A Study of Siouan Cults: Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1889-1890, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1861, pages 351-544Dorsey, James Owen
Religion
A Study of Siouan Cults: Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1889-1890, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1861, pages 351-544
Dorsey, James Owen
Siouan Indians -- Religion
Story of a Heyoka man 469
Heyoka women 471
Iya, the god of gluttony 471
Ikto, Iktomi, or Unktomi 471
Ćaŋotidaŋ and Hoḣnoġića 473
Anuŋg-ite 473
Penates 475
Guardian spirits 475
Beliefs about the buffalo 475
Prevalence of the beliefs 475
Origin of the buffalo 476
The Tataŋgnaśkiŋyaŋ, or Mythic buffalo 477
The bear 477
The wolf 477
Horses 479
Spiders 479
Snake lore 479
The double woman 480
Deer women 480
Dwarfs or elves 481
Bogs 481
Trees 482
Customs relating to childhood 482
Puberty 483
Ghost lore and the future life 484
Meaning of wanaġi 484
Assiniboin beliefs about the dead 485
Ghosts not always visible 485
Death and burial lore 485
Why the Teton stopped burying in the ground 486
Importance of tattooing 486
Ceremonies at the ghost lodge 487
Good and bad ghosts 489
Intercourse with ghosts 489
Ghost stories 489
The ghost husband 489
The solitary traveler 489
The ghost on the hill 489
The Indian who wrestled with a ghost 489
The man who shot a ghost 492
Assiniboin beliefs about ghosts 492
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