Note 292 — Chapter XXV · ACCOUNT OF THE MANDAN INDIANS (continued 2)
Hannibal Evans Lloyd translation
The ceremony of Okippe was for many years celebrated annually; but as the numbers of the tribe decreased it occurred less frequently, and has now with the progress of missionary work become extinct. See, however, description of the celebration in Henry A. Boller, Among the Indians, Eight Years in the Far West (Philadelphia, 1868), pp. 100-111.—Ed.