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ku-she’-mi-ka, very good, very true. wa-shi’, and wa-shi’-ta, a white man. 
village, mi’-ti. wa-shi’-psi, a black man. 
mi-ti’-o-tosh, with the camp or village. wa-shi’-ta-ko-hay’-te, the white man’s corn. 
wa-shi’-ta-ptin’-de, the white man’s cow. 
Wi: wa-shi’-ta-ma’-to, the white man’s bear, or hog. 
walk, nin’-dush, to walk. wa-shi’-tas-lte, white man’s big-horn, sheep. 
war-club, mili’-a-ske. who, tev’-e. 
warrior, ka-ha’-re-kosh, a brave or warrior. wife, kons. 
water, mun’-i, and men’-i. wind, ho. 
men-i-ker’-1, all water, the sea. windpipe, i-ni’-he. 
men-i-wa’-rat-ker’-ish, dirty water. wish, i-te’-rish, to wish. 
men-i-ka-tu’-sdsh, quick or rapid water. with, o-tish’. 
men-i-i-wa’-ka-he, runners on the river shore, ko-ke’-ta, within. 
plover. kish’-ta, under, within. 
mun-ih’-te, a lake. wolf, she-he’-ke, prairie wolf. 
mune bin, \a/spring of water. woman, mi’-he-mi-he-shi’-na-shiish, a handsome 
mun-i-pu’-shu-hish, to swim. saint b 
men-i-e’-ha-ka-he, at the water’s edge. wood, ma’-na. 
men-i-kish’-ta, through the water. writing, ka-pu’-se, painting or writing. 
Wwe, mi’-o-na. : 
weak, a-hi’-kosh. Wo 
weed, ma-he’. yellow, psi’-de. 
what, ta. yes, hoy. 
ma-tev’-1, what is it? hai’-i, same as Dakota, “how?” “yes,” “it is 
which, ko-tev’-i, which one? good.” 
white, sho’-te. yesterday, hio’-da-ke. 
wa-sku-sho’-te, white sugar, same as salt. ho-ra-ke’-ku-ser’-o, day before yesterday. 
CHAPTER XXII. 
XII. Omanas. — XIV. IowAs, or OTos. 
SKETCH OF THE OMAHA, AND IOWA OR OTO INDIANS. 
Havine made comparatively few observations in person in regard to the Indian tribes 
of the Lower Missouri, I shall not at this time attempt to present a detailed history of 
them. It is my intention at some future period to investigate with care all the languages 
of the Indian tribes now located in the Valley of the Missouri, which have not already 
been sufficiently studied for ethnological and philological purposes, and to work out 
the history of their migrations from all the materials within’ my reach. As I remarked 
of the tribes previously described, but little information of a reliable character can be ob- 
