A Study of Siouan Cults / Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1889-1890, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1861, pages 351-544

by James Owen Dorsey

[112] Pond, Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll, vol. II, pp. 35-38.

[113] Lynd, Ibid., pt. 2, pp. 71-77. Riggs, in Amer. Philolog. Assoc. Proc, 1872., p. 6.

[114] A picture of “Wah-Menitu, the spirit or god in the water,” is given on p. 161 of Lloyd’s translation of Maximilian, London, 1843.

[115] According to Omaha tradition, two buffalo gentes are of subaquatic origin. See Om. Soc., pp. 231-233.

[116] From an unpublished text of Bushotter.

[117] The Thunderers in the Omaha myth have hair of different colors. One has white hair, the second has yellow, the third, bright red, and the fourth, green hair. See Contr. N. A. Eth., vol. VI, p. 187.

[118] Pond, Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., Vol. II, pt. 2, 41-42.

[119] Pond, Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., vol. II, pt. 3, p. 43. Riggs, Tah-koo Wah-kon, pp. 62-64.

[120] Missions and Missionaries, p. 143.

[121] Smet. op. cit., p. 134.