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Show 146 Lewis and Clarke's Expedition is the Wabpatone, a smaller band of nearly two Jmndrcd men; and still further up the same river below Yellow. wood river are the Wah}latootas or Gens de Fcuilles, an inferior band of not more than one hundred men; while the sources of the St. Peter's are occu1•ied by the Sisatoones, a band consisting of about two hundred warriors. These bands rarely if ever ap}lroach the Missouri, which is occupied by their kinsmen the Yanktons and tho Tetons. The Yanktons are of two tribes, those of the plains, or rather of the north, a wandering race of about five hundred men, who roam over the plains at the heads of the Jacques, the Sioux, and the Red river; and those of the south, wbo possess the country between the Jacques and Sioux rivers and the Desmoine. But the bands of Sioux most known on the Missouri are the Tetons. 'rhe first who are met on ascending the Missouri is the tribe called by the French the Tetons of the Boise Brule or Burntwood, who reside on both sides of the Missouri, about White and Teton rivers, and number two hundred warriors. Above them on the Missouri are the Teton Okandandas, a band of one hundred and fifty men living below the Chayenne river, between which and the Wetarhoo river is a third band, called Teton Minnakenozzo, of nearly two hundred and fifty men; and below the Warreconne is the fourth and last tribe of 'l,etons of about three hundred men, and called Teton Saone. Northward of these, between the Assiniboin and the Missouri, are two bands of Assiniboins, one on 1\louse river of about two hund1·ed men, and called Assini. boin 1\Ienatopa; the other, residing on both sides of White I'h'er, called by the French Gens de }"euilles, and amounting to two hundred and fifty men. Beyond these a band of Assiniboins of four hundred and fifty men, and called the Big Devils, wander on the heads of Milk, Porcupine, and l\lartha's l'ivers; while still farthet• to the north are seen two bands of the same nation, one of five hundred and the other of two hundred, roving on the Saskaskawan. Those Up the JJ-lissouri. Assiniboins at·e recognised by a similarity of language, and Ly tradition as descendents ot• seceders from the Sioux· though often at war are still acknowledged as relations. The' Sioux themselves, though scattered, meet annually on the Jacques, those on the Miiliouri trading with those on th~ :Mjssissippi. |