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60 he will acquire a new or it may be several new names according to circumstances if he is overtaken by an accident or accomplishes any great feat that is sufficient to mark an era in his life and give rise to a name to distinguish that act or feat. Occasionally the individual selects his own name and as with the Indian "Lone Wolf" this name arose from his prowling about the camps of his enemies alone. If one was given to dashing suddenly upon the camp of an enemy he got the name of Eagle or Hawk and as it is a fact that the indian lays great stress upon the color of paint he wears he will not infrequently acquire a name from the combination of his color and his propensity, thus "Yellow Hawk" "White Eagle" an infant son of White Eagle (who fought in the Custer fight) was named by his father Little Eagle as he was the scion of the Eagles, but the youngster had never done any fighting at that time. He did make a paint bag which is in the authors collection when he was ten years old. but that is all

   Such names as Sitting Bull are doubtless derived from the fact that as was the case with the chief he was "strong in the animal or as they sat in council our friend Captain H. R. Binkerhoff said of the late "Sitting Bull," head chief of the Dakota at Standing Rock that he had a "big head."
  A girl is named by her mother and this name may be in commemoration of some act or it may input any occurence.  She retains this name when she marries and all her life as a rule their lives are so devoid of incident that they acquire no name from their exploits  However, no one essential as Ogalalla Dakota squaw bestrides of a cayuse and decked out in her paints and feathers on the trail after "Crow" and It is most likely she had taken scalps and counted coups and it is more than likely she had ? one name though we did not detain her to discover.
  The Ojibway have a system of naming the child different from the Dakota when a child is born some relative or friend is selected to give it a name, a time is appointed at which a feast is made and the relatives gather at this time the name is divulged by the nominator and by that the child is known.  but at the time he reaches adolescence and is initiated into the sacred rites of medicine he usually adopts a new