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Minetarees, Ioways, Osages, Ottoes, Omahas, Quappas, Konzas and 
Hidatsas. Their warlike and independent character is well known, 
especially in connection with their recent encounter with the Ameri- 
can troops and the subsequent withdrawal of some of them to 
Canadian territory. 
The Dacotah word for man, male, is wika, wicasta, and this is the 
Tchuktchi wika ; while ether terms, such as Aihna and oeeteka, relate 
to the Aino aino and the Japanese otoko. Similarly, the words for 
woman, wingy, winnokejah, wakka-angka and tawiku, represent the 
Loo Choo innago, the Tchuktchi aganak, and the Loo Choo tackki. 
The general lexical resemblances of the Dacotah and Peninsular, 
within the limits, at least, of my somewhat defective vocabularies, 
are not by any means so close as between the Choctaw and the 
Peninsular. Still, there are some striking forms. Such are the 
Dacotah echong, make, and the Loo Choo oochoong ; dowang, sing, 
and*the Loo Choo ootayoong; yazang, sick, and the Loo Choo 
yadong; cangte, heart, and the Japanese sing, &c. The Kamtchat- 
dale connects intimately with some of the Dacotah dialects, particu- 
larly with the Assineboin. The Dacotah wahcheesh, child, is the 
Kamtchatdale pahatshitsh ; matsi, knife, is wattsho; toka, sevant, is 
tshequatsh ; isto, arm, is settoo; ataki, white, is attagho, &e. The 
Tchuktchi necessarily is connected ; and we have the Dacotah eeneek, 
eejinggai, cingkst, boy, in the Tchuktchi vegnika; cang, day, is gau- 
nak ; nijihah, hair, is nujak ; nahsso, head, is naskok ; ecat, small, is 
ekitachtu ; neah, mint, water, is, nowna ; tehha, lake, is touga ; on- 
kahah, finger, is ainhanka, &c, Of the few Corean words known to 
me, several answer to the Dacotah equivalents; thus the Dacotah 
akhu/, ear, is the Corean qui ; uohta, good, is hota; paykee, hair, is 
bode ; cezi, tongue, is chay ; and pezi, grass, is phee. 
I have mentioned verbal terminations as my guides to the affilia- 
tion of the Dacotah languages. In .Dacotah a common termination 
for verbs is that variously rendered ang, ong, wng, as in yatkang, eat, 
nahong, hear, pahmung, spin, tongwang, see, echong, make, manong, 
steal. Captain Clifford, in his vocabulary of the LooChoo language 
appended to Basil Hall’s voyage, draws attention to a similar ter- 
mination of the verb. He says: “I have, throughout the vocabu- 
lary considered the termination oong to denote the infinitive and have 
translated it as such, even when the sense points to another word, 
merely to preserve consistency ; there are, however, a few excep- 
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