544 A STUDY OF SIOUAN CULTS. 



On the return of the war party tlie warriors are met outside of the 

 village by an old man of the Ka"se or Wind gens. He performs certain 

 ceremonies as he walks arouTid the party (beginning at the norih and 

 ending at the east), and then he tells them whether they can enter the 

 village. The clothing of the returning warriors becomes the property 

 of the old Ka"se man and his attendant. 



The Ka''se gens of the Osage tribe is called the Idats'6, because it 

 devolves on a member of that gens to fill the peace pipes. The 

 corresponding gens of the Ka°ze tribe is called Ibatc'e or Hauga-jinga. 



THE "MESSIAH CRAZE." 



§ 400. Since the present article was begun there has arisen the 

 so-called "Messiah craze" among the Dakota and other tribes of 

 Indians. The author does not feel competent to describe this new form 

 of Indian religion, but he suspects that some features of it are either 

 willful or accidental perversions of the teachings of the missionaries. 



§ 401. In presenting this study of Siouan cults to the scientific world 

 the author has a painful sense of its incompleteness, but he hopes that 

 the facts here fragmentarily collated may prove helpful to future 

 investigators. The inferences, provisional assumptions, and suggestive 

 queries in this chapter are not published as final results. Even should 

 any of them prove to be erroneous the author's labor will not be in 

 vain, for through the correction of his mistakes additional information 

 will be collected, tending to the attainment of the truth, which should 

 be the aim of all mankind. 



