e-ka', ) 
 
 \ at this time, 
 hin-ak -ek, ) 
 
 hin-a-ka'-de, not long ago. 
 
 0. 
 
 object, ka-ni-ni'-a-tek, a thing, anything, an object. 
 often, a-hon'-ha, many times, 
 old, ba-ha-di'-a. 
 
 ka-ra-shi'-e, a long time, advanced age. 
 shi'-a-kat, old, of great age. 
 is-a'-ka-kat, an old man. 
 ornament, o'-ma-te-pa-pash'-ka-te, small, round, brass 
 
 ornaments. 
 
 map-ma'-she, a ring hanging from the neck, 
 as an ornament. 
 
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 otter, ba-hul'i'-te. 
 
 out, a-ma-nc'-na, out of doors. 
 
 oval, tsi-tsih'-iu-ats'-lii-kat, oval, like an egg. 
 
 over, i-tsu'-sa. 
 
 owl, po-pa'-te, owls in general. 
 
 own, bin'-bauk, to own anything. 
 
 P. 
 
 paint, ma-rua-ma-na'-tuk, to paint. 
 
 raa-ma-na'-6e, to write. 
 
 ma-ma-ne'-ce, painting or picture writing. 
 
 mish-tsi-she-wa'-mil), to paint oneself, 
 pan, i-ma-mi-ni'-su-a, a frying-pan, 
 paper, ma-na'-ma-na'-tse. 
 part, ha-ka-kat', any part, 
 pass, bak'-mili, to pass the pipe, 
 patella, a-ho'-ha, kneepan. 
 
 paw, tsi-ki-ak', ) 
 
 [ to paw the earth, as horses, 
 tsi-ki-e', ) 
 
 peace, mash-tse'-she. 
 
 mash-tse'-she-tsi'-wa-mili , to make peace. 
 
 mi-a-ali'-pe, a peace with nations, 
 pelvis, is-i-shu'-re. 
 pencil, i'-ma-ma-na-tse. 
 
 people, aub-sa'-ro-ke, " the people," the Crow nation, 
 peppermint, tsu'-shu-a. 
 
 perspire, mi-ta'-meli, 
 
 mi-ta-men, ) 
 
 t to 
 
 i -os, J 
 
 sweat or perspire. 
 
 i-ah-pi'-se, perspiration, 
 pheasant, sits'-ke-se, the cock of the plains. 
 sits'-ke-ta-re, prairie chicken, 
 sits'-ke-im-po-hah-e, mountain pheasant, 
 pick, du'-ea, to pick up anything. 
 
 bi-wali-tse'-ba-wiish-yu'-mili, to pick the teeth. 
 
 bu-ru'-ce, I picked it up. 
 pinch, bu-ru-tsi'-ap-mih, to pinch, 
 pine, ha-riili '-a-ne-mik, to pine away. 
 
 bat'-si, a pine tree. 
 
 bat'-si-iih-pe, pine cones. 
 pipe, imp-tse'-ush, se-Ip'-tse, Ip'-tse. 
 
 ip'-tse-ri-su'-a, the pipe dance. 
 
 a-wa'-ko, to take hold of the pipe near the bowl. 
 
 a-wa'-ko-pa'-ko, to take the pipe near the stem. 
 
 ba-kash'-mili, to place the pipe in another's 
 
 hands with some force when done smoking, 
 bat'-si-ba-shi'-tsih, to stir up the contents of the 
 
 pipe with a stick, 
 a-mu'-e, the oil which accumulates in a pipe 
 
 when smoking. 
 
 pistol, ma-nali'-e-po'-me-ka-te. 
 
 plant, a-mu'-o-bu-ru-shi'-mili, > to put anything in the 
 ma'-e-me-mu'-se, ) earth, to plant, 
 
 ba-ka'-i-sa-tse, thistle plants, 
 ma-om'-pe-hi'-she, a large thistle, 
 ma-o-pe'-shi-re, a gummy plant, with yellow 
 
 flowers. 
 
 i-ha', pomme blanche, prairie turnip. Psoralea 
 escvlenta. Abundant throughout the West 
 ern country, and most useful to the Indian 
 as an article of food, 
 i'-re, a sweet-smelling root like parsnip, 
 imp-ce'-c'a-ha'-he, a species of Chenopodium. 
 play, ma-nali'-shik, to play. 
 pleased, me'-ka-matsli, I am pleased, 
 plum, ma-nuh-pe'. Primus Viryiniana. 
 ma-na-pi'-e, plum bush, 
 ma-na-pu'-a. Cerasus. 
 pocket, ba-ro'-she, and ba-re'-she. 
 point, a-wa'-nii-e-mok, to point out, to direct attention, 
 a-me'-tsi-re-tsi'-she, a point of land between two 
 
 streams. 
 
 polecat, ho-a-ce'. 
 poor, wa-tsesh'-yat. 
 porcupine, a-pa'-ni. 
 
 a-pa'-ni-cl'-se, the tail of a porcupine, 
 a-pa'-ni-az-i'-sa, Great Porcupine Creek, 
 a-pa'-ni-az'-i-e-ka'-te, Little Porcupine 
 
 Creek. 
 powder, bi-rup'-tse. 
 
 bi-rup-tsaz'-e, Powder River, 
 pretty, it'-se-kat, pretty, handsome. 
 
 it-se'-i-shek, quite pretty, more handsome. 
 its-kat'-sac, very pretty, or prettiest, 
 prime, a-koh-bi-rup'-tse, to prime a gun with powder, 
 probable, ko-te'-ba-sak, probably it is so ; there is no 
 
 reason to dispute it. 
 ko-ta-re-tse', it is probable. 
 
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 sho'-tuk-ko'-tuk, it may or may not be. 
 pull, bu-ru-tsi'-mih, to pull out. 
 
 to'-sha, to pull on anything, 
 push, ba-tsi'-ne-mili, to push away, 
 put, a-wah'-ska-mih, to put on, as moccasins. 
 
 tas'-ke, to put in, as in a vessel. 
 
 do'-sha, to put on. 
 
 Q. 
 
 quantity, a-ho'-bat-sa6', an enormous quantity. 
 
 a-hac'-ka-te, considerable, a moderate supply. 
 
 kash'-te. ) 
 
 [ a little or small quantity, 
 ko'-ste-kat, ) 
 
 tso-na'-ne, a little. 
 quick, sus-kat', soon, quick. 
 
 R. 
 
 rain, ha-rak'. 
 
 ha-rek', it rains. 
 
 raise, wa-pah-shi'-inili, to raise up. 
 ramrod, bash-tah-e-wa-ku'-te, the ramrod of a gun. 
 raven, pa-re-di'. 
 
 read, ma-ma-ma-nat'-mili, to read, as a book. 
 rectum, u-shi'-a, the rectum of any animal. 
 red, hi'-shi-kat, red, scarlet, as a red blanket, 
 hi-it'-si-ka-te, light red, rose color, 
 i-a-pe'-pa-ne-a'-she, the cochineal insect, used for 
 coloring the quills of the porcupine scarlet, an 
 important article of trade among the Western 
 Indians, 
 remain, a-ma'-tuk, to stay, to remain. 
 
 bat-ba-ba-tsi'-mok, to remain in one place 
 against an enemy, as Crows against Black- 
 feet. 
 
 report, sali'-e-wa-tsi', the report of a gun. 
 reserved, be-te-di'-se, shy. 
 revengeful, ba-tul'i'-te. 
 rib, du'-sa. 
 rice, bi'she'-tslh. 
 rich, ba-i'-ce. 
 ride, a-ki'-na, to ride. 
 
 ka-ru'-she-i-ru'-kash, to ride a horse on a gallop. 
 
 a-ra'-ki-ni, -) 
 
 } to ride on horseback. 
 a-wa'-ki-ni, 3 
 
 i-na-mi'-pet-bi-she'-ri-uk, three persons riding out 
 together to hunt buffalo. 
 
 O 
 
 ba-se', to ride ahead of another on horseback, 
 ha'-kak, to ride behind another person, 
 bu-she-pa'-tsili, > to be made sore from riding 
 bu-she-ba'-mih, j on horseback, 
 bat-sali'-pi-ro, riding side by side together, 
 ring, bas-tsa'-sa-shi, a ring, circle. 
 
 ta-bu'-e, to ring, as a bell. 
 rip, a-su'-tuk, to rip. 
 rise, tsi-na'-ke, to rise up. 
 
 tsi-na'-ke-ma'-tsili (imp.), rise up and sit down, 
 tsi-ne' (imp.), rise up, get up. 
 a-sik', rising, as the sun. 
 river, a2-e'. 
 
 a-ka'-te, a creek, or small river. 
 
 ai-kat'-it-se, Good Creek. 
 
 a^-e-ni'-tsi-a, Stinking River, a branch of the 
 
 Big-born. 
 
 az-kat'-bak-al\ '-pa, two parallel creeks, 
 az-i'-sa, Great River, Missouri, 
 kan-tu'-se, the source of a river. 
 robe, ba-sa'-she, buffalo-skin with the hair on, a robe. 
 rock, ma-shi'-pit-e, a black rock, 
 ma-pu'-e, Rocky River, 
 ma-pu'-e-ma-nat-bi'-shc, painted rock, 
 roll, ih-tsa'-rnih-tsih, to roll, as horses. 
 
 bi-ra'-mili-tsa-mili, to roll on the ground, 
 a-me-gipc'', rolling land, wave-lines. 
 rope, i'-eli-i-e, a rope made of buffalo-skin. 
 
 ma'-she-i-ali'-tse, the rope used for cordelling or 
 
 towing a boat. 
 rose-bud, bits-ki-pe'. 
 round, ba-pa'-she, round, circular, 
 run, bat-si'-ri-tuk, to run a race. 
 
 ho-shik', it runs, or anything runs, 
 a-mo-a'-te, running water. 
 
 S. 
 saddle, a-na-gu-ruh-tse', to saddle, as a horse. 
 
 a-na'-gu-ru-shi'-be, to take the saddle off, as 
 
 from a horse, 
 a-na-me'-ma-ga'-tsi-c, to cover over the saddle. 
 
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 a-na'-gu-ruh'-pi-wali'-sa-ko, to make a saddle- 
 cover. 
 
 wa-tsa'-ne-shi'-she, saddle stirrups, 
 sage, i'-sats-lio-me, a species of Artemisia. 
 
 i'-sats-lio-me-ha'-kuk. Artemisia trifida. 
 i'-sats-lio-rne-i-ni'-tsi-tse, a kind of sage, used as 
 
 a tea. 
 
 saliva, i-mi-ne'. 
 
 sash, ba-da-c'-pa-ta'-ce, a belt or sash. 
 satisfied, mih'-pa-shik', to be satisfied, 
 saw, i-ma'-ne-pus'-ku, a hand-saw. . 
 
 i-ma'-ne-sa'-ce, a large saw. 
 scalp, mi-ne'. 
 
 a-cu'-ru-tu'-e, to take a scalp, 
 scatter, a-e-ea'-a-da'-ca, to scatter, 
 scrape, a-ka-ki'-ra, to file, to scrape. 
 
 bi-sa'-tse, steel edge, or scraper. 
 
 scratch, tap'-lii-e. ) 
 
 v to scratch, 
 bats-lia'-mih, ) 
 
 pa-ha'-ce, a scratch. 
 scream, i-mi'-shek, to scream, 
 screw, mu'-me-mih. 
 see, a-ma'-ke, to see. 
 
 a-ma-ka'-muk, he will see. 
 send, de-bat'-sek, to send anything. 
 
 a-nu'-ak, to send, as a message, 
 sensible, ba-ra'-tsi, good sense. 
 
 separate, wa-tsip'-mili , to separate the flesh from a skin, 
 set, o-mac', to set anything down. 
 
 i'-mali-pik, the setting sun. 
 sew, inli'-ac, to sew. 
 
 ba-inh '-a6, I sew, as on cloth, 
 bat'-si-ka-tsili, to sew buttons or beads on any 
 thing. 
 
 shade, a-rat'-si-c, a shade or umbrella, 
 shake, ta-wu'-e, to shake or ring the bells. 
 
 bat-si'-u-bi-ri'-u-mih, to shake the dust from a 
 
 blanket. 
 
 shame, min-o-shi'-<'ik. 
 shave, ba-sak'-she-ti'-a-wak, to cut or shave an arrow. 
 
 shell, bi-sho'-ce, ~\ 
 
 V mussel-shells, unto. 
 ma-ka -ki-e, ) 
 
 ba'-she-ri'-e-ka-te, small shells. 
 
 ba-hah'-e, " the shell that glistens," a shell ob- 
 
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 tained in California, and sold to the Indians 
 by the traders for ornaments, a Chama. 
 ba-tu-wu'-e-pa-pa'-she, small shells, used as or 
 naments. Dentalium. 
 
 sheep, i-sali-pu'-e-ta-tse, mountain sheep. Ovis man- 
 tana. 
 
 i-sali-pu'-e-ta-tse-a'-^e, the Big-horn River, 
 shield, mi-na'-tse. 
 shoot, sali '-e, to shoot one another, 
 ba-pe'-mili, to shoot down, 
 bi-bali'-pik, I shot it. 
 a-me'-to-ali'-pik, to shoot an object at a great 
 
 distance. 
 
 bat-bat'-si-uk, to shoot at a man in battle, 
 bi-rup-si'-she, a shot-pouch, 
 shore, am-ni'-e. 
 short, bu'-meh-at. 
 shoulder, ba-rash'-pe, and ish-u'-re. 
 
 ali'-tse, suspenders, shoulder-straps, 
 a-pe-i-suli'-e, a shirt-collar, 
 shout, tc'-wa-tsi-mih ', to shout, 
 shut, bi-ri'-e-fi (imp.)) shut the door, 
 sick, ba-ku'-pak, sickly. 
 
 wa-kuli'-pa, to be sick, 
 mi -ba-ku'-pak, I am sick. 
 side, ak-tus'-ko, on this side, 
 a'-ka-ko, -. 
 
 ak-tsi'-se, V on the other side, 
 a'-kus, J 
 
 a-ka'-re, on the opposite side, 
 ak'-tus-ko-um-pa'-se, on this side of the river, 
 sight, a-sek', in sight. 
 
 a-si'-sa, out of sight, 
 i-ma'-mih -tsu'-ste, the sights on a gun. 
 sinew, ba-tsu'-a, and a-ra-tsi'-se. 
 sing, ma-nali'-u-a, to sing. 
 
 a-kik', to sing, as a bird, 
 ma-nali'-ik, singing, 
 sink, a-muli'-ak, to sink, 
 sister, a-ku'-pe, brothers and sisters. 
 mu-o'-i-sap, my sister-in-law, 
 sit, a-mat'-sih, to sit down. 
 
 wat'-sa-wali-a-mat'-mo-uk, sitting together. 
 skin, ba-hu'-a, the cuticle or skin of a person. 
 
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 ba-ra-ku'-a, ") a buffalo-skin stretched on the 
 
 oa-ra-Ku -a, i ;i 
 ba-ra-ka'-su-a, ) 
 
 i-pash'-ik, | 
 a-nop'-mili, j 
 
 to smell. 
 
 ba-ra-ka'-su-a, ) ground to dry. 
 ba-a-ta'-tse, any kind of a skin, as beaver, &c. 
 ash-ti'-shi-re, a grained skin. 
 sky, a-mali'-e, sky, or heaven. 
 
 a-mali'-a-ra-da, in the sky. 
 sleep, a-gi'-tse-mili, to sleep. 
 
 hin'-a-rae-ka-ra-kot', to feign sleep, like sleeping. 
 sleeve, a-ri-she'. 
 slowly, na-ni'-ka-se. 
 small, i-e-ka'-te. 
 
 small-pox, a-pa'-ke, ba-ka'-ke, ma-pa'-de. 
 smell, wa-pash'-ik, 
 ma-nop' 
 
 ma-om'-pe-shi'-re-i-ni-di'-ce, sweet-smelling, yel 
 low blossom. 
 
 pu-e', it smells badly, to have a bad odor. 
 smile, bali'-ak, to laugh or smile. 
 smoke, pu'-e. 
 snake, i-ah'-i-se, any kind of a snake. 
 
 nia-kae'-ke, common striped snake, 
 i-ali'-i-se-a-ri'-shi-di'-c, a rattlesnake, 
 snore, sah'-e, to snore, 
 snout, a-pish', snout or muzzle, 
 snow, bi'-pe, and bi'-a. 
 
 ba-ah'-pe, snowing, 
 du-pu'-re, a snow-storm, 
 bi-pa'-e, it snows, 
 bi-bi'-she, there is snow. 
 
 softly, ho'-kat, 
 
 > softly, low, not loud : also slowly, 
 ha-ho-kat, J 
 
 soldier, a-ki-sat'-ui, a body of men who constitute a 
 
 sort of police about camp in time of peace, 
 some, hum-bi'-she, some, a part, 
 au-hu'-sak, there are some, 
 ba-bi'-she, something, 
 son, ma-nak-bat'-se, my son. 
 sore, pu'-a, a wound or sore. 
 SOTll, ba-dc-nali'-c, the living spirit, the soul. 
 
 al'i-pa-nali'-e, a spirit or ghost. 
 sound, po-ka'. 
 
 shi'-ri-ko'-ri-kat, to sound well, it sounds well. 
 Spaniard, o-ku'-she. 
 speak, ba-dek', I speak. 
 
 spear, ka'-e-ke, 
 
 a spear or lance. 
 
 ba-a-ke', 
 
 i-sa'-me, a wooden spear. 
 
 i-sa'-me-sho-shu'-ru-e, to hurl the spear or 
 
 javelin. 
 
 spider, a-ma'-go-lie. 
 spirit, ali -pa'-nali-ke, spirits of the dead. 
 
 is-ah'-e-hu'-c-te, the Great Spirit. 
 
 is-ali'-e-ka'-wi, the bad spirit. 
 splinter, a-sash'-ta-o. 
 
 split, i-nu'-shish, ) 
 
 [ to split. 
 a-sa -ca, ) 
 
 spring, mi-e-mah'-i-se, (season.) 
 
 sprinkle, ha-rali'-a-ra'-he, it sprinkles. 
 
 spyglass, i-ma-tsi'-nu. 
 
 square, sho-pa-tak', four-cornered, square. 
 
 squirrel, sta-relic"'. 
 
 stalk, wa-tseli'-e-shi, the stalks of G/</ri/rr7u'za Irpi- 
 
 duta. 
 star, ili-e'. 
 
 ili'-e-sa'-sat-nash, the stars twinkle, 
 start, kan-tu'-e-tuk, to start, to break up a camp. 
 
 steal, wa-ta'-nu-a, ) 
 
 \ to rob or steal, 
 a-ta-nu-a, J 
 
 steel, bish-ke'-rali -u-a, a steel for striking fire. 
 
 stick, de-sa'-cik, to stick. 
 
 still, ko-tak', keep still ! quiet ! stop ! 
 
 ko-tak'-mi-ne-ki'-shi (imp.), stop drinking water, 
 tsis, keep still ! 
 ka-tsi'-se, still ! be quiet ! 
 stir, pa'-pa, to stir up, as in a kettle. 
 stirrup, ma-nu'-ze, and ba-de'-i-can-a-sa'-she. 
 stomach, i-ah'-e. 
 stone, niik, and mi'-a. 
 
 mi-a'-ra-ka-tse, a gravel-bank, gravel-stones, 
 mi-e-hi'-a, a war-club made of stone, 
 mi-de-ali'-e, a flint-stone. 
 i-mali -ah'-i-u, a whetstone. 
 stop, i-ma-shi'-o, to stop. 
 
 a-tsi'-sa, to delay a little, to stop, 
 tsi-tsi'-pe, to stop, obstruct, to put in the way. 
 storm, hu-pu'-me. 
 
 straighten, ba-tsih-yuli'-at, to straighten, as an arrow 
 or ramrod. 
 
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 ta-t-o', ) 
 
 straight, not crooked, 
 ka-ra-tats -yat, j 
 
 bah-a-na'-mili, to ruakc anything straight, 
 strap, ku-si'-re, any kind of leather strap, 
 strawberry, ko-slii'-te. 
 stream, um'-pa-se, up tlie stream. 
 
 bu-ru'-a-ka-se, down the stream, 
 strike, ma'-nesh-tash'-tu-e, to strike or whip, as to 
 
 whip the dust off of cloth. 
 strip, is-ba-dtish'-te, to strip one naked. 
 
 bas-be'-bo-rOsh'-tik, I stripped something, 
 strong, i-ci'-uk, strength. 
 
 i-ru'-kash, strong, hard, as to strike hard, 
 suck, a-tsi'-a, to suck. 
 suffer, rua-i-ni'-shek, to suffer. 
 sugar, bat-sih-u'-a. 
 summer, mi-e-inali'-e. 
 sun, a-ka'-she. 
 
 a-ra-ka'-shc, sunlight. 
 superfine, ba-ruli'-pe-rOt, superior, there is nothing 
 
 like it. 
 
 surprised, i'-sa-si-u, to wonder, to be surprised, 
 suspender, ba-shi'-she-kai, suspenders to hold up the 
 
 leggins. 
 swallow, Im-pi'-e-sa-te. 
 
 a-ma-ko'-mish-tsish-c-a'-su-a, nests of bank 
 
 swallows. 
 swan, mi-ne-ci'-e. 
 sweet, tsih-u'-a. 
 
 swell, ta-pu'-she, to swell up, from inflammation. 
 swim, mi' -me, to swim, 
 sword, nun-i-she'. 
 
