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61 name by which he is afterwards known. The name it has been held was given by the mother and was the title of the first object she saw after the child was born but in this there is a great deal more fiction than truth. The birth of a child is not such a notorious event to the indian mother as it is the the white sister and as she is confined within open forest as a rule all her children would be called trees or shrubs. as a matter of fact, the Ojibway have a deep reverence for the mysteries and the elements and natural phenomena affect them greatly. and it is very common to find that these names have connection with the manifestations of nature. We find such names as "Boniosh" "Stop Sailing" as of the ? of an object sailing in the air. "Nawiqueb" "Something that occurred at midday" It occured that during the interim that the nominater had to find a name something startling happened and ? he named this child. from the circumstance At Lac du Flambeau Wisconsin a good many of the names relate to the sky or the brightness of it. occasionally the name of an animal is adopted. at Sandy Lake Minnesota lived in 1891 "Misquadace" "Red Turtle". this is name doubtless adopted by the chief when he was admitted to the medicine. "Medena" The turtle - on the "Great Father" as we explain to another place use the most ? of the mystic animals and so this man is related to have been a "squaw" indian it is possible he chose that name as an index of his character. Among the Bois Fort Ojibway we find such names as "The man who circles the mountain" clearly derived from some exploit. There exists among indians no family name. The only ? that is in the circumstance that all Ojibway are known by their totems all of a clan are called "catfish," "Loons," martins, ?'s as the case may be but no such system is found among the Dakota tribes.

  The nickname tat is the childhood name that a Dakota carries is added to when he comes to join the company of ?  Where with the accomplishment of some notable act of bravery such as is practices in the Sun dance & others at a grand medicine when the chief Singer or leader of the Medicine dance gives him the candidate his new name and goes out of the teepee and cries it about through the camp. as a matter of arriving