Riggs' Tah-koo
Wah-kan_, p. 101.

[69] _Oonk-tay-he_. There are many _Unktehees_, children of the _Great
Unktehee_, who created the earth and man, and who formerly dwelt in a
vast cavern under the Falls of St. Anthony. The _Unktehee_ sometimes
reveals himself in the form of a huge buffalo-bull. From him proceed
invisible influences. The _Great Unktehee_ created the earth.
"Assembling in grand conclave all the aquatic tribes he ordered them to
bring up dirt from beneath the waters, and proclaimed death to the
disobedient. The beaver and otter forfeited their lives. At last the
muskrat went beneath the waters, and, after a long time, appeared at the
surface, nearly exhausted, with some dirt. From this _Unktehee_
fashioned the earth into a large circular plain. The earth being
finished he took a deity, one of his own offspring, and, grinding him to
powder, sprinkled it upon the earth, and this produced many worms. The
worms were then collected and scattered again. They matured into infants
and these were then collected and scattered and became full-grown
Dakotas. The bones of the mastodon, the Dakotas think, are the bones of
_Unktehees_, and they preserve them with the greatest care in the
medicine-bag." _Neill's Hist. Minn_., p. 55. The _Unktehees_ and the
Thunder-birds are perpetually at war. There are various accounts of the
creation of man. Some say that at the bidding of the _Great Unktehee_,
men sprang full grown from the caverns of the earth. See _Riggs' "Tahkoo
Wahkan"_, and _Mrs. Eastman's Dacotah_. The _Great Unktehee_ and the
Great Thunder-bird had a terrible battle in the bowels of the earth to
determine which should be the ruler of the world. See description in
_Winona_.

[70] Pronounced _Ahng-pay-too-wee_--The Sun; literally the Day-Sun, thus
distinguishing him from _Han-ye-tuwee_ (Hahng-yay-too-wee) the Night Sun
(the moon). They are twin brothers, but _Anpetuwee_ is the more
powerful. _Han-ye-tuwee_ receives his power from his brother and obeys
him. He watches over the earth while the sun sleeps. The Dakotas believe
the sun is the father of life. Unlike the most of their other gods, he
is beneficent and kind; yet they worshiped him (in the sun-dance) in the
most dreadful manner. See _Riggs' Tahkoo Wakan_, pp. 81-2, and Catlin's
_Okeepa_. The moon is worshiped as the representative of the sun; and in
the great Sun-dance, which is usually held in the full of the moon, when
the moon rises the dancers turn th