2. Qe-mini-tcan (He-mini-can) or Qemnitca (Hemnica), literally,
"Mountain-water-wood;" so called from a hill covered with timber that
appears to rise out of the water. This was the gens of Red Wing, whose
village was a short distance from Lake Pepin, Minnesota.
3. Kap'oja (Kap{~COMBINING DOT BELOW~}oza), Not encumbered-with-much-baggage; "Light Infantry."
"Kaposia, or Little Crow's village," in Minnesota, in 1852.
4. Maxa-yute-cni (Maga-yute-'sni), Eats-no-geese.
5. Qeyata-otonwe (Heyata-otonwe), of-its-chief-Hake-wacte (Hake waste);
Qeyata-tonwan (Heyata-tonwan) of Reverend A.L. Riggs,
Village-back-from-the-river.
6. Oyate-citca (Oyate sica), Bad nation.
7. Tinta-otonwe (Tinta-otornwe), of Hake-wacte, or Tinta tonwan
(Tintatonwan) of A.L. Riggs, Village on-the-prairie (tinta).
These seven gentes still exist, or did exist as late as 1880.
THE WAQPE-KUTE
The name waqpe-kute is derived from waqpe (wahpe), leaf, and kute, to
shoot at, and signifies Shooters-among-the-leaves, i.
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