430 THE ¢EGIHA LANGUAGE—MYTHS, STORIES, AND LETTERS. 
brother. They disemboweled them and threw pieces towards the foe, who cried with 
rage as they retreated. 
427, 20 aki-biama Caa® ama, wagi®. This was not their home, but some place on 
their homeward way. : 
428, 2. yacage a té u¢a®waki¢a-bi ega™. Sanssouci said that this should read: 
qacage na"be té Uwagi¢isna™-bi ega’”, u¢a” waki¢a-bi ega’; literally, “ Deer-claws— 
hand—the—they slipped on for them, they say—having—they caused them to hold 
them, they say—having.” ‘ 
428, 4-5. zi té adiaza té - - - agaspa-biama. They had the tent spread open over 
the tent-poles, and they kept the sides down with sods of earth, which they placed all 
around the tent after they had put their dead inside. 
TRANSLATION. 
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The Omahas continued surrounding the buffaloes. My elder brother went one 
morning to shoot at a buffalo calf, and some one went with him. They killed a calf in 
a valley, and stood cutting it up. The Dakotas approached them by crawling, there 
being about six horsemen. My brother had no load in his gun, and the other Omaha 
had a bow. The Dakotas attacked them, coming with a rush. They killed the two, 
as they had no weapons. At length some one came back to tell it. They came back 
to tell that two Omahas had been killed. The Dakota murderers fled homeward. The 
Omahas went to the place and brought the bodies back. The Dakotas reached their 
home at¢he village. They roderound and round; they went around the lodges repeat- 
edly. The Dakotas were very numerous, and the Ponkas were there too, the tribes 
having come together. ‘Some buffalo calves are there, seeking their mothers. Hasten 
ye.” This was said by Kipazo, the father of the principal murderer, as he went along 
the line of lodges. He was the head-chief of the Dakotas. He also went along the 
line of Ponka lodges. ‘‘ When they capture your relations, the Omahas, you can take 
them, if you recognize them,” said he. The Ponkas did not heed him. So he went 
again to say it to them. “If you do not join the party, you shall certainly be the ones 
whom we will attack,” said he. The Dakotas were departing. The women Sat in the 
Indian carriages, and so they were departing. And the principal Ponka, Whip, went 
along the line of Ponka lodges. ‘You who are wishing to go and’see what is to be 
done, should have gone thither,” said he. Whip, his son Ma*tcu-wa¢ihi (Grizzly-bear- 
scares-off-the-game), and the Ponkas too, departed at night. At length they were 
approaching the place of meeting, where they stood. When they assembled themselves 
all together, some of the police who had assembled went watching one another. The 
police walked all around: some at the front, some at the sides, and some in the rear. 
The police attacked the company froin time to time, hitting those who showed any dis- 
position to walk leisurely. Whip scolded them. ‘TI have always known your nation in 
particular. Heretofore you were always unfortunate. Why do you threaten to punish 
me? You are they who have always acted just like women.. And that tribe (7. ¢., the 
Omahas) is composed of men, not women. I will know how you behave on meeting 
them,” said he. When they went thither, they approached as they walked by night. 
Now I will speak about the Omahas. In the evening the Omahas made an embank- 
ment or wall, inside of which they placed the tribal circle. The erier proclaimed thus: 
“ He says, indeed, that you are to make an intrenchment for the children. He says, 
