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SIOUAN SOCIOLOGY 



[KTII. ANN. 15 



Oil iiersoiiii! bravery. While iiiiioiig the ()iii;i1ki and P<iiil<a a diief 

 can not lead in wiir, ther(! is a didVicnt (•nstoiii aiiioiij,' the Dakota. 

 The Sisseton chiel' Standing Hullalo told Little Crow, the leader of the 

 hostile Santee in the Minnesota outbreak of 1862, that, havinj;- eom- 

 nienced hostilities with the whites, he must fiylit it out without help 

 from him, and that, failing to mak(^ himself master of the situation, he 

 should not tlee through the country of the Sisseton. 



Regarding chieftainship among the Dakota, Philander I'rescott' says: 



The chicftaiusliiii is of iiioilcni datu, tlicro being no obicl's bol'oie the whites i-anie. 

 The chiefs have little power. The diief 8 band is almost .always a l<iu tolem which 

 helps to sustain him. The chiefs have no votes in council; there the majority rules 

 and tlio voice of the chief i.s not decisive till tlien. 



On the death of a chief, the nearest kinsman in the right line is eligible. If there 

 are no kin, the council of the band can make a <'hief. Civil cliiefs scarcely ever 

 make a war party. 



The Dakota woman owns the tipi. If a man has more wives than 

 one, they have separate tlpis, or they arrange to occupy ditterent sides 

 of one. [Sometimes the young man goes to live with his wife's kindred, 

 but in such matters there is no fixed rule. 'J'o purchase a wife was 

 regarded the most honorable form of marriage, though elopement was 

 sometimes resorted to. 



THE ASINIBOIN 



The Asiniboin were originally part of the Wazi-kute gens of the 

 Yanktonai (Iharikto"wa"ua) Dakota. According to the report of E. T. 

 Denig toGoveruor 1. 1. Stevens,- " the Asiniboin call themselves Dakota, 

 meaning Our people." The Dakota style them Hohe, " rebels," but 

 Denig says the term signifies "tish eaters," and that they may have 

 been so called from the fact that they subsisted principally on fish while 

 in British territory. 



Lists of the gentes of this people have been recorded by Denig, Max- 

 imilian, and Haydeu, but in the opinion of the present writer they 

 need revision. 



AsUtihoin t/tutes 



Denig 



We-che-ap-pe-nah, 60 

 lodges, under Les Yeux 

 Gris. 



E-an-to-ah, Stone In- 

 dians, the original appcl 

 lation forthe whole nation ; 

 50 lodges, under Premier 

 qui Voile. 



Wah-topan-ah, Canoe 

 Indians, 100 lodges, under 

 Serpent. 



Maximilia-ii 



Itschcaljinc, Les gens des 

 lilies. 



.latonabini', Les gens des 

 niches, tlic Stone Indiatsof 

 the English. Call them- 

 selves "Eascab." 



Otaopabiuc, Les gens des 

 canots. 



yiaydfti 



Wi-ic-aji-i-iiali, 

 band. 



(iirls' 



I'-an-to -an. ( Either I"- 

 ya" to"\va", Stone village, 

 or Ihankto'wa", End vil- 

 lage or Yankton. .1. 0. i>.) 



\Vali-to-pai>-i-nali. 



> SchnoliTaft Indian Tribes, vol.11. 181'. Pbilaili-l|ilii:i. 1S52. 

 '•'Manuscript in the archives of the Htireaii of Kthnology. 



