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ma/-ne-ta’-re, sweet cottonwood. mih-tse’-mi-tse, a string of beads, used as an 
ma-ne-a’-ke-de, in the tree. ornament for the wrist. 
ma/-ne-sho’-pe, a game with sticks, played by 
the women. 
ma’-na-po’-he, quaking asp. Ve 
ma-na’-ke-da, up a tree. 
ma’-na-ma’-ta-ta-tsi, scattering trees. yawn, mi’-sa-tsth, to yawn, to gape. 
ma-na-kat’, the color of wood, wood color. yellow, shi’-ri-kat. 
ma-ni-ali-e, flood or drift-wood. dk-shi’-re, chrome yellow. 
mi-mo’-e-ma/-ne, a tree standing in the water. yes, kot, to be sure, certainly, yes. 
pe’-ri-¢is-ma/-ne, a large willow. Salix. yesterday, hu-rad’. 
work, i-ba/-di-o, to work. yonder, 1’-e-éék. 
wound, a-hu’-ra-buli’-e, a fresh wound. i-e¢’, yonder it is. 
wrist, its-ka’-she. you, di (personal pronoun). 
its-kis’-kip-e, the arm from elbow to wrist. yours, dis (possessive pronoun). 
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XI. MINNITAREES. 
ETHNOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 
Tur Minnitarees, or Gros Ventres as they are called by the traders, formerly inhabited 
a mud village near the Mandans, when the latter were situated at Fort Clarke, with whom 
they have always sustained friendly relations. The construction of their houses is the 
same as that of the Mandans and Arikaras, as also are their usual occupations. Small 
patches of corn, beans, squashes, pumpkins, and a few other vegetables, have been culti- 
vated by them from the earliest period known, even to the present time. 
When living with the Mandans at Fort Clarke they numbered about one hundred and 
twenty lodges, averaging five souls to a lodge, making an aggregate of six hundred 
persons, but having suffered by the small-pox at the same time with the Mandans, were 
reduced to forty lodges, and these thinly peopled and badly provided. In this condition 
they removed to a large prairie sixty miles above on the opposite side of the river. At 
this point they now reside, and their village is composed of about eighty huts, which are 
tolerably well filled with occupants. 
The similarity of their language with that of the Crows shows plainly that they were 
formerly the same people, each being able to talk with and understand each other without 
much difficulty, though their long separation has caused some variation, as will be seen by 
comparing the annexed vocabularies. No trace of their origin or migration from other 
