MINERALS
That the Indians are less observant of inanimate substances than of organized beings, will be manifest from the following meagre catalogue of minerals.
Bin-gwaw-beek—Lime stone, (ashes stone.)
Mat-toat-wah-nah-beek—Granite.
Muk-kud-dah-waw-beek—Black stone.
Mik-kwum-me-waw-beek—White Flint, (ice stone.)
Pish-ah-beek—Sulphuret of iron. They often find this passing into sulphate of iron, and make use of it for dying black.
O-poih-gun-us-sin—Pipe stone; farther distinguished according to colour.
O-skaw-shut-waw-beek—Gneiss, (vein stone.)
Mis-kwaw-sin—Red sand stone.