INDIAN NAMES. 251 
mode of naming; for the Indians universally 
apply names significant of acts, qualities, 
beasts, birds, etc., to their offspring—a_prac- 
tice which seems to have prevailed generally 
among the ancient Asiatics.** Surnames 
have only been adopted by educated families 
to the same — though some of them have been separated for 
several centuri I call these indigenous to the West, because 
most of them have been so from the period of the earliest explor- 
pat FE: rrapahoes , speak dialects of another——4. The Pawnees and 
Rickaras of the ‘north, and the Wacoes, Witchitas, ception 
exi ¥ - 
Tied ie any of the foregoing nations.—5. Of those from the north 
and east, the Algonquin stock appears most extensive,—embracing 
the Potawatomies, Ottawas, Chippew: soa nage aS Crees, Sacs 
and Foxes; with whom the Peawnnes have also been classed, 
have baer names of chiefs ; Meteinole ( (or Senin sich) “aid Phovia 
e€ of 
soanee & 
guished the thee signify man. This last is perhaps most com- 
mon ; for, as each seul holds itself superior to = parse its 
tod or squaws, 
as they are wont to fteidee ie their enemies. 
