[272] Ibid, p. 176.

[273] Lewis and Clarke’s Exped., edited by Allen, vol. I, p. 280.

[274] U. S. Geol. and Geogr. Surv., Hayden, Miscell. Publ., No. 7, 1877: Ethnog. and Philol. of Hidatsa Indians, p. 49.

[275] Byrd, history of the dividing line (1729), vol. I, 106-108. Reprint: 1866.

[276] See the Omaha belief, in § 68.

[277] Rev. S. D. Peet, on the tradition of aborigines of North America, in Jour. Vict. Inst., Vol. XXI, pp. 229-247.

[278] Ibid., p. 232.

[279] Ibid., p. 233.

[280] Om. Soc., 3d Ann. Rept. Bur. Ethnol., §§ 136, 137.

[281] Ibid., §§ 19, 21, 31, 97, etc.