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Mr. Cleveland also gives as names for all the Oglala, Oiyulipe and Kiyaksa. 
G. Hunkpapa—List of 1880: (1) Ganka ohan, Broken backs (%); (2) Ge oliba, Sleepy membrum 
virile; (3) Tinazipe siéa, Bad Bows; (4) Talo napin, Fresh meat necklaces; (5) Kiglaska; (6) Geknake 
okisela, Half a breechcloth; (7) SiksiGela, Bad ones of different sorts; (8) Wakay, Mysterious; (9) Hunska 
éaytozuha, ‘*Tobacco-pouch leggins,” probably so called from using leggins as tobacco pouches. 
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(8) The Assiniboin: The majority of this tribe live north of the forty- 
ninth parallel, but some of them are mixed in with the Dakota proper at 
Poplar River and elsewhere. That they branched off from the Yanktonai 
some two centuries ago, is one of the traditions of the Dakota. They 
speak the language as purely as other portions of the parent stock. The 
name Assiniboin is said to be a combination of French and Ojibwa. The 
name given to the Dakota by their former enemies is ‘ Bway.” Hence the 
Assiniboin are Stone Dakota. The Dakota name for them is “ Hohe,” the 
origin and meaning of which we have hitherto failed to find out. 
PRIORITY. 
Questions of priority and precedence among these bands are sometimes 
discussed. The Mdewakanytoyway think that the mouth of the Minnesota 
River is precisely over the center of the earth, and that they occupy the 
gate that opens into the western world. ‘These considerations serve to give 
them importance in their own estimation. | On the other hand, the Sisitoy way 
and Thanktoyway allege, that as they live on the great water-shed of this 
part of the continent, from which the streams run northward and eastward 
and southward and westward, they must be about the center of the earth; 
and they urge this fact as entitling them to the precedence. — It is singular 
that the Titonway, who are much the largest band of the Dakota, do not 
appear to claim the chief place for themselves, but yield to the pretensions 
of the Thayktoyway, whom they call by the name of Wiéiyela, which, in 
its meaning, may be regarded as about equivalent to “they are the people.” 
METHOD OF COUNTING. 
Counting is usually done by means of their fingers. If you ask some 
Dakota how many there are of anything, instead of directing their answer 
to your organs of hearing, they present it to your sight, by holding up so 
many fingers. When they have gone over the fingers and thumbs of both 
hands, one is temporarily turned down for one ten. Eleven is ten more one, 
or more commonly again one; twelve is again two, and so on; nineteen is the 
‘According to Dr. J. Trumbull, the name Assiniboin is derived from two Ojibwa werds, 
“asinni,” stone, and ‘bway,” enemy. Some of the Sihasapa Dakota are called Hohe.—s. 0. pb. 
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