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Common terms and phrases
AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN Analysis behold Brave Buffalo buffalo skull BULLETIN 61 PLATE BUREAU OF AMERICAN camp Catalogue cent ceremonial songs ceremony Chased-by-Bears Chippewa songs Comparatively modern songs compass Crow dancers downward dream DRUM not recorded Drum-rhythm similar Eagle Shield Eighth notes ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN 61 final tone following song fourth five-toned scale grass dance GRAY HAWK Group herb horses Indians Intercessor keynote kiŋ lodge lowered a semitone major seconds measure medicine-man MELODIC ANALYSIS-Continued melodic in structure melody metric unit minor in tonality Minor sixth minor third Number of songs Octave complete Old songs painted pewa pipe raised a semitone rhythm rhythmic unit sacred pole sacred stones Serial singer singing Sioux songs Sitting Bull sixth society song begins Song concerning Songs containing Standing Rock Standing Rock Reservation Sun dance Sung tempo Teton Sioux thunderbirds tonic tribe unaccented VOICE DRUM Wakaŋ'taŋka waŋ warpath Weasel Bear White Buffalo WORDS yelo
Popular passages
Page 162 - Wakan'tanka does not intend they shall do so directly — man must do the greater part in securing an understanding.
Page 194 - Taku6kan3karj, the moving deity ... is the most powerful of their [the Dakota] gods; the one most to be feared and propitiated, since, more than all others, he influences human weal and woe. He is supposed to live in the four winds, and the four black spirits of night do his bidding.2 Miss Alice C. Fletcher uses the term "Something that moves...
Page 194 - Miss Fletcher says: An intelligent Santee Indian said to me: . . . "The Four Winds are sent by ' the Something that moves '. There is a ' Something that moves ' at each of the ' Four Directions or Quarters'. . . . Among the Santee (Sioux) Indians the Four Winds are symbolized by the raven and a small black stone, less than a hen's egg in size.
Page 176 - ... alone, away from the crowd, to meditate upon many things. In order to secure a fulfillment of his desire a man must qualify himself to make his request. Lack of preparation would mean failure to secure a response to his petition. Therefore when a man makes up his mind to ask a favor of Wakantanka he makes due preparation. It is not fitting that a man should suddenly go out and make a request of Wakantanka.
Page 165 - From my boyhood I have observed leaves, trees, and grass, and I have never found two alike. They may have a general likeness, but on examination I have found that they differ slightly.
Page 229 - In the old days the Indians had few diseases, and so there was not a demand for a large variety of medicines. A medicine man usually treated one special disease and treated it successfully. He did this in accordance with his dream. A medicine man would not try to dream of all herbs and treat all diseases, for then he could not expect to succeed in all nor to fulfill properly the dream of any one herb or animal. He would depend on too many and fail in all. That is one reason why our medicine men lost...
Page 92 - I must give something that I really value to show that my whole being goes with the lesser gifts; therefore I promise to give my body.
Page 195 - When I was ten years of age, I looked at the land and the rivers, the sky above, and the animals around me and could not fail to realize that they were made by some great power. I was so anxious to understand this power that I questioned the trees and the bushes. It seemed as though the flowers were .itaring at me, and I wanted to ask them, "Who made you?
Page 305 - One evidence which the Ind1 give for believeing this place to be the residence of Some unusial Sperits is that they frequently discover a large assemblage of Birds about this Mound [this] is in my opinion a Sufficent proof to produce in the Savage Mind a Confident belief of all the properties which they ascribe [to] it.
Page xxx - An act to divide a portion of the reservation of the Sioux Nation of Indians in Dakota into separate reservations, and to secure the relinquishment of the Indian title to the remainder, and for other purposes.