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Osage Traditions. James Owen Dorsey
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Автор произведения James Owen Dorsey
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"After the council between the Tsíɔu, Waɔaɔe, and Hañ'ʞa-utá¢anʇse, two old men were sent off to seek a country in which all might dwell. One of these was a Tsíɔu wactáʞe and the other a Panɥka-wactáʞe. Each man received a pipe from the council and was told to go for seven days without food or drink. He carried a staff to aid him in walking. Three times a day he wept, in the morning, at noon, and near sunset. They returned to the people at the end of the seven days, being very thin. The report of the Tsíɔu man was accepted, so the Tsíɔu gens is superior to the Panɥka-wactáʞe or Watsetsi. A Waɔaɔe man acted as crier and told all about the new home of the nation. All the old men decorated their faces with clay. The next morning the two old men who had gone in search of the new home led their respective sides of the nation, who marched in parallel roads. When they reached the land the policemen ran around in a circle, just as they do previous to starting to war. The Waɔaɔe man ran around from right to left and the ¢uqe man from left to right. At different stations the two old leaders addressed the people. Finally the men took sharp pointed sticks, which they stuck into the ground, each one saying 'I wish my lodge to be here.' The next day the Cuka or messenger of the Tsíɔu old man went to summon the Elk crier. The latter was ordered to make a proclamation to all the people, as follows: 'They say that you must remove to-day! Wakanʇa has made good weather! They say that you must remove today to a good land!' In those days the Osage used dogs instead of horses. When the old Tsíɔu man made his speech, he went into details about every part of a lodge, the fireplace, building materials, implements, &c. Four sticks were placed in the fireplace, the first pointing to the west. When this was laid down, the Tsíɔu leader spoke about the West Wind, and also about a young buffalo bull (Tseʇu’-ɔiñʞa), repeating the name Wani’e-skă. When the stick at the north was laid down, he spoke of Tsehe quʇse (gray buffalo horns) or a buffalo bull. When the stick at the east was laid down he spoke of Tseʇuʞa tañʞa (a large buffalo bull). On laying down the fourth stick at the south, he spoke of Tse minʞa (a buffalo cow). At the same time a similar ceremony was performed by the aged Panɥka man on the right side of the tribe.2
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"In placing the stick to the east, Taʇse ʞaqpa tsĕ, The East Wind, and Tahe cade, Dark-Horned Deer, were mentioned; to the north, Taʇse Pasan tsĕ, The North Wind, and The Deer with gray horns were mentioned; to the west, Taʇse Man'ha tsĕ, The West Wind, and an animal which makes a lodge and is with the Tahe pasiʞe were mentioned; to the south, T]aʇse Ak'a tsĕ, The South Wind, and Ta wañka he aʞ¢aɔĭ skutañʞa were mentioned."3
ʞahiʞe-waʇayiñʞa gave no further information, as a reported case of smallpox near the agency led the author to start for the East February 21, 1883. Since then he has learned of the existence of similar societies among the Kansa and the Ponka, and he suspects that there were formerly such societies among the Omaha.4
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