 T. 
 
 take, ru'-shi-bi, to take off, as a saddle from a horse, 
 ru'-te (imp.), take it. 
 dis-mit-si'-e-ru'-te (imp.), take thy knife, 
 hi-te' (imp.), take it. 
 ku-ra-ta' (imp.), take from, 
 taste, ko-pik', to taste, tasting. 
 tattoo, ih-i-e'-ra-pe', to prick colored images into the 
 skin. 
 
 tear, i-nuli'-etsli, ) 
 
 [ to tear or rend, 
 tun -c-tsu, ) 
 
 tears, is-tum'-ne, water from the eyes. 
 
 that, i-ad-bi-ruh'-pa-ka, that person, those persons. 
 
 i-a6-ina-no'-a, those things, 
 thaw, shi-shu'-shik, to thaw, 
 thick, i-rop'-kat, large, thick. 
 think, ba-ci'-ce-wat'-sik, I think. 
 
 ko-tin-pac', I think so. 
 thirsty, a-kuc'-ik, to be thirsty. 
 this, hin-i'-a-te, this, this one. 
 
 hin-i'-at-kat, is this what you are looking for? in 
 
 answer to a question, 
 hi-de'-dek, this person, or a person here, 
 hi-ded'-bi-ruli'-pa-ka, these persons, 
 thread, ba-tsu-pu'-a. 
 through, tsu-ka-slk', through any object. 
 
 tsi-ru'-shek, gone through and through, 
 throw, a-muli'-i-a, to throw away, 
 thumb, is-mu'-se. 
 thunder, su'-a. 
 
 su'-ni-cek, the thunder-bird, that roars in the 
 
 distance. 
 tie, bali-tsi'-mih, a knot, a noose, a tie. 
 
 bali-tsi'-ma-si-tsi-mik, to tie, to bind, to join any 
 thing. 
 
 deli'-ci, ) 
 
 [ to tie anything, 
 tu'-sa, ) 
 
 tinder, mi-ni'-te, tinder, spunk. 
 
 tired, a-push'-a-he, to be tired. 
 
 tobacco, o'-pe, the common tobacco of commerce. 
 
 Nicotiana. 
 
 o'-pi-she, Indian tobacco. Lobelia. 
 o'-pi-she-ba'-tsu-a, the leaves of Indian to 
 bacco-plant. 
 
 op'-mi-o, to smoke tobacco. 
 6p'-te-wits, to mix tobacco with bark or leaves, 
 
 as kinnic-kinnic. 
 
 o'-pe-di-nih t-shu'-rne, to bring tobacco, 
 op'-ti-a-wa, to put tobacco in a pipe, 
 o'-pi-she-ot-wa'-mih, to dry tobacco by the 
 
 fire, 
 to-day, ka-na'-shik. 
 
 hin-e-ma'-pe, this day, to-day, 
 toe, ic-a-re'-te-be. 
 together, bat-sah'-puk, 
 bat'-sa-wali, 
 
 uk, ) 
 
 > together, in company, 
 li, ) 
 
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 tough, tenacious. 
 
 bat'-sa-wali-ma'-ni-nio-uk, walking together. 
 bat'-sa-wali-pe'-mo-uk, sleeping all together. 
 bat'-sa-wal'i-pa'-wa-ku-re'-mo-uk, to run to 
 
 gether. 
 bat'-sa-wali-pa'-wa-pa'-mo-uk, to slay or 
 
 slaughter together. 
 bat'-sa-wali-pe'-mu-shi'-uk-a-shi, to throw the 
 
 lodges together in one place. 
 bat'-sa-wali-pe'-shi-uk-aub-sa'-ro-kc, to have 
 
 the Crows altogether in one place. 
 to-morrow, tsi-nak-<5i'-uk. 
 tongue, de'-ze, the tongue. 
 
 de-zish'-ka, the palate. 
 
 de-za'-ze, Tongue River, a branch of the 
 
 Yellowstone. 
 tooth, bi'-e, and i'-e. 
 toothache, i-e-rek'. 
 top, ak'-a-da, on the top of anything. 
 
 tough, tsi-tsu'-tse, > 
 
 (. 
 
 tsi-tsu'-tsih, J 
 
 trade, ma-esh-tsi-we'-mili, to trade. 
 truthful, m'i'-shi-sak, to speak straight. 
 turn, ta-bali-u', to turn over. 
 turtle, na'-ko, a soft-shelled turtle. 
 two, nu'-pe-re, both. 
 
 ni-n5mp'-ta, you two, both of you. 
 
 U. 
 
 under, bik-sa'-tsi-sa-re, under, underneath. 
 understand, h'u-a-ka'-re-e'-wa-tsili, I understand it all. 
 untie, bu-ru-ship'-mik, to untie a knot or noose. 
 
 V. 
 valley, o-ma'-re-eu'-ke. 
 
 au-bat-su'-a, Wounded-man Valley. 
 vapor, a-ma-shi'-e, fog. 
 vein, a-pi-de', the jugular vein. 
 vermilion, a-mali'-o-me, red coloring material. 
 
 o'-me, a red earth, used by the Crows for 
 
 painting. 
 virtuous, ba-bu'-ro-ke. 
 
 W. 
 
 wagon, wa'-pa-ta-tsi. 
 
 waist, ba-da-c'-haij-sup'-te. 
 
 wait, o-tsi-ek-me-o'-ne, ) 
 
 v to wait, to delay, 
 a-mo-nik, ) 
 
 o-tci'-e (imp.), stop. 
 wake, ka-ni'-ta, to wake up. 
 
 it-sek', to wake up, as from a sleep, 
 wampum, ba-da-ali'-e-da-ha'-ro-ka'-te. 
 warm, it-si-tum'-ek, to warm. 
 
 a-rek', the weather is warm, 
 a'-re, hot. 
 war-party, doli'-a. 
 
 om-pa-te', a war-club, pogamoggin. 
 wash, i-shu'-me, to wash. 
 
 bili'-ta-sa-pi-a'-a-ni-shu'-mi, to wash clothes. 
 wasp, is-ce'-de-ka'-she, yellow-jacket, the insect that 
 
 bites with its tail. 
 water, min'-e. 
 
 inin'-e-ka'-wi, bad water, whiskey, 
 mm'-e-shi-pit'-e, black water, coffee, 
 min'-a-nali'-e, the noise of water rolling over 
 
 stones, a waterfall, 
 min'-e-pah'-u, to spill water, 
 min-e'-is-nu'-mik, to drink water, 
 min-eli'-pi-ra', to sprinkle, as water, 
 min'-e-ma'-a-muk, deep water, 
 min'-e-liep'-kat, shallow water, 
 min'-e-a'-^e, river water, 
 min-e'-bu-lie', foam on water, 
 min-e'-ma-ku'-me, pike-poles, to push a boat in 
 
 the river. 
 
 min'-e-tum'-e, Hot-spring Valley, 
 min'-e-ni-net'-e, the water that does not run, 
 
 Big Rose-bud, 
 min'-e-ro-c'i'-pe, the water that drives, Cross 
 
 Creek. 
 
 min'-e-tum'-e-az-ka'-te, Warm Water Creek. 
 The ice never freezes over this creek. A 
 branch of the Yellowstone, 
 min-e-pu'-e-bi-shc, smoky water, 
 min'-ic-ke-az-ka'-te, Lake Fork of Bird River, 
 min-e'-nits, rapids in the river, 
 min-its-ke'-i-se, the sea, big water, 
 min-it' -si-6uli'-e, a little lake, 
 rnin'-e-tsi-e', a lake. 
 
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 min-e'-tsi-ka'-ta, willow-bushes, 
 min-it-shi'-re, yellow willow, 
 min-e'-i-ta'-ri, the common willow. 
 
 ma-ha', ) 
 
 [ a spring of water, 
 ma-he, J 
 
 ma-he', to boil up, as water from a spring, 
 ma-ha'-e-ho, a multitude of springs, 
 ma-mi'-mih, to walk in the water, 
 i'-e-pu'-lie, to weep, to make water come from 
 the eyes ; the name of a hill or butte on 
 Crazy Woman's Fork, a branch of Powder 
 lliver. 
 
 weak, ba-ba'-<5ek, feeble. 
 wealthy, ba-e'-tsili, rich. 
 
 weapon, bat'-su-rek, -\ any kind of defensive weapon 
 ba-ba-ku'-ra, J used as arms, 
 ma-e-tsi'-pe, a battle-axe. 
 wear, i-e-ke'-be, to wear, as clothes, 
 weasel, u'-te. 
 weed, ba-de-i-cap'-de-ke, a nettle weed. 
 
 ba-a-pa'-ne, any kind of weed, 
 well, hin'-e-et-de'-te, healthy, well. 
 
 lai-tho-ke', it is well. 
 wet, a-gi'-tsili. 
 what, sap. 
 
 sa'-pa, what is it ? 
 sa-pe', who is it ? 
 
 sa-pali'-pi-ra, what are you looking after 1 
 sap-ti'-re, what are you doing ? 
 sap'-te, why is it ? 
 sa'-me, how much? how many? 
 ma-no'-e-sa'-pa, what thing is it ? 
 hin'-e-sa'-pa, what is that ? 
 i'-mi-she, what is it ? tell me. 
 where, sho. 
 
 sho'-rak, where is it? 
 
 sho'-tats, how do you do? 
 
 sho-te'-ra, where? in what place? 
 
 sho-ta'-ce, how? in what way? 
 
 sho'-ka, where is that ? 
 
 shosh'-te-re, where are you going ? 
 
 sho'-i-ni-6i'-re, when ? when is it ? at what 
 
 time? 
 whip, is'-a-sin'-it-se, and it-si' -rit-se, a riding whip. 
 
 whistling, ki'-o-shik, the whistling of the male elk. 
 white, tsi'-c-kat. 
 
 sho'-rush, a white root. 
 wife, u'-a. 
 wild, ak-se'-re-te. 
 wind, ho'-de. 
 
 sah-ik', wind from the stomach, 
 ap-ce', windpipe, 
 no-mi'-na, to wind up anything. 
 window, ba-sa-she'. 
 winter, ma-se', and ma'-na. 
 wipe, ku-ru-sili', to wipe, 
 wish, ma-o-ne'-cik, to wish, 
 within, o-mu'-e-ke. 
 without, o-me'-na-ku. 
 
 wolf, tse'-e-te, a large wolf. Canis occidentalis. 
 tse'-e-c'e, a mad wolf, 
 tse'-e-te-a-pish', a wolf's nose, 
 bu'-a-ta, prairie wolf. Canis latrans. 
 woman, mi'-e. 
 
 mi'-e-ka-te, a girl, 
 mi'-e-do^ki'-se, a bashful woman, 
 mi'-e-e'-pe, a jealous woman, 
 mi'-e-ba-bu'-ro-ke, a virtuous woman, 
 mi'-e-ka'-te-ba-bu'-ro-ke, a virtuous girl, 
 mi'-e-ka'-nis-te, a young woman, 
 ka-ne-ka'-te, an old woman, 
 wonder, ba-ra-<5e-ra'-shik. 
 
 wood, ma'-na, ) 
 
 [ wood, or a tree, 
 ma-ne, ) 
 
 ma'-ne-a-pe'-ta-ni'-o, leaves falling from the 
 
 trees. 
 
 ma-ne'-sat-sili, a small strip of wood, a splinter, 
 ma-ne' -ka, a small piece of wood, 
 ma-ne'-ba-sa'-bi-sho-shu'-ru-e, a piece of wood 
 
 with a spear-point in the end, a javelin, 
 ma'-ne-pi-ru'-pe, a war-club filled with nails. 
 ma'-ne-sa-6e', a forest, or grove of trees. 
 ma'-ne-6i'-te, green wood. 
 ma'-ne-cV-se, dry wood, 
 ma'-ne-u'-she, the root of a tree, 
 rna'-ne-ho'-pe, a hollow log or tree, 
 ma'-ne-hi'-te, rotten wood. 
 ma'-ne-pa'-ce ; a wooden picket, stake. 
 
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 ma'-ne-ta'-rc, swoct cottoiiwood. 
 
 ma'-ne-a'-ke-de, in the tree. 
 
 ma'-ne-sho'-pe, a game vpith sticks, played by 
 the women. 
 
 ma'-na-po'-he, quaking asp. 
 
 ma-na'-ke-da, up a tree. 
 
 ma'-na-ma'-ta-ta-tsi, scattering trees. 
 
 ma-na-kat', the color of wood, wood color. 
 
 ma-ni'-ali-c, flood or drift-wood. 
 
 ini-mo'-e-ma'-ne, a tree standing in the water. 
 
 pe'-ri-cis-ma'-ne, a large willow. Salix. 
 work, i-ba'-di-o, to work, 
 wound, a-hu'-ra-buli'-e, a fresh wound, 
 wrist, its-ka'-she. 
 
 its-kis'-kip-e, the arm from elbow to wrist. 
 
 mili-tse'-mi-tse, a string of beads, used as an 
 ornament for the wrist. 
 
 y. 
 
 yawn, mi'-sa-tsili, to yawn, to gape. 
 yellow, shi'-ri-kat. 
 
 ok-shi'-re, chrome yellow. 
 yes, kot, to be sure, certainly, yes. 
 yesterday, hu-ra2'. 
 yonder, i'-e-c'ek. 
 
 i-e6', yonder it is. 
 you, di (personal pronoun). 
 yours, dis (possessive pronoun). 
 
 CHAPTER XVIII. 
 
 XI. MlNNITAIlEES. 
 ETHNOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 
 
 THE Minnitarees, or Gros Venires as they are called by the traders, formerly inhabited 
 a mud village near the Mandans, when the latter were situated at Fort Clarke, with whom 
 they have always sustained friendly relations. The construction of their houses is the 
 same as that of the Mandans and Arikaras, as also are their usual occupations. Small 
 patches of corn, beans, squashes, pumpkins, and a few other vegetables, have been culti 
 vated by them from the earliest period known, even to the present time. 
 
 When living with the Mandans at Fort Clarke they numbered about one hundred and 
 twenty lodges, averaging five souls to a lodge, making an aggregate of six hundred 
 persons, but having suffered by the small-pox at the same time with the Mandans, were 
 reduced to forty lodges, and these thinly peopled and badly provided. In this condition 
 they removed to a large prairie sixty miles above on the opposite side of the river. At 
 this point they now reside, and their village is composed of about eighty huts, which are 
 tolerably well filled with occupants. 
 
 The similarity of their language with that of the Crows shows plainly that they were 
 formerly the same people, each being able to talk with and understand each other without 
 much difficulty, though their long separation has caused some variation, as will be seen by 
 comparing the annexed vocabularies. No trace of their origin or migration from other 
 
INDIAN TRIBES OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 421 
 
 lands is now left, but many traditions are told of their creation, which are reliable only 
 as forming a part of their mythology and affording some index to their intellectual status. 
 
 These Indians should not be confounded with the Atsinas or Fall Indians, who inhabit 
 the country of the Blackfeet. The languages of the two tribes are entirely distinct, nor 
 do we know that they have ever held any association with each other whatever, or ever 
 been at war with each other. This is the only tribe in the Northwest to which the name 
 Minnitaree is in any way applicable or proper. Lewis and Clarke present us with a very 
 complete view of the condition of the stationary tribes of the Upper Missouri as they saw 
 them in 1804. In order that we may compare their history and condition at that time 
 with their present state, we will quote the following paragraphs from the excellent Journal 
 of Lewis and Clarke, which, from the well-known character of the travellers, and their 
 advantages for obtaining information, we suppose to be in every way reliable. 
 
 " The villages near which we are established are five in number, and are the residence 
 of three distinct nations : the Mandans, the Ahnahaways, and the Minnitarees. The his 
 tory of the Mandans, as we received it from our interpreters, and from the chiefs them 
 selves, and as it is attested by existing monuments, illustrates, more than that of any other 
 nation, the unsteady movements and the tottering fortunes of the American nations. 
 Within the recollection of living witnesses, the Mandans were settled forty years ago in 
 nine villages, the ruins of which we passed about eighty miles below, and situated seven 
 on the west and two on the east side of the Missouri. The two finding themselves wasting 
 away before the small-pox and the Sioux, united in one village and moved up the river 
 opposite to the Bicaras. The same causes reduced the remaining seven to five villages, 
 till at length they emigrated in a body to the Ilicara nation, where they formed themselves 
 into two villages, and joined those of their countrymen who had gone before them. In 
 their new residence they were still insecure, and at length the three villages ascended the 
 Missouri to their present position. The two who had emigrated together still settled in 
 the two villages on the northwest side of the Missouri, while the single village took a 
 position on the southeast side. In this situation they were found by those who visited 
 them in 1796, since which the two villages have united into one. They are now in two 
 villages, one on the southeast of the Missouri, the other on the opposite side, and at the 
 distance of three miles across. The first, in an open plain, contains about forty or fifty 
 lodges, built in the same way as those of the Ricaras ; the second the same number ; and 
 both may raise about three hundred and fifty men. 
 
 "On the same side of the river, and at the distance of four miles from the lower Mandan 
 village, is another, called Mahaha. It is situated on a high plain at the mouth of Knife 
 River, and is the residence of the Ahnahaways. This nation, whose name indicates that 
 they were ' people whose village is on a hill,' formerly resided on the Missouri, about thirty 
 
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 miles below where they now live. The Assiniboins and Sioux forced them to a spot five 
 miles higher, where the greatest part of them were put to death, and the rest emigrated 
 to their present situation, in order to obtain an asylum near the Mirmitarees. They are 
 called by the French, Soulier Noir, or Shoe Indians ; by the Mandans, Wattasoons, and 
 their whole force is about fifty men. 
 
 " On the south side of the same, Knife River, half a mile above the Mahaha, and in 
 the same open plain with it, is a village of Minnitarees surnamed Metaharta, who are 
 about one hundred and fifty men in number. On the opposite side of Knife River, and 
 one and a half miles above this village, is a second village of Minnitarees, Avho may be 
 considered as the proper Minnitaree nation. It is situated in a beautiful, low plain, and 
 contains four hundred and fifty Avarriors. The accounts which we received of the Minni 
 tarees were contradictory. The Mandans say that this people came out of the water to 
 the east and settled near them in their former establishment, in nine villages ; that they 
 were very numerous, and fixed themselves in one village on the southern side of the Mis 
 souri. A quarrel about a buffalo divided the nation, of which two bands went into the 
 plains, and were known by the name of Crow and Paunch Indians, and the rest moved 
 to their present establishment. The Minnitarees proper assert, on the contrary, that they 
 grew where they now live, and will never emigrate from the spot, the Great Spirit having 
 declared that if they moved they would all die. They also say that the Minnitarees Me 
 taharta, that is, Minnitarees of the Willows, whose language, with very little variation, is 
 their own, came many years ago from the plains, and settled near them ; and perhaps the 
 two traditions may be reconciled by the natural presumption that these Minnitarees were 
 the tribe known to the Mandans below, and that they ascended the river for the purpose 
 of rejoining the Minnitarees proper. These Minnitarees are part of the great nation called 
 Fall Indians, who occupy the intermediate country between the Missouri and the Saskat 
 chewan, and who are known by the name of Minnitarees of the Missouri, and Minnitarees 
 of Fort de Prairie, that is, residing near, or rather frequenting, the establishment in the 
 prairie on the Saskatchewan. These Minnitarees, indeed, told us that they had relations 
 on the Saskatchewan whom they had never known till they met them in war, and having 
 engaged in the night, were astonished at discovering that they were fighting with men 
 who spoke their own language. The name of Gros Vcntres, or Big-bellies, is given to 
 these Minnitarees, as well as to all the Fall Indians. The inhabitants of these five vil 
 lages, all of which are within the distance of six miles, live in harmony with each other. 
 The Ahnahaways understand in part the language of the Minnitarees ; the dialect of the 
 Mandans differs widely from both ; but their long residence together has insensibly 
 blended their manners, and occasioned some approximation in language, particularly as to 
 objects of daily occurrence and obvious to the senses." 
 
INDIAN TKIBES OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 423 
 
 Brackenridge says that there are remnants of seventeen villages of Mandans and Gros 
 Ventres. They are included in seven villages ; five of the Gros Ventres, and two of the 
 Mandans, within a distance of fifteen miles. He says, that though there is not the least 
 affinity in their languages, the Gros Ventres is spoken by all the Mandans. 
 
 Morse probably over-estimated the number of the Minnitarees. He observes that they 
 number 3250 persons, have their village on the south side of the Missouri, east of the 
 Little Missouri, about half way between the Mandans and the Yellowstone. 
 
 Say, in the account of Long's Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, presents a very in 
 teresting account of the customs, habits, and religious opinions of this tribe, but in Prince 
 Neuwied's excellent work, before alluded to, the most minute and accurate description of 
 the Minnitarees is given which can be found in any memoir. He says, however, that the 
 word " Manitarie" was given by the Mandans, and signifies " those who came over the 
 water." From the most reliable information which I could obtain, I am inclined to think 
 that the true meaning is " people of the willows." This opinion is farther strengthened, 
 from the fact that a species of willow, most abundant in the Minnitaree country, is called 
 in their language, min'-i-it-a'-ri, "growing by the water." 
 
