[Footnote: A medicine woman is a female doctor or juggler.

No man or woman can assume this office without previous initiation by authority.

The medicine dance is a sacred rite, in honor of the souls of the dead; the mysteries of this dance are kept inviolable; its secrets have never been divulged by its members.

The medicine men and women attend in cases of sickness.

The Sioux have the greatest faith in them.