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and tai'-vo, the Shoshoni and Comanche of poles. The word is of uncertain 



name for a white man. origin. 



Ti mhi or T'l'mbin — a rook: another form Wi'noghan — shaken by the wind, waving 



is tiihi. in the wind. 



Tt iiu — antelope. Wo'voka or WU'voka — "the cutter," the 



Tunywii'kwiji — for Tdkwu'kwij. proper name of the Paiute lnessiah, 



Wai'-va — the sand grass or wild millet of known to the whites as Jack Wilson. 



Nevada {Oryzopsis mem.hr anacea). In A few years ago he assumed also the 



composition the word becomes u-ai. name of Kwohi'tsauq, "big rumbling 



See Paiute song i. belly," from his paternal grandfather. 



AVa sir — the name by which the Washo See chapter ix ante. 



call themselves. WvM'doma — w h irl w in d , hurricane. 



WI'kiup — the popular name of the Paiute Hi'gvd, wind; pita'ndgwd-higwd' , the 



dwelling, made in conical form, about south wind. 



8 or 10 feet high, and open at the top, Wiimbe'doma — for Wubi'doma. 



of tule rushes woven over a framework Wumbi'ndoman — for Wubi'doma. 



THE SIOUX 



TRIBAL SYNONYMY 



Chahrarat — Pawnee name (Grinnell). 



Dakota, Nakota, or Lakola — proper tribal name, according to dialect, "allies, 



friends; " sometimes also the}* speak of themselves as Oceti Sakowin, the "seven 



council fires," in allusion to their seven great divisions. 

 Itahatski — Hidatsa name, " long arrows " (Matthews). 

 Ktodalpit-K'inago — Kiowa name, " necklace people," perhaps a misconceptiou of neck- 



cuttiug people, i. e., beheaders. 

 Alaranshobishgo — Cheyenne name, "cut-throats" (Long). The name is plainly 



incorrect, as the Cheyenne language has no r. 

 Xadoiresi or Xndoircsiu — "little snakes" or " little enemies," Nadowe, " snake" and 



figuratively " enemy," being tlie common Algonquian term for all tribes of alieu 



lineage. The Ojibwa and others designated the Iroquois, living east of them, 



as Xadowe, while the Sioux, living to the west, were distinguished as Nadowi si 



or Nadoweaiu, whence come Nadouessioux and Sioux. 

 Xatniitinii or Xntni — Arapaho name; Hayden gives the form as Xatenehina, which he 



renders "cut-throats or beheaders," but it may be derived from Nadowe, as 



explained above. 

 Xiake tsik&tk — Kichai name. 

 Pambizimina — Shoshoni name, " beheaders." 

 Papitsinima — Comanche name, "beheaders," from papitsi, signifying to behead, 



and nima or iiiima, people. 

 Shalian — Osage, Kansa, Oto, etc, uame (Dorsey). 

 Sioux — popular name, abbreviated from Nadouessioux, the French form of their 



Ojibwa name. 

 Tsaba'kosh — Caddo name, " cut-throats." 



TRIBAL SIGN 



A sweeping pass of the right hand in front of the neck, commonly 

 rendered •'cut-throats'' or "beheaders," but claimed by the Kiowa to 

 refer to a kind of shell necklace formerly peculiar to the Sioux. 



