. Bulletin. Ethnology. 252 CHEYENNE [b. a. which may be the Turtle r. tributary of Red r., or possibly tlie St Croix, entering the Mississippi below the mouth of the Minnesota, and anciently known by a similar name. Consult for early habitat and migrations: Carver, Travels, 1796; Clark, Ind. Sign Lang., 1885; Comfort in Smithson. Rep. for 1871; La Salle in Margry, Decouvertes, ii, 1877; Lewis and Clark, Travels, i, ed. 1842; Mooney in 14th Rep. B. A. E., 1896; Williamson in Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., i, 1872. Although the alliance between the Sutaio and the Cheyenne dates from the crossing of the
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 252 CHEYENNE [b. a. which may be the Turtle r. tributary of Red r., or possibly tlie St Croix, entering the Mississippi below the mouth of the Minnesota, and anciently known by a similar name. Consult for early habitat and migrations: Carver, Travels, 1796; Clark, Ind. Sign Lang., 1885; Comfort in Smithson. Rep. for 1871; La Salle in Margry, Decouvertes, ii, 1877; Lewis and Clark, Travels, i, ed. 1842; Mooney in 14th Rep. B. A. E., 1896; Williamson in Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., i, 1872. Although the alliance between the Sutaio and the Cheyenne dates from the crossing of the Missouri r. by the CHEYENNE WOMAN AND CHILD the actual incorporation of the Sutaio into the Cheyenne camp-cin;le probably oc- curred within the last hundred years, as the two tribes were regarded as distinct by Lewis and Clark. There is no good reason for supposing the Sutaio to have been a detached band of Siksika drifted down directly from the n., as has been suggested, as the Cheyenne expressly state that the Sutaio spoke "a Cheyenne language," i. e. a dialect fairly intelligible to the Cheyenne, and that they lived s. w. of the original Cheyenne country. The linguistic researches of Rev. Rudolph Fetter, our best authority on the Chey- enne language, confirm the statement that the difference was only dialectic, which probably helps to account for the complete assimilation of the two tribes. The Cheyenne say also that they obtained the Sun dance and the Buffalo-head medi- cine from the Sutaio, but claim the Medi- cine-arrow ceremony as their own from the beginning. Up to 1835, and probably until reduced by the cholera of 1-849, the Sutaio retained their distinctive dialect, dress, and ceremonies, and camped apart irom the Cheyenne. In 1851 they were still to some extent a distinct people, but exist now only as one of the component divisions of the (Southern) Cheyenne tribe, in no respect different from the others. Under the name Staitan (a con- traction of
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