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Siouan Sociology

(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-yula), 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 (Ple-yute-ṡni), Eat-no-buffalo-cows.

THE TITOᴺWAᴺ OR TETON

TRIBAL DIVISIONS

The Teton are divided into seven tribes, which were formerly gentes. These are the Sitcaⁿxu (Sićanġu). Itaziptco (Itazipćo), Siha-sapa, Minikooju (Minikooźu), Oohe-noⁿpa (Oohe-noɳpa), Oglala, and Huñkpapa.

THE SITCAᴺXU

The Sitcaⁿxu, Bois Brulés, or Burned Thighs, are divided locally into (1) Qeyata-witcaca (Ḣeyata wićaṡa), People-away-from-the-river, the Highland or Upper Brulé, and (2) the Kud (Kula or