 The present location of the stationary tribes of the Upper Missouri is as follows. The 
 village of the Minnitarees is situated on the north branch of the Missouri, near latitude 
 47 30', and longitude 102. The village of the Arikaras is located on the south side of 
 the Missouri, at Fort Clarke, in latitude 47, longitude 101, and the Mandan village is on 
 the same side of the river, and about four miles above the last. 
 
 Several vocabularies of the Minnitaree language have been already published, but the 
 only ones worthy of note are, by Professor T. Say, in Long's " Expedition to the Rocky 
 Mountains," and by Prince Neuwied, in his " Travels in North America." In the Trans 
 actions of the American Ethnological Society, Vol. II, Gallatin proved very clearly the 
 affinities of the Minnitaree with the Crow language, and that both of them belonged to 
 the Sioux or Dakota stock. 
 
 In treating of the stationary tribes, no mention has been made of the extent of their 
 lands, or of the portion of territory they claim as their own. Properly speaking, they 
 have no land, except their corn-fields, and the prairie immediately around and defended 
 by their village. The moment they leave their huts, they are liable to be attacked and 
 driven back by the Dakotas. The Arikaras, when they leave their homes, hunt in the 
 Dakota country, and by their permission, whilst the Minnitarees depend on their peace 
 able relations with the Assiniboins when engaged in hunting, as they do annually in the 
 vicinity of the Great Bend, In case of a general war, none of the stationary Indians 
 could leave their village at all. They are too few to contend with the surrounding tribes, 
 and even if united, would not be able to sustain a position in the Dakota country without 
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 the shelter of their mud cabins. Still, from Apple River below to the Great Bend of the 
 Missouri above, the country is more hunted by these Indians than by any others, and 
 consequently, it may be called the territory of the three tribes residing in mud villages, 
 though in reality it is neutral ground belonging to particular tribes. 
 
 VOCABULARY OF THE MINNITAREE DIALECT OF THE ATJB-SA-RO-KE OR CROW LANGUAGE. 
 
 above, ma-ku'-ka. 
 
 afraid, bi-di'-tu, I am afraid. 
 
 alive, i'-di. 
 
 all, huk-a-he'-ta. 
 
 ankle, i'-6a-re-shu'-ka. 
 
 antelope, uh'-i. 
 
 arm, a-ra'. 
 
 arrow, a-ru'-ti-sha. 
 
 autumn, ma-ta'. 
 
 axe, bi-ip-sa'. 
 
 back, ish-i-te'-ru. 
 
 bad, ish-i'-a. 
 
 beard, i-ki'. 
 
 black, shi-pish'-a. 
 
 bladder, u'-shi-ka-ruh'-e. 
 
 blood, i'-de. 
 
 blue, she-pa'-6i. 
 
 boat, ma'-te. 
 
 body, a-hu'-a. 
 
 bone, ma'-di-ki. 
 
 bow, bi-ru'-lia-pa'-ro-wa. 
 
 boy, ma-ka-ris'-te-mat'-se, a little 
 
 boy. 
 
 breast, e'-wa-ki. 
 breechcloth, ma'-i-dip-sha'-ki. 
 brother, ba'-ta-wa'-6e. 
 bull, ki'-ro-pi. 
 burn, o'-te, to burn, 
 by, u-te'-ru. 
 
 tut-a', by and by. 
 
 calf, na-ka-ci'-ri. 
 call, ba-ki-ko'-ha. 
 chickadee, is-ko-pi'. 
 chief, bau-tse'-it-se. 
 coat, ma-i-to'-ke. 
 
 cold, di-di'-a. 
 cow, bi-ti'-a. 
 
 bi-ta-ka'-sha, a young cow. 
 crow, pe-rit-ska'. 
 cry, i-bi'. 
 
 dance, di'-sha, to dance. 
 
 day, ma'-pi. 
 
 dead, ta'-ih. 
 
 deer, <:i-ca'-pi-sha, black-tailed deer. 
 
 die, desh. 
 
 dog, bi-de'-de. 
 
 6i'-pa, prairie dog. 
 drink, ma-ce'-ko-di, to drink. 
 duck, mi-hah'-a. 
 
 ear, a'-pa. 
 earth, a-wa'. 
 eating, ba-ru'-te. 
 enemy, ma-i-ha'. 
 eye, is-ta'. 
 
 face, bi-ta'. 
 far off, ti'-ti. 
 father, ta-tish'. 
 fin, i-to'-i-ka-te. 
 finger, sha-ki'-nu. 
 fire, bi'-da. 
 fish, bu'-a. 
 
 bu-a-ka'-te, a catfish. 
 
 bu-a-na'-ka, roe of a fish. 
 
 bu-a-ca'-she, small fish, 
 flesh, a-ru'-du. 
 flint, ba-ci-ka'-sha. 
 foot, ma'-6i. 
 forever, ko-6i'-te. 
 friend, ba-e-ku'-e. 
 
 girl, ma-ka-ris'-ti-mi'-a, a little girl. 
 
 go, da, to go. 
 
 good, sa-ki'. 
 
 great, a-ru'-ke-ri'-6i. 
 
 green, to-lush'. 
 
 gun, o-wut'-se-we-du'-lia. 
 
 hail, ma-ka-pit'-a-wi. 
 
 hair, a-da'. 
 
 hand, sha-ke'. 
 
 handsome, sa-ki-ku'-a. 
 
 hawk, mu-ki'-ra-ki. 
 
 head, a'-tu. 
 
 head-dress, ma-i-shu'-a-po-ka. 
 
 hear, bi-ke-ku'-a, to hear. 
 
 heart, na-ta'. 
 
 heaven, a-pali'-e-ru'-she. 
 
 heel, i'-ce-ki. 
 
 hill, it-i'. 
 
 hot, bi-ca'-we. 
 
 house, a'-ma-ti. 
 
 husband (my), ma-ki'-da. 
 
 I, bi. 
 
 ice, ba-ru'-lie. 
 in, a-ma-hu'-ru. 
 Indian, hi-na-tsa'. 
 
 kettle, bi-duli'-e. 
 kill, ti'-pe, to kill, 
 knee, e-re-shu'-ka. 
 knife, ba-6i'. 
 
 lake, bi-di'-ka-ku'-pe. 
 laugh, ba-ka'. 
 leg, i-di'-ke. 
 leggin, hop-ce'. 
 light, a-muli'-a-hi. 
 
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 lightning, ka-di'-ka. 
 live, i-dits', to live, 
 liver, au-pi-sha'. 
 love, ba-ki-dush'-i. 
 
 man, bau-tse'. 
 
 ba-shi', a white man. 
 mast, ma-re-ko'-peh-e-hum'-pa. 
 midday, bi-di-wa'-pa-re-pe'-hi. 
 midnight, bi-di-i'-nuk-pi. 
 moon, ma'-ku-mi'-di. 
 morning, bi-da-ha'-ru-te. 
 mother, i-kush'. 
 mountain, a-ma-ha'-wi. 
 mouth, a-pu'-a-te. 
 
 nail, sha-kili'-pu. 
 
 navel, ma'-i-te-re'-pa. 
 
 near, au-tsa-ka'-ti. 
 
 neck, ain'-pa. 
 
 never, huk-a-hi'-ta. 
 
 night, o'-ksi. 
 
 no, de'-sha. 
 
 nose, ma-pa'. 
 
 nothing, ba-ru-a-na'-shesh. 
 
 oar, i'-e-ho'-ke. 
 old, hi'-e. 
 on, di-ki'-di. 
 owl, da-ku'-pe. 
 
 part, su'-ta. 
 
 people, a-ma-she', people who live 
 
 in mud houses. 
 pepper, bi-di-ho'-ha-ta. 
 perhaps, ha-she-ic'-ki. 
 pipe, ki'-pi. 
 plain, a-ma'-ra-su'-ka. 
 polecat, hu'-ke. 
 
 rain, ha'-re. 
 
 red, hish'-e. 
 
 ring, ma-sha'-ki-o-psa'-ki, brass ring. 
 
 river, a'-ze. 
 
 a-ze-ka-ris'-ta, a small river 
 run, hi-ru'-te. 
 
 salt, au'-ma-ho'-ta. 
 
 sash, ma'-i-pat-su'-a. 
 
 scale, bu-i-shi'-she. 
 
 scalp, a'-da-du. 
 
 sea, bi-di-ti'-a. 
 
 seat, ma-a-shi'-ta-ra-hu'-pi. 
 
 see, au-muk'-auk, to see. 
 
 sheep, a-shi-ti'-a, big-horn. 
 
 shell, o-tish'-ka ; shells for orna 
 ment. 
 
 shoe, bi-di-hom'-pa. 
 
 ba-du-shi'-ish, to untie'shoes 
 
 shot-pouch, bi-rut'-se-pi-she. 
 
 shoulder, a-ri-ru'. 
 
 sinew, bau'-tsu-a. 
 
 sing, ma-ke-pa'-hi, to sing. 
 
 sister (my), ba-ta-wi'-a. 
 
 skin, dali'-pe. 
 
 sky, a-pali'-e. 
 
 small, ka-rish'-ta. 
 
 snipe, a-pit'-sa. 
 
 snow, ma'-pi. 
 
 something, ma-ho'-a-wi'-tu. 
 
 son (my), ba-di-sha'. 
 
 sour, a-da'-wi. 
 
 speak, ba-de'. 
 
 spear, bi-re'-te-ru-te. 
 
 spring, ma-ha' (season). 
 
 bi-a-ha'-ku-te, spring, foun 
 tain . 
 
 squirrel, ko-kok'-shi, prairie squir 
 rel. 
 
 star, i'-ka. 
 stomach, e'-di. 
 strike, ma'-di-ki, to strike, 
 strong, it-ci'-uk. 
 summer, a-ba'-de. 
 sun, bi-de-wa'-pi. 
 sunrise, ma-pa'-wi-di. 
 sunset, mi-di'-e-wuk'-pi. 
 swan, bi-da'-tuk-i. 
 sweet, si-ku'-a. 
 
 thigh, ma-na-ta'-ro. 
 
 think, ba-ki-ri'-she, to think. 
 
 thou, di. 
 
 di-he'-di, thou, thyself. 
 thread, ba-e-ke-ka'-ka, yellow 
 
 thread. 
 
 through, he-ru'-te. 
 thunder, ta'-ho. 
 tie, ba-ra-tu'-wi, to tie. 
 tobacco, o'-pe. 
 to-day, hi-di-ma'-pe. 
 toe, i-ci'-pu-wi. 
 to-morrow, a'-te-ruk. 
 tongue, de'-ze. 
 tooth, i'-a. 
 town, a'-ti. 
 
 turkey, si-ah'-ti. 
 
 
 
 ugly, i-te'-shi-a. 
 under, bih-ta'-ru. 
 
 valley, ta-ruli'-te. 
 vein, ma-ho'-i-de. 
 
 walk, di'-di, to walk, 
 wampum, ma-ili'-a-ma-ra-ku'-tse. 
 war-club, mi-re-ku'-tsa. 
 warrior, bau-tse-i'-di-ki. 
 water, bi-di'. 
 weak, ha'-sha. 
 what, ta'-pa. 
 
 ma-ru'-a-ta'-pa, what thing ? 
 which, ta'-pa-t6k, which person or 
 
 thing ? 
 
 whiskey, bi-di-a'-ra-wi. 
 white, ili-o-tuk'-e. 
 who, tup-e'. 
 
 wife (my), ma-ta'-e-wi'-a. 
 wind, ho'-<5i. 
 windpipe, no'-tish-ka. 
 wing, ili'-pa. 
 winter, ma'-na. 
 wish, hid-ish', to wish, 
 within, a-mu-hu'. 
 
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 without, a-ta-shi'-ku-a. 
 
 wood, bat-se-ta'-she, petrified wood. 
 
 woodpecker, tosh'-ka. 
 
 woman, mi'-a. 
 
 year, a-ma-e-ca. 
 
 yellow, tsi'-ri. 
 yes, ko-ush'-ik. 
 yesterday, hu-ri-shi'-ru. 
 
 CHAPTER XIX. 
 
 
 
 XII. MANDANS. 
 
 ETHNOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 
 
 ALTHOUGH one would suppose that all the tribes of the Upper Missouri, being the same 
 barbarous people, accustomed to like occupations, and possessing the same advantages, 
 would exhibit no great national difference, yet each tribe or nation has marked distinc 
 tions of character, as much and even more, perhaps, than the several divisions of the Euro 
 pean race. This must depend, to a great extent, upon their physical organization, for the 
 pursuits of all Indians inhabiting the plains are or should be radically the same. Hunt 
 ing and war, amusements and devotion, idleness and activity, divide their time, and would 
 without some peculiarity of constitution lead to a general resemblance of character. The 
 small amount of agricultural labor bestowed upon the soil by the stationary tribes, cannot 
 be reckoned as an item in their national education, or as influencing the conduct of the 
 men, for this is done altogether by the women. The presence of the men is not required 
 in the corn-fields, and if found there, it is from far different purposes than aiding in the 
 work. The question then arises, how it happens that the Arikaras present such grovelling, 
 debased, and mean general features, with scarcely any redeeming qualities, whilst the 
 Mandans, residing but a few miles distant, possess an almost opposite character 1 ? 
 
 The Mandans, or MUli'ta-nes, " people on the bank" (of the river), as they call them 
 selves, must have resided on the banks of the Missouri at a very remote period, perhaps 
 not near their present residence, but in several places along the river. It is also probable 
 that if they migrated at all, they came from a southern direction, as the sites of different 
 villages of very ancient date are seen along the Missouri, as low down as the present 
 boundary between the United States and the Dakota country. Some of these antique 
 ruins are said to have been Arikara villages, which is doubtless the case. The fact sought 
 to be established is, that all these stationary tribes migrated in the same direction, from 
 southeast to northwest along this river, which may be inferred from the circumstance, 
 that no remains of their villages are to be seen along any other stream than the Missouri, 
 nor are they found in any place on the plains. 
 
 Prior to the visit of Lewis and Clarke in the autumn of 1804, very little information of 
 
INDIAN TRIBES OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 427 
 
 
 
 a reliable character was known in regard to the origin and early history of the Mandans. 
 Col. D. D. Mitchell, in a letter to Mr. H. R. Schoolcraft, published in the third vo 
 lume of the " History of the Indian Tribes," refers to an early writer by the name of 
 Mackintosh, who it seems was connected with a French trading company as early as 1772. 
 From his own account, he left Montreal in the summer of 1773, crossed over the inter 
 vening country, and reached the Mandan villages on Christmas day. He says that at that 
 time, the Mandans occupied nine large towns situated very near each other, and that at 
 short notice they could muster 15,000 warriors. Col. Mitchell is of the opinion that this 
 author exaggerates in his statistics, but that they were a formidable nation, the ruins of 
 numerous villages along both sides of the Missouri bear ample testimony. In 1804, Lewis 
 and Clarke speak of five distinct villages belonging to three distinct nations, viz., Mandans, 
 Ahnahaways, and Minnitarees. They also allude- to a lower Mandan village, called 
 "Mahaha." At the present time, the Mandans occupy a small village about three miles 
 above Fort Clarke, and do not number over two hundred and fifty or three hundred 
 souls. The Ahnahaways were undoubtedly a portion of the Mandan nation, but I cannot 
 ascertain that any trace of them exists at this time. In 1833, at the time of the visit of 
 Prince Neuwied to the Upper Missouri, two Mandan villages were standing, the southern 
 village about three hundred paces above Fort Clarke, on the same side of the river, and 
 the other about three miles higher up on the same bank. It is evident that the former 
 is now occupied by the Arikaras, while the latter is in possession of the small remnant of 
 the Mandan nation now living. At the time of the Prince Neuwied's visit, the first village 
 was composed of sixty-five huts, with about one hundred and fifty warriors, and the latter 
 of thirty-eight huts, with eighty-three warriors, both villages, perhaps, possessing nine 
 hundred to one thousand souls. 
 
 Our knowledge of this nation, obtained from the American Fur Company, commences 
 in the year 1829, when, through that Company, the fur trade on the Upper Missouri be 
 came established on a more. solid basis than it had been by the French traders. Anterior 
 to the above date, the latter had been trading with these Indians in their usual way, by 
 'building wintering houses, putting therein a trader and a few men, with a small supply 
 of goods, and abandoning the post in the spring, taking with them down the river their 
 returns of furs and skins. At that time the Mandans occupied the same village in which 
 the Arikaras now live, and also had another a few miles up the river. The lower town 
 consisted of two hundred cabins, and the upper of eighty, both built in every respect as 
 described in the chapter relating to the Arikaras, the latter, at that time, occupying their 
 own village near the mouth of Grand River. We thus see that the account given by the 
 American Fur Company of the condition of the Mandans in 1829, does not differ mate 
 rially from that of the Prince Neuwied, as observed by him in 1834. In the year 1829, 
 
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 the American Fur Company erected Fort Clarke, for the express purpose of trading with 
 the Mandans and Minnitarees, the former nation numbering about six hundred warriors, 
 or eighteen hundred souls, and the latter about half as many. 
 
 It is somewhat remarkable that notwithstanding all the misfortunes that have befallen this 
 tribe for so many years, it even to this time preserves its independence and individuality 
 as a nation. Nearly all of the Mandans speak the Minnitaree language, arid many of them 
 are familiar with the Dakota and Arikara tongues, but very few if any of the surrounding 
 tribes have acquired that of the Mandans. But one white man has ever learned to speak 
 the language fluently, and he resided among them over twenty years. I cannot ascertain 
 that there are any peculiar difficulties in the sounds or structure of the language, which 
 should prevent individuals of other nations from acquiring it readily ; indeed, I think the 
 evidence is quite clear, as suggested by Mr. Gallatin, that it is remotely allied to the 
 Dakota stock, and presents few if any more obstacles to its acquisition than the other 
 dialects of that group. 
 
 In the year 1833 these Indians were in their most prosperous state, industrious, well 
 armed, good hunters and good warriors, in the midst of herds of buffalo, mostly within sight 
 of the village, with large corn-fields, and a trading-post, from which they could at all times 
 obtain supplies, and consequently at> that time they might have been considered a happy 
 people. In their personal appearance, prior to the ravages of the small-pox, they were 
 not surpassed by any nation in the Northwest. The men were tall and well made, with 
 regular features and a mild expression of countenance, not usually seen amongst Indians. 
 Their complexion also was a shade lighter than that of other tribes, often approaching 
 very near to some European nations, as the Spaniards. Another peculiarity was that some 
 of them had fair hair, and some gray or blue eyes, which are very rarely met with among 
 the other tribes. A majority of the women, particularly the young, were quite handsome, 
 with fair complexions, and modest in their deportment. Instead of the brazen, forward 
 look and manner, customary with females of some of the tribes of the Northwest, they 
 were diffident and shy, avoiding any approaches of strangers or of their own people. They 
 were also noted for their virtue. This was regarded as an honorable and most valuable 
 quality amongst the young women, and each year a ceremony was performed, in the 
 presence of the whole village, at which time all females who had preserved their virginity 
 came forward, struck a post, and challenged the world to say aught derogatory of their 
 character. As this was a religious ceremony, any of those present who could with truth 
 contradict the statement felt bound to do so, and if detected in the deception, the female 
 lost her standing forever afterward among the young of both sexes. In ordeals of this 
 kind, it was remarked that more than two-thirds of the Mandan females came off victo 
 rious, which is regarded as a great proportion when the early training and the influences 
 
INDIAN TRIBES OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 429 
 
 that surround them are taken into consideration. The fact that a ceremony of this kind 
 exists among savages, tending to promote virtue and discourage vice, is of itself sufficient 
 evidence of their mental as well as moral superiority. 
 
 Both males and females of every age, especially the young, were very cleanly in their 
 persons and neat in their dress. It was their custom, and still is, growing out of some 
 ancient tradition, to bathe in the river every morning. Even in the winter season they 
 cut holes in the ice, immerse the body, and it is no uncommon thing to see them after 
 taking their cold bath sit naked on the ice, comb their hair, and paint themselves in a 
 snow-storm, the thermometer from 10 to 30 below zero. This constant ablution at all 
 seasons had the effect of inuring the system to cold, for they never shiver, be the weather 
 ever so severe, and sometimes they seem to prolong the making of their toilet in propor 
 tion as the air is intensely cold. At all events the practice was a good one for the In 
 dians, inasmuch as it kept their bodies free from most diseases and eruptions incident to 
 their manner of life, and it was remarked that they were uniformly healthy and vigorous. 
 As a general rule the females despised the promiscuous and illicit intercourse with the 
 other sex, so muc,h practised by some of the other tribes, and consequently they were free 
 from syphilitic diseases. 
 
