Minnetaree

Many of the Minnetaree Indians "believe that the bones of those bisons which they have slain and divested of flesh rise again clothed with renewed flesh, and quickened with life, and become fat, and fit for slaughter the succeeding June."

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

Many of the Minnetaree Indians "believe that the bones of those bisons which they have slain and divested of flesh rise again clothed with renewed flesh, and quickened with life, and become fat, and fit for slaughter the succeeding June."

The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897

But Fate had managed the matter very well, no doubt, in depriving these people of effective strength in war; for at this time the head chief of the Minnetaree villages was a man who, given opportunity, would have made the river run red with the blood of his enemies.

Lewis and Clark Meriwether Lewis and William Clark 1894

While he was thus engaged, sixty mounted Shoshone warriors galloped up, armed and voicing their war-cry, thinking to do battle with Minnetaree foes, for whom they had mistaken the whites.

Lewis and Clark Meriwether Lewis and William Clark 1894

Minnetaree language; she then put it into Shoshone, and a young

Lewis and Clark Meriwether Lewis and William Clark 1894

Minnetaree war party had been west of the Rockies, or in the big bend of the Rockies, at the very head of the Missouri River, among the

The Young Alaskans on the Missouri Emerson Hough 1890

If he had gone twenty miles farther, he'd have been at the Great Falls; and the Minnetaree

The Young Alaskans on the Missouri Emerson Hough 1890

Shoshoni bands encountered upon the Jefferson River, whose summer home was upon the head waters of the Columbia, formerly lived within their own recollection in the plains to the east of the Rocky Mountains, whence they were driven to their mountain retreats by the Minnetaree

Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868

Chopunnish Indians, Captain Lewis addressed one of his men in English; that man translated the question into French to Chaboneau; Chaboneau translated it to his Indian wife in Minnetaree; the woman translated it into Shoshonee to a prisoner; and the prisoner translated it into

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

At the Minnetaree village a similar inclosure may now be seen by the side of the village surrounding their cultivated land, consisting partly of hedge and partly of stakes, the open prairie stretching out beyond.

Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines Lewis H. Morgan 1849