BADiN) MISCELLANEOUS DANCES 387 



The soldier dance is a hop up and down with both feet and in no 

 particular order, anywhere around the singers. It is held in the 

 open air. 



SOLDIER DANCE SONGS 

 I 



Mananp'e'ra na"]i''wine. 

 Soldiers get up. 



II 

 Waja"niia'' tcexigi'ji na°]'i"''a''dje. 

 Something difficult get ready. 

 (I. e., whenever there is anything difficult to do you must get ready.) 



Ill 

 Mananp'e'ra newine'nA" hu'nagiredra. 

 Soldiers I am he whom they spoke of. 



IV 

 Mananp'e'ra hi'ja" wine'nA". 

 Soldier one I am. 

 (I. e., I am a soldier, and it there is anything to do I'll do it.) 



Ceremony of Uangeru 

 (begging ceremony) 

 A dummy is made of grass and dressed with whatever objects the 

 maker wants to get. If he wants a horse he puts a bridle crosswise 

 around the body of the dummy ; if he wants clothes, he dresses him 

 up in Indian clothes. Then the man places tliis dununy anywhere 

 near a gathering, or where he expects a gathering to take place. He 

 sits near it. As soon as any warrior sees the dunxmy he goes over 

 to it and either kicks or strikes the man who made it, giving him at 

 the same time one of the objects he wanted. Any person may do 

 the same. They may not stop kicking the man until some warrior 

 who had at some time or another cut up an enemy in war cuts up 

 the dummy. Then all stop, and as soon as his bruises permitted him, 

 the man would get up and pick up the gifts brought to him. 



Feast to BtTFALO Tail 



A grandfather of mine called Cokeboka fasted at Neceda, Wis. 

 There he was blessed by a young buffalo bull calf belonging to a herd. 

 The calf said, as the herd went by, "Father, keep going in the road; 

 mother, keep going in the road." He meant a warpath instead of 

 the road they were going in. The man was to go on a warpath, from 

 which he would return victorious. 



They used to make offerings to this tail alone, apart from the war 

 bundle. The braided grass was to be used for smoking. The feast 

 is given in spring after the grass grows up, and in midwinter. Ground 

 corn is boiled in making the feast. 



KiKEE WaCI AND TcEBOKONa''k DaNCES 



There is a pleasure dance called Hhre waci and a dance called 

 tceboTconA^Jc (wearing buffalo headdresses). The latter is of Sioux 

 origin. 



