Moonet]" ARAPAHO GLOSSARY 1023 



\Tawdthabichd 'chininabanaguwa-u-inagatki Ya thayii'na — five places, in five places; 



— I have given you (plural) again, a from ya'ihiin, live, and yi'tna, places. 



headdress of magpie feathers; from «V- Ya'thun — five. Other numerals are: 1, 



iviilhii 'Hchiiehini /mini mil,, I have given chit saiif : 2, htiii'ni; ",, hena'si; l,yen;5, 



itbackagain; wa'-u-i, magpie; waga'thu i/a'lhii or ya'tMn; 6, ni'tataq; 7, ni'sa- 



a bird's tail feathers. In the verb the larj ; 8,nasataq; 9,thi'aiaq; 10, wetataq; 



root is from hini'na, I give it to him; 20, ni'sn ; 29, ni sa-lhi'atiiqu'n : 30, ndsa ; 



iraw' denotes completion, as "already" 40, ye'ija; 50, ya'thaiya ; 60, nitatu'sa; 



done; chii implies repetition or return 70, ni'satUsa; 80, na'aatii'sa; '.in, thi - 



of action. See Arapaho song 56. atiisa: 100, wc'tiitu'sa. 



W&nayu'uhu — for Wu'nayu'u, they are Fe'nis — the wild rose. The rosebush is 



new. W&'nayd', it is new. ye'nia ; the seed berry is ye' nun, liter- 



Ya tjaahl na — for Ya'tiagadhi'na. ally ••louse child,'' from the resem- 



Yahagaahi'na — the "coyote gun'' or blance of the seeds to nits or lice. See 



ceremonial club of the Ga'ahinc'na or Arapaho song 29. 



"Coyote men." See Arapaho song 41. Te'nisiti'na — with the wild rose; from 



Yalie eye'.' — an unmeaning exclamation ye nis, the wild rose, and ti'naq, with. 



used in the songs. Yi'ha'a'a'hi'hi' — an unmeaning word 



Yti 'im-itui ya — how bright the moonlight combination of syllables used in the 



is! Na'-u'ai'ya, the moonlight is bright. gambling songs. SeeArapaho song 69. 



THE CHEYENNE 



TRIBAL SYNONYMY 



Ila hakosin — Caddo name; "striped arrows," bah, arrow. The Caddo sometimes 

 also call them Siii'niibo, from their Comanche name. 



Cheyenne — popular name, a French spelling of their Sioux name. It has no connec- 

 tion with the French word chien, " dog." 



Dziisi sliis — proper tribal name; nearly equivalent to "our people." 



Gatsa'lghi — Kiowa Apache name. 



Sitiisi'na (singular Hi'tiixi) — Arapaho name, signifying "scarred people," from 

 Mtashi'ni, "scarred or cut." According to the Arapaho statement the Cheyenne 

 were so called because they were more addicted than the other tribes to the 

 practice of gashing themselves in religious ceremonies. The name may have 

 more special reference to the tribal custom of cutting oft' the fingers and hands 

 of their slain enemies. (See tribal sign, page 1024.) 



Ttdsupuzi — Hidatsa name, "spotted arrow quills" (Matthews). 



Ka'nahedwastsik — Cree name, "people with a language somewhat like Cree" (Grin- 

 nell). 



Mi re rikicats-kiiniki — Wichita name. 



Xtinoni ks-kare'iiiki — Kichai name. 



Pdgdnavo — Shoshoni and Comanche name; "striped arrows," from paga, "arrow," 

 and nni'e, "striped." 



Sdk'o'la — Kiowa name ; seems to refer to " biting." 



Sa-8in-e-tas — proper tribal name according to Clark (Indian Sign Language, 99, 1885). 

 The form should be Dzltsi'ataa as given above. 



Shaiela or Shaiena — Sioux name; "red," or decorated with red paint. According to 

 Riggs, as quoted by Clark, the Sioux call an alien language a " red " language, 

 while they designate one of their own stock as " white," so that the name would 

 be equivalent to "aliens." The Sioux apply the same name also to the Cree. 



Shut naro — another Comanche name, probably a derivative from the word Cheyenne. 



Shic'da — another Wichita name, derived from the word Cheyenne. 



Staitan — unidentified tribal name, given by Lewis and Clark. Identical with the 

 Cheyenne, from their own word Uistd' itdn , "I am a Cheyenne." 

 14 ETH — PT 2 25 



