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Note 174 — Chapter VI · - GENTES IN OTHER TRIBES OF THE GANOWÁNIAN FAMILY.

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In every tribe the name indicated the gens. Thus, among the Sauks and Foxes Long Horn is a name belonging to the Deer gens; Black Wolf, to the wolf. In the Eagle gens the following are specimen names: Ka′-po-nä, “Eagle drawing his nest;” Ja-ka-kwä-pe, “Eagle sitting with his head up;” Pe-ă-tä-na-kä-hok, “Eagle flying over a limb.”

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