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ordeal of captivity are now a civilized people at the Santee Agency, in 
Nebraska, and at the Flandreau Homestead Settlement on the Big Sioux. 
The origin of the name Mdewakanytonwan) is accounted for by Mr. M. 
Renville as follows: In the east country there was a large lake, and in the 
lake there was a Taku-Wakan, which was feared. But there they made 
their village. And when the planting time came this local god always 
made his appearance. But this gens dreamed of it and worshiped it, and 
no more feared it. Hence they got the name of ‘ Sacred-Lake Villagers.” 
This was an original gens of the Dakota people, which was afterwards 
divided into seven gentes, viz: (1) Ki-yu-ksa, Breakers of custom or lav, 
said to refer to marrying into their own gens. (2) He-mni-éay (Hay- 
minnee-chan), Hill-water-wood, the name of Barn Bluff at Red Wing. (3) 
Ka-po-za (Kaposia), Light ones, those who traveled uninecumbered with 
baggage. (4) Ma-ga-yu-te sni, They who do not eat geese. (5) He-ya-ta- 
toy-we, The Back Villagers. This was the Lake Calhoun band. (6) Oyate- 
Si¢a, Bad people. (7) Tiy-ta-toy-we, Prairie Villagers.’ 
The Wahpekute, Leaf-shooters. It is not now known from what 
circumstances the Walipekute received their name. Thirty years ago 
they were a roving band of about 500 or 600, who laid claim to the 
country of Cannon River, the head waters of the Blue Earth, and west- 
ward. They were guilty of the massacre of Spirit Lake, in Iowa, in 1857, 
and were so demoralized thereby that they became rovers, and have lost 
their place in the Dakota family. After the sale of their land, in 1851, 
they beeame comected with the Spirit- Lake band, and, disregarding their 
eentes, some of them are now at Santee Agency and some at Sisseton 
NESTS but the greater part have fled to the Missouri River and to Canada. 
The Wahpetonway, Village in the Leaves, probably obtained their 
name aoe the fact that formerly they lived only in the woods. The old 
home of this band was about the Little Ra pids, whic h is some 45 miles by 
water from the mouth of the Minnesota River. Thirty years ago it was 
written : 
About 300 still reside there, but the larger part of the band have removed to 
Lac-qui-parle and Big Stone Lake. In all they number about 1,000 or 1,200 souls. 
They all plant corn, more or less, and at Lac-qui- parle, one of the mission stations 
oceupied by the American Board of C ommissioners for Foreign Missions, they have 
made some progress in learning to read and write their own language, and have 
substituted, to some extent, the use of the plow for the hoe. 
' Hake-waste, a chief of the Mdewakantoywan, who was in Washington, D. C., in 1880, gave 
the fifth and seventh gentes as “ Heyata otonwe” and * Tinta otonwe;” but since then Rey. A. L. Riggs 
has given the forms ‘‘ Heyataton war ” and ‘ Tintatoywan.’—J. 0. D. 

