Teé-peé—A lodge or wigwam, often contracted to "tee."
Pronounced Mahr-peé-yah-doó-tah—literally, Cloud Red.
Pronounced Wahnmdeé—The War Eagle. Each feather worn by a warrior represents an enemy slain or captured—man, woman or child; but the Dakotas, before they became desperate under the cruel warfare of their enemies, usually spared the lives of their captives, and never killed women or infants, except in rare instances under the lex talionis. Neill's Hist. Minn., p. 112.
Mah-tó—The polar bear—ursus maritimus. The Dakotas say that in olden times white bears were often found about Rainy Lake and the Lake of the Woods in winter, and sometimes as far south as the mouth of the Minnesota. They say one was once killed at White Bear Lake (but a few miles from St. Paul and Minneapolis), and they therefore named the lake Medé Mató—White Bear Lake, literally—Lake White Bear.