Note 336 — Chapter XXVI · OBSERVATIONS ON THE TRIBE OF THE MANITARIES, OR GROS VENTRES

For the Crow and Minitaree legend of the separation of the two branches of the tribe, see Matthews, Hidatsa, pp. 39, 40. The Minitaree name for the Crows signified "They who refused the paunch" (i. e., of the buffalo). According to Lewis and Clark (Original Journals, v, p. 297), "they quarreled about a buffalo, and two bands left the village and went into the plains, (those two bands are now known by the title Pounch [Paunch] and Crow Indians.)" See also Original Journals, vi, pp. 103, 104, where the Paunch Indians are made a separate band. This was probably the division of the Crows known as Aelekaweah. See Smithsonian Institution Report, 1885, part ii, p. 113.—Ed.