[212] Ibid., p. 46.

[213] Western Missions and Missionaries, p. 141.

[214] Ibid., p. 143.

[215] This is also an Omaha belief.

[216] Miss Fletcher, “Elk Mystery of the Ogalalla Sioux,” in Rept. Peabody Museum, Vol. III, p. 281 note.

[217] Lewis and Clarke’s Exped., ed., Allen, vol. I, p. 174.

[218] U. S. Geol. and Geogr. Surv., Hayden, Miscell. Publ., No. 7, 1877: Ethnog. and Philol. of Hidatsa Indians, p. 48.

[219] Maximilian, Travels * * * in North America, p. 359.

[220] Ibid, p. 176.

[221] Ibid, pp. 369, 374, 386, 388, 400.