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frequently used as synonymous with 

 Southern Cheyenne. 



(5) OVvimana (sing., OFvimiin ), 

 'scabby people'; oVvt 'scabby,' mana 

 'band,' 'people' (Petter); according to 

 another authority, 'hive people.' An off- 

 shoot of the Hevhaita^nio (no. 4). The 

 name originated about 18-40, when a band 

 of the Hevhaita^nio, undera chief known 

 as Blue Horse, became infected from hav- 

 ing used a mangy buffalo hide for a saddle 

 blanket. They became later an important 

 division. According to Grinnell (Social 

 Organization, 1905) the name is also ap- 

 plied as a nickname to a part of the North- 

 ern Cheyenne on lower Tongue r., "be- 

 cause, it is said. Badger, a principal man 

 among them, had a skin disease." 



(6) HtslometiV nio (sing.,Hisiometa''n), 

 'ridge men,' referring to the ridge or 

 long slope of a hill. Another offshoot 

 from the Hevhaitil^nio. The name is 

 said to have originated from their prefer- 

 ence for cameling upon ridges, but more 

 probably from having formerly ranged 

 chiefly n. of the upper Arkansas, in that 

 portion of Colorado known to the Chey- 

 enne as the " ridge country," or, accord- 

 ing to another authority, from habitually 

 ranging upon the Staked plain, in associ- 

 ation with the Comanche. They were 

 said to have originated from some Hev- 

 haitii'nio who intermarried with the 

 Sutaio l^efore the regular incorporation 

 of that tribe. 



(7) (?) Sutaio (sing., Sii^tai), mean- 

 ing unknown. Formerly a distinct tribe, 

 but incorporated. According to their 

 own statement the people of tliis division 

 occupied the w. of the Cheyenne circle, 

 but others put them s., n. w., or n., the 

 discrepancy probably arising from the 

 fact that they had originally no place in 

 the circle at all and were not admitted 

 until the old system had fallen into decay. 

 The w. side of the Cheyenne circle, as of 

 the interior of the tipi, being the place of 

 honor, they would naturally claim it for 

 themselves, although it is extremely un- 

 likely that the Cheyenne would grant it. 

 Their true position seems to have been 

 in the n. .w. part of the circle. 



(8) Oqtogund (sing., Oqtogon), 'bare 

 shins' (?). 



(9) Ho'noivd (sing., Ho'now), 'poor 

 people.' A small division, an offshoot 

 from the Oqtogiina,. 



(10) MdsV'kola (sing., Miisi'kot), of 

 doubtful meaning, interpreted by Grin- 

 nell as ' corpse from a scaffold,' or pos- 

 sibly 'ghost head,' i. e. gray hair, but 

 more probably (Mooney) from a root de- 

 noting 'wrinkled' or 'drawn up,' as 

 applied to old tipi skins or old buckskin 

 dresses; from this root comes masiskot, 

 'cricket,' referring to the doubling up of 

 the legs; the same idea of 'skin drawn 



up' may underlie the interpretation 

 'corpse from a scaffold.' For some rea- 

 son, apparently between 70 and 80 years 

 ago, all the men of this division joined in 

 a body the Hotamitil^nio warrior society, 

 so that the two names became practically 

 synonymous until the society name sup- 

 planted the division name, which is now 

 obsolete, the Hotiimita'nio, with their 

 families, being considered owners of that 

 part of the circle originally occupied by 

 the Masi^'kotil, viz, next to the last sec- 

 tion, adjoining the O'mi^sis (no. 11), who 

 camped immediately n. of the entrance. 



(11) O'mVsls (sing., O'mi'sists), 'eat- 

 ers ' ; the meaning of the name is plain, 

 but its origin is disputed, some authori- 

 ties claiming it as the name of an early 

 chief of the division. Cf. Wd^tcqnu, no. 

 3. This was the largest and most im- 

 portant division in the tribe and now con- 

 stitutes the majority of the Northern 

 Cheyenne, for which portion the name is 

 therefore frequently used as a synonym. 

 Before the tribe was divided they occu- 

 pied that portion of the tribal circle 

 immediately n. of the e. entrance, thus 

 completing the circle. After the separa- 

 tion their next neighbors in the circle, 

 the Masi^'kotii, alias Hotamitii^nio, were 

 considered as the last division in order. 



Other names, not commonly recog- 

 nized as divisional names, are: 



(a) Moqtdvhaitd^nhi, 'black men,' i. e. 

 'Ute' (sing., Moqtavhaitiin). To the 

 Cheyenne and most other Plains tribes 

 the Ute are known as ' Black men ' or 

 'Black people.' A small band, appar- 

 ently not a recognized division, of the 

 same name is still represented among the 

 Southern Cheyenne, and, according to 

 Grinnell, also among the Northern Chey- 

 enne. They may be descended from Ute 

 captives and perhaps constituted a regu- 

 lar tribal division. 



(b) Nd^tuhndna, ' bear people ' ; a small 

 band among the Southern Cheyenne, 

 taking its name from a former chief and 

 not recognized as properly constituting a 

 division. 



(c) AnskStvlnts, 'narrow nose-bridge,' 

 a band of Sioux admixture and of recent 

 origin, taking its name from a chief, 

 properly named Broken Dish, but nick- 

 named Anskowinis. They separated 

 from the O' miosis on account of a quarrel, 

 probably, as Grinnell states, a dispute as 

 to the guardianship of the sacred buffalo- 

 head caj), a stolen horn from which is now 

 in possession of one of the band in the 

 S. They are represented among both the 

 Northern and the Southern Cheyenne. 



(d) PVnutgd' 'Pe^nutS'ka' (Coman- 

 che). This is not properly a divisional 

 or even a band name, but was the con- 

 temptuous name given by the hostile 

 Cheyenne in 1874-75 to the "friendlies," 



