  The Yanktonai are divided into the Upper and Lower Yanktonai, the latter being known as the HuÑkpatina, Those-camping-at-one-end (or "horn")-of-the-tribal-circle. [pg 218]The Upper Yanktonai geutes are as follows: 1, Tcan-ona (Ćaɳ ona), Shoot-at-trees, or Wazi-kute, Shooters-among-the-pines; from these the Ho-he or Asiniboin have sprung. 2, Takini, Improved-in-condition (as a lean animal or a poor man). 3, Cikcitcena (Ṡikṡićena), Bad-ones-of-different-sorts. 4, Bakihon (Bakihoɳ), Gash-themselves-with-knives. 5, Kiyuksa, Breakers (of the law or custom); see Mdewakantonwan gens number 1. 6, Pa-baksa, Cut-heads; some of these are on Devils Lake reservation, North Dakota. 7, Name forgotten. The following are the gentes of the Lower Yanktonai, or HuÑkpatina: 1, Pute-temini, Sweat-lips; the gens of Maxa-bomdu or Drifting Goose. 2, Gŭn-iktceka (Ṡuɳ ikćeka), Common dogs. 3, Taquha-yuta (Taḣuha-yuta), Eat-the-scrapings-of-hides. 4, San-ona (Saɳ-ona), Shot-at-some-white-object; this name originated from killing an albino buffalo; a HuÑkpapa chief said that refugees or strangers from another tribe were so called. 5, Iha-ca (Iha-ṡa), Red-lips. 6, Ite-xu (Ite-ġu), Burned-face. 7, Pte-yute-cni (Pte-yute-ṡni), Eat-no-buffalo-cows. |
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