 The great^ object of the young of both sexes was to dress well ; and everything they 
 could get was lavished on their persons in clothing and ornament. Some of their dresses 
 were very costly, particularly those of a young brave, the war-eagle feathers of which 
 alone would equal the price of two horses, or one hundred dollars. They were, as a 
 nation, fond of amusements ; dances were frequent, and different clans required separate 
 costumes, some of which, although made of skin wrought with figures of beads and por 
 cupine quills, cost six months' labor to complete them. The taking of the war-eagle, 
 whose tail furnishes the most costly ornament of a warrior's dress, requires great patience, 
 and is thus accomplished. About sixty-five or seventy miles above the Mandan village, 
 there is a river called the Little Missouri, which takes its rise in the Black Hills and 
 empties into the Missouri at the lower end of the Great Bend. Along the whole course 
 of this stream the surface is much broken, resembling that described as Mauvaises Terres 
 in the Dakota country. It is a wild region, seldom visited by any persons except passing 
 war-parties, and is the secure abode of the grizzly bear, big-horn, and war-eagle. A 
 Mandan wishing to make an eagle hunt, goes through several days' fasting, offers sacrifices 
 to the Great Spirit, and implores His protection and aid in the success of his expedition. 
 When, by a propitious dream, he believes the time favorable, he proceeds alone to the 
 place above mentioned, killing some animal on his way, the meat of which he will need 
 as bait. When he reaches the wildest and most solitary spot, he digs a hole in the ground 
 large enough to contain his body in an upright position ; over this hole is placed a cover- 
 
430 ON THE ETHNOGRAPHY AND PHILOLOGY OF THE 
 
 ing of willows, which is overlaid with grass, leaving only a hole large enough for the hand. 
 A stick is then laid over this lid or covering, directly over the hole for the hand, to which 
 the meat or bait is tied. The man descends into the hole, covers it up with the lid, and 
 patiently awaits the approach of the eagle. The eagle, soaring above, sees the bait, and 
 then gradually approaches in circles, and when within a few feet darts down and fastens 
 its claws into the meat, and at the same moment the hunter grasps the bird by the legs, 
 thrusts his knife upwards into its body, and opening the cover draws it in. In this way, 
 during a week or ten days of constant watching, two or three birds are secured, and this 
 is considered a good hunt, though the hunter more frequently returns unsuccessful. The 
 risk attending these solitary hunts in dangerous places, and the rarity of the bird, causes 
 the high value to be set upon the feathers, of which the twelve forming the- tail are the 
 only ones used in dress. Two of these tails are sold for a horse, or fifty dollars. 
 
 In the palmy days of their national prosperity, when the population comprised six 
 hundred warriors, and as many handsome women very gayly dressed, much time was 
 spent in amusements of every kind. But short intervals elapsed between dances, games, 
 races, and other manly and athletic exercises. One of these was Olympic in its character, 
 and was thus performed. A race-course of three miles on the level prairie was laid off, 
 cleared of every obstruction, and kept in order for the express purpose. Posts were 
 planted to mark the initial and terminating points, and over the track the young men 
 tested the elasticity of their limbs during the fine summer and autumn months, to prepare 
 themselves for the hardships of their winter hunts. On the occasion when races were 
 determined on by the chiefs, the young men were informed by the public crier, and every 
 one who had confidence in his prowess was admitted to the lists. Each of the runners 
 brought the amount of his wager, consisting of blankets, guns, and other property, and 
 sometimes several judges or elderly men were appointed by the chief of the village, whose 
 duty it was to arrange the bets, regulate the starting, and determine the results of the race. 
 As the wagers are handed in, each is tied to or matched with one of equal value, laid 
 aside, and when all have entered, the judges separate, some remaining with the property 
 staked at the beginning of the race-course, and others taking their station at its terminus. 
 Six pairs of runners whose bets have been matched, now start to run the three-mile 
 course, which is to be repeated three times before it can be decided. The ground is laid 
 out in the form of an arc describing two-thirds of a circle, the starting-point and goal 
 being but a few hundred yards distant from each other, the intermediate space being filled 
 up by the young and old of the whole village. The runners are entirely naked, except 
 their moccasins, and their bodies are painted in various ways from head to foot. The first 
 set having accomplished about half the first course, as many more are started, and this is 
 continued as long as any competitors remain, until the entire track is covered with runners, 
 
INDIAN TRIBES OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 431 
 
 at distances corresponding with their different times of starting, and the judges award the 
 victory to those who come out, by handing each a feather painted red, the first six winning 
 the prize. These, on presenting the feathers to the judges at the starting-point, are 
 handed the property staked against their own. The first and second heats are seldom 
 strongly contested, but on the. third every nerve is strained, and great is the excitement 
 of the spectators, who with yells and gestures, encourage their several friends and relations. 
 The whole scene is highly interesting, and often continued for two or three days in succes 
 sion, to give every one an opportunity to display his abilities. Those who have shown 
 great fleetness and powers of endurance, receive additional reward, in the form of praise 
 by the public crier, who harangues their names through the village for many days after 
 wards. This is a fine national amusement, and tends much to develope the great muscular 
 strength for which they are remarkable. They also, immediately on finishing the race, 
 in a profuse state of perspiration, throw themselves into the Missouri, and no instance is 
 known where this apparent rashness resulted in any illness. 
 
 At all times in fine weather, the Mandan village presents a gay and lively appearance. 
 Ball-playing, horse-racing, and gambling in various ways may be seen going on. These 
 amusements are too numerous to be described in detail here. The dances are of the most 
 brilliant character known among the Indians, displaying a great variety of costumes, adapted 
 to the different occasions, and made of the most gay and costly materials. This is the only 
 nation in which the women are allowed to join the men in their dances. With other 
 tribes, they never mingle, except in the scalp dance, though in one or two medicine cere 
 monies they perform alone. In admitting women as associates in their amusements, and 
 otherwise treating them with respect, this nation has shown great kindness of disposition. 
 Instead of regarding them in the light of slaves or property, as is the case with other 
 tribes, they never abuse them or impose heavy burdens on them, and this course is re 
 warded by their usefulness, cheerfulness, and fidelity. Such a thing as divorcing a woman 
 for illicit intercourse is unknown, or at least of very rare occurrence amongst them, and 
 the disgrace and humiliating public ceremony to which female offenders in this way are 
 subject, is worse than death. 
 
 The Mandans are a very devotional people. No war excursion is entered upon, corn 
 planted, eagles sought, or any important labors commenced, without propitiating the 
 Great Spirit, in accordance with their traditional customs. Some of these rites consisted 
 merely in sacrifices, accompanied with prayer and fasting, but when a young man is start 
 ing out on his first war expedition, or any great benefit is to be derived from supernatural 
 power, they practise self-torturing ceremonies little less severe than those of Hindoo 
 devotees. The place where these religious performances are observed, is back of their 
 village on the prairie, where a post is planted in the ground, and a circle of buffalo-skulls 
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432 ON THE ETHNOGRAPHY AND PHILOLOGT OF THE 
 
 formed round it, about twenty feet in diameter. A young man about commencing his 
 career as a warrior, or a leader on the eve of starting with a party against the enemy, 
 feels bound to undergo the tortures about to be noticed, in order to secure the aid of the 
 Great Spirit in these undertakings. These rites are repeated at diiferent periods when 
 circumstances require their observance. The person under the influence of this supersti 
 tion, usually prepares himself by three or four days of fasting, lying on the ground without 
 shoes or covering of any kind, without food or water, and without speaking to any one. 
 At the end of this period, he is visited by the medicine-men, who after much incantation, 
 make incisions about three inches long and half an inch deep, lengthwise down the back 
 opposite each shoulder-blade, through which a stout stick is thrust, and a strong cord 
 being attached to the stick, he is drawn up a few feet from the ground by passing the 
 cord through a hole in the top of the post, his entire weight being supported by the skewer 
 in the back. When suspended in this way, the medicine-men take hold of his feet, and 
 running rapidly around, give an impetus to the body so as to wind up the cord, after 
 which the devotee, using his feet, could in the same way unwind himself, and thus keep 
 himself constantly swinging round by striking his feet on the post. Here he hangs for 
 one or two days and nights, until, fainting and exhausted, he is let down by the medicine 
 men. After being liberated from the post, four or five buffalo-skulls are tied to the end 
 of the cord, the stick still remaining in the incision, and he is obliged to drag these skulls, 
 a weight of fifty or sixty pounds, over the prairie, with the horns ploughing up the ground, 
 and the blood streaming down his back. This is persisted in until the flesh breaks loose, 
 or the person fainting, is carried away by his friends. The ceremony being over, food and 
 drink are given him, and when fully revived, he is considered in a fit state to undertake 
 any dangerous expedition, though he still is compelled to wait, until by favorable dreams 
 he is advised of the proper time. Most warriors of note have passed through this ordeal, 
 and many have repeated the same several times during their lives. 
 
 Another and scarcely less painful rite is to burn across the breast with a red-hot iron, 
 making deep sores, about four inches long, six or eight in number, and about an inch 
 apart. Sometimes the burns are made in large circles on the breast, and again on one or 
 both shoulders. This actual cautery is very severe, on account of the slow operation of 
 the medicine-men, who with smoking and invocation require at least an hour to inflict 
 one wound. 
 
 In the spring of 1838, that dreaded scourge of the Indians, small-pox, made its appear 
 ance among the Mandans. By some accident portions of the clothing belonging to one 
 of the employes of the Fur Company, who had suffered from the disease on the lower part 
 of the Missouri River, were retained on the steamboat, although no appearance of the in 
 fection was visible until the boat arrived at Fort Pierre. Here it broke out amongst the 
 
INDIAN TRIBES OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 433 
 
 voyageurs, and although every precaution was taken in delivering the goods at the dif 
 ferent posts, yet it was communicated to the several tribes along the river. All the tribes 
 suffered more or less, but none approached so near extinction as the Mandans. The 
 summer was intensely hot, the disease was general in both villages, and owing to their 
 confined, dark, and ill-ventilated cabins, proved fatal to a degree far beyond that of other 
 nations. It was almost impossible that life could be sustained, on account of the impure 
 state of the air, and the disease usually assuming the confluent form, almost invariably 
 resulted in death. Remedies were tried at first, the principal of which were sweating, 
 cold bathing, and depletion. Of these none succeeded. The first aggravated the fever to 
 delirium, and the sufferers died during the operation. Bleeding produced no more bene 
 ficial results, and this, together with all treatment, was soon abandoned, whole families 
 lying helpless, waiting death, in different stages of the disease. The banks of the river 
 were strewn with the dead and blackened carcasses, which were daily pushed into the 
 stream by the traders. The drums and rattles of the medicine-men soon ceased, for they 
 too were overtaken by death. The men committed suicide or murdered their suffering 
 children ; the women mourned their fate ; and all was misery, despair, and death. The 
 trading-post was closed, the traders confined to their rooms, and the cannon loaded and 
 placed in the bastions, so as to protect them, if need be, against their hitherto most excel 
 lent friends. I need not pursue this subject farther than to-say, that a period of darkness 
 reigned, in which their fierce passions, being wrought up by disease and frenzy, these 
 Indians committed acts at which the imagination revolts, and which were not wit 
 nessed by others than themselves. When the disease had abated, and when the remnant 
 of this once powerful nation had recovered sufficiently to remove the decaying bodies from 
 their cabins, the total number of grown men was twenty-three, of women forty, and of 
 young persons sixty or seventy. These were all that were left of the eighteen hundred 
 souls that composed the nation prior to the advent of that terrific disease, and even those 
 that recovered were so disfigured as scarcely to be recognized. 
 
 When the survivors had rallied and recovered, they left the village at the fort, and took 
 up their residence in the other cabins, a few miles above. Here some attempt was made 
 to reorganize their social system, but the race could only be propagated by intermarriage 
 without regard to relationship, unless closely allied. To this they were forced by circum 
 stances. The disease had only left one of a family, here and there, and no choice was 
 offered for new connections. However, they conformed as nearly as practicable to their 
 customary laws, avoiding as well as they were able contracts of marriage with blood rela 
 tives, although their condition imposed the necessity of perpetuating their nation by alli 
 ances which, had they been differently situated, would not have been resorted to. This 
 appears to be an evil more or less incident to all stationary tribes. Women are very 
 
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 seldom taken from other tribes, for the reason that they usually speak a different language, 
 and the consequence is, that a degree of relationship runs through the whole village, which 
 perhaps is the cause of their living more harmoniously together than the roving tiibes. 
 Quarrels very seldom occur, and no great division of feeling or rule is observed, but the 
 ultimate effect of this interconnection is a disregard of the natural barrier of blood rela 
 tionship, which in its progress, and sanctioned by custom, results in actual incest. 
 
 About the time that the Mandans left the lower village, the Arikaras came and took 
 possession, the former readily consenting to this arrangement, because it placed a large 
 body of strangers between them and the Dakotas, with whom, in their now feeble state, 
 they were unable to contend. 
 
 The Mandans at this time (1855) number about thirty-five or forty huts, perhaps nearly 
 three hundred souls, raise corn, squashes, beans, &c., same as the Minnitarees and Ari 
 karas, and hunt the buffalo when these animals are near their village. The destroying 
 and humbling effects of the disease referred to could not change their indomitable spirit of 
 pride and independence. They will not join with the other nations near whom they re 
 side, connect themselves with them by marriage, nor practise any customs but those of 
 their ancestors. Their religious rites and ceremonies are preserved entire, and the system 
 of self-inflicting tortures is practised at the present day. Being too few in number to form 
 war-parties, they remain at home- and defend themselves. 
 
 All of their noted chiefs are dead, and sketches of their lives would be interesting, but 
 will not be related in this place, though they exhibited many amiable features. While 
 living their laws were seldom infringed upon by the claims and pretensions of other as 
 pirants to power. They were respected for their judgment, and loved for the patriarchal 
 care they took in the general welfare, and not feared on account of their personal braveiy 
 or extensive relationship, as is the case with the migratory bands. Old age in both sexes 
 is held in veneration and made comfortable. The Mandans deposit their dead on scaffolds 
 near the village, and this also has a tendency to produce diseases in warm weather ; but 
 every attempt to induce them to inter the bodies has proven unsuccessful. They cultivate 
 the soil to some extent, raising corn and beans, but seldom more than they need for their 
 own consumption. Their destiny seems tending toward final extinction. 
 
 The most complete and accurate history of the Mandans ever published, is given in the 
 excellent work of Prince Neuwied, who spent one winter among them, under the most 
 favorable circumstances for obtaining reliable information. His vocabulary is also quite 
 full, and he has exhibited the grammatical structure with considerable detail. Catlin, 
 also, in his account of the North American Indians, enters quite minutely into their his 
 tory, manners, and customs, which, though highly colored, are, for the most part, correct. 
 The notion which he entertained that the Mandans are of Welsh origin has been so 
 
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 thoroughly exploded, that it is unnecessary to allude to it farther. His vocabulary of the 
 language, however, is a very excellent one. Schoolcraft also gives a somewhat lengthy 
 vocabulary, derived from Mr. James Kipp, for many years a trader among these Indians. 
 I may as well state here, that not only the information obtained by me in regard to the 
 Mandan language was given by Mr. Kipp, but the same man aided Prince Neuwied and 
 Catlin, so that our present knowledge of the Mandan language has been derived from very 
 nearly the same source. So far as I can learn, the most important contributions to the 
 knowledge of the Mandan language, and the only ones worthy of especial notice, are those 
 of Prince Neuwied, Catlin, and Schoolcraft. That of Prince Neuwied is by far the most 
 important, containing much of the grammatical structure of the language, and, as above 
 observed, it was obtained under circumstances which entitle it to confidence. The latter, 
 though important, are merely lists of words, and convey but a partial idea of the language. 
 
 CHAPTER XX. 
 
 OBSERVATIONS ON THE GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURE OF THE MANDAN LANGUAGE. 
 
 I. NOUNS. 
 
 1. WITH few exceptions, Mandan nouns have both a singular and plural form, as is 
 shown by their termination ; as, a-pe', a leaf; a-pish', leaves ; ma-he', a weed ; ma-hosh', weeds ; 
 si, a feather ; si'-ish, feathers. 
 
 2. The gender of nouns is indicated by the use of diiferent words to express the sex ; 
 as, nu'-man-ke, a man ; mi'-he, a woman ; be'-ro-ke, a bull ; p'tln'-de, a COW ; ni'-ka, a calf. 
 
 3. The case of a noun is known by its position in a sentence. 
 
 II. ADJECTIVES. 
 
 4. Adjectives always follow the nouns which they describe ; as, mi-he'-shi-na-shush, a hand 
 some woman ; nat-kan'-ka-sish, a hard heart. 
 
 5. The numeral adjectives of the cardinal kind are as follows : 
 
 one, mali'-a-na. eight, te-tuk'-e. 
 
 two, num'-pa. nine, mah'-pe. 
 
 three, na'-men-i. ten, pi'-rah. 
 
 four, to'-pe. eleven, a-ga-mah'-a-na. 
 
 five, keli-un'. twelve, a-ga-num'-pa. 
 
 six, ki'-ma. thirteen, a-ga-na'-men-i. 
 
 seven, ku'-pa. fourteen, a-ga-top'. 
 
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 fifteen, a-ga-hun'. 
 
 sixteen, a-ki'-ma. 
 
 seventeen, a-ku'-pa. 
 
 eighteen, ak'-te-tuk'-e. 
 
 nineteen, a-ga-mali'-pe. 
 
 twenty, num'-pa-pi-rah'. 
 
 twenty-one, num'-pa-pi'-ra-ka-ro-man'-a-na. 
 
 thirty, na'-men-i-am-pi'-ra-kosh. 
 
 forty, to'-pa-pi'-ra-kosh. 
 
 fifty, keli-un'-am-pi'-ra-kosh. 
 sixty, ki-ma'-am-pi'-ra-kosh. 
 seventy, ku'-pa-am-pi'-ra-kosh . 
 eighty, te-tuk'-e-am-pi'-ra-kosh. 
 ninety, mali'-pe-am-pi'-ra-kosh. 
 one hundred, i-suk'-mah-a-na. 
 one thousand, i-su'-ki-ka-ku'-hi. 
 
 one hundred thousand, i-su'-ki-ka-ku'-hi-i-suk-mah'-a- 
 na. 
 
 6. na-ka-mah'-a-na, first one, or first time. 
 
 i-ka-ha'-sha-mali'-a-na, last one, or last time. 
 
 III. ADVERBS. 
 
 7. Some of the principal adverbs are as follows : tash-bak'-tosh, perhaps ; ho-ra'-ke-ku'-ser-o, 
 day before yesterday ; mat-he-o'-mas-ta, day after to-morrow ; ten'-hash, afar off. 
 
 IV. PREPOSITIONS. 
 
 8. Prepositions follow the nouns which they govern ; as, pelv'-ti, by ; mi-peli'-ti-nak'-ta, sit 
 by me ; mun-i-kush'-ta, through the water ; ti-rok'-ta, in the house. 
 
 V. CONJUNCTIONS. 
 
 9. ken'-i and ek-tek', and; ken'-i-e-plsh', and I said; ken'-i-wa'-ki-wa'-wa-ush, and I told him. 
 
 VI. INTERJECTIONS. 
 
 10. sha! oh! sha! shi-ni'-hush ! oh! how cold it is ! sha ! ma-na'-rush ! oh! what pain I am 
 in ! sha ! da'-de-shush ! oh ! how hot it is ! i'-na ! he'-he-he ! i'-he ! han'-ta ! hark ! i-hamp'-ta ! hist ! 
 hush ! ha-nis'-ta ! look ! behold ! wa-he-teh' ! you surprise me ! 
 
 VII. PRONOUNS. 
 
 11. Pronouns are simple or fragmentary. The fragmentary pronouns are used in the 
 declension of nouns and adjectives, and in the conjugation of verbs. The following may 
 be regarded as an example of the intensive form of the simple pronoun : 
 
 mi'-o-na, I, myself, or I ain. 
 ni'-o-na, thou, thyself, &c. 
 i'-o-na, he, himself, &c. 
 
 nu'-o-na, we, ourselves, or we are. 
 ni'-a-o-na, you, yourselves, &o. 
 i'-a-o-na, they, themselves, &c. 
 
 The form of the fragmentary pronouns is shown in the following declensions of nouns 
 and adjectives. 
 
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 mi-hun'-de, my mother, 
 ni-hun'-de, thy mother, 
 i-hun'-de, his mother. 
 
 min'-i-ke, my son. 
 nin'-i-ke, thy son. 
 i-ko'-ni-ke, his son. 
 min'-i-kosh, iny sons, 
 nin'-i-kosh, thy sons, 
 i-ko'-ni-kosh, his sons. 
 
 mi-nu'-han-ke, my daughter, 
 ni-nu'-han-ke, thy daughter, 
 i-ko-nu'-han-ke, his daughter, 
 mi-nu'-han-kosh, my daughters, 
 ni-nu'-han-kosh, thy daughters, 
 i-ko-nu'-han-kosh, his daughters, 
 nu-nu'-han-kosh, our daughters, 
 ni-a-nu'-han-kosh, your daughters, 
 i-o-na-nu'-han-kosh, their daughters. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 mops, my wife, 
 nuns, thy wife, 
 kons, his wife, 
 mon'-ker-ish, my wives, 
 non'-ker-ish, thy wives, 
 kon'-ker-ish, his wives. 
 
 mi-be'-ro, my husband, 
 ni-be'-ro, thy husband, 
 i-be'-ro, her husband. 
 mi-be'-r5sh, my husbands, 
 ni-be'-rosh, thy husbands, 
 i-be'-rosh, her husbands. 
 
 ma-shlsh', I am good, 
 ni-shlsh', thou art good, 
 in-shfsh, he is good, 
 nu-shish', we are good, 
 ni-a-shish', you are good, 
 i-a-shish', they are good. 
 
