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
Sorcery 511
Jugglery 512
Ghost lore 512
The future life 512
Four as a mystic number among the Mandan 513
Hidatsa cults 513
Hidatsa divinities 513
Animism 514
Worship of the elements, etc. 514
Serpent worship 514
Fetiches 515
Tribal fetiches 515
Personal fetiches 515
Oracles 516
Dreams 516
Berdaches 516
Astronomical lore 517
Food lore 517
Four souls in each human being 517
Sorcery 517
Disposal of the dead 518
Hidatsa belief as to future existence 518
Sapona cults 518
CHAPTER VII.--Concluding remarks 520
Peet on Indian religions 520
The author’s reply 521
Cults of the elements 522
The four quarters 524
Symbolic colors 527
Colors in personal names 533
The earth powers 534
Earth gentes 534
The fire powers 534
Fire gentes 536
The wind-makers 536
Wind gentes 537
Each quarter reckoned as three 537
Names referring to other worlds 537
The water powers 537
Water people 538
Cautions and queries 538
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