Gens du Gauche or
i.e., Those who Left Hand.
row in canoes; 100
lodges, under
Trembling Hand.
Wah-ze-ah we-chas-ta, O-see-gah (of Wah-zi-ah, or
Northern People (so Lewis and Clark, To-kum-pi, Gens du
called because they Discoveries, p. Nord.
came from the north in 43, 1806).
1839); 60 lodges,
under Le Robe de Vent.
The following gentes have not been collated: Of Maximilian's list,
Otopachgnato, les gens du large, possibly a duplication, by mistake, of
Watopachnato, les gens de l'age; Tschantoga, les gens des bois;
Tanin-tauei, les gens des osayes; Chabin, les gens des montagnes. Of
Hayden's list, Min'-i-shi-nak'-a-to, gens du lac.
The correct form in the Yankton dialect of the first name is Witcinyanpina
(Wicinyanpina), girls; of the second, probably Inyantonwan (Inyan tonwan);
the third and fourth gentes derive their names from the verb watopa, to
paddle a canoe; the fifth is Waziya witcacta (Waziya wicasta). Tschan in
Tschantoga is the German notation of the Dakota tcan (can), tree, wood.
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