 VERBS. 
 
 The following examples show the forms of the verbs so far as determined, though quite 
 
 incomplete. 
 
 i-wa'-sek-6sh, I do anything, 
 i-da'-sek-osh, thou doest anything, 
 i-i'-sek-osh, he does anything, 
 nu-i-sek'-osh, we do anything. 
 ni-i-sek'-6sh, you do anything, 
 i-a-i-sek'-osh, they do anything, 
 nu-nomp'-sha-sek'-osh, we both do anything. 
 
 i-wa-sek'-tosh, I will do anything, 
 ni-de-sek'-tosh, thou wilt do anything, 
 i-sek'-tosh, he will do anything, 
 nu-i-sek'-tosh, we will do anything, 
 ni-a-sek'-tosh, you will do anything, 
 i-o-na-sek'-tosh, they will do anything, 
 nu-nomp'-sha-sek'-tosh, we both will do anything, 
 ni-a-be'-sek-ta (imp.), do it, all of you. 
 i-sek'-ta (imp.), do. 
 
 wa-dek'-tush, 
 wa-de 
 
 k -tush, ) 
 '-hush, I 
 
 am going. 
 
 tha-de'-hush, thou art going, 
 i-de'-hush, he is going, 
 nu-dc'-hush, we are going, 
 ni-a-de'-hush, you are going, 
 i-a-de'-hush, they are going, 
 nu-nomp'-sha-de'-hush, we both are going. 
 
 wa-dek-tush', I will go. 
 tha-dek-tush', thou wilt go. 
 in-dek-tush', he will go. 
 nu-dek-tush', we will go. 
 ni-tha'-dek-tush', you will go. 
 in-a-dek-tush', they will go. 
 nu-nomp'-sha-dek-tush', we both will go. 
 
 wa-ki-su'-kosh, I go out. 
 tha-ki-su'-kosh, thou dost go out. 
 in-ki-su'-kosh, he goes out. 
 nu-ki-su'-kosh, we go out. 
 ni-a-ki-su'-kosh, you go out. 
 
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 in-a-ki-su'-kosh, they go out. 
 nu-nomp'-sha-ki-su'-kosh, we both go out. 
 ki-suk'-ta (imp.), go out you. 
 siik-ta (imp.), go out. 
 
 wa-wa'-ru-tosh, I eat, or am eating, 
 tha-wa'-ru-tosh, thou eatest, &c. 
 i-wa'-ru-tosh, he eats, &c. 
 nu-wa'-ru-tosh, we eat, &c. 
 ni-a-tha-wa'-ru-tosh, you eat, &c. 
 i-a-wa'-ru-tosh, they eat, &c. 
 
 wa-wa'-rush-tdsh, I will eat. 
 tha-wa'-rush-tosh, thou wilt eat. 
 i-wa'-rush-tosh, he will eat. 
 wa-nu'-rush-tosh, we will eat. 
 ni-wa' -rush-tosh, you will eat. 
 i-o-na-wa'-rush-tosh, they will eat. 
 
 wa-wa'-rut-wa-ke-lie'-rush, I have done eating, 
 ni-wa'-ra-rut-tha-ke-he'-rush, thou hast done eating, 
 hj-wa'-rut-ke-he'-rush, he has done eating, 
 rush'-ta (imp.), eat, used in addressing a woman, 
 ru-ta'-na (imp.), eat. 
 wa-rush'-ta (imp.), eat on. 
 ru'-tosh, eating, to eat. 
 wa-ra-ru'-tosh, will you eat ? 
 
 tash'-ka-ki-wa'-ra-ru-te'-ni-hosh, what is the reason 
 you do not eat ? 
 
 wa-wa'-ka-pu-sosh, I paint or write, or am painting, 
 
 &c. 
 
 tha-ka-pu'-sosh, thou dost paint or write, &c. 
 in-ka-pu'-sosh, he paints or writes, &c. 
 nu-ka-pu'-sosh, we paint or write, &c. 
 ni-a-ka-pu'-sosh, you paint or write, &e. 
 i-a-ka-pu'-sosh, they paint or write, &c. 
 nu-nomp'-sha-pu'-sosh, we both paint or write, &c. 
 
 wa-ka'-pus-t5sh, I will paint or write, 
 tha-ka'-pus-tosh, thou wilt paint or write, 
 in-ka'-pus-tosh, he will paint or write, 
 nu-ka'-pus-tosh, we will paint or write, 
 ni-a-tha-ka'-pus-tosh, you will paint or write. 
 
 i-a-ka'-pus-tosh, they will paint or write, 
 nu-nomp'-sha-ka'-pus-tosh, we both will paint or 
 
 write. 
 
 wa-ka'-pu-sosh, to write, 
 wa-ka'-pu-se, a painting or writing, 
 ka'-pus-ta (imp.), write, 
 a-be-ka'-pus-ta, write, all of you. 
 
 wa-ka-pu'-sa-ma'-mank-a-hosh, I am painting or 
 
 writing all the while. 
 
 ni-tha-ka'-pu-sa-ma-mank'-a-hosh, thou art, &c. 
 in-ka'-pu-sa-ma'-mank-a-hosh, he is, &c. 
 nu-a-na-ka-pu'-sa-ma-mank-a-hosh, we are, &c. 
 ni-a-tha-ka-pu'-sa-ma-mank-a-hosh, you are, &c. 
 i-a-ka-pu'-sa-ma-mank-a-hosh, they are, &c. 
 nu-nomp-shos-ka-pu'-sa-ma-mank-a-hosh,weboth,&c. 
 
 i-wa'-push-i-de'-hiish, I am thinking, 
 i-da'-push-i-de'-hush, thou art thinking, 
 in-push-i-de'-hush, he is thinking, 
 nu-i-push-i-de'-hush, we are thinking. ' 
 ni-a-push-i-de'-hush, you are thinking, 
 i-a-push-i-de'-hush, they are thinking. 
 
 wa-hu'-na-wa'-kik-a-na'-kosh,I will come and sit down, 
 tha-hu'-na-tha'-kik-a-na'-kosh, thou wilt come, &c. 
 iij-hu'-na-kik-a-na'-kosh, he will come, &c. 
 nu-nomp'-sha-nu-hu'-ni-kik-a-na'-kosh, we both will 
 come, &c. 
 
 kas-ke'-wa-her-i-ki'-tosh, I will tie. 
 kas-ke'-tha-her-i-ki'-tosh, thou wilt tie. 
 i-kas-ke'-her-i-ki'-tosh, he will tie. 
 nu-kas-ke'-her-i-ki'-tosh, we will tie. 
 ni-kas-ke'-her-i-ki'-tosh, you will tie. 
 i-a-kas-ke'-her-i-ki'-tosh, they will tie. 
 nu-nomp'-sha-kas-ke'-her-i-ki'-tosh, we both will tie. 
 
 kas-ke'-wa-her-ish, I have tied. 
 
 wa'-hinsh, I have been there, 
 tha'-hlijsh, thou hast been there, 
 i-wa'-hiijsh, he has been there, 
 no'-hinsh, we have been there. 
 
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 ni-a-tha'-hlnsh, you have been there, 
 i-a-wa'-hlnsh, they have been there. 
 
 wa-hen'-dush, I drink, or am drinking, 
 tha-hen'-dush, thou drinkest. 
 in-hen'-dush, he drinks, 
 nu-hen'-dush, we drink, 
 ni-a-hen'-dush, you drink, 
 in-a-hen'-dush, they drink. 
 
 wa-he-na'-ina-ma'-ka-hosh, I have been drinking all 
 
 the while, 
 tha-he'-na-ma'-ka-hosh, thou hast been drinking all 
 
 the while, 
 iij-hen'-da-ma'-ka-hosh, he has been drinking all the 
 
 while, 
 nu-hen'-da-ma'-ka-hosh, we have been drinking all 
 
 the while, 
 ni-a-hen'-da-ma'-ka-hosh, you have been drinking all 
 
 the while, 
 i-a-hen'-da-rna'-ka-hosh, they have been drinking all 
 
 the while. 
 
 wa-ra-hen'-dush, have you drank ? 
 wa-wa-he'-ni-hosh, I have not drank, 
 tha-hen'-tha-ke'-he-rush, you have done drinking. 
 
 o-mun'-i-te-o'-wa-he-rish-wa-ru'-he-shuish, I cut it off 
 
 with an axe. 
 wa-ki-siik'-wa-de-i-wa'-ki-su'-kosh, I go out anywhere 
 
 I please. 
 
 i-ma'-pet-kik-u'-na-kosh, he sits down on the ground, 
 tev'-e-ti-hin'-kush, whose pipe is that? 
 tev'-e-ta-mi'-ni-swe'-ru-te, whose dog is that ? 
 tev'-e-ta'-o-tesh, whose lodge is that ? 
 tev-e-ya'-ki-ta-rush, who are you looking after ? 
 ma-tev'-e-tha-ki'-ta-rush, what are you looking af 
 ter? 
 
 tev'-e-ta-min'-i-ske-rish, whose horses are those ? 
 Ik'-haij, laughing. 
 
 ik-han'-ma-ka-hosh, laughing all the while, 
 ra-tuk-lie', crying, 
 ra-ta'-hosh, to cry. 
 
 ra-tuk'-lie-a-ma'-ka-hosh, crying all the while, 
 nak'-ta (imp.), sit down (to a man), 
 na'-ka-na (imp.), sit down (to a woman), 
 ra-ta' (imp.), go. 
 
 ra-ha'-na (imp.), go (to a woman), 
 shi-ha'-ra-ta (imp.), do well. 
 
 kap'-kesh, it snows, 
 kap-ke'-kosh, it will snow. 
 
 kap-ke'-a-man'-ka-hosh, it is snowing all the while, 
 ra-she-de'-hush, it thaws, or melts, 
 ra-she'-dek-tush, it will thaw or melt, 
 ktan'-hosh, it freezes, 
 ktan'-tosh, it will freeze, 
 ra-pa'-na-rush, it hails, 
 ra-pa'-nak-tush, it will hail, 
 lic-i'-ni-hush, it thunders. 
 
 CHAPTEK XXI. 
 
 VOCABULARY OF THE MANDAN LANGUAGE. 
 
 A. 
 
 above, a-ke'-ta. 
 
 afar off, ten-hash'. 
 
 affection, pah'-a-de, affection, love. 
 
 all, an'-be. 
 
 and, ken'-i. 
 
 ken'-i-e'-pish, and I said. 
 
 ken'-i-wa-ki'-wa, and I told him. 
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 ek'-tek, and, also, 
 ants, ka'-ra-si-sit'-ka. 
 anything, i'-tas-kash-ka. 
 
 arm, a'-de (sing.), a'-rush (pi.), an arm or wing. 
 arrow, ma-hi'-pe-kosh. 
 autumn, ptan'-de. 
 axe, o'-ma-na-te. 
 
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 B. 
 
 back, nup'-lie. 
 bad, lie'-kosh. 
 beans, o-min'-i-ke. 
 
 o-min'-ik-sa'-ni-ker-e, peas, 
 o-min'-i-ke-nti'-ker-i, potatoes. 
 bear, ma-to'. 
 
 ma-to'-pa, a bear's head, 
 ma-to' -ker-i, all bears, 
 ni-shi'-da, a black bear, 
 beard, hi'-ke-ru'-kis. 
 bed, o-inunk'-e-i-sik-osh, to make a bed. 
 behold, ha-nis'-ta, look ! behold ! 
 below, ma-pit'-a. 
 
 ma-pit', down, below, 
 belt, i-uh'-pa-e-te', a sash or belt, 
 bird, ma-dek'-su-ke, a small bird. 
 bladder, i-dah'-e. 
 blood, i'-da. 
 
 i-de-she'-ro-rush, cholera, when the blood turns 
 
 to water. 
 blue, to'-he. 
 boat, mi-na'-ki. 
 bone, a-hu'-de. 
 both, nom'-psha, two, both, 
 bow, wa-ra'-i-ru'-pa. 
 box, wi-du'-ke. 
 
 ma-ne'-wi-du'-ke, a wooden box. 
 boy, suk'-nu-mak, a boy. 
 breast, tah'-a-rali'-e. 
 breechcloth, mik'-e. 
 buffalo, ptm'-de. 
 
 bc'-ro-ka, a bull, 
 be-ruk'-nat-ka, a bull's heart, 
 burn, rap-tesh', to burn. 
 by, peli'-ti. 
 
 i-sa'-kag-a-sosh', by and by, after a while. 
 
 C. 
 
 call, rn-ker'-ish, to call, 
 cheat, ma-noli'-a-ha-rush, to cheat any one. 
 chicken, si-pu'-ska, prairie chicken, 
 clear, de'-he. 
 cloud, ha'-a-de. 
 
 ha-de-ku'-ta, sky, beyond the clouds, 
 ha-de'-to-he-kush'-ta, in the blue cloud or sky. 
 coat, i-ina-shu'-te. 
 cold, shi'-ni-hush. 
 
 corn, ko-han'-te, corn or grain of any kind, 
 ma-pe-her'-i, pounded corn or meal, 
 i-pe'-ke, a mortar for pounding corn, 
 count, pa-ki'-ri-rush, to count. 
 crow, ho-ki'-lia-ka. Co'rvus. 
 crying, ra-tuh'-e. 
 
 ra-tuli'-e-a-ma'-ka-hosh, crying all the while. 
 
 D. 
 
 darkness, han-pe'-a-resh'-ka. 
 day, ka-she'-kosh. 
 
 mat-lie'-o-nas-ta, day after to-morrow, 
 deceive, ka-uli'-ash, to deceive. 
 deer, ma-mo-na'-ku. 
 
 ma-mo-na'-ku-dop'-lie, a skin of a deer, 
 ma-mo-na'-ku-de'-si-ke, the tongue of a deer, 
 destroy, ki-mih'-er-esh, to destroy. 
 die, te'-rush, to die. 
 dirty, wa-rat' -ker-i, dirty, foul. 
 dog, men-i-swe'-ru-te, eaters of dung. 
 door, be-de'-he. 
 drink, he^-dush', to drink, 
 duck, pa'-to-he. 
 
 E. 
 
 eagle, ma'-si, war eagle. 
 
 ptan'-rush, gray eagle. 
 ear, as'-kash. 
 eating, ru-tosh'. 
 egg, si-ko'-he. 
 
 si-ko'-hosh, (pi.) 
 elevation, ma-ali'-te. 
 elk, om'-pa. 
 end, o-na'-ke-o-hank'-ta, the end of all being, the end 
 
 of the world, 
 enemy, wi-ra-tan'-de. 
 
 evening, i-stun'-de-hush, the latter part of the day. 
 eye, is-ta'. 
 
 is-ta-su'-ni-ke, eyes of a cat. 
 
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 F. 
 
 face, is'-ti. 
 fall, dop-hesh', to fall. 
 
 ma-pit'-a-dop-hesh', to fall down, 
 father, ratz. 
 feather, si. 
 
 si-ish', (pi.) 
 
 wo'-ki-rush, a head-dress of feathers, 
 female, mi'-ka, the female of any animal, 
 finger, 6g-ka'-he, fingers, claws, &c. 
 fire, wa'-ra-de. 
 fish, po, a fish. 
 
 po-tag'-de, a catfish, 
 po-tuk'-e, a long, slender fish, 
 pop-shi'-de, " silver eye," a white, flat fish, 
 po-su'-nak-er-ish, small fish, 
 po'-ni-ka, the roe of a fish, 
 flint, ma-hik'-shu-ke. 
 flower, o-sed'-e-he. 
 follow, wali-a-hush', to follow, 
 food, wo-ru'-te, food of any kind, 
 foot, shi. 
 fox, i-ru'-te. 
 
 o'-lia, a prairie fox. 
 friend, pta-ni'-nali-ah. 
 
 G. 
 girl, suk'-mi-he, a girl. 
 
 suk-ham'-a-he, a little child. 
 go, de'-hush, to go. 
 good, she! 
 
 shez'-ku-shosh, very good, truly good. 
 goose, mi'-harj. 
 grass, liarj-he'. 
 
 lian-he'-sa-kosh, dried grass, hay. 
 hag-shi'-lie-na, sharp grass, thistles, 
 grease, i-ker'-i, grease, fat. 
 great, litesh, large, great, 
 gun, wa-ta'-shi-ru'-pa. 
 
 H. 
 
 hail, ra-ka-nan'-de. 
 
 ra-pa'-na-rush, it hails, 
 hair, pa'-hi. 
 
 hand, on'-ke. ' 
 handsome, shi-na'-shush. 
 hark! hag'-ta! 
 hawk, i'-na, and i'-he. 
 
 oni'-psi, a yellow hawk, 
 head, pa. 
 
 hear, wa-esh', to hear, 
 heart, nat'-ka. 
 
 nat-kag'-ka-sish, a hard heart. 
 
 nat-kag'-si-hush, a strong heart, 
 heel, shi-ru'-te. 
 
 hereafter, hag'-ka, time to come, hereafter, 
 highlands, ma-hank'-wa'-ko-rosh, highlands, or hills, 
 hist ! i-hamp'-ta ! hist ! hush ! 
 hot, da'-de-shush. 
 house, o'-ti, house, or lodge. 
 
 ti-rok'-ta, in the house. 
 
 hush'-ta, the back part of the house, 
 hurrah ! uk-a-he' ! hurrah ! all hands ! 
 husband, i'-be-ro. 
 
 I. 
 
 I, mi. 
 
 ice, lio'-de. 
 
 in, rok'-ta. 
 
 inquire, ki-mah'-esh, to inquire of any one. 
 
 iron, wa-tush'-e-ma'-he. 
 
 wa-tush'-o-te, white iron. " 
 
 wa-tush'-up-si, black iron. 
 
 wa-tush'-se-ker'-i, red iron, copper. 
 
 wa-tush'-se-de, yellow iron, brass. 
 
 wa-tush'-i-wi-pu'-shi, a file, or iron whetstone. 
 
 wa-tush'-e-du'-ke, a shot-pouch, 
 island, wit'-ka. 
 
 K. 
 
 kettle, bi-ru'-lie. 
 kiU, te-her'-ush, to kill, 
 knee, ig-ta'. 
 knife, ma-hi'. 
 
 L. 
 
 land, mah-i-ki', bad land, 
 laugh, ik-hag', 
 
 ki-ki-da'-shosh 
 
 > to laugh, 
 osh, j 
 
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 leg, do'-ke. 
 
 leggin, hon'-shi. 
 
 level, op-shi'-de-shlsh, a level prairie. 
 
 life, i'-ni-hush, alive, health, life. 
 
 i'-ni-he, alive. 
 
 i'-ni-sesh, to live, 
 light, i-de-ah'-e. 
 lodge, o'-ti. 
 
 ti-hink'-o-ti, a skin lodge. 
 long, ha'-ska. 
 
 M. 
 
 man, nu-mang'-ke. 
 
 nu-mang-ka'-ki, the people. 
 
 nu-mang-ka'-hi-kosh, a man's acts. 
 
 nu-mang-ka'-ke-nat-kaf, a man's heart. 
 
 nu-mank'-shi, a chief, 
 many, hank-tesh', a great many, 
 meat, mas-kap'-e, meat of all kinds. 
 moon, i-stun'-mi-na'-ke. 
 morning, mam'-psi-ta. 
 
 wa-mam'-psi-ta, early in the morning, 
 mother, hun'-de, and i-hun'-de. 
 mouth, i'-a. 
 mud, tun'-tu-ke. 
 
 ma-tun'-tu-kosh, soft mud. 
 
 tun'-tu-kosh, soft, a bog or marsh, 
 muskrat, shan-6u'-ke. 
 
 N. 
 
 nail, og-ka'-o-sha-ke. 
 navel, dop'-ta-su. 
 near, sha'-ha. 
 neck, i-ta'-e-nu. 
 night, i-stun'. 
 north, mi-si' -a-hank'-ta. 
 
 mi-si -hank'-ta-ro-push'-a-hank'-ta, northeast. 
 
 pa-sha-hank'-ta-ro-ta-hank'-ta, southeast. 
 
 a-ga-hank'-ta-ro-ta-mi-sa-hank'-ta, northwest. 
 nose, pa'-liu, nose, beak of a bird. 
 
 pa-hu-ptap'-tali, moose, animal with a long nose, 
 nothing, mlk'-ska. 
 now, na-ka', 
 na-kan' 
 
 ', J- now, at this time, 
 i > 3 
 
 O. 
 
 oh, sha ! 
 
 old, M'-hosb... 
 
 open, rup-shuk'-osh, to open. 
 
 rup-shuk', opened. 
 
 outside, ma-tln'-da, out of doors, outside, 
 owl, ili-i'-he, large hooting owl. Bubo Virginianus. 
 ih -ik'-shu-ke, small owl. 
 
