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THE GHOST-DANCE RELIGION 



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7. Eota'mi-ta'niuw', "dog ineu," or Mi'stdvii'nut, "heavy eyebrows." 

 This is also the name of one of the divisions of their warrior organi- 

 zation. 



8. Otu'gUnil, 



9. Hmi'sfs, "eaters." This is the most important division of the 

 northern Cheyenne, and the name is also used by those of the south 

 to designate all the northern Cheyenne collectively. 



10. Anskowi'nis. 



11. Pinu'tgu'. 



N. 



1 Hi. luti — Cheyenne camping circle. 



These are the names given to the author by the Cheyenne them- 

 selves as the complete list of their tribal divisions. Grinnell, on the 

 authority of the Clark manuscript, names six of these with two others, 

 Matsi'shkota, "corpse from a scaffold," and MiayUma, '-red lodges," 

 which may be identical with some of the others named above, or may 

 perhaps be degrees of their military organization instead of tribal 

 divisions. , 



In the great ceremony of the "medicine arrow," last enacted on the 

 Washita in 1800, the camping circle opened to the south. At all other 

 gatherings of the tribe the circle opeued to the east, agreeable to the 



