CONTENTS. 



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Chapter I. — Introduotion 361 



Definitions of "Cult" and "Siouan" .: 361 



Siouau Family 361 



Authorities 361 



Alphabet 363 



Ahhreviatious 364 



Chapter II. — Detinitious 365 



Alleged belief in a Great S]iirit 365 



Phenomena divided into human and superhuman 365 



Terms for "mysterious," "lightning," etc 306 



Other Omaha and Pouka terms 367 



Significance of personal names and kinship terms 368 



Myth and legend distinguished from the superhuman 368 



Chapter III. — Cults of the Omaha, Ponka, Kansa, and Osage 371 



Beliefs and ]>ractices not found 371 



Omaha, Ponka, and Kansa belief in a wakanda 372 



Seven great wakaudas 372 



Invocation of warmth and streams 372 



Prayer to -wakanda 373 



Accessories of prayer 373 



Omaha and Kansa expressions about wakanda 374 



Ponka belief about malevolent spirits 374 



An old Omaha custom 375 



The sun a wakanda 376 



Invocations 376 



The offering of tobacco 377 



The Ponka sun dance of 1873 378 



The moon a wakanda 378 



Berdaches 378 



Stars as wakandas 379 



The winds as wakandas 380 



Invocation 380 



Kansa sacrifice to. the winds 380 



Osage conserraticm of mystic fireplaces 380 



The thunder-being a wakanda 381 



Omaha and Ponka invocation of the thunder-being 381 



Thunder-being invoked by warriors 382 



Ictasanda custom 383 



Kansa worship of the thunder-being 385 



Subterranean and subaquatic wakandas 386 



The iudaOinga 386 



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