” ‘THE (EGIHA LANGUAGE—MYTHS, STORIES, AND LETTERS. 
who accompanied Struck-by-the-Ree to the Pawnee village. Mr LaF léche 
is the leader of the “citizens” party among the Omahas. The names of 
two of his children, Susette (Bright Eyes) and Frank (Wood-worker, or 
Carpenter), are familiar to all who have read of the Ponka case. 
2. Mrs. Mary LaF léche is of white descent on the father’s side. She 
learned Oto by a residence among her mother’s people. She was known 
in former years as “the beautiful Omaha girl,” having been adopted by the 
latter tribe 
3. Frank LaF léche is the eldest surviving son of Joseph. He has a 
fair knowledge of English, writes a good hand, and is devoted to reading, 
I have had many opportunities of testing his skill as interpreter, and I did 
not find him wanting. He is the only Omaha who can write his native 
dialect. 
4. Susanne LaF léche is Frank’s youngest sister. She is still a child, 
and was not over thirteen when she gave me an abstract of a myth told 
her in Omaha by her Oto grandmother. 
5. qa¢i"-na"-paji (He who fears not a Pawnee when he sees him) is a 
full-blood Omaha, who has passed middle age. He belongs to the ‘citi- 
zens” party, and is one of my best informants His articulation is rapid; 
but after he repeated a sentence I had no difficulty in writing it. 
6. Hupe¢a™ is a full Omaha, one who refuses to join either political 
party in the tribe. He has not given me much information. 
7. Ma™tet-na™ba (Two Grizzly Bears) is the aged ex-chief of the 
Hanga gens of the Omahas, which keeps the two sacred tents and regulates 
the buffalo hunt. He has been a medicine-man, and is the head of the old 
men’s or chiefs’ party. He was always friendly to me, and was the first 
Omaha to pay me a visit. Owing to his rapid articulation, common to 
Omaha orators, I was obliged to revise his myth, with the assistance of Mr. 
LaF léche, who gave me the corresponding Oto version. 
8. Mawada¢i" (Mandan) is a full Omaha. He is short, and of a nery- 
ous temperament (the opposite of Hupe¢a”), his utterance being thick at 
times. While he means well, his information is not equal in any respect. to 
that given by qa¢i*-na"paji. He belongs to the “citizens” party. 
9. e-tya"ha (Sentinel Buffalo apart from the Herd) is head of a sub- 
