e gentes of this people have been recorded by Denig,
Maximilian, and Hayden, but in the opinion of the present writer they need
revision.

_Asiniboin gentes_

_Denig_ _Maximilian_ _Hayden_
We-che-ap-pe-nah, Itschcabine, Les Wi-ic-ap-i-nah,
60 lodges, under gens des filles. Girls' band.
Les Yeux Gris
E-an-to-ah, Stone Jatonabine, Les I'-an-to'-an.
Indians, the gens des roches, Either Inyan
original the Stone Indians tonwan, Stone
appellation for of the English. Village or
the whole nation; Call themselves Ihanktonwan, End
50 lodges, under "Eascab." village or
Premier qui Voile. Yankton. J.O.D.)
Wah-to-pan-ah, Otaopabine, Les Wah-to'-pap-i-nah
Canoe Indians, 100 gens des canots.
lodges, under
Serpent.
Wah-to-pah-han-da-toh, Watopachnato, Les Wah-to'-pah-an-da-to,
Old Gauche's gens, gens de l'age. Gens du Gauche or
i.e., Those who Left Hand.
row in canoes; 100
lodges, under
Trembling Hand.
Wah-ze-ah we-chas-ta, O-see-gah (of Wah-zi-ah, or
Northern People (so Lewis and Clark, To-kum-pi, Gens du
called because they Discoveries, p. Nord.
came from the north in 43, 1806).
1839); 60 lodges,
under Le Robe de Vent.

The following gentes have not been collated: Of Maximilian's list,
Otopachgnato, les gens du large, possibly a duplication, by mistake, of
Watopachnato, les gens de l'age; Tschantoga, les gens des bois;
Tanin-tauei, les gens des osayes; Chabin, les gens des montagnes. Of
Hayden's list, Min'-i-shi-nak'-a-to, gens du lac.

The correct form in the Yankton dialect of the first name is Witcinyanpina
(Wicinyanpina), girls; of the second, probably Inyantonwan (Inyan tonwan);
the third and fourth gentes derive their names from the verb watopa, to
paddle a canoe; the fifth is Waziya witcacta (Waziya wicasta). Tschan in
Tschantoga is the German notation of the Dakota tcan (can), tree, wood.
Cha in Chabin is the German notation of the Dakota word he, a high ridge
of hills, a mountain.

In his report to Governor Stevens, from which the following information
respecting the Asiniboin is condensed, Denig used the term "band" to
denote a gens of the tribe, and "clans" instead of corporations, under
which latter term are included the feasting and da