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5. Maiuyaitye. Red Croiv, Mikasto, who is peace chief of the Blood 

 Indians, is chief of the crens named above. This chief is also, called 

 Onistaiakapi. The gens has two names, and the legends state that there 

 was a period when the tribe was absent hunting buffalo, and the 

 members of this gens remained at the mountains, being unable on 

 account of sickness to accompany the tribe. They had no buffalo meat, 

 and they fished in the mountain streams, catching large quantities of 

 fish, which they ate. They were therefore called Mauiyauye, the Fish 

 Eaters. 



At another period in their history the brother of Red Crow was peace 

 chief and also chief of this gens. During this time a friend gave unto 

 him a revolver with six chambers, a rare thing for an Indian to possess 

 at that time, and from this circumstance the gens was named Nadye, 

 Six Mouths, from the six chambers of the revolver. 



6. Piksistaia, the Gcose People. This is the name of the gens of which 

 Sakoistamik is the chief • 



7. Netaitskaia, the Bad People, Enemies. Two gentes bear this 

 name, one governed by Heavy Shield and the other by Eagle Rib, 

 Petoqpekis. 



8. hnuksenia, the Vexed People, from Maksemo — he is cross, vexed, 

 angry. Low Horn is the chief, and the legend says that many winters 

 ago the chief of this gens died, and the people being unable to go out 

 hunting the buffalo, because of the mourning time and there being no 

 one to lead them, they were vexed. 



9. Ipukimunoatva, the People zvith the Skinned Legs. This is the name 

 of the gens of which Manistokos, Father of Many Children, better known 

 amongst the white people as White Calf, the war chief of the Bloods, is 

 the chief Inepoia is another name for this gens. 



There are other legends connected with the gentes, but some of them 

 are vulgar in their origin. Some of them seem to partake of the nature 

 of nicknames. So far as I am able to judge, they must be accounted 

 for in the same manner as the giving of names unto individuals. Gener- 

 ally each person has two names, a good one bestowed upon him for 

 some brave action or w^orthy characteristic, and a bad one given because 

 of contempt, for having been guilty of a foul deed, or it may arise from 

 a mean disposition. Another class of names is given in a mood of play- 

 fulness to mark some humorous trait in the individual. The reason, then, 

 why the Indians will never tell their names when asked arises from the 

 fact that in pronouncing their names they are telling their characters^. 

 Modesty hinders the possessor from mentioning the honourable name and 



