The history of Wells County, North Dakota, and its pioneers : with a sketch of North Dakota history and the oregin [sic] of the place names

• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: North Dakota State Library
• Subjects: Devils Lake; Indian; Mouse River; assiniboine; stoney
• Online Access: http://cdm16921.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/ndsl-books/id/41301

522 The North Dakota Indians prefix to verbs indicating action made with the feet. Therefore, the tribal name Yanktonaise is interpreted to mean "The people who (with the feet) went to the other end of the circle of teepees," or "The people of the other end." The Sioux language is largely a language of derivitives. The Cheyennes The Cheyenne Indians are descended from the Algonquins and are cousins to the Chippewas or Ojibwas. They long lived in Minnesota and came into North Dakota before 1700. They built a village in the big bend of the Sheyenne River southeast of Lisbon where they tilled their patches of corn until about 1740, when the Yanktonaise, their enemies, who had long harassed them, succeeded in driving them west of the Missouri River. They later quarreled among themselves and gave up raising corn and many of them went to live in the Cheyenne River country of South Dakota and became buffalo hunters. They were eventually driven into Wyoming and placed on a reservation, where their descendants now reside. Their tribal name is derived from a Sioux word meaning enemies. The Sheyenne River and the town of Sheyenne in North Dakota the Cheyenne River in South Dakota, and the city of Cheyenne in Wyoming are named in honor of this Indian tribe. The Assiniboine Indians get their name from the Chippewa "usini", meaning stone, and "upwawa", he cooks by roasting, namely, "one who cooks by the use of stones." It would seem that the derivation of the name would account for the tribe being called Stoney or the Stone Indians. They were living in the region around Lake Winnipeg as early as 1670. They were a detached party of the Sioux nation and their hunting grounds extended to Devils Lake and the Mouse River. Bands of Chippewas or Ojibwas lived in the Pembina vicinity and many of their descendants are now located on the Turtle Mountain reservation. Their birch bark houses are called wikiups. The gathering of the wild rice by the Chippewa Indians in September during the full of the moon is called the Manomin- nikeng, and is a great tribal event. Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.