158 DAKOTA GRAMMAR. TEXTS, AND ETHNOGRAPHY. 
These Dwellers in the Leaves were more or less mixed up in the out- 
break of 1862. Some of them fled to Manitoba, where they now have a 
native church near Fort Ellin. Some of them were of the captivity, and 
varried letters and religion into the prison, while some were prominent in 
bringing about a counter revolution and in delivering the white captives. 
They are now mixed with Sisseton on the Sisseton and Devil’s Lake Reser- 
vations and in the Brown Earth Homestead Settlement. 
Mr. M. Renville accounts for the origin of the name Leaf Villagers in this wise: 
“Pirst, tradition says the clan were in the habit of making booths with tree 
branches with the leaves attached. Secondly, when camping in a country of prairie 
and woods they were in the habit of making their camp in the wood. Hence their 
name. They were divided into three subgentes, viz: 1. Wali-pa-toy-wan.' 2. Ta-ka- 
psin-tona. 3. Oteliatonna. They lived originally at Knife Lake, where there was a 
beautiful prairie. A part of the clan became famous ball players, and hence the name 
of Takapsintona. Another part were afraid of enemies, and so, when on journeys, 
they sought a thicket in which to make their camp. Hence they were called Otelii- 
atonwe, Dwellers in Thickets.” 
4. The Si-si-ton-way. Formerly we were told that si-siy meant 
swampy land; and so we translated the name Swamp Villagers. But the 
evidence is in favor of another meaning and origin. M. Renville gives the 
following: At Traverse des Sioux, at the Blue Earth, and on the Big Cot- 
tonwood, they made their villages. They took many fish from the river 
and lakes. ‘These they cut up and dried, throwing the scales and entrails 
in heaps, which appeared partly white and shining, and partly black and 
dirty. This appearance they called siy-siy. And hence when the young 
men of other villages would go to see them they said, Let us go to the 
Sisiatoy wan—those who live on the sinsiy. Hence the people were called 
Sisseton. 
They were divided thus into subgentes: The white people brought 
whiskey, The Sissetons got drunk and killed each other. By this means 
they were scattered. Some went up to Lake Traverse, and some went to 
the T'wo Woods west of Lac-qui-parle. 
These last were called (1) Ti-zaptayna, Five Lodges. These were 
Thunder Face’s people. Some were called (2) Okopeya. These were his 
gens remained at Traverse des Sioux 
brother's followers. A part of the 
‘The following is a full list of the gentes of the Walipetonwan, as obtained from their mis- 
sionary, Rev. Edward Ashley, in 1884: (1) Inyan éeyaka atonwan, Village at the Rapids ; (2) Takapsin 
tonwanna, Those who Dwell at the Shinny-ground ; (3) Wiyaka otina, Dwellers on the Sand; (4) Otehi 
atonwan, Village On-the-Thicket (sic); (5) Wita otina, Dwellers In-the-Island; (6) Wakpa atonwan, 
Village On-the-River; (7) Gay-kaga otina, Dwellers In-Log (huts?). When they camped with the 
Sisitoy wan, a different order of these gentes was observed, as will be explained hereafter,—v. 0. D. 
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