MIGRATIONS—ARGUMENT FROM NAMES. 193 
OSAGE, KANSA, KWAPA, AND, MISSOURI. 
All these tribes belong to the Siouan stock. The Missouri, who call 
themselves Nyu-t’a-tci, speak a dialect allied to those of the Iowa and Oto, 
while the dialects of the others are related to that of the Omaha and Ponka. 
The Osage connect themselves by tradition with the beavers. The first 
father of the Osage was hunting on the prairie all alone. He came to a 
beaver dam, where he saw the chief of all the beavers, who gave him one of 
his daughters to wife. From this alliance sprang the Osage.’ 
ARIKARA OR RICKAREE. 
This tribe, commonly called Ree and sometimes Pawnee, has been 
heretofore counted as belonging to the Dakota family. But the Ree 
language, as spoken at Berthold, appears to have no resemblance to the 
Dakota, and indeed to be radically different in its construction. So that, 
without doubt we must deny them a place in the Dakota linguistic family. 
But the Ree, the northern branch of the tribe now at Fort Berthold, num- 
bering more than 1,000 souls, have been for many years intermingling with 
the Dakota, and probably separated from their southern kindred, the 
Pawnee proper, on account of an intrusion of the Dakota.” In 1803 Lewis 
and Clarke found the Ree on the Missouri River, near the mouth of Grand 
River. 
SHAYENNE OR CHEYENNEE. 
This name is variously written. The tribe comes into the same cate- 
gory as the last named—Ree and Pawnee. We can not admit them into 
the Dakota linguistic family. The name they bear is of Dakota origin, by 
whom they are called ‘“Sha-e-a-na.”* Sha-e-a,*in Dakota, means “to talk 
red,” that is, unintelligibly, as ‘‘ Ska-e-a”” means ‘“‘to talk white” 
bly—that is, to interpret. The Shayenne language then, we under- 
stand, is not like the Dakota. But, though sometimes enemies of the 
Dakota, they have more generally been confederates. Two hundred years 

intelligi- 

!'This is probably the tradition of part of the Osage, the Beaver people, not that of the whole 
tribe. See ‘Osage Traditions” in the Sixth Ann. Rept. of the Director Bur. Eth., pp, 373-397.—J. 0. D. 
2 According to Omaha tradition, the Ree and Skidi (or Pawnee Loups) were allies of the Winne- 
hago and the ancestors of the Omaha, Ponka, Osage, Kansa, Kwapa, Iowa, ete., when all these people 
dwelt east of the Mississippi. It is doubtful whether the Ree were ever neighbors of the Grand, Re- 
publican, and Tappage Pawnee, since the latter have been west of the Missouri. The latter conquered 
the Skidi, with whom they do not intermarry, according to Joseph I.a Fléche, formerly a head chief 
ofthe Omaha. The Skidi met the three southern Pawnee divisions at a comparatively late date, ac- 
cording to Pawnee tradition. Lf all five were ever together, it must have been at an early period, and 
probably east of the Mississippi River.—J. 0. D. 
*Sa-i-ye-na. ‘Sa-ia. ° Ska-ia, 
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