Ԁaȼiⁿ-naⁿpajĭ, or He-who-fears-not-the-sight-of-a-Pawnee, is a member of the Black Bear subgens, and he is also one of the servants of the Elk gens, it being his duty to be present at the sacred tent of that gens, and to assist in the ceremonies pertaining to the invocation of the Thunder Beings. Gahige was the chief of the Iñke-sabĕ, a Buffalo gens, and at the time of his death he was the keeper of the two sacred pipes. Samuel Fremont is a member of the Eagle subgens. He came to Washington in the autumn of 1888 and assisted the author till February, 1889. Nudaⁿ-axa is a chief of a part of the Thunder-Being gens of the Ponka. The author has known him since 1871. The other Indian authorities need not be named, as they are in substantial agreement. The following authorities were consulted in the preparation of the Dakota and Assiniboin chapter: BRUYIER (JOHN), a Dakota, MS. Teton texts. 1888. Translated by himself. Bureau of Ethnology. BUSHOTTER (GEORGE), a Dakota, MS. Teton texts. 1887-’88. Translated by J. Owen Dorsey. Bureau of Ethnology. FLETCHER (Miss ALICE C.), The Sun-dance of the Ogalalla Sioux. In Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci., Montreal meeting, 1882, pp. 580-584. FLETCHER (Miss ALICE C.), several articles in Rept. Peabody Museum, vol. 3, 1884, pp. 260-333. HOVEY (Rev. H. C.), “Eyay Shah,” in Am. Antiquarian, Jan., 1887, pp. 35, 36. LONG (Maj. S. H.), Skiff Voyage to Falls of St. Anthony. In Minn. Histor. Soc. Coll., vol. II, pt. 1, pp. 18, 19, 55. LYND (J. W.), Religion of the Dakotas. In Minn. Histor. Soc. Coll., vol. II, pt. 2, pp. 57-84. POND (G. H.), Dakota Superstitions. In Minn. Histor. Soc. Coll., vol. II, pt. 3, pp. 32-62. RIGGS (S. R.), Theogony of the Sioux. In Am. Antiquarian, vol. II, No. 4, pp. 265-270. ----. In Am. Antiq., vol. V, 1883, p. 149. ----. In Am. Philolog. Assoc. Proc., 3d An. Sess., 1872, pp. 5, 6. ----. Tah-koo Wah-kon, or, The Gospel Among the Dakotas, 1869. SAY (THOS.), in James (E.), Account of Long’s Exped. Rocky Mts., vol. I, Phil., 1823. SHEA (J. GILMARY), Am. Cath. Missions, N. Y. (after 1854). SMET (Rev. P. J. DE), Western Missions and Missionaries, N. Y. (n. d.). WOODBURN (Dr. J. M., Jr.), MS. Letter and Teton Vocabulary, 1890. Bureau of Ethnology. ALPHABET. § 3. With the exception of seven letters taken from Riggs’s Dakota Dictionary, and which are used only in the Dakota words, the characters used in recording the Indian words occurring in this paper belong to the alphabet adopted by the Bureau of Ethnology. [TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: many of the letters in the original book cannot be represented faithfully in the character set available. The following table explains the conventions used to represent such characters. In the table, ‘x’ and ‘y’ are used to mean “any letter”.