Pawnee And Kansa Kaw Indians PDF Download

Excerpt from Legends of the Kaw: The Folk-Lore of the Indians of the Kansas River Valley II The Pawnees. Wanderings in Kansas and Nebraska. - Origin. - The word "Pani." - Imitation of wolves. - Bands. - Tuhk-pah-huks-taht. - Skidi-rah-ru. - Tuh-wa-hoka-sha. - Tu-hi-'ts-pi-yet - Hunting in ancient times. - Weapons. - Utensils. - Government. - Dress. - Lodges. - Music. - Courtship and marriage. - Religious ceremonies. - The Buffalo Dance. - Departure for semi-annual buffalo hunt. - The surround. - Ti-ra-wa, the Pawnee Deity. - The Nahu-rac. - Sacrifices. - The wonderful horse. - Homes of the Nu-hu-rac. - The Nu-hu-rac doctors. - Medicine men and priests. - Belief in a prehistoric race. - Destruction of the giants. - Human sacrifices. - A Legend of Kansas. - Pit-a-le-shar'-u. - Hostilities against other nations. - Villages of the lowas and Sacs. - War with the lowas, 1839. - Battle amid the sunflowers. - Sale of Pawnee lands. - Removal to the Indian Territory. - Success in agriculture...34 III. The Sioux. Early home. - Wanderings in the Mississippi Basin. - Present location. - Origin of name. - Meaning of word "Dakota." - Pantomime. - Divisions of nation. - Relation of chief to people. - Disposition of bodies of the dead. - Eagle Eye and Scarlet Dove. - Slavery of women. - Vanity of men. - Language of the feather. - Decoration of the person. - Plural marriage. - Story of Anepetusa. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.