Dacotas

As described by Philander Prescott three moccasins were used in this game by the Dacotas.

Indian Games : an historical research

Philander Prescott among the Dacotas -- Schoolcraft, Vol. IV, p. 64.

Indian Games : an historical research

After feasting on a dog, the Dacotas carefully collect the bones, scrape, wash, and bury them, “partly, as it is said, to testify to the dog-species, that in feasting upon one of their number no disrespect was meant to the species itself, and partly also from a belief that the bones of the animal will rise and reproduce another.

Chapter 53. The Propitiation of Wild Animals By Hunters

After feasting on a dog, the Dacotas carefully collect the bones, scrape, wash, and bury them, "partly, as it is said, to testify to the dog-species, that in feasting upon one of their number no disrespect was meant to the species itself, and partly also from a belief that the bones of the animal will rise and reproduce another."

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion

In other tribes, for example, the Ojebways, Winnebagoes, and Dacotas or Sioux, the instrument by which the candidate is apparently slain is the medicine-bag.

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion

In other tribes, for example, the Ojebways, Winnebagoes, and Dacotas or Sioux, the instrument by which the candidate is apparently slain is the medicine-bag.

Chapter 67. The External Soul in Folk-Custom. § 4. The Ritual of Death and Resurrection

After feasting on a dog, the Dacotas carefully collect the bones, scrape, wash, and bury them, "partly, as it is said, to testify to the dog-species, that in feasting upon one of their number no disrespect was meant to the species itself, and partly also from a belief that the bones of the animal will rise and reproduce another."

The Golden Bough

In other tribes, for example, the Ojebways, Winnebagoes, and Dacotas or Sioux, the instrument by which the candidate is apparently slain is the medicine-bag.

The Golden Bough

The Dacotas, or Sioux, frequented the riverain lands, in the southern region watered by the great flood.

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12

Many of the more northern nations, as the Dacotas, for example, have a custom, that, when the husband deceases, his widow immediately manifests the deepest mourning, by putting off all her finery, and dresses herself in the coarsest Indian attire, the sackcloth of Indian lamentation.

The First White Man of the West