Note 508 — Chapter IV · RISE OF THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT
Reading edition
Beckwith, "Customs of the Dakotahs," Rep. Smith. Inst., 1886, Part I, 256 (abduction with purchase). Among the Siouan Indians, according to McGee, there is no marriage by capture; but captive women are sometimes espoused and girls are occasionally abducted: XV. Rep. of Bureau of Eth., 178.