| Iñgáxa-gă! | Edádaⁿ | ctécte | údaⁿqti | ákipañkiȼa´-gă! | Edádaⁿ | júajĭ | wiⁿ´ | ĕdedíte | ʞĭ´ | íbetaⁿañkiȼá-gă! |
| Make it for me | What | soever | very good | cause me to meet it | What | inferior | one | it is there | if | cause me to pass around it |
| Ȼi´-naⁿ | ámusta | waȼíɔna | ȼagȼiⁿ´, | ní-uȼan´da | ȼéȼaⁿ | ȼéȼaⁿska | édegaⁿ, | edádaⁿ | waníta | ʇan´de |
| Only thou | directly above (us) | in sight | you sit | island | this place | this large | but | what | quadruped | ground |
| uckaⁿ´ckaⁿ | ȼaⁿ | bȼúgaqti | níkaciⁿga | ȼaⁿ´ | ctĕwaⁿ´ | wiⁿ´ | aⁿ´ba | ataⁿ´ | íȼaɔni´gȼaⁿ | ʞĭ, | égaⁿ-naⁿ. |
| mv. on it here and there | the | all | person | the | soever | one | day | how long | you decide for him | when | always so. |
| Ádaⁿ | wi´ʞa-naⁿ | maⁿ´ | hă, | Wakan´da” |
| Therefore | I ask a favor of you | alone | . | Wakanda |
This may be rendered freely thus: “Ho, Mysterious Power, you who are the Sun! Here is tobacco! I wish to follow your course. Grant that it may be so! Cause me to meet whatever is good (i. e., for my advantage) and to give a wide berth to anything that may be to my injury or disadvantage. Throughout this island (the world) you regulate everything that moves, including human beings, when you decide for one that his last day on earth has come, it is so. It can not be delayed. Therefore, O Mysterious Power, I ask a favor of you.”
THE PONKA SUN DANCE OF 1873.
In the summer of 1873, when the author was missionary to the Ponka in what was Todd County, Dakota, that tribe had a sun dance on the prairie near the mission house. The scarifications and subsequent tortures and dancing lasted but three hours instead of a longer period, owing to the remonstrances of Bishop Hare, the agent, and the missionary. The head chief, White Eagle, was tied to his pony, after he had been scarified and fastened to the sun pole. Some of his policemen, armed with whips, lashed the pony until it leaped aside, tearing out the lariat that fastened the chief to the sun pole, and terminating his participation in the ceremony. (See Pl. XLVI and § 187.) For obvious reasons the author did not view the sun dance, but he was told about it by some of the spectators. As the chief, Standing Buffalo, had said to Bishop Hare in the council previous to the sun dance, “You white people pray to Wakanda in your way, and we Indians pray to Wakanda in the sun dance. Should you chance to lose your way on the prairie you would perish, but if we got lost we would pray to Wakanda in the sun dance, and find our way again.”
THE MOON A WAKANDA.
§ 30. No examples of invocations of the moon have yet been found among the Omaha and Ponka. But that the moon is “qube” appears from the decorations of robes and tents. (See §§ 45-47.)
The moon is addressed as a “grandfather” and is described as the “Wakanʇa of night” in “Osage Traditions,” lines 55-59.[21]