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Deer Women

       Dwarfs or Elves

       Bogs

       Trees

       Customs Relating to Childhood

       Puberty

       Ghost Lore and the Future Life

       Exhortations to Absent Warriors

       Mysterious Men and Women

       Gopher Lore

       Causes of Boils and Sores

       Results of Lying, Stealing, Etc.

       Secret Societies

       Fetichism

       Ordeals or Modes of Swearing

       Sorcery and Jugglery

       Omens

       Chapter VI. Cults of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Sapona

       Authorities

       Alleged Belief in a Great Spirit

       The Great Mystery a Modern Deity

       Polytheism

       Worship

       Mandan Cults

       Mystery Objects and Places of the Mandan and Hidatsa

       Hidatsa Cults

       Sapona Cults

       Chapter VII. Concluding Remarks

       Peet on Indian Religions

       The Author’s Reply

       Cults of the Elements

       The Four Quarters

       Symbolic Colors

       Colors in Personal Names

       The Earth Powers

       Earth Gentes

       The Fire Powers

       Fire Gentes

       The Wind-Makers

       Wind Gentes

       Each Quarter Reckoned as Three

       Names Referring to Other Worlds

       The Water Powers

       Water People

       Cautions and Queries

       Composite Names

       Personal Names from Horned Beings

       Names Derived from Several Homogeneous Objects or Beings

       Return of the Spirit to the Eponym

       Functions of Gentes and Subgentes

       The “Messiah Craze”

      GAST LITH. CO.

       Plate XLIV

       SIOUAN TENTS.

      Chapter I.

       Introduction

       Table of Contents

Definitions of “Cult” and “Siouan”

       Table of Contents

      § 1. Cult, as used in this article, means a system of religious belief and worship, especially the rites and ceremonies employed in such worship. The present article treats of the cults of a few of the Siouan tribes—that is, with two exceptions, of such tribes

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