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toner's address. 
expectation, the study given the subject from an his- 
torical point of view has led me to the conviction that 
the appearance of the physician among primitive, sav- 
age, and barbarous races antedates the priest and the 
lawgiver. The physician among all tribes is a person 
of dignity and of the highest consideration, and is pres- 
ent at all important councils, and after death is buried 
with imposing ceremonies.* He usually dresses with 
Ma^shkoda^, a prairie. 
Nana^ndawe^ ewa^-wene^ne, who gives medicine, the man. 
Nana^'ndawe^owe^n, medicine, remedy, etc. 
Tcha^'biike^d, juggler. (Jossakecd by Schoolcraft.) 
Tcheska^ewe^n, jugglery. 
Tche^saka^n, juggler's lodge. 
Kosa^bandamowe^n, jugglers in regard to sickness. 
Meda^, an Indian Algonkin who is a member of the secret semi- 
religious order of the ''grand medicine." This name has its root in 
words which signify to eat and set aside ; in other words, the grand 
medicine is a feast apart or secret, or it may mean the long prelimi- 
nary fast necessary to admission, in which all eating is put aside or 
refrained from. 
" DOCTOR " AND " MEDICINE" IN SIOUX-DACOTAH. 
Pazhe^, grass, herbs, hay. 
Pa^zhe-hu/ta, grass-roots, herbs, medicines of all kinds. 
Pa^zhe-hn^ta Wetcha^sta, a medicine man, a physician. 
Waka^n, adj., spiritual, sacred, consecrated, wonderful, incom- 
prehensible, preternatural. 
Waka^n-atcho^n, to do tricks of jugglery. 
Waka^nda, to reckon as holy or sacred ; to worship. 
Wakan^-watche^pe, the sacred dance or grand medicine of 
which the so called (and mysterious) " medicine-sack" is the badge. 
Waka^n-woha^npe, a sacred feast. 
^"In all the Indian tribes the doctor or medicine-man holds a 
rank second only, and at times superior, to the chiefs. The arts they 
employ, the magic they use, and the varied information they must 
necessarily acquire, can be obtained only by persons possessing natural 
