Note 349 — Chapter XXVI · OBSERVATIONS ON THE TRIBE OF THE MANITARIES, OR GROS VENTRES

The corn dance is described in our volume xv, pp. 127, 128. It is not analogous to the celebrated green-corn dance of the Creek Indians, for which see A. S. Gatschet, Migration Legend of the Creek Indians (Philadelphia, 1884), pp. 181, 182. The latter is, in essence, a thanksgiving for the first fruits, the former a ceremony to secure the fertilization of seed-corn. Catlin (North American Indians pp. 188-190), describes another Minitaree dance upon the harvest of the corn, which he thinks bears resemblance to that of the Creeks.—Ed.