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59 we are told that to prevent it a mother will, if the baby begins to cry hold its nose till it sufficated about. when it soon learns that crying is bad policy. or another way is to turn it on its face an put a rug in its mouth to suck. and it is obliged to keep its mouth shut to retain the rug. What gave origin to either of these stories we do not know but certain it is we never saw or heard of their being practiced. It is true on a whole that young children cry very little, but it is due to the fact that they have no cause they have plenty of food. no scarcity of nourishment exists in the indian breast. and the child soon likes his bed, and crys to be put back in it; and for these reasons there is no occasion to cry white babies cry because they are in distress but the indian would do the same if he were not content. as a matter of fact he does cry when he feels like it and is allowed to cry till he gets ready to stop. the crying of a baby does not cause its parents to lose a moments repose.

  To speak mildly indian babies are not very clear or sweet. As a proof that early impressions are lasting we have the skull of an adult crow indian which has a flat place on the occipital bone produced by the pressure of his infant head against the pappoose board.   The flat head Indian has a board attached to the cradle with a device to constantly increase the pressure of the board upon the forehead of the pappoose to give the ? flattening of this region of the skull.   When the infant can walk he leaves the board and is carried on Journies or at other times upon the back of his mother enclosed in a fold of her blanket his head only projecting above her shoulders.   The dress of the Dakota pappoose is usually scanty.  a little boy in summer usually wears a few feathers in his hair ad a pair of moccasins   In winter a shirt and leggin.  The little girl a dress  only and moccasins this is usually the same summer and winter.  The ojibway boy usually has a shirt and the ? white man's pants and the little girls the dress of her mother in summer  the boy is clad in a shirt.
 Names are given to children at an early age. but they generally before they ? a number.  Among the Dakota a child is named by is father if a son or if a girl by her mother and the Name is usually something that is equivalent to a pet name.  As the boy grows up