The more important of existing tribes and organized bands into which the nation is now divided are given below, being the dislocated remains of the “Seven Great Council Fires,” not only famed in tradition, but known to early white pioneers: Yankton and Yanktonai or Ihañkto^nwa^n, both derived from a root meaning “at the end,” alluding to the former locality of their villages. Sihasapa, or Blackfeet. Oheno^npa, or Two Kettles. Itaziptco, Without Bow. The French translation, Sans Arc, is, however, more commonly used. Minneconjou, translated Those who plant by the water, the physical features of their old home. Sitca^ngu, Burnt Hip or Brulé. Santee, subdivided into Wahpeton, Men among Leaves, _i. e._, forests, and Sisseton, Men of Prairie Marsh. Two other bands, now practically extinct, formerly belonged to the Santee, or, as it is more correctly spelled, Isanti tribe, from the root _Issan_, knife. Their former territory furnished the material for stone knives, from the manufacture of which they were called the “knife people.” Ogallalla, Ogalala, or Oglala. The meaning and derivation of this name, as well as the one next mentioned (Uncpapa), have been the subjects of much controversy. Uncpapa, Unkpapa, or Hunkpapa, the most warlike and probably the most powerful of all the bands, though not the largest. Hale, Gallatin, and Riggs designate a “Titon tribe” as located west of the Missouri, and as much the largest division of the Dakotas, the latter authority subdividing into the Sichangu, Itazipcho, Sihasapa, Minneconjou, Oheno^npa, Ogallalla, and Huncpapa, seven of the tribes specified above, which he calls bands. The fact probably is that “Titon” (from the word _ti^ntan_, meaning, “at or on land without trees, or prairie”) was the name of a tribe, but it is now only an expression for all those tribes whose ranges are on the prairie, and that it has become a territorial and accidental, not a tribular distinction. One of the Dakotas at Fort Rice spoke to the writer of the “hostiles” as “Titons,” with obviously the same idea of locality, “away on the prairie;” it being well known that they were a conglomeration from several tribes.