MALLERY. } NOTABLE EVENTS. 567 
ings of Mi‘nabo zho. Afterwards aninterrupted migration was continued, the several 
resting places being given below in their proper order, and at each of them the rites 
of the Midé’wiwin were conducted in all their purity. The next place to locate at 
was Mi’shenama’‘kinagung—Mackinaw (f); then Ne’‘mikung (g); Kiwe’winang’ (h) ; 
Ba’ wating—Sault Ste. Marie (i); Tshiwi’towi’ (7); Nega/wadjé/i—Sand mountain 
(k), northern shore of Lake Superior; Mi/nisa’wik [Mi’nisa’bikkang]—Island of 
Rocks (1); Kawa’sitshitwongk’—Foaming rapids (m) ; Mush‘kisi’wi [Mash‘kisi’bi]— 
Bad river (n); Sha/gawaé/mikongk—‘‘ Long sand bar beneath the surface” (0); 
Wikwe'da"wong’ga"—Sandy bay (p); Nea’/shiwikongk’—Cliff point (q); Neta-wa- 
ya-sink—Little point of sand bar (r); A™nibis—Little elm tree (s); Wikup’bi®- 
mi"sh—Little island basswood (t); Makubi"’-mi*sh—Bear island (wv); Shage’skike’- 
dawan’ga (v); Ne’ wigwas’sikongk—The place where bark is peeled (w); Ta‘/pakwe’- 
ikak [Sa‘apakwe’shkwa’okongk]—The place where lodge-bark is obtained (x); 
Ne/uwesak’/kudéze’bi [Ne’wisak/udési’bi]—Point dead wood timber river (y); 
A*ibi‘kanzi/bi [modern name Ashkiba/gisi’bi] rendered by different authorities both 
as Fish Spawn river, and ‘‘ Green Leaf river” (2). 
This locality is described as being at Sandy lake, Minnesota, where the Otter 
appeared for the last time, and where the Midé’wigin was finally established. The 
Ojibwa say that they have dispersed in bands from La Pointe, as well as from 
Sandy lake, over various portions of Minnesota and into Wisconsin, which final 
separation into distinct bodies has been the chief cause of the gradual changes 
found to exist in the ceremonies of the Mide’wiwin. 
Reference may be made to a highly interesting record of migration 
in Kingsborough, Codex Boturini, being a facsimile of an original 
Mexican hieroglyphic painting from the collection of Boturini, in twenty- 
three plates. 
SECTION 4. 
RECORD OF NOTABLE EVENTS. 
In this group are presented some figures from the Dakota Winter 
Counts, which record events of tribal or intertribal importance not in- 
cluded under other heads. 
Fig 797.—The-people-were-burnt winter. Battiste Good’s Winter 
Count 176263. He explains the origin of the title 2 
“Brulé” Dakota as follows: 
Some of the Dakotas were living east of their 
present country, when a prairie fire destroyed their 
entire village. Many of their children and a man 
and his wife, who were on foot some distance away 
from the village, were burned to death. Many of 
their horses were also burned to death. All the 
people that could get to a long lake which was near 
by saved themselves by jumping into it. Many of 17750" 
these were badly burned about the thighs and legs, and this circum- 
stance gave rise to the name, si-can-gu, translated properly in to English 
as Burnt Thigh and by the French abbreviated as Brulé, by which lat- 
ter name they have since been generally known. 
—Origin of Brulé 
