they called _Me-ne-a-tan-ka_--_Broad
Water_.

[80] The animal called by the French _voyageurs_ the _cabri_ (the kid) is
found only on the prairies. It is of the goat kind, smaller than a deer
and so swift that neither horse nor dog can overtake it. (Snelling's
"_Tales of the Northwest_," p. 286, note 15.) It is the gazelle, or
prairie antelope, called by the Dakotas _Ta-toka-dan_--little antelope.
It is the _Pish-tah-te-koosh_ of the Algonkin tribes, "reckoned the
fleetest animal in the prairie country about the Assiniboin." _Captivity
and Adventures of John Tanner_, p. 301.

[81] The _Wicastapi Wakanpi_ (literally, _men supernatural_) are the
"Medicine-men" or Magicians of the Dakotas. They call themselves the
sons or disciples of _Unktehee_. In their rites, ceremonies, tricks and
pretensions they closely resemble the _Dactyli, Idae_, and _Curetes_ of
the ancient Greeks and Romans, the _Magi_ of the Persians and the Druids
of Britain. Their pretended intercourse with spirits, their powers of
magic and divination, and their rites are substantially the same, and
point unmistakably to a common origin. The Dakota "Medicine-Man" can do
the "rope trick" of the Hindoo magician to perfection. The _teepee_ used
for the _Wakan Wacipee_--or Sacred Dance--is called the _Wakan
Teepee_--the Sacred Teepee. Carvers Cave at St. Paul was also called
_Wakan Teepee_ because the Medicine-men or magicians often held their
dances and feasts in it. For a full account of the rites, etc., see
Riggs' _Tahkoo Wahkan_, Chapter VI. The _Ta-sha-ke_--literally,
"Deer-hoofs"--is a rattle made by hanging the hard segments of
deer-hoofs to a wooden rod a foot long--about an inch in diameter at the
handle end, and tapering to a point at the other. The clashing of these
horny bits makes a sharp, shrill sound something like distant
sleigh-bells. In their incantations over the sick they sometimes use the
gourd shell rattle.

The _Chan-che-ga_--is a drum or "Wooden Kettle." The hoop of the drum is
from a foot to eighteen inches in diameter, and from three to ten inches
deep. The skin covering is stretched over one end, making a drum with
one end only. The magical drum-sticks are ornamented with down, and
heads of birds or animals are carved on them. This makes them _Wakan_.

The flute called _Cho-tanka_ (big pith) is of two varieties--one made of
sumac, the pith of which is punched out. The second variety is made of
the long bone of the wing or thigh of