 P. 
 
 paddle, i-pa-ha'-ka, oar or paddle, 
 part, o-kup'-e. 
 perhaps, tush'-hak-tosh. 
 pine, ma-na'-ho-pin'-i. 
 pipe, i-hink'-e. 
 polecat, shonk'-te. 
 poor, a-ka'-ri-he. 
 pox, lied'-e-pe, small-pox. 
 pumpkin, ko'-de. 
 
 ko'-de-se-ha'-ru-tosh, melons or pumpkins 
 
 eaten uncooked, 
 push, put-kesh', to push. 
 
 R. 
 rabbit, mah-tik'-e. Lepus campestris. 
 
 mah-tili'-shu-ke, small rabbit. Lepus arte- 
 
 misia. 
 rain, hai'-dush. 
 
 hai'-i-kun'-dush, a rainbow, 
 raven, ke-ka'. 
 red, se. 
 river, pa-sa'-he. 
 
 pa-sank'-shu-kosh, small rivers, creeks. 
 robin, ma'-de-kan'-ka. Turdus migralorius. 
 rock, mi-su'-ne-ke-htesh, a large rock. 
 
 mi-su'-ne-ke-lia-ma'-he-na, a soft rock, 
 run, pte'-hush, to run. 
 
 S. 
 
 salt, wa-sku-sho'-te, white sugar, 
 sandstone, wi-pu'-shi, whetstone, sandstone, 
 scalp, pa-dop'-he. 
 seat, i'-ta. 
 
 see, wa-hesh', to see. 
 shake, ka-tid'-i-ri-sosh, to shake. 
 
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 sheep, an-sah'-te, mountain sheep, big-horn. 
 
 shoe, hom'-pa, shoe, moccasin. 
 
 shoulder, a'-kit. 
 
 sinew, hi'-se. 
 
 sing, wa-ki'-ki-na'-rush, to sing. 
 
 sister, ta-mi'-he-na. 
 
 ptan'-kosh, elder sister. 
 skin, dop-hi'. 
 small, ham'-o-he. 
 smooth, san'-sish. 
 
 ka-sai/-sosh, to smooth or make smooth, 
 snow, wa-he'. 
 soldier, ka-wa'-ka-ra-kah'-a. 
 something-, i-ko-tu'-i. 
 son, ko'-ni-ke. 
 sour, ha-rush'. 
 speak, rot-kish', to speak, 
 spirit, ma-nah'-i-ke. 
 spread, plii'-her-ish, to spread, 
 spring, be'-hi-nun-de (season). 
 star, likik'-e. 
 
 hkik'-e-wa-ha-ne-hosh', the star that does not 
 
 move, north star, 
 steal, wa-nun'-dush, to steal, 
 stone, min'-deli-tesh, a large stone or rock, 
 strike, ro-rush', to strike, 
 strong, si-hush', 
 summer, ra-ske'-ke. 
 sun, ma-hamp'-mi-na'-ke. 
 surprise, wa-he-teli', you surprise me. 
 swan, ma-de-hop'-ni. 
 sweep, Ip-kuk'-i-shush, to sweep. 
 
 ip-kuk'-i-sha, a broom, or anything to sweep 
 
 with, 
 sweet, sku'-hosh. 
 
 T. 
 
 tail, shon'-te. 
 
 shon-te-ha'-ska, long tail, a panther, 
 tallow, sin'-de. 
 
 thaw, ra-she'-de-hush, it thaws, or melts. 
 thief, wa-nun-deli'-te. 
 thigh, do-kosh', the thighs, 
 think, wa-push'-i-de, to think. 
 
 this, ant. 
 
 an-to-rash', this one, this thing. 
 
 ant-wi-do'-ke, this sack. 
 tie, kas-kesh', to tie. 
 toad, liat'-ka. 
 tobacco, ma-na-she'. 
 to-day, i-ham'-pe. 
 toe, shi'-pa, the great toe. 
 
 shi-ha'-pa, the second toe. 
 shi-ni'-ka, the little toe. 
 to-morrow, mat-he', 
 tongue, de'-si-ke. 
 tooth, lii. 
 
 trade, wi-ka'-rush, to trade or barter, 
 tree, ma'-na, wood, or a tree. 
 
 ma'-na-i-nin'-dush, a tree. 
 
 ma-na-a', the bark of trees. 
 
 ma-na'-i-ta-hu, an oak tree. 
 
 ma-na'-ho-pin-i, a pine tree. 
 
 ma-na'-o-ki-sarj-ka, forks of a tree. 
 
 ma-na'-wa-ra-wi-rush, elm-wood, of which bows 
 are made. 
 
 ma-na-wah'-e, cottonwood. 
 
 ma-na-suk', a shrub or bush. 
 
 ma-na-pe', or, a'-pe, a-pish' (pi.), leaves. 
 
 ma-na-roh'-te, a forest. 
 
 ma-na-ker'-i, all wood. 
 
 ma'-na-i-nin'-de-a-ke'-ta, on the tree. 
 
 ma'-na-ka-kin'-he, a wooden wedge. 
 
 ma'-na-i-tu-ruk'-shu-ke, a spear or lance, 
 tremble, ka-tid'-re-kosh, to tremble, quake, 
 turkey, ma-ru'-si. 
 turnip, ma-hosh'. 
 
 turtle, kip-san'-de, turtle or tortoise, 
 twisted, ka-min'-ish. 
 
 U. 
 
 ugly, hik'-a-na-shosh. 
 upon, a-ki'-a, on or upon. 
 
 V. 
 vein, i'-du-ke, a vein or channel. 
 
 i-i'-du-ke, a vein or channel for the blood, 
 very, ku-shosh', truly, very. 
 
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 ku-she'-nii-ka, very good, very true, 
 village, mi'-ti. 
 
 mi-ti'-o-tosh, with the camp or village. 
 
 W. 
 
 walk, nln'-dush, to walk, 
 war-club, mili'-a-ske. 
 warrior, ka-ha'-re-kosh, a brave or warrior, 
 water, mun'-i, and men'-i. 
 
 men-i-ker'-i, all water, the sea. 
 
 men-i-wa'-rat-ker'-ish, dirty water. 
 
 men-i-ka-tu'-sosh, quick or rapid water. 
 
 men-i-i-wa'-ka-he, runners on the river shore, 
 plover. 
 
 mun-ili'-te, a lake. 
 
 mun-i-hin'-i, a spring of water. 
 
 mun-i-pu'-shu-hush, to swim. 
 
 men-i-e'-ha-ka-he, at the water's edge. 
 
 men-i-kush'-ta, through the water. 
 we, mi'-o-na. 
 weak, a-hi'-kosh. 
 weed, ma-he', 
 what, ta. 
 
 ma-tev'-i, what is it ? 
 which, ko-tev'-i, which one ? 
 white, sho'-te. 
 
 wa-sku-sho'-te, white sugar, same as salt. 
 
 wa-shi', and wa-shi'-ta, a white man. 
 
 wa-shi'-psi, a black man. 
 
 wa-shi'-ta-ko-har)'-te, the white man's corn. 
 
 wa-shi'-ta-ptln'-de, the white man's cow. 
 
 wa-shi'-ta-ma'-to, the white man's bear, or hog. 
 
 wa-shi'-tas-hte, white man's big-horn, sheep. 
 who, tev'-e. 
 wife, kons. 
 wind, she. 
 windpipe, i-ni'-he. 
 wish, i-te'-rush, to wish, 
 with, o-tosh'. 
 
 ko-ke'-ta, within, 
 kush'-ta, under, within. 
 wolf, she-he'-ke, prairie wolf. 
 woman, mi'-he-mi-he-shi'-na-shush, a handsome 
 
 woman, 
 wood, ma'-na. 
 writing, ka-pu'-se, painting or writing. 
 
 Y. 
 
 yellow, psi'-de. 
 yes, hog. 
 
 hai'-i, same as Dakota, "how?" "yes," "it is 
 
 good." 
 yesterday, lio'-da-ke. 
 
 ho-ra-ke'-ku-ser'-o, day before yesterday. 
 
 CHAPTER XXII. 
 
 XIII. OMAHAS. XIV. IOWAS, OR OTOS. 
 
 SKETCH OF THE OMAHA, AND IOWA OR OTO INDIANS. 
 
 HAVING made comparatively few observations in person in regard to the Indian tribes 
 of the Lower Missouri, I shall not at this time attempt to present a detailed history of 
 them. It is my intention at some future period to investigate with care all the languages 
 of the Indian tribes now located in the Valley of the Missouri, which have not already 
 been sufficiently studied for ethnological and philological purposes, and to work out 
 the history of their migrations from all the materials within my reach. As I remarked 
 of the tribes previously described, but little information of a reliable character can be ob- 
 
INDIAN TRIBES OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 445 
 
 tained from their own traditions farther back than one hundred years. It so happens, 
 however, that most of the Indians at the present time living on the Lower Missouri 
 migrated from the eastward, and were visited and noticed by the earliest explorers of the 
 country. The writings of the Jesuit fathers are invaluable to the student of Indian his 
 tory. I shall, therefore, content myself with making a few extracts from such of their 
 works as are within my reach, without pretending at this time to exhaust the subject. 
 
 That the lowas migrated from the Mississippi westward to their present location on the 
 Missouri, we have very reliable written evidence. According to Schoolcraft, Father Mar- 
 quette visited the lowas as far back as 1673, and records their residence near the mouth 
 of the Des Moines River. Allusion is also made to them in the narrative of the adven 
 tures of one of La Salle's party, Father Zenobius Membre, who seems to have visited the 
 different tribes located in the Mississippi Valley in 1680. He remarks that the Kicka- 
 poos and the Ainones (lowas) live on the western side (of Mississippi), and occupy two 
 villages. In Le Sueur's Voyage up the Mississippi, in 1699-1700, several references are 
 made to this tribe, called by him Ayavois. On page 101 of Mr. J. G. Shea's admira 
 ble collection of " Early Voyages up and down the Mississippi," Le Sueur says : " At this 
 spot (near Mankato or Blue Earth River, latitude 44 13' N.), he met nine Scioux, who 
 told him that this river was the country of the Scioux of the West, of the Ayavois, and 
 the Otoctatas (Otos), a little further ; that it was not their custom to hunt on the grounds 
 of others without being invited by those to whom they belonged ; that when they should 
 wish to come to the fort to get supplies, they would be exposed to be cut off by their 
 enemies coming up or going down these rivers, which are narrow, and that if he wished 
 to take pity on them, he must settle on the Mississippi, in the neighborhood of the mouth 
 of St. Peter's River, where the Ayavois, the Otoctatas, and the Scioux could come as well as 
 they." It seems also that even at that time, the lowas as well as the Otos were to some 
 extent an agricultural people. On page 104 : " On the 22d, two Canadians were sent out 
 to invite the Ayavois and the Otoctatas to come and make a village near the fort, because 
 these Indians are laborious and accustomed to cultivate the ground, and he hoped to obtain 
 provisions from them, and make them work the mines." Again, we may from Le Sueur's 
 account arrive very nearly at the time when the lowas and Otos migrated across the 
 country westward to the Missouri. On page 106 of the same work: "On the 16th (of 
 November, 1699), the Scioux returned to the village, and it was ascertained that the Aya 
 vois and Otoctatas had gone to station themselves on the side of the River Missouri, in 
 the neighborhood of the Maha, a nation dwelling in those quarters." 
 
 In Alcedo's Spanish Geography, we find the following paragraph in regard to Iowa 
 River: "Which runs southeast into the Mississippi, sixty-one miles above Iowa Rapids, 
 where, on the east side of the river, is Iowa Town, which twenty years ago could furnish 
 
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 three hundred warriors. The upper Iowa town is about fifteen miles below the mouth 
 of the river, on the east side of Mississippi, and could formerly furnish four hundred 
 warriors." 
 
 This tribe, which they call Ayauways, seems not to have attracted the special attention 
 of those remarkable travellers and explorers, Lewis and Clarke, yet from incidental allusions 
 to them, we know that they resided on the Missouri near the commencement of the pre 
 sent century. We cannot now attempt to trace out the different villages of the lowas 
 along the track of their migration, a work which has already been so well done by Mr. 
 Schoolcraft in the third part of his Report. They are at this time located on a reservation 
 on the west side of the Missouri, near latitude 40. They number about four hundred 
 and fifty persons, have progressed much in the cultivation of the soil, and many of them 
 are partially civilized. Like most of the Indians on the frontier, they seem, however, to 
 contract more readily the vices than adopt the virtues of the white race. Mission schools 
 have been established among them, at which from thirty to fifty scholars are instructed. 
 
 The grammatical structure of the Iowa language has been carefully wrought out by 
 those indefatigable missionaries, Messrs. Hamilton and Irvin, and published in several 
 small volumes at the Mission. These books having been prepared especially for the use of 
 the Mission, they have not been circulated to any extent for ethnological and philological 
 purposes. The most important publications on the Iowa language prepared by these 
 gentlemen are, 
 
 1st. An Elementary Book of the Iowa Language, with an English translation, by Wm. 
 Hamilton and S. M. Irvin, under the direction of the Board of Foreign Missions of the 
 Presbyterian Church. J. B. Ray, interpreter. Iowa and Sac Mission Press, Indian 
 Territory, 1843. Small octavo; pp. 101. 
 
 2d. An Iowa Grammar, illustrating the principles of the Language used by the Iowa, 
 Oto, and Missouri Indians. Prepared and printed by Rev. Wm. Hamilton and Rev. S. M. 
 Irvin, under the direction of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. Iowa and Sac 
 Mission Press, 1848. Small octavo; pp. 152. There is also a small volume of hymns, 
 but without an English translation. 
 
 In the preface to the Grammar, the authors make the following very interesting and 
 truthful remarks : 
 
 " The language used by the Iowa and Oto and Missouri tribes is the same ; a slight 
 difference is perceptible in their mode of speaking, and a few words are common to one 
 tribe that are not common to the others, yet the difference is not greater than is often 
 found to prevail among the inhabitants of the different States. 
 
 " There is so much similarity in the languages of many of the Indian tribes, that it 
 shows them to have had one common origin, while others, again, differ as widely as two 
 
INDIAN TRIBES OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 447 
 
 languages can differ. This dissimilarity is seen in the Iowa and Sac languages, in which 
 no two words are alike. 
 
 " If the language of the Iowa Indians be taken as the starting-point (though tradition 
 says that they, with many other tribes, were originally Winnebagoes), then those of the 
 same family would, as far as has been ascertained, stand related to it in the following 
 order : 
 
 1st. Iowa. 
 
 Oto. 
 
 Missouri. 
 2d. Winnebago. 
 3d. Kansas. 
 
 
 
 Osage. 
 Inapaw. 
 Omahaw! 
 Ponca. 
 
 " A number of words are common to all these tribes, and not a few words differ only in 
 the accent and the change of a few letters, indicating a common origin ; yet time has 
 produced such a change that in conversing together an interpreter is necessary. 
 
 " The barrenness which is supposed to belong to most Indian languages, does not result 
 from the structure or nature of the language, but from the want of ideas in those who use 
 it. So far as they have ideas, they do not lack words to express them, though the mode 
 of expression among them is often as different from that in use among us as their language 
 is from ours." 
 
 A few vocabularies of the Iowa language were obtained by early explorers, but they 
 are all superseded by the more complete and accurate works of Messrs. Hamilton and 
 Irvin. 
 
 The history of the Otos and Missouris does not differ materially from that of the lowas 
 just given. By reference to the map it will be seen that they occupy at the present time 
 a reservation on the parallel of 40, on the Big Blue River, near the head waters of -the 
 Big Nemaha River, a portion of their land being included within the boundary of Ne 
 braska and a part in Kansas. They formerly ranged over an extensive area south of the 
 Platte River. They number -about six hundred persons of both sexes. 
 
 The Omahas formerly ranged over a large area extending from the mouth of the Platte 
 to the Niobrara, on the south side of the Missouri. They are now located on a reservation 
 north of parallel 42, and bordering upon the river, as indicated on the map accompanying 
 this memoir. A mission school has long been established among them, and their attempts 
 
 VOL. xri. 57 
 
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 to cultivate the soil have been attended with great success. They number about eight 
 hundred souls. 
 
 The Ponkas speak the same language, though forming a distinct tribe, and have their 
 reservation on Ponka Kiver, south of the Niobrara. They make some feeble attempts to 
 cultivate the soil, and obtain thereby a partial support, but they are, for the most part, in 
 their original wild condition, and owing to the almost entire absence of game from their 
 borders, are most of the time in a state bordering on starvation. 
 
 A number of vocabularies of the Omaha and Ponka language have been published by 
 various writers, as Long, Prince Neuwied, Gallatin, &c., but no attempt has ever been 
 made to work out its grammatical structure. A small pamphlet of perhaps sixteen pages 
 was prepared some years ago by a gentleman connected with the Mission, containing a few 
 words, phrases, and hymns, in the language, but inasmuch as the English equivalents are 
 not given, it is of no use to the student of general philology. 
 
 VOCABULARY OF THE OMAHA LANGUAGE. 
 
 A. 
 
 above, ma'-shi-a-ta 
 alive, nit'-a. 
 all, warj-gi'-re. 
 ankle, si-taJ'i'-e. 
 arm, a. 
 arrow, ma. 
 autumn, ta, 
 
 tali, 
 axe, man'-the-pe. 
 
 ,,-.-,, 
 dead, it is dead. 
 
 B. 
 
 back, nang'-ka. 
 bad, pi'-a-zi. 
 bean, ham'-bre-en-ge. 
 bear, man'-6u, grizzly bear. 
 wa-tha'-be, black bear. 
 beard, i'-hi. 
 beaver, za'-be. 
 bird, wa-zing'-a. 
 bison, te. 
 bitter, toh'-a, 
 black, tha'-be. 
 bladder, neh'-e, and nali'-e. 
 blood, wa'-mi. 
 
 blue, to. 
 boat, man'-de. 
 
 ta-de'-i-ga-da, ship drawn by the wind. 
 body, zu'-ga. 
 bog, nish-tash'-ta. 
 bone, wa-hi'. 
 bow, nan'-de. 
 boy, nu-shing'-e. 
 bread, wa-muth'-ke. 
 breast, mang'-e. 
 brother, wi-shen'-se, my elder brother. 
 
 wi-thang'-e, my younger brother, 
 burns, a'-ne, he burns, 
 by, ka'-ha. 
 
 mng'-ka-ha, by the shore. 
 
 ath-ka'-de, by and by. 
 
 C. 
 
 call, ba, he calls, 
 cattle, te-tha'-be,' black cattle, 
 chief, ni'-ka-ka-hi', and nu'-da-ha-ga'. 
 claw, sha'-ge, hoof, claw, 
 cloth, ze-a-di-gra', breechcloth. 
 coat, wo-na'-zi, thin coat. 
 corn, wa-ta'-the. 
 
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 wa'-ri-to'-be, corn-meal, 
 cold, thni. 
 crow, ka'-he. 
 cry, ha'-ge. 
 
 ha-ga'-i, crying. 
 
 D. 
 
 dance, nan'-te, he dances, 
 darkness, o-kali'-na-pa'-zi. 
 
 daughter, wi-shang'-e, > 
 
 [ my dauglitcr. 
 ni-nis'-i, J 
 
 day, am'-ba. 
 deer, tali'-ti. 
 
 door, ti'-ze-be'-o-gra, house entrance, 
 drink, rat'-i, he drinks, 
 rat'-a, drinking, 
 duck, nili'-a-shing'-a. 
 
 E. 
 
 ear, ni'-ta. 
 
 earth, tan'-de. 
 
 eat, wa'-ra-te, he eats. 
 
 wa'-ra-ti, he is eating. 
 
 wa'-ra-te, ) 
 
 S eating, 
 wa -ra-ta, J 
 
 egg, wet-a'. 
 
 elk, am'-pa. 
 
 embark, man-de'-o-kre, he embarks. 
 
 enemy, o-ke'-te. 
 
 evening, pa'-ze. 
 
 exist, an-go', we are, exist. 
 
 thi-ali', you are. 
 
 e'-ga, he is. 
 
 F. 
 
 face, en'-de. 
 
 far, wi-a-hi'-de, far, far off. 
 fat, we-hre'. 
 
 father, en-da'-de, my father, 
 fin, we-u-thu'-ka-he. 
 
 ringer, nam-be'-we-pa'-zu, the forefinger, to point with. 
 fire, pe'-te. 
 fish, hu'-hu. 
 
 hu'-hu-shing-a, small fish. 
 
 we'-to-kre, roe of a fish, 
 flash, m. 
 flint, ma'-hi-si. 
 flower, za-hra'. 
 fly, hau'-te-ga. 
 foot, thi, and si. 
 forest, hra'-be. 
 fox, te. 
 friend, ka'-ge. 
 
 G. 
 
 ghost, o'-wi-ya'-wa, angel. 
 
 girl, mi'-shing-e, a young girl. . 
 
 go, the, he goes. 
 
 good, o'-da, and u'-da. 
 
 goose, mih'-e. 
 
 mih-a-hi', goose-hair, feathers, 
 great, ali'-te. 
 gun, wa-hut'-a. 
 
