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THE GHOST-DANCE RELIGION 



[ETII. ANN. 14 



Tahiti ii mli ii na — I make the deep, or 

 loud, thunder as I fly about in circles 

 (habitual). Compare Ninaa'niahu'na 

 and Talniiia ihiii niiiliu mi. See Arapaho 

 song 27. 



Ta hiina iinii niahii 1 nil — I make the thun- 

 der (nr loud resounding noise) as I fly 

 about in circles (habitual). Compare 

 Xinati ninliii'iia and Tahiti niahii'na. 



Tahu'nahathihi'na — to make me see them. 

 Compare Hatina hawa'bd. 



Th na-u'qahe'na — he put me there. Nita!- 

 iiqii , I put him there (present). 



Tani'biitha — ''pierced noses." the Arap- 

 aho name for the Caddo ; tani, nose. 



Ta Ihiuhii lanii — I stood upon it (.'i. 

 The regular form for "I was standing 

 upon it" is Xiqlii safcw mi. 



Ta'-iisiln'iia or Tti'-iixrtu linn — literally 

 "strikingr," or "throwing against'' 

 something; the dice game of the women 

 of the prairie tribe's. See Arapaho song 

 04. 



Ta u-iimi — tor Ta liivnn. 



T< hr — at fust, the first time, in the be- 

 ginning. 



Ti In" Ian a' -i sit — when he first came; le'be, 

 the first time. 



Tim' l.ii hiiiiiiu — "whetstone men," or 

 "knife- whetting men," the Arapaho 

 name for the Kiowa Apache ( Na-diisha- 

 Dena >, and for all other southern Atha- 

 pascan tribes known to them, including 

 the Lipan, Mescalero. Jicarilla, and 

 Apache proper. The sign for Apache in 

 the sign language of the plains also 

 conveys the same- idea, being made by 

 briskly rubbing the left forefinger with 

 the right, as though whetting a knife. 

 Gdta'ka, the Pawnee name for the 

 Kiowa Apache, seems to have a con- 

 nection with this word. 



Thini tlii ninii — I am a. bird, from n'n In. 

 bird. 



Thiillii — they are there. 



Thi'aya — the sweat-house mound. The 

 name is also applied to a stone heap or 

 monument. See Arapaho song HI. 



Thidya'na — on the thi'aya or sweat-house 

 mound. 



Thidya m — at this thi'aya or sweat-house 

 mound. 



Thigihtdwa't — the Ghost dance, fr ilii'i, 



ghost or spirit of a dead person, and 

 Inilii l. a dance. Compare Bdta hina ni. 



Ii iticuii ii ininn — when I sympathized 

 with them, when I liked them. I sym- 

 pathize with him, tiiitvii' nana. Ti or 

 tihi in composition with verbs usually 

 conveys the idea of " when." Nehawa - 

 wunana, I have no sympathy with him. 

 Compare Until na'wu mini' na. 



Ii iiulin Ihihn — I show it to them (habit- 

 ual), or to show it to them. Xi naha - 

 thihii. I show it to him. 



n'qtUp — the common abbreviated form 



Of Tiliti qtl'lhll. q. V. 



Uhiyeyeheye! — an unmeaning exclamation 

 used in the songs. 



Utnitha'tvucha'wahanani na — w e shall 

 surely again be put (with something 

 understood i. The idea of "surely" is 

 contained in iitnrlhan) ; rlui is from 

 chai'hii, " again." 



Ha liii-hii) — a feather to wear on the 

 head. 



Ha hit na — feathers worn on the head ; 

 a feather headdress. They are usu- 

 ally painted and beaded, and sometimes 

 mounted on a small stick. A single 

 feather thus worn is called wa'kn. 



Wakinvan-oi — Thunder's Track. The 

 Sioux name of a locality in eastern 

 South Dakota. See Arapaho song 14. 



Waqui'si — Ugly Face Woman, an Arap- 

 aho man. Hi'ii, woman, is frequently 

 abbreviated to -si in composition. 



Wa ijnilhi — I'.ad faces, or Ugly faces; the 

 principal of the five bands of the south- 

 ern Arapaho. Their chief, Nawat, or 

 Left Hand, is also the principal chief 

 of the southern branch of the tribe. 



U'atiinti ni — a black mark or picture, 

 from watd'ya, black. See Arapaho 



soil", 111. 



Wa tdn-ga'a — Black Coyote, from wa'tdn, 

 black, and ga'a, coyote. A southern 

 Arapaho, captain of the Indian police, 

 and one of the principal leaders of the 

 Ghost dance among the Arapaho. 



Ha ira — now; it also gives the idea of 

 done, or completed, 



Wa wagatha'ntt — 1 have already put him 

 aside, now [ have put him aside. Wan a 



or »'«»■', "now," i lnposition. gives 



the idea of "already" or completed 

 action. 



II (i ictinatlanii did 1 am about to hum 



i. e., witli the lli'iikii tha). See Arap- 



