[17.] Powers, Contr. N.A. Ethn., 1877, vol. 3, p. 114.

[18.] Powers, Contr. N.A. Ethn., 1877, vol. 3, p. 122.

[19.] Cortez in Pac. R. R. Rep., 1856, vol. 3, pt. 3, pp. 118, 119.

[20.] Bartlett, Pers. Narr., 1854; Orozco y Berra, Geog., 1864.

[21.] Lewis, Travels of Lewis and Clarke, 15, 1809.

[22.] Dorsey in Am. Naturalist, March, 1886, p. 215.

[23.] Dorsey, Omaha map of Nebraska.

[24.] Dorsey in Am. Nat., March, 1886, p. 215.

[25.] Carte de la Louisiane, 1718.

[26.] In 1719, fide Margry, VI, 289, “the Ousita village is on the southwest branch of the Arkansas River.”