The Siouan Cults (Illustrated Edition). James Owen Dorsey

Kansa Beliefs Respecting Death and a Future Life

       Chapter IV. ┴Ciwere and Winnebago Cults

       Term “Great Spirit” Never Heard Among the Iowa

       The Sun a Wakanta

       The Winds as Wakantas

       The Thunder-being a Wakanta

       Subterranean Powers

       Subaquatic Powers

       Animals as Wakantas

       Apotheoses

       Dwellings of Gods

       Worship

       Taboos

       Public or Tribal Fetiches81

       Symbolic Earth Formations of the Winnebago82

       Personal Fetiches

       Dancing Societies

       ┴Ciwere Traditions

       Belief in Future Life

       Chapter V. Dakota and Assiniboin Cults

       Alleged Dakota Belief in a Great Spirit

       Riggs on the Taku Wakan

       Meaning of “Wakan”

       Daimonism

       Animism

       Principal Dakota Gods

       Miss Fletcher on Indian Religion

       Prayer

       Sacrifice

       Use of Paint in Worship

       The Unkteḣi, or Subaquatic and Subterranean Powers

       The Wakiᴺyaᴺ (Wakiŋyaŋ), or Thunder-beings

       The Armor Gods

       The War Prophet

       The Spirits of the Mystery Sacks

       Takuśkaŋśkaŋ, the Moving Deity

       Tunkan Oe Inyan, the Stone God or Lingam

       Iŋyaŋ Śa

       Mato Tipi

       The Sun and Moon

       Berdaches

       Astronomical Lore

       Day and Night

       The Dawn

       Weather Spirit

       Heyoka

       Iya, the God of Gluttony

       Ikto, Iktomi, or Unktomi

       Ćaŋotidaŋ and Hoḣnoġića

       Anŭŋg-ite

       Penates

       Guardian Spirits

       Beliefs about the Buffalo

       The Bear

       The Wolf

       Horses

       Spiders

       Snake Lore

       The Double Woman