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| CHAPTER I.—Introduction | 361 |
| Definitions of “Cult” and “Siouan” | 361 |
| Siouan Family | 361 |
| Authorities | 361 |
| Alphabet | 363 |
| Abbreviations | 364 |
| CHAPTER II.—Definitions | 365 |
| Alleged belief in a Great Spirit | 365 |
| Phenomena divided into human and superhuman | 365 |
| Terms for “mysterious,” “lightning,” etc. | 366 |
| Other Omaha and Ponka terms | 367 |
| Significance of personal names and kinship terms | 368 |
| Myth and legend distinguished from the superhuman | 368 |
| CHAPTER III.—Cults of the Omaha, Ponka, Kansa, and Osage | 371 |
| Beliefs and practices not found | 371 |
| Omaha, Ponka, and Kansa belief in a wakanda | 372 |
| Seven great wakandas | 372 |
| Invocation of warmth and streams | 372 |
| Prayer to wakanda | 373 |
| Accessories of prayer | 373 |
| Omaha and Kansa expressions about wakanda | 374 |
| Ponka belief about malevolent spirits | 374 |
| An old Omaha custom | 375 |
| The sun a wakanda | 376 |
| Invocations | 376 |
| The offering of tobacco | 377 |
| The Ponka sun dance of 1873 | 378 |
| The moon a wakanda | 378 |
| Berdaches | 378 |
| Stars as wakandas | 379 |
| The winds as wakandas | 380 |
| Invocation | 380 |
| Kansa sacrifice to the winds | 380 |
| Osage consecration of mystic fireplaces | 380 |
| The thunder-being a wakanda | 381 |
| Omaha and Ponka invocation of the thunder-being | 381 |
| Thunder-being invoked by warriors | 382 |
| Ictasanda custom | 383 |
| Kansa worship of the thunder-being | 385 |
| Subterranean and subaquatic wakandas | 386 |
| The inda?iÑga | 386 |
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| Other Kansa wakandas | 387 |
| Omaha invocations of the trap, etc. | 387 |
| Fasting | 390 |
| Mystic trees and plants | 390 |
| I?a‘e?? | 392 |
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| Trees | 482 |
| Customs relating to childhood | 482 |
| Puberty | 483 |
| Ghost lore and the future life | 484 |
| Meaning of wana?i | 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 |
| Prayers to the dead, including ancestors | 493 |
| Metamorphoses and transmigration of souls | 493 |
| Exhortations to absent warriors | 493 |
| Mysterious men and women | 493 |
| Gopher lore | 496 |
| Causes of boils and sores | 496 |
| Results of lying, stealing, etc. | 497 |
| Secret societies | 497 |
| Fetichism | 498 |
| Public or tribal fetiches | 498 |
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| Ordeals, or modes of swearing | 499 |
| Sorcery and jugglery | 499 |
| Omens | 500 |
| Bodily omens | 500 |
| Animal omens | 500 |
| Omens from dreams | 500 |
| CHAPTER VI.—Cults of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Sapona | 501 |
| Authorities | 501 |
| Alleged belief in a Great Spirit | 501 |
| The great mystery a modern deity | 501 |
| Polytheism | 502 |
| Worship | 502 |
| Fasting | 502 |
| Sacrifice | 502 |
| The Okipa | 502 |
| The Da?pike | 503 |
| Cult of the Yoni | 505 |
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