See Chapter VI.
The offerings are sometimes made to appease the angry spirit dwelling in the serpent.
Occasionally the Dakotas sacrifice a dog to it.
“Indian Tribes of North America.” Vol. IV. pp. 51.
The remaining daughters were alive when I was in Minnesota. One of them was married to a man of the tribe. The other was the wife of a white man, who, Faribault said, was employed as a drummer at Fort Snelling.