2G0 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSIITUTE. [V^OL. IV. 



Confederacy is about as follows : — Bloods, 1,700 ; Piegans, 600; Sarcees, 

 300 ; and Blackfeet, 1,100. The causes of the decrease are the same as 

 are found amongst all native races, but this question will be fully 

 discussed in a subsequent paper. Each Indian is paid annually the 

 sum of five dollars for himself and the same amount for each member 

 of his family. Each minor chief receives fifteen dollars and the head 

 chief twenty-five dollars per annum, with the five dollars /^r ^rt/'zV^z for 

 their families. 



The following list of Indian names obtained by the writer at the 

 Piegan reserve will reveal the method and meaning of Indian names. 

 The names of some of the male members of the camp were Eagle Tail 

 Feathers, No Runner, Chief White Cow, Dog Child, Crow Flag, Weasel 

 Tail, Gives to the Sun, Elk Blood Head, Dog's Head, Sits in the 

 Middle, Running Eagle, Man v/ho Talks, Man who Lost his Blanket, 

 Iron Breast, Black W^easel The Spider, Big Plume, Good Killer, 

 Surrounded at Night. The names of some of the women were as 

 follows : — Small Medicine Lodge, Weasel Woman, The Woman to 

 Look at. 



Strangers were always honourably treated, the best seat beside the 

 chief being given, and the choicest pieces of the buffalo supplied. They 

 were hospitable to the stranger when in the camp, and he was under the 

 special protection of the chief After he had gone, however, he was in 

 danger at the hands of the young men, the renegades of the tribe, who 

 felt free to deprive him of his property, when once he was beyond the 

 jurisdiction of the chief. 



