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Is-see'-la, the same term I use to designate a grandmother. Here the relationship 

 again is reciprocal. 



Second. My sister's son and daughter, Ego a male, are my nephew and niece, for 

 which a term in common gender, In-toonsh', is employed. With Ego a female, they 

 are my son and daughter. To the latter term, In-kach'-ha is added for some quali- 

 fying purpose. 



Third. My father's brother I call Is-se-mdlt. After the death of my own father 

 I call him my step-parent, Es-tlu-es-tin. The same is true in the Flathead, in which 

 the word is Nluestn. 



Fourth. My father's brother's son is my brother, Is-se-laclit' ; and his daughter is 

 ray sister, elder or younger. 



Fifth. My father's sister, Ego a male, I call In-lcacli' -ha, and Ego a female, 

 En-tee'-hwl. Both of these have before appeared as reciprocal terms. The first I 

 think is erroneously used. 



Sixth. My mother's brother is my uncle, Is-sa'. 



Seventh. My mother's sister I call In-kach'-ha, in Flathead Kage. After the 

 death of my own mother I call her Es-lw-es-tin, my step-parent. 



Eighth. My mother's sister's son and daughter are my brother and sister, elder 

 or younger. 



Ninth. My grandfather's brother is my grandfather. 



Tenth. The relationships of collateral descendants are not given, beyond those 

 previously named. 



The marriage relationships are in agreement with the typical form, e. </., the 

 wives of my collateral sons and of my nephews, are my daughters-in-law ; and the 

 husbands of my collateral daughters and of my wives are my sons-in-law. In like 

 manner the wives of my several collateral brothers are my sisters-in-law ; and the 

 husbands of my several collateral sisters are my brothers-in-law. There is one 

 altogether novel marriage relationship recognized in a large number of Ganowanian 

 nations, namely, between the parents of married pairs. In Yankton-Dakota the 

 fathers of a married pair call each other O-ma'-he-to, in Spokane In-teh-tum-ten, and 

 in Flathead, Segunemt. Mr. Gibbs has furnished the signification of the Spokane 

 term, " Dividers of the Plunder," *. e., the marriage presents. It is probably a 

 recent term, from the fact that it is still significant, and derisively bestowed. 



With respect to the children of a brother and sister, they are brothers and sis- 

 ters to each other. Mengarini furnishes a term for cousin in the Flathead Sakusiga, 

 which is probably the Spokane Sin-hwa-seehw, rendered " one like my brother ;" 

 but it is extremely doubtful whether the relationship of cousin has been developed 

 either in the Flathead or Spokane system. 



Notwithstanding the insufficiency of the materials to show this system com- 

 pletely, an opinion may be formed upon the question of its identity with the 

 common form. In its incomplete state, as shoAvn in the Table, it possesses the in- 

 dicative relationships, although some of them are modified and obscured by the 

 uncertainty that rests upon the modifications. It is at least supposable that the 

 doubtful terms are those used when speaking of the relationship, as before sug- 

 gested, whilst the full terms may be employed when the particular persons are 



