While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
The real name of the Omahas is "Umanhan." It is
explained by a tradition obtained from a few members of the tribe. When the
ancestors of the Omahas, Ponkas, Osages, and several other cognate tribes
traveled down the Ohio to its mouth, they separated on reaching the Mississippi.
Some went up the river, hence the name Umanhan, from kimanhan,
"to go against the wind or stream." The rest went down the river, hence the name
Ugáqpa or Kwápa,
from ugáqpa or ugáha,
"to float down the stream."
The tribes that went up the Mississippi were the Omahas, Ponkas, Osages, and
Kansas. Some of the Omahas remember a tradition that their ancestors once dwelt
at the place where Saint Louis now stands; and the Osages and Kansas say that
they were all one people, inhabiting an extensive peninsula, on the Missouri
River.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Early migrations of the Cegiha
tribes
Subsequent migrations of the
Omahas
Present state of the Omahas
The State
Differentiation of organs in the
State
State classes
Servants
Corporations
The Gentile System
Tribal circles
The Omaha tribal circle
Rules for pitching the tents
The sacred tents
The sacred pipes
Gạhige's
account of the tradition of the
pipes
An-ba-hebe's
account of the same
Law of membership
The Wejin cte or Elk
gens
The Iāke-sabe
or Black shoulder gens
The Hañga
gens
The
¢atada gens
The Wasabe-hit'ajĭ
subgens
The Wajiñga-¢atajĭ
subgens
The Teda-it'ajĭ
subgens (the letter T should be
upside down)
The Keĭn
subgens (the letter K should be
upside down)
The Kanze gens
The Man¢iñka-gaxe
gens
The Tc-sinde gens (the letter T
should be upside down)
The Ta-da or Deer-head gens (the
letter T should be upside down)
