When the people first hear the cry of the night hawk in the spring, they begin to talk of going to hunt the buffalo, because when the night hawks return the buffalo have become fat again, and the birds bring the news, for they never cry in vain. OMENS FROM DREAMS. § 309. There are some animals which are esteemed as bringing better fortunes than others. Hawks are lucky. Bears are not so good, as the bear is slow and clumsy, and apt to be wounded; and although savage when cornered, is not as likely as some animals to escape harm. Among some tribes in this family of Indians to dream of the moon is regarded as a grave calamity.[216] See § 30. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 84: Say, in James’s Account of Long’s Exped. Rocky Mts., Vol. I, 268.] [Footnote 85: Shea, Amer. Cath. missions, p. 25.] [Footnote 86: Lynd, Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., Vol. II, pt. 2, p. 63. Compare these seeming contradictions with those observed among the Omaha and Ponka, especially §§ 21-24.] [Footnote 87: Ibid, pp. 64-65.] [Footnote 88: Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., Vol. II, pt. 3, p. 34.] [Footnote 89: Riggs, Tah-koo Wah-kon, pp. 56, 57.] [Footnote 90: Riggs in Am. Antiq., Vol. II, No. 4, p. 265; and in Am. Philolog. Assoc. Proc., 1872, pp. 5, 6.] [Footnote 91: Riggs, in Am. Antiq., vol. II, No. 4, p. 266. Pond, Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., vol. II, pt. 3, p. 33. Smet, op. cit., 120, note.] [Footnote 92: Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., vol. II, pt. 2.] [Footnote 93: Lynd, Ibid., p. 67.] [Footnote 94: Am. Antiq., vol. V, 149.] [Footnote 95: Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., vol. I, pt. 2, pp. 67, 68.] [Footnote 96: Ibid., pt. 3, p. 33.] [Footnote 97: Riggs, Tah-koo Wah-kon, p. 61, et passim.] [Footnote 98: Rept. Peabody Museum, vol. III, p. 276, note.] [Footnote 99: Lynd, Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., Vol. II, pt. 2, p. 72.] [Footnote 100: Lynd, Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., Vol. II, pt. 2, pp. 72, 76, 77.] [Footnote 101: Smet, Western Missions and Missionaries, p. 92.] [Footnote 102: Ibid., p. 134.] [Footnote 103: Lynd, Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., Vol. II, pt. 2, p. 67.] [Footnote 104: Lynd, Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., vol. II, pt. 2, p. 80.] [Footnote 105: Riggs, in Am. Antiq., vol. II, p. 266.] [Footnote 106: Riggs, Tah-koo Wah-kon, p. 62. See Maza or Iron names of Indians in the author’s forthcoming monograph on Indian Personal Names.] [Footnote 107: Riggs, in Am. Antiq., vol. II, p. 267.] [Footnote 108: Contr. N. A. Ethn. vol. VI, pp. 357-358.] [Footnote 109: Missions and Missionaries, p. 136.] [Footnote 110: Am. Antiq., vol. V, p. 149.] [Footnote 111: Rept. Peabody Museum, vol. III, p. 297.] [Footnote 112: Pond, Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll, vol. II, pp. 35-38.] [Footnote 113: Lynd, Ibid., pt. 2, pp. 71-77. Riggs, in Amer. Philolog. Assoc. Proc, 1872., p. 6.] [Footnote 114: A picture of “Wah-Menitu, the spirit or god in the water,” is given on p. 161 of Lloyd’s translation of Maximilian, London, 1843.]