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the James River country. Now they are distributed in the villages along 
the Missouri, principally at Standing Rock.’ 
The Titonway. In its present form this might mean House-dwellers. 
But it is understood to be a contracted form of Tinta-toyway, meaning 
Dwellers on the Prairie, or prairie villages. They constitute one-half or 
more of the whole Dakota nation. For many years they have followed the 
buffalo west of the Missouri River, and now they are mainly confined to 
the great Sioux Reserve in southwestern Dakota. Not a dozen years have 
aval since they began to take steps towards education and civilization. 
Hitherto the Episcopalians have lon the most missionary work among 
them. Within two years past they have taken some interest in eens 
their children to Hampton and Carlisle to be educated. With the Shaiena 
Shahiyela, or Cheyennes, they have maintained friendly relations and 
intermarried. They are divided into seven principal tribes, viz: The 
Siéaneu, or Brules, Burnt Thighs; the Itazipéo, or Sans Arcs, No Bows, or 
Without Bows, as the word is understood to be contracted from Itazipa 
éoday; the Sihasapa, Black-feet; the Minikayye wozupi, or Minnekonjoos, 
Who Plant by the Water; the Oohenoynpa, Two Boilings or Two Kettles; the 
Oglala, or Ogalala, and the Huykpapa. Each of these names has doubtless 
a history, which will be herewith given as far as we are able to trace it. 
Let us begin with the last: 
Huykpapa: For a good many years we have been anxiously seeking 
to find out the meaning and origin of ‘ Huykpapa,” and its near neighbor 
“Tunkpatina”—they both being names of large families or clans among 
the Titoypway. But our investigations have hitherto been unsatisfactory. 
Sometimes it has seemed to us that they must be formed from “ Huyka,” 
which is an honorable name for the older male relatives, and for ancestors 
generally: as in “Huykake” ancestors, and “Huykawayzi” brothers, and 
“Hunkayapi” elders. The analysis would be reduced to its limit in 
“Huy” mother. “ Huykpa” would be Huyka-pa meaning Family-Head; 
and Huykpapa would be a reduplication, while Huykpatina would mean 
Dwellers of Family Head. 
'TIn 1880, ‘Nasuna ti: wnka, Big Head, and Mato noypa, Two Grizz ly Bears, said that their people 
were divided into two parts, each haying seven gentes. (1) Upper Ihanktonwanna includes the fol- 
lowing: 1. Gan-ona, Those who Hit the Tree, or, Wazi-kute, Shooters at the Pine. 2. Takini. 3. Siksi- 
Gena, Small bad ones of different kinds. 4. Bakihoy, Those who Gashed-Themselves. 5. Kiyuksa, Breakers 


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of the Law or Custom. 6. Pa-baksa, Cut Heads (divided into sub-gentes). 7. Name not remembered. 
(11) Hunkpatina, or Lower Ihanktonwanna, includes the following: 1. Pute temini (sic), Sweating 
Upper-Lips. 2. Sun ikéeka, Common Dogs (?). 3. Taliuha yuta, Eaters of the Serapings of Skins. 
4, Sanona, Those Who Hit Something White or Gray (in the distance). These are called the Sanonee 
(One Siders?) by the author. 5. Tha sa, Red Lips. 6. Ite gu, Burnt Faces. 7. Pte yute sni, Lat no 
Buffale. The Ihayktonwanna are generally called Yanktonai.—s. 0. D. 
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