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toiuis. The. rhytliniic unit varies somowliat iu its ropctitions, but 

 begins iinifonnly ^^•ith a 5-8 moasure. In the m<:^asure marked 3-4 

 the metric unit (/ = 192) is continued, but the rhythm is triple, 

 necessitatmg a 3-4 instead of a 6-8 time indication. The intonation 

 was good throughout the renditions. 



Otljib'we's expedition was successful. On the fourth morning the 

 party saw one Sioux and killed him. Taking his scalp, they returned 

 to the village, where a great feast and dance were held in theu* 

 honor. Otljib'we sang the song of that dance, but the record was 

 not transcribsd. The words, howaver, are of interest as showmg the 

 arrogance of the youthful warrior after liis first victory. 



nisese''sina\va' I make him bite the dust 



Wape^'tawaii (Sioux word) ' . . . the Wapeton Sioux 

 wabamiio;' when I see him 



Odjib'we stated that he did not sing his tlream song on the expedi- 

 tion which has just been described, nor until first he was frightened by 

 the Sioux, under the following circumstances : There was a Chippewa 

 camp near the site of the present town of Little Falls, ]\linnesota. 

 One day two men and then wives started from this village on a hunting 

 -expedition. While the men were away from their camp the women 

 saw two Sioux scouts, and on then' husbands' return so reported to 

 them. All started at once to return to the mam camp, arriving that 

 evening. One of the hunters told Odjib'we that the women had seen 

 the Sioux, but Odjib'we thought little about the matter, saying the 

 women wer(^ probably mistaken. As Odjib'we was eating his break- 

 fast the next morning a man said to him, "Let us go and see if there 

 are really any Sioux around." Odjib'we consented to go, but had so 

 little confidence in tlie truth of the report that ho put on his brightest 

 fuiery, making himself a shining mark. Odjib'we and his friend 

 left the village quietly and started on a run toward the place where 

 the women said they had seen the Sioux, the former carrying his gun 

 on his right arm. 



Two Sioux were on the watch, and when they saw Odjib'we and his 

 companion approaching, they hid in bushes beside the road; one car- 

 ried a spear, the other a club. Without warning they attacked the two 

 Chippewa. The main body of Sioux warriors then appeared, some 



' "The Dakota call themselves Otceti cakowi" (Oceti sakowiq), The Seven Fireplaces or Council-fires. 

 This designation refers to their original gentes, the Mdewakai'toi'va" (Mdewakaij-togwai)), Waqpekute 

 (Wahpe-kute), Waqpe-tonwa" (WaHpetorjwai)), Sisitcwa" (Sisitogwag), Ihank-tonwa" (Ihagktogwai)), 

 Ihank-to"wanna (Ihar)ktoi)war)na), and Tito"wa" (Titoijwaq). . . . The Waqpe-to^wa" or Wahpe- 

 ton [:] The name of this people signifies Village-among-the-leaves (of deciduous trees), the geus being kno\ra 

 to the whiles as Leaf \'illage or Wahpeton."— James Owen Dobsey, Siouan Sociology, in Fifteenth Ann. 

 Rep. Bur. Ainer. Ethn., pp. 215, 216. 



