Chapter III: The Sioux

Early home.--Wanderings in the Mississippi Basin.--Present
location.--Origin of name.--Meaning of word
"Dakota."--Pantomime.--Divisions of nation.--Relation of chief to
people.--Disposition of bodies of the dead.--Eagle Eye and Scarlet
Dove.--Slavery of women.--Vanity of men.--Language of the
feather.--Decoration of the person.--Plural marriage.--Story of
Anepetusa.--Belief in four souls.--A typical
prayer.--Omens.--Worship.--Animals in Dakota
theology.--O-an-tay-hee.--The
creation.--Hay-o-kah.--Taku-shkan-shkan.--Wa-keen-yan.--Unk-tay-he.
--Chah-o-ter-dah.--Whitte-kah-gah.--Wa-hun-de-dan.--Fairies.--
Giants.--Giant's party.--Feasts.--The Wa-keen.--Initiation of the
medicine men.--War parties.--War Dance.--Sun Dance.--Moral code.--
Degree of manhood.--Incidents in the Life of Ta-ton-ka-I-o-ton-ka.
--Spotted Tail and Red Cloud.--Betrothal and death of daughter of
Spotted Tail.--Water Carrier, the wife of Lone Elk.--Present
condition of the Sioux. 67

IV.

THE KAWS AND OSAGES.

Origin.--Manners and customs.--Savage proclivities.--Village of
American Chief.--Village of Fool Chief.--Removal to Council
Grove.--The Victory that made Wa-hon-ga-shee a famous Chief.--The
War Dance.--Paying off old scores.--Osages and Kaws on police
duty.--Superstitions.--Funeral ceremonies.--Creation story of the
Osages.--Territory.--Cessions.--Feasts.--Present condition. 89

V.

THE DELAWARES.

Lineage.--Language.--The term "Lenape."--Subjugation by the
Iroquois.--Peace treaty with William Penn.--Migrations.--Legends
preserved by missionaries.--The virgin who fell from
heaven.--Kikeron.--The tortoise in Algonquin pictography.--Symbol
of the earth.--The pristine age.--The earth submerged.--The
ancient turtle.--Rescue of the survivors.--Land supported by a
turtle.--First home of the Lenape.--Travels and conquests.--Land of
giants.--Fortifications of the enemy.--Mounds.--Divisions of the
nation.--Legend of the Hairless Bear.--Pictograph
system.--Rafinesque.--Walam Olum.--Wanderings of the
Delawares.--Tamenend.--The Lover's Leap.--Onoko.--Lenape in
Kansas.--The Battle of the Plains.--Removal to the Indian
Territory. 103