[326] See p. [347], for illustration of Sioux burial stages.—Ed.
[327] For the traditions of the first man, Nu-mohk-muck-a-nah, consult Catlin, North American Indians, i, pp. 178-181.—Ed.
[328] For the Minitaree, see our volume v, pp. 113, 114, note 76. An extended account is given by Washington Matthews, "Ethnography and Philology of the Hidatsa Indians," in United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, Miscellaneous Publications, No. 7 (Washington, 1877). Maximilian classes with the Minitaree villages that of the Ahnahaway, or Gens des Souliers, also called Wetersoon, whom Lewis and Clark considered a separate though allied tribe.—Ed.
[329] See Plate 81, figures 5 and 6, in the accompanying atlas, volume xxv of our series.—Ed.
[330] Ibid., figure 10.—Ed.
[331] Catlin says that Long Hair was the head chief of the tribe, having received his office from the circumstance of having the longest hair in the tribe. Campbell and Sublette stated that they had lived in his lodge and examined his hair, which measured ten feet and seven inches of natural growth.—Ed.
[332] Fort Cass was built by the American Fur Company in the autumn of 1832, on the right bank of the Yellowstone, two or three miles below the mouth of the Bighorn. It was intended for the Crow trade, and frequently was called Tulloch's fort from its founder, a company employé. Wyeth, on his famous voyage, passed this fort in a bull-boat, August 18, 1833. See Irving, Rocky Mountains, ii, pp. 159-161. About 1838 Fort Cass was abandoned in favor of Fort Van Buren farther down the Yellowstone.—Ed.
[333] The bardaches will be spoken of when we are treating of the customs of the Mandans.—Maximilian.
[334] See p. [347], for illustration of Sioux burial stages.—Ed.
[335] Knife River, called by the French Rivière de Couteau, and by the Indians Minah Wakpa, is a prairie stream, whose course is in general east, entering the Missouri in Mercer County, North Dakota. The town of Stanton is now on the site of the third village, Awachawi—Ed.