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Show 0*5 Beflage ». Ueber den Ursprnng der Otos, Ayow&s and Missonris, eine Sage, welche ein alter Chef jener Nation dem Indian Agent Major Bean mittheilte. - ,,Some time on the year fes war vor der Ankunft der Weissen in America) a large band of Indians, we call themselves Fisheaters (Hoton-ga) who inhabit the lakes, being discontended and concluded that they would migrate to the South-West in pursuite of the Buffaloe, and accordingly did so. At lake Puant they divided and that part which remained, still continued their original name in indian, but from some cause or other the whites called them Winnebagos. The rest, more enterprizing, still continued on the journey untill they reached the Missisippi and the mouth of the Joway-River, where they encamped on the sandbeach and again divided, one band concluding not to go further, and those who still wished to go on called this band, which still remained encamped on the sandbeach ,,Pa-ho-dje," or dust noses; but the whites, who first discovered them on the Joway-River called them Joways QAyowas). The rest of them continued on their direction, and struck the Missouri at the mouth of Grand-River, Having only two principal chiefs left, they here gave themselves the name of Neu-ta-che (richtig ausgespro-chen Ni-iu-ta-dje Q franz.)? which means „those that arrive at the mouth(i - but were called by the whites the Missouries. One of their chiefs had an only son, the other chief had a beautiful daughter, and having both a jentle blood, thought no harm to absent themselves for a night or two together, which raised the anger of the unfortunate girts father to such a pitch, tiiathe martialed his band and prepared for battle. They however settled it so far as not to come to blows, but the father of the unfortunate son separated from the others, and continued still further up the Missouri, where upon they called themselves Wagh-toch-tat-ta (Wach- |
