[162] See Miss Fletcher’s account, Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci., 1882, p. 584.

[163] Miss Fletcher, op. cit., p. 583.

[164] The famous pipestone quarry was near the Big Sioux river in Minnesota.

[165] Concerning Dakota Beliefs, in Proc. Amer. Philol. Assoc., 3d An. Session, 1872, p. 5.

[166] Theogony of the Sioux, p. 269.

[167] Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., vol. II, pt. 2, p. 44.

[168] Compare the Maⁿnaⁿhiⁿdje sub-gens of the Kansa tribe, and part of the wind gens, as the [K]aⁿze gens of the Omaha, Kansa and Osage may be associated with the Takuṡkaŋśkaŋ of the Dakota.

[169] Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., vol. II, pt. 2, pp. 70, 71.

[170] Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., vol. II, pt. 2, p. 67.

[171] Theogony of the Sioux, p. 270.