Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri: Edited with Notes and Biographical SketchDenig, Edwin Thompson
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Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri: Edited with Notes and Biographical Sketch
Denig, Edwin Thompson
Assiniboine Indians; Indians of North America -- Missouri River Valley
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Indian name | Interpretation | Occasion, etc.
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Wah-kit-tai´ do-wan |Scalp song |More than ten different
| | kinds.
Chan-du´-pah do-wan |Incantation Pipe song |Two or three varieties.
Tah-tun´-gah do-wan |Bull song |In the Bull dance; also
| | used in the park.
Te-chagh´-ah do-wan |Incantation Lodge song |Religious.
Cong-ghai´ do-wan |Crow song |In Crow dance and before
| | starting to war.
Pai-hun-ghe-nah do-wan |White Crane song |Incantation—in the song
| | of that name.
Nap-pai´-she-ne do-wan |Song of the Braves |In the dance of “Ceux qui
| | sauve pas.”
Ah-kitchetah do-wan |Soldiers’ song |Used at the soldiers’
| | dance.
To-kah-nah do-wan |Foxes’ song |In the dance of that band.
Ah-do-wah |Diviner’s song for |About 20 different kinds.
| the sick |
At-to-do-wah |Tattooing song |Sung while performing
| | that operation.
Opah-ghai do-wan |Gathering of the kins |Called also the thunder
| | song (incantation).
Och-pi-e-cha-ghah do-wan |Buffalo Park song |Incantation.
Shunga-tunga do-wan |Horse song |In the whip dance.
Shunk to-ka-chah do-wan |Wolf song |Sung on starting to war.
To-shan do-wan |Drinking songs |More than ten varieties.
We do-wan |Sun song |Religious.
We-chah-nauge do-wan |Song to the dead |Lament.
Hoonk-o´-hon do-wan |Song of thanks |Several.
Wah-ghunh´-ksecha | |
do-wan |Bear song |Medicine.
We-coo-ah |Love song |About 10 varieties.
Nap-pai-e-choo do-wan |Hand gambling song |
Hampah-ah-he-yah |Moccasin gambling song |
We-hhnoh´-hhnoh |Incantation song and |
| feast |
Tsh-kun do-wan |Women’s dance song |Where women only perform.
Opon do-wan |Elk song |Medicine for elk,
| | religious.
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