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Dahcotah

INTRODUCTION
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They pretend to know but little of a future state.

They have dreamy ideas of large cities somewhere in the heavens, where they will go, but still be at war with their enemies and have plenty of game.

An Indian woman's idea of future happiness consists in relief from care.
"Oh! that I were dead," they will often say, "when I shall have no more trouble." Veneration is much regarded in all Indian families.

Thus a son-in-law must never call his father-in-law by his name, but by the title father-in-law, and vice versa.

A female is not permitted to handle the sac for war purposes; neither does she dare look into a looking-glass, for fear of losing her eyesight.
The appearance of a brilliant aurora-borealis occasions great alarm.


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