 H. 
 
 hail, ma'-se. 
 hair, na-zi'-ha. 
 hand, nam'-be. 
 handsome, o-ro-kam'-be. 
 he, e, he or she. 
 head, pa. 
 
 wash'-ki, top of the head. 
 
 wa-ra'-ge, head-dress. 
 hear, wa-na'-e, he hears, 
 heart, nan' -de. 
 heel, thi'-re-de. 
 hill, pa-he', 
 horse, shun'-ga. 
 hot, nah'-a-de. 
 husband, wi-e-krang'-ke, my husband. 
 
 I. 
 
 I, wi. 
 
 ice, nuli'-e. 
 in, man'-te. 
 
 ti-man'-te, in the house. 
 
 ma'-ha-tc, in the sky. 
 infant, shing'-e-shing'-e. 
 
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 worm or insect. 
 
 insect, wa-kre', i 
 wa-gri', ) 
 za-gri'-ska, wood insect, flea, 
 iron, man'-the. 
 
 man-theth'-ka, white iron, silver, 
 man-theth'-ka-thi, gold, yellow iron. 
 
 man-the'-shi-de, } 
 
 J- copper, red iron, 
 man-the -shu-de, > 
 
 man-the'-ma, lead. 
 island, ni-ran'-da. 
 
 kettle, ner'-he, | . 
 
 ther'-he, j 
 kill, wa-te'-re, 
 
 wa-na'-a-he'-re, 
 knee, shi-nan'-de. 
 knife, ma'-hi. 
 
 K. 
 
 iron kettle. 
 
 he kills. 
 
 L. 
 
 lake, ne-o-ri r -sha. 
 
 late, kan'-te-da. 
 
 laugh, ili'-a. 
 
 leg, ze'-ga, and zi'-be. 
 
 leggin, o-tali'. 
 
 life, ta'-fi. 
 
 light, o-kam'-ba. 
 
 lightning, thi-am'-ba, and thi-gre'-the. 
 
 limb, ia'-ka-ha. 
 
 liver, te-ra'-he. 
 
 lodge, ti, house or lodge. 
 
 log, za, and za. 
 
 love, nit'-a. 
 
 M. 
 
 man, no, and nn. 
 
 ni-a-she'-ge-o-ke'-ni, red man, Indian, 
 meat, ta. 
 
 wash-e', fat meat, 
 melon, tha'-ka-ra'-te. 
 midday, mi-ro-mash'-zT. 
 midnight, ha-uth-kath'-ka. 
 mink, to-shing'-e. 
 moccasin, hiui'-be. 
 
 wa-him'-be, shoe, wooden moccasins. 
 mole, ma-ni'-gra. 
 moon, mi-am'-be. 
 morning, ha'-hi-kat-e. 
 mother, e-na'-ha, my mother, 
 mountain, pa-he-mali'-shi. 
 mouth, i. 
 
 N. 
 
 nail, sha'-ge. 
 navel, re'-ta. 
 near, ash'-ka. 
 neck, pa'-hi. 
 never, sha'-sha. 
 new, te'-ka. 
 night, ha. 
 no, ang'-ka-zi. 
 nose, pa. 
 nothing, e-da-das'-the-zi. 
 
 0. 
 
 oats, shang'-e-wa-rat'-e, horse-feed. 
 old, i-sha'-ke. 
 on, a-gra'. 
 
 hra'-be-a-ga'-ha, on the tree. 
 otter, nu'-zhra. 
 
 P. 
 
 paddle, man'-de-o-ro'-ka-hi, oar. 
 
 part, do'-pa. 
 
 partridge, u-shi-wa'-re. 
 
 pepper, we-u-ki'-hi. 
 
 pipe, ni'-ni-bali . 
 
 plain, tan'-de, prairie. 
 
 polecat, man'-ga. 
 
 potato, nu, and nu'-tan-ge. 
 
 ill, ma'-sha. 
 
 Q- 
 
 R. 
 
 ram, na-ze . 
 
 red, ze'-de. 
 
 river, ni. 
 
 run, taij'-re, he runs. 
 
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 n'-se. ) 
 
 [ younger sister, 
 g-e, ) 
 
 s. 
 
 sail, wah-eh'-a, muslin, cloth, 
 sash, i-pi'-ra-ge', belt, 
 scale, shi-she'. 
 scalp, ni-ka'-na-2i-ha. 
 seat, nin'-de, rump, 
 see, tam'-be, he sees, 
 shirt, wo-na'-zi-bre'-ka. 
 'shot-pouch, ma-u'-za. 
 shoulder, eng-ke'-de. 
 sinew, ta-ka'. 
 sing, wa-a', he sings, 
 sister, wi-shan'-se, 
 
 wi-tang'- 
 skin, nah. 
 sky, mali'-e, clouds, 
 smooth, shi'-ah-di. 
 snake, wes'-a, and weth'-a. 
 snow, mas'-he. 
 something, e-da'-das-the. 
 son, wi-shing'-e, my son. 
 soon, oh-re', early, 
 sour, tha'-re. 
 speak, i'-e, he speaks, 
 spear, man'-de-hi. 
 spirit, wa-kan'-da, Great Spirit. 
 
 wa-na-he'-pi-a'-ze, evil spirit, 
 spring, ni-hang'-a, of water, 
 me, 
 
 mme 
 
 a season. 
 
 squash, wa'-ta-mo'-he. 
 squirrel, thin'-ga. 
 star, mi-ka'-e. 
 steamboat, pe'-te-man'-de. 
 stomach, nili'-a. 
 stone, i'-e. 
 
 i-e-tan'-ga, big stone, rock. 
 stream, wa-te'-ska. 
 strike, o-ti', he strikes. 
 strong, a'-wa-zi. 
 summer, nu'-ge. 
 sun, mi. 
 sweet, thi'-re. 
 
 T. 
 
 
 
 that, she. 
 
 she'-ta, that man. 
 
 she'-ra, that thing, 
 thigh, ze'-shu. 
 think, e-re'-ga, he thinks, 
 this, the. .. 
 thou, thi. 
 
 throat, we-nam'-bre. 
 through, a-ku-than'-de. 
 
 ni'-a-ku-than'-de, through the water, 
 thunder, ing-re'-ho-ta. 
 tie, han'-ta, he ties. 
 toad, i-harj'-gi-ta. 
 tobacco, ni'-ni. 
 to-day, am'-ba-de. 
 toe, si'-pa. 
 
 to-morrow, kath'-a-ni. 
 tongue, re'-ze, and re'-se. 
 tooth, hi. 
 tree, hra'-be. 
 turnip, nu'-kre. 
 turtle, ke. 
 
 ugly, u-kash'-ni-da. 
 under, ki'-ke. 
 
 U. 
 
 V. 
 
 valley, woh-mis'-ka. 
 
 vein, kali. 
 
 village, ta'-we, town. 
 
 wa-kan'-da-ta'-we, heaven, God's village. 
 
 W. 
 
 walk, na-ni', he walks. 
 wampum, wa-nam'-pi. 
 war-club, wah-pe'. 
 warrior, wa-na'-she. 
 water, ni. 
 
 ni-tan'-ga, great water, 
 we, au'-go. 
 weak, wa-he'-hi. 
 
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 weed, raa'-hi. 
 
 what ? e-da'-da, what is it ? 
 
 wi'-a-wa'-tha, what thing ? 
 wheat, wa-muth'-ka. 
 white, thka. 
 who, e'-be. 
 
 wife, wi-ha'-he-na, my wife, 
 wind, te'-de. 
 wing, a'-hi. 
 winter, mar'-e. 
 wish, eth'-ka, he wishes. 
 within, man'-te. 
 
 without, a'-shi. 
 
 wolf, shun-tan'-ga. 
 
 woman, mi-zing'-e, and gath-za'-se. 
 
 she'-mi-shing'-c, an uinuarried woman. 
 wood, za. 
 
 Y. 
 
 year, o-ma'-re-ka. 
 yellow, thi. 
 yes, a-ha'. 
 
 yesterday, thi-da'-di. 
 young, shin'-ga, little. 
 
 VOCABULARY OF THE IOWA, OR OTO LANGUAGE. 
 
 A. 
 
 above, mang'-kri. 
 
 i-ro'-ina-ha, above, on a stream. 
 alive, ili'-a. 
 all, pro-ke'. 
 ankle, thi'-ka. 
 another, o-ki-ce'. 
 ant, na-kan'-yi-ske. 
 arm, a-kra'-6e. 
 arrow, ma. 
 ash, ko-hun'-ye. 
 autumn, wa-ha'-he, full harvest. 
 
 tan'-yen-ta, falling of leaves, dead leaves. 
 axe, en'-thwe. 
 
 B. 
 
 back, nang'-ke. 
 bad, pish'-kun-yi, not good. 
 bark, na'-ha. 
 beak, pa-thuli'. 
 bean, on'-ye. 
 
 bear, man-to', grizzly bear. 
 mun-6e', black bear. 
 beard, i'-hi, hair of the mouth, 
 beaver, ra-we'. 
 bird, wa-yeng'-e. 
 bitter, pa. 
 black, the'-we, and she'-we. 
 
 bladder, cV-ye-he, and wa-ce'-ye. 
 blood, wa-pa'-ke. 
 blue, to'-ho-de. 
 boat, pa-6e'. 
 
 pa-6e'-han-ye, ship, large boat. 
 
 ta-de'-re-ta-u'-kra, mast, support for the sail. 
 body, i'-ro. 
 bone, wa-hu'. 
 bow, mali'-tu. 
 boy, i'-6in'-to-ing-e. 
 breast, man'-ge. 
 breechcloth, de'-ro-ken'-ye. 
 brother, hi-yi'-na, my elder brother. 
 
 burn, ta-ho'-ke, ) . 
 
 y he burns, 
 ta-ho -hi-ka, j 
 
 by, i-ta'-na. 
 
 to'-ri-ke-ing'-e, ) 
 
 [ by and by. 
 . to -ri-ke, ) 
 
 G. 
 call, wang'-ke, he calls. 
 
 ki-wang'-ke, he calls for. 
 cat, mung'-ka, polecat, 
 cattle, 6e, bison. 
 
 6e-the'-we, black cattle. 
 6eth'-ka, white cattle. 
 chief, wang'-e-ka-he. 
 coat, wo-na'-ye. 
 
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 453 
 
 cold, thni. 
 
 corn, wa-tu-ce'-di-to-we, cornmeal. 
 
 crow, ka'-he. 
 
 cry, ha'-ke-ke. 
 
 ha'-ki-nang-a-ke, crying. 
 
 D. 
 
 I he dances. 
 
 dance, wa-shi'-ke, 
 
 6e'-ke, 
 
 darkness, o-han'-the. 
 day, ha'-we. 
 dead, de', and ce'-ke. 
 deer, ta. 
 
 dog, shung'-ko-ken-yi. 
 drink, ra-tang'-ke, he drinks. 
 
 ra-ta'-na, 
 
 ra-ta'-nang-a-ke, 
 
 E. 
 
 eagle, bra. 
 
 ear, nan'-twa. 
 
 early, ha'-we-kri, day come. 
 
 earth, ma'-ya, ) 
 
 * > ground, 
 ma-ha, ) 
 
 eat, ru-ce'-ke, he eats, 
 ru-de'-na, 
 
 wa-ru'-6e-nang-a-ke, 
 elk, hu'-ma, and ho'-ma. 
 elm, e'-hu. 
 embark, pa-de'-o-mi-na'-re-ke, he went and sat down 
 
 in a boat to embark, 
 enemy, wo-re-kesh'-kun-ye. 
 evening, pi-hi'-re, sun declines. 
 exist, ke. 
 
 re'-ke, 
 
 ni'-ke, 
 
 a-re'-ke, 
 
 shni'-ke, you are. 
 eye, Ish'-ta. 
 
 F. 
 
 face, en'-de. 
 far, pa-6e'-ma. 
 
 ha-re'-ta, far off, at a distance. 
 
 eating. 
 
 he is. 
 
 to be, to exist. 
 
 father, heng'-ka, my father. 
 nan-6e', your father, 
 an-ce', his father, 
 feather, meli'-e, and mi-ah'-e. 
 fin, a'-we. 
 fire, pe'-6e. 
 fish,, ho. 
 
 poli'-e, catfish, 
 flesh, i'-ro. 
 flint, me'-thu. 
 
 flour, wa-puth'-ke-sho'-sho-c'e. 
 flower, o-hra'. 
 fly, pa'-pru-he. 
 foot, thi. 
 for, ha'-ri. 
 
 forever, i-ya'-mali-6i, and a-mali'-6i. 
 fox, mesh-re'-ke. 
 friend, i-ta'-ro, and wo-re-ken'-ye. 
 
 G. 
 
 girl, i-deng'-ching-e, and i-6ih'-mi-ing-e. 
 go, re'-ke, he goes. 
 good, pi. 
 
 pi'-ke, he is good. 
 goose, meh'-e. 
 
 rneh'-shing-a, little goose. 
 
 meli-ath'-ka-han'-ye, a swan, white goose. 
 grass, ha'-me, and ha'-6e. 
 
 ha'-6e-pi-the, dry grass. 
 great, tan'-ra. 
 green, to. 
 gun, i-yo-6e'. 
 
 H. 
 
 hail, pa-thu'. 
 hair, nan'-tu. 
 hand, na'-we. 
 
 na-we'-pa, finger, nose of the hand, 
 handsome, i-ro'-kam-pi. 
 hawk, hre'-ta. 
 head, nan'-thu. 
 head-dress, wo'-krang-e. 
 heart, na-ce'. 
 heaven, nang'-kri-nan-ga, above. 
 
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 heel, tni'-re-de. 
 hill, a-he'. 
 
 a-he'-mak-shi, high hill,, mountain. 
 hog, ko-ko'-tha. 
 hot, tah'-na, and tali'-a-na. 
 house, ci-ro'-ta-ta, in the house, 
 husband, heng'-kra. 
 
 I, men'-re, and nii'-e. 
 ice, noli'-e. 
 iron, man'-the. 
 
 man-theth'-ka, white iron, silver. 
 island, 6e-ro-men'-6e, and i-ro-man'-de. 
 
 K. 
 
 kettle, der-he'. 
 
 man'-the-der'-he, iron kettle. 
 kill, 6e'-hi-ke, he kills, 
 knee, shas'-ke. 
 knife, ma'-hi. 
 
 ma-thang'-ke, 
 ma'-hi-han'-ye, 
 
 I big knife. 
 
 L. 
 
 lake, 6e-ki'-he, and ni-a-pa'-6e. 
 
 late, pi-a-hon'-ye-hu'-ta. 
 
 laugh, ik-sha-nang'-a-ke, laughing. 
 
 ih'-sha-nang-a-ke, he is laughing. 
 
 ih-sha'-ke, ) 
 
 i v. M f he lau S bs - 
 ik-sha-ke, ) 
 
 lead, man'-the-mi. 
 leaf, na'-we. 
 leg, hu. 
 
 hu'-ro, calf of the leg. 
 leggin, a-ku'-ta. 
 life, i'-ha, and ih'-a. 
 light, o'-ha-we. 
 lightning, ru-kri', and ru-gri'. 
 liver, pi. 
 lodge, 6i. 
 
 cl-ho-the-cV, skin tent, log house. 
 
 6i'-na, village. 
 
 ci-o'-ke, door, house entrance. 
 
 log, na'-kri-we. 
 
 love, kra'-hi-ke, he loves. 
 
 M. 
 
 male, wan'-ge. 
 man, wang'-kwa-sho-she, a brave man. 
 
 wa-sTii'-ke-shu'-ce, ) 
 
 } red man, Indian, 
 wa-shi -ke-o-ken -ye, J 
 
 meadow, wa-tush'-ra. 
 
 midday, hi-mash'-6e, warm sun. 
 
 midnight, ha-he'-o-ki-nan'-the-te. 
 
 mink, toh-shing'-e. 
 
 moccasin, a-ku'-6e. 
 
 moon, pi'-ta-we. 
 
 morning, he-ro-tali'-ci, and ta-ra-men'-ta. 
 
 mother, hi'-na, my mother. 
 
 mouth, i. 
 
 muskrat, ut-wa'-ke. 
 
 N. 
 
 nail, sha'-ke. 
 navel, de'-twa. 
 near, as'-ke, and as'-ki. 
 neck, ta'-she. 
 nettle, han'-to. 
 never, i-ya'-ha. 
 night, ha'-he. 
 no, heng'-e-ko. 
 nose, pa. 
 nothing, ta-ku'-pash-kun'-ye, and o-ken'-ye. 
 
 0. 
 
 oak, pu'-tu, and na-pu'-tu. 
 old, ya'-ke, and sha'-ke. 
 on, a-ha'-ta-ta. 
 
 na-a-hon'-ye, on the tree. 
 
 a-hon'-ye, to climb, 
 otter, tosh'-nang-e. 
 owl, mam'-po-ke. 
 
 P. 
 
 part, to'-he. 
 
 o-keth'-ra, half, 
 partridge, to'-shra-eng-a. 
 perhaps, as-ku, and a-rOli'-nas-ki. 
 
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 455 
 
 pigeon, pu-ce'-eng-e. 
 pipe, rali'-no-we. 
 plain, a-prath'-ke, prairie, 
 poor, wa-hwa'-ta. 
 .post, na-po'-hro-ke. 
 potato, to-haij'-ye. 
 pumpkin, wat-wa'-ing-e, squash, little pumpkin. 
 
 tha-ke-ra'-6e, melon, anything eaten un 
 cooked. 
 
 K. 
 
 rain, ni'-yu. 
 
 raven, ka'-he-hag'-ye. 
 
 red, shu'-ce. 
 
 river, nesh-nang'-a. 
 
 rough, ma-ha-i'-yo-yo-ke, a bog. 
 
 run, nang'-e-ke, he runs. 
 
 S. 
 
 sail, ta-ce'-re-ta. 
 salt, nith'-ku, sweet water, 
 sash, ce'-hi-i-pi-re. 
 scale, ki-shu'-we. 
 scalp, wa-nan'-thu-hu'-ha. 
 seat, shen'-<5e, rump, 
 see, a-ta'-ke, he sees. 
 she, e-e, he or she. 
 shirt, wo-na'-ye. 
 shoe, thi'-re-yo'-ke. 
 
 shore, i-ru'-shi-shi'-we-ta, by the shore, 
 shot-pouch, man'-the-tni-wo'-yu. 
 shrub, hra'-he, any low bush, 
 sing, ya-me'-ke, he sings. 
 sister, he-yu'-na, elder sister. 
 
 hen-tan'-ga, younger sister, 
 skin, ha, and i-hu'-ha. 
 sky, ke-ra'. 
 
 u-hi'-he, in the sky. 
 slender, thu-eng'-e. 
 snake, wa-ka'. 
 snipe, wi-tuh'-c. 
 snow, pa. 
 
 something, ta-ku'-ra-shu. 
 son, hi-yeng'-e, iny son. 
 
 VOL. Xli. 58 
 
 di-yeng'-e, your son. 
 
 i-yeng'-e, his son. 
 sour, nath'-ta. 
 speak, i-ce'-ke, 
 
 i-ce'-ke, ) 
 
 Y he speaks, 
 i-be'-ta-ke, j 
 
 a small stream. 
 
 he strikes. 
 
 spear, wi-yo'-kre. 
 
 spirit, wa-kau'-ta, Great Spirit. 
 
 wa-kan'-ta-plsh'-kun, evil spirit. 
 
 wa-kan'-ta-ci'-na, the Great Spirit's village, 
 
 heaven. 
 spring, pe'-ta. 
 star, pi-ka'-e. 
 steamboat, pa-6e'-ta-ko. 
 stomach, sho'-ke, and sho'-ku-hon'-ye. 
 stone, en'-ro. 
 
 en'-ro-harj'-ye, big stone, rock. 
 stream, nesh-nang'-a, "> 
 nesh-nah'-shing, j 
 strike, i-ce', 
 
 o-6i-ke, 
 
 strong, preli'-e. 
 sucker, kon'-ye. 
 summer, to'-ke-ta, wet season. 
 sun, pi. 
 sweet, thku. 
 
 T. 
 
 that, ka'-e. 
 
 thigh, re'-ke, and re'-ku-han'-ye. 
 
 think, keh'-thu-ke, 
 
 i-ru'-ka-na' 
 this, de. 
 thistle, weh'-i. 
 thou, di'-re, and di'-e. 
 through, wa-ho'-c'e. 
 thunder, ka. 
 tie, ruth-ki-ce'-ke, 
 
 i'-re-ske, 
 toad, 6e-wa'-ho. 
 tobacco, nan'-ye. 
 to-day, ha'-we-ke. 
 toe, thi'-ha. 
 to-morrow, han'-ro-ta. 
 tongue, re'-the. 
 
 ' I he thi 
 a'-ke, J 
 
 thinks. 
 
 I he ties. 
 
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 tooth, hi. 
 tortoise, ke'-ta. 
 trout, to'-thi. 
 
 U. 
 
 ugly, i-ro-kam'-pesh-kun'-ye, not handsome. 
 
 under, ku'-ha. 
 
 up, o-me'-si-ta, up the country. 
 
 V. 
 
 valley, kro'-ke, hollow, 
 vein, ka. 
 
 a'-ka, vein in the arm. 
 village, ^-i'-na-pro-ki, the whole village. 
 
 W. 
 
 walk, man'-yc-ke, he walks. 
 wampum, u-nam'-pi, beads. 
 war-club, ma'-ya-ki-ta-wi'-ro-6i. 
 water, ni. 
 
 ni-hung'-e, through the water. 
 
 6e'-ta, 
 
 ni'- 
 
 we, hi'-e. 
 weak, pren'-ra-ra. 
 weasel, hen-thh'-tha. 
 weather, mash'-ce, warm weather. 
 weed, ha'-6e, and ha'-mi. 
 what, wa-ye'-re-6e. 
 
 ta-ku'-ra, what is it? 
 wheat, wa-putli'-ka. 
 which, ta'-na-ha. 
 
 Se'-ta, -> 
 ai'-han-ye, y 
 
 great water. 
 
 white, thka. 
 
 who, wa-ge'-re. 
 
 wife, hen-ta'-mi, my wife. 
 
 wind, ta'-ce, and tak'-tha-ko. 
 
 windpipe, to'-hu-hu. 
 
 wing, a'-hu. 
 
 winter, pan-ye'-ta, when it snows. 
 
 thni'-ta, when it is cold. 
 wish, kun'-re-ke. 
 within, ro'-ta-ta. 
 without, tan'-gri-ta. 
 wolf, shun'-ta. 
 
 man-yi-ka', prairie wolf. 
 woman, i-nun'-ge, and wa-shi'-ke-mi. 
 wood, na. 
 
 na-pu'-pa-na, pine, sweet-smelling wood. 
 
 na-pa-krun'-ce, stump, wood cut off. 
 
 na-ro-tang'-kre, tree, upright wood. 
 
 na-kra'-<5e, arm of a tree, limb. 
 
 pa-6e'-hra-we, undergrowth, forest, brush, &c. 
 
 hi'-sku, bass-wood. 
 woodcock, thka'-ge. 
 woodpecker, to'-kre-kre'-the. 
 worm, rua-shi'-we. 
 
 Y. 
 
 ye, di'-re-wi. 
 year, pa'-yi. 
 yellow, thi. 
 yes, hun'-6e. 
 yesterday, ta'-nan-yi'-ta. 
 young, shing'-e-6i. 
 
INDIAN TRIBES OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 457 
 
 NOTE. 
 
 THE materials composing this memoir have been accumulated during several expeditions to the Northwest since 
 1855. A considerable portion of the information in regard to the history of the Indian tribes was obtained during 
 the years 1854 and '55, while the author was exploring the Valley of the Missouri River, under the patronage 
 and protection of the American Fur Company. The greater part, however, was secured in 1856 and '57, while 
 under the command of Lieut. G. K. Warren, T\ E. U. S. A., and in the years 1859 and '60, while attached to 
 the Exploring Expedition to the head waters of the Missouri and Yellowstone, under the command of Capt. 
 William F. Raynolds, T. E. U. S. A. From both Lieut. Warren and Capt. Raynolds, the author cheerfully 
 acknowledges great aid and encouragement in his researches. The results have been prepared and published in 
 their present form by permission of the War Department. 
 
 The proof-sheets have been read with great care by a very critical philologist, Mr. Pliny E. Chase, of Philadel 
 phia, and for his kindness and courtesy in this matter, the author gladly acknowledges his indebtedness. 
 
 EXPLANATION OF PLATES AND MAP. 
 
 The plates of Indian portraits were added to the memoir at the suggestion of an eminent ethnologist after the 
 paper was completed, and this will account for the absence of any allusion to them in the text. It was a favorite 
 design of the late lamented Prof. W. W. Turner, to prepare a work on the Indian languages of America, accompa 
 nied with portraits, so far as they could be secured, of the Indians from whom the vocabularies were obtained, 
 showing the mental status of the man, as the representative of his tribe or language. So far as possible I have 
 adopted this plan in the present memoir. The figures on the plates accompanying this work are copied from photo 
 graphs taken in the Indian country, under the direction of Mr. J. D. Hutton, Topographical Assistant to Capt. 
 William F. llaynolds, T. E., and published by permission of the latter. They are quite characteristic of the 
 tribes they represent. 
 
 FIG. 1, Plate I, represents one of the most noted Crow chiefs, who wields great influence in his tribe, is a fine 
 orator, and possessed of strong native talents. From him I obtained much reliable information in regard to the 
 history and the language of the Crow tribe. FIG. 2 is a Shyenne brave, an excellent hunter, with fine natural 
 powers, quick perceptions and intelligence, increased by long association with the whites. He formed the medium 
 through which I obtained all the materials in regard to the Shyennes and their language. He is alluded to in the 
 text under the name of " Rib," on page 276. FIG. 3 is the portrait of " Iron Horn," one of the most noted 
 medicine-men in the Dakota nation. He possesses great influence in his tribe, is a warm friend of the whites, 
 and has done much to harmonize difficulties among his people. He has often acted as guide and hunter to United 
 States Exploring parties in the Dakota country. FIG. 4 represents the daughter of a late chief of one of the 
 principal bands of the Dakota nation, and is now the wife of Mr. Charles E. Galpin, one of the chief partners in the 
 American Fur Company. She is a woman of much intelligence and fine natural capacities, and may be regarded 
 as the highest type of her sex among the Indian tribes of the Northwest. 
 
 FIG. 5, Plate II, is a Crow Indian of the more common sort, somewhat below the average grade. FIG. 6 
 represents one of the most influential chiefs of the Yancton band of the Dakotas, " Smutty Bear," as his Indian 
 
458 ON THE ETHNOGRAPHY AND PHILOLOGY OF THE 
 
 name has been interpreted by the traders. He is a fine orator, and manages the affairs of his people with ability 
 and prudence. FIG. 7, a, b, c, -are Arapoho chiefs. FIG. 1, d, is a tolerably good likeness of "Friday," whose 
 history is given briefly on page 322 of this memoir. 
 
 The MAP accompanying this memoir will serve to illustrate the present geographical position of the different 
 Indian tribes inhabiting the Missouri Valley. The discrepancies in the spelling of proper names, which has 
 become so complicated at this time, could not be remedied in the present paper. The names of tribes in large 
 letters indicate their range prior to treaties with the United States. The Reserves on the Lower Missouri are 
 shown by dotted lines. 
 
INDIAN TRIBES OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 
 
 459 
 
 INDEX/ 
 
 GEOGRAPHY. 
 
 Blackfoot country, "Bad Lands" 
 
 of, 250, 251. 
 Bridger's Pass, 322. 
 California, 373. 
 
 Chagouadmigong Mission, 380. 
 Coteau de Prairie, 249. 
 Dakota, Territory of, 364. 
 English possessions, 240. 
 Great Bend, 276, 388. 
 Indian Agency, 322. 
 Iowa Town, 445. 
 Mauvaises Terres, or " Bad Lands," 
 
 notice of, 365, 366. 
 Minnesota, Territory of, 364. 
 Miocene Tertiary Period, 367. 
 Mississippi Valley, 346. 
 Nebraska, 364. 
 Northwest Territory, 364. 
 North Park, 322. 
 Oregon, 373. 
 
 Red Pipestone Quarry, 365. 
 St. Mary's Valley, 249. 
 Upper Missouri, 340, 351, 355, 
 
 379. 
 
 MOUNTAINS. 
 
 Alps, 395. 
 Big-horn, 231. 
 Black Hills, 274. 
 Cypress, 237, 346. 
 Hill of Thunder, 365. 
 Montagues des Bois, 237. 
 Pike's Peak, 321. 
 Prickly Pear, 236. 
 Red Buttes, 321. 
 Rocky, 249, 340, 392. 
 Slender Butte, 374. 
 Three Tetons, 322. 
 Tinder, 237. 
 Turtle, 239. 
 
 Wind River Mountains, 394. 
 Woody, 236. 
 
 RIVERS. 
 
 Apple, 364, 365, 375. 
 Arkansas, 321. 
 Assiniboin, source of, 239. 
 Belly, 249. 
 Big Muddy, 387. 
 Big Nemaha, 447. 
 Big Sioux, 364. 
 Big Snake, 341. 
 Cannon-ball, 365. 
 Cimarron, 322. 
 Columbia, 249. 
 Deer Creek, 322. 
 Des Moines, 370. 
 Grand, 352. 
 
 Grand Coulee, 382, 387. 
 Great Shyenne, North and South 
 
 Forks, description of, 274. 
 Green, 276. 
 Heart, 365. 
 Illinois, 346. 
 Iowa, 445. 
 Iowa Rapids, 445. 
 James, 364. 
 
 Judith, character of, 250. 
 Knife, 382. 
 
 La Riviere aux Souris, 240, 387. 
 Little Muddy, 382. 
 Little Shyenne, 275. 
 Maria, 249. 
 
 Mankato, or Blue Earth, 445. 
 Medicine, 365. 
 Milk, 251. 
 Moreau, 365. 
 
 Mussel-shell, character of, 250. 
 Niobrara, 369. 
 North Platte, 276. 
 Pembina, source of, 239. 
 Ponkas, 448. 
 Porcupine, 382. 
 Powder, 321. 
 Quaking Asp, 382. 
 Red, 239. 
 
 Rio del Norte, 321. 
 
 Riviere du Pare, 239. 
 
 Riviere aux Tremble, or Quaking 
 
 Asp, 382. 
 
 Saskatchewan, 249. 
 South Platte, 276. 
 St. Peter's, 379. 
 Sweet Water, 276. 
 Teton, 365. 
 Vermilion, 364. 
 Wabash, 346. 
 Washita, 347. 
 
 Wash-te'-wak-pa or Good River, 274 . 
 White, 365, 373. 
 Wolf, or Loup Fork, 346. 
 
 LAKES. 
 
 Athabasca, 235. 
 
 Fresh-water lakes, notice of, 367. 
 Huron, 236. 
 Lac du Diable, 375. 
 Lac de L'Isle Croix, 238. 
 Lac Qu'appelle, 237. 
 Lac qui Parle, 364. 
 Lake of the Woods, 236. 
 Michigan, 236. 
 Red Lake, 239. . 
 Slave Lake, 235. 
 Superior, 236. 
 Traverse, 239. 
 Winnipeg and Northern Lakes, 236. 
 
 Foaxs. 
 
 Cassepierre, 239. 
 Clarke, 352, 356, 423. 
 Fort de Prairie, 237. 
 Laramie, on the North Platte, 276, 
 
 373. 
 
 Pierre, 366, 375. 
 Union, climate of, 251, 381, 387, 
 
 394. 
 
 BOTANY. 
 Amelanchier Canadcnsis, 370. 
 
 * This Index is not intended to be a complete one, but to include only the principal proper names employed in the text. 
 
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 Apios tuberosa, 3G9. 
 
 Artemisia trifida, 202. 
 
 Cornus, osier, 251. 
 
 Crategus coccineus, 293. 
 
 Grain de bceuf, 370. 
 
 Helianthus tuberosus, 369. 
 
 Huinulus lupulus, var. Americanus, 
 
 386. 
 
 Indian corn, 353. 
 Lobelia inflata, Indian tobacco, 273. 
 Mentha Canadensis, 319. 
 Opuntia Missouriensis, 0. fragilis, 
 
 884. 
 Pomme blanche, or prairie turnip, 
 
 280. 
 
 Prunus Americana, 370. 
 Prunus Virginiana, 370. 
 Prunus pumila, 367. 
 Psoralea esculenta, " Pomme 
 
 blanche," 369. 
 Pumpkins, 353. 
 "Rose-buds," 370. 
 Sarcobatus yermicularis, 292. 
 Squashes, 353. 
 Yucca angustifolia, 367. 
 
 ZOOLOGY. 
 
 Arctomys ludovicianus, prairie dog, 
 
 368. 
 
 Cervus leucurus, 392. 
 Cervus macrotis, 392. 
 Dentalium, used as ornaments, 269, 
 
 314. 
 Ovis montana, 366, 392. 
 
 ETHNOLOGY; 
 
 Ahnahaways, 421. 
 
 Arapohos, 232, 231. 
 
 Arikaras, 232, 351. 
 
 Assinnee-Poetuc, 380. 
 
 Assiniboins, 232, 379. 
 
 Assinepoils, 380. 
 
 Atsinas, 232, 310. 
 
 Ayavois, 445. 
 
 Big Robber, Crow Chief, 394. 
 
 Blackfeet, 232, 248. 
 
 Brulees, or Burnt Thighs, 371, 372. 
 
 373. 
 
 Chippewas, 235, 379. 
 Clear Blue Earth, 372. 
 Crows, 232, 391. 
 Cut-heads, 374. 
 
 Dakotas, 352, 364, 379. 
 
 Fall, or Big-bellied Indians, Gros 
 
 Ventres de Prairie, 253. 
 Flat-heads of St. Mary's Valley, 
 
 394. 
 Foolish People, Arapoho Band, 
 
 326. 
 
 Friday, Arapoho Interpreter, 322. 
 Gens des Canots, 387. 
 Gens du Gauche, 387. 
 Gens du Nord, 388. 
 Grand Pawnees, 347. 
 Ho-ha, or Rebels, 380. 
 Ho'-he, or Fish-eaters, 381. 
 Huecos, 347. 
 Hunk'-pa-pas, 374. 
 Iroquois, 346. 
 Issati, 380. 
 I-ta'-zip-cos, 374. 
 Kai'-e-na, 256. 
 Kansas, 232. 
 Kaskaias, 321. 
 Killistinoes, 380. 
 Knisteneaux, or Crees, 232, 239. 
 Kutonas, 256. 
 
 Le Chef du Tonnerre, Cree, 247. 
 Le Gros Francais, 379. 
 Les Gens des Ruches, 379. 
 La Lance, 237. 
 " Le Sonnant," 237. 
 Mahaha, 421. 
 Mandans, 232, 426. 
 Matotantes, 346. 
 Ma-to'-to-pa, or Four Bears, 374. 
 Metaharta, 422. 
 Mexicans, 322. 
 
 Mi-ali'-ta-nes, or Mandans, 426. 
 Mi-ne-kan-zus, 374. 
 Minnitarees of the Missouri, 344. 
 Minnitarees of the Prairie, 344. 
 Missouri Dakotas, 371. 
 Nadowasis, 380. 
 Nadouessis, or Scioux, 380. 
 Nandowessie Nation, 380. 
 Ne'-a-ya-6g, meaning of, 235. 
 Nehethewas, or Crees, 343. 
 Ogaliilas, 373. 
 Omahas, 232, 444. 
 Osages, 232, 346. 
 Osinipoilles, 380. 
 Otos, 232, 444. 
 Pana, 346. 
 
 Paneassa, 346. 
 
 Panelogo, 346. 
 
 Panismahans, 346. 
 
 Paunch, Fall, or Rapid Indians, 
 
 343, 422. 
 
 Pawnees, 345, 351. 
 Pawnee Loups, 346. 
 Pawnee Picts, 3 17. 
 Pawnee Republics, 347. 
 People of the Sage, 321. 
 Pieaneux, 253. 
 Piegan, 253. 
 Piekanus, 256. 
 Plusieurs des Aigles, 237. 
 Ponkas, 232. 
 Pine Indians, 374. 
 Rapid Indians, 254. 
 Rees, 356. 
 Rib, Shyenne hunter, 276, 277, 
 
 278. 
 
 Ricaras, 421. 
 Sarcees, 256. 
 
 Shai-e'la, or Shai-en'-a, 274. 
 Si'-ha-sa'-pas, 374. 
 Siksikai, 256. 
 Sioux, 254. 
 Small Gulls, 237. 
 Snake and Nez-Perce Indians, 
 
 394. 
 
 Soulier Noirs, or Shoe Indians, 422. 
 Ta-nish' or Sa-nish', " The People," 
 
 356. 
 
 The Little Eagle, 237. 
 The Painted Lodge, 237. 
 Two-Kettle Band, 374. 
 Wa'-na-ta, 375. 
 Wattasoons, 422. 
 Weepers, 380. 
 Wichitas, 347. 
 AVo-he-nom'-pa, 374. 
 Wolf Pawnees, 346. 
 Yanctonais, 374. 
 
 MYTHOLOGY, CUSTOMS. 
 
 Astronomical knowledge of the 
 
 Crees, 245. 
 Aurora Borealis, 245. 
 " Buffalo chips," 388. 
 Caches, how used, 353. 
 Chief's Road, 245. 
 Great Spirit, 278, 323, 431. 
 Great Spirit Chief, 245. 
 
INDIAN TRIBES OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 
 
 461 
 
 Indian paradise, location of, 245. 
 
 Milky Way, 245. 
 
 Flue, value of, 247. 
 
 Polar Star, 245. 
 
 Pouderie defined, 360. 
 
 Snake Moon, 349. 
 
 Sunday, 317. 
 
 Ursa Major, 245. 
 
 Big Owl Dance, 281. 
 
 Buffalo-woman Dance, Arapoho, 
 
 326. 
 
 Bull-Head Dance, 281. 
 Dog Dance, 281. 
 Dog Dance, Arapoho, 325. 
 Elk Dance, 281. 
 
 Foolish Dog's Dance, Arapoho, 326. 
 Fox Dance, 281. 
 
 Little Dog's Dance, Arapoho, 326. 
 Medicine Dance, 281. 
 Olympic amusements, 430. 
 Scalp Dance, 281. 
 Soldier Dance, 281. 
 Strong-Heart Dance, 281. 
 Sun Dance, 280. 
 War Dance, Arapoho, 325. 
 White Belt Dance, 281. 
 
 AUTHORITIES. 
 
 Abort, Lieut., U. S. A., vocabulary 
 
 taken by, 282. 
 
 Alcedo's Spanish Geography, 445. 
 American Fur Company, 234, 237, 
 
 353. 
 
 Archscologia Americana, 282, 347. 
 Bourgmont, visit to Pawnees, 346. 
 Braokeoridge, H. M., Voyage up 
 
 the Missouri lliver, in 1811, 
 
 254, 343. 
 
 Brauninger, Rev. Mr., 231, 395. 
 
 Carver, 380. 
 
 Catlin, George, " North American 
 
 Indians," notes on, 254, 356. 
 Culbertson, Mr. Alexander, 234. 
 Dakota Grammar, 231, 282. 
 Dawson, Mr. Andrew, 234, 356. 
 Denig, Mr. E. T., 234, 381. 
 De Smet, Father, Travels of, 255. 
 Dole, Hon. Wm. P., 234. 
 Doty, Mr. James, 250. 
 Doway, Father, narrative of, 346. 
 Dunbar, Rev. Mr., 347. 
 Emory, Notes, &c., 282. 
 Ethnological Society, Transactions 
 
 of, 253, 282. 
 Fitzpatrick, Mr., 322. 
 Force, Col. Peter, 234. 
 Galpin, Mr. C. E., 234, 457. 
 Gallatin, Hon. Albert, 253, 282, 
 
 321, 343, 347, 423, 428. 
 Hale, Horatio, 254. 
 Hamilton, Rev. Wm., 347, 447. 
 Howse, Mr. Joseph, Cree Grammar, 
 
 235. 
 
 Henry, Prof., 234. 
 Hudson's Bay Company, 239, 240, 
 
 247, 249, 255, 340, 343. 
 Indian Bureau, United States, 276. 
 Indian Tribes of the United States, 
 
 255. 
 
 Kipp, Mr. James, 435. 
 La Hontan, 380. 
 La Salle, Voyage, &c., 346. 
 Le Sueur's Voyage, 235, 445. 
 Leidy, Prof. Joseph, 367. 
 Lewis and Clarke's Journal, 253, 
 
 346, 379, 421, 446. 
 
 Long, Major S. H., 275, 321, 423. 
 
 Ludwig, Literature of American 
 Aboriginal Languages, 282. 
 
 Maximilian, Prince of Wied, Travels 
 of, 255, 380, 395, 435. 
 
 Mackenzie, General History of the 
 Fur Trade, 253, 380. 
 
 Meldrum, Mr. Robert, 395. 
 
 Pacific Railroad Reports, 250. 
 
 Membre', Father Zenobius, 445. 
 
 Mitchell, Col. D. D., 255, 427. 
 
 Moncrovie, J. B., vocabulary by, 
 255. 
 
 Morse, Rev. J., 254, 276, 321, 343, 
 423. 
 
 Pike, Lieut. Z., 321. 
 
 Proceedings of the Academy of 
 Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 
 367. 
 
 Raynolds, Capt. William F., 276, 
 322, 457. 
 
 Riggs, Mr. S. R., 233. 
 
 Say, Prof. T., 423. 
 
 Schoolcraft, Mr. H. R., 234. 
 
 Shea, J. G., 235, 445. 
 
 Smithsonian Institution, 231, 233, 
 282. 
 
 Stevens, Gov. I. I., 250, 344. 
 
 Sublette, Mr., 341, 342. 
 
 Transactions of the American Anti 
 quarian Society, Vol. II, 254. 
 
 Treaty with the Blackfeet in 1855, 
 252. 
 
 Turner, Prof. Wm. W., 233, 457. 
 
 Umfreville, 253, 343, 380. 
 
 United States Exploring Expedi 
 tion, Philology of, 254. 
 
 Warren, Lieut. G. K., 371, 457. 
 
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