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tears were dried away, and the honors of thefeast were performed by the attending chiefs.This consisted in giving to every guest a dishcontaining a boiled wild ox's tongue, for preparingwhich my kettle had been borrowed.The repast finished, the great chief dismissedus by shaking hands, and we returned to ourtent.Having inquired among these people whythey always at their ^weep feasts, and sometimesat their councils, I was answered thattheir tears flowed to the memory of those deceasedrelations who formerly assisted both atthe one and the other; that their absence onthese occasions necessarily brought them freshinto their minds, and at the same time ledthem to reflect on their own brief and uncertaincontinuance. 59The chief to whose kindly reception we wereso much indebted was about five feet ten incheshigh, and of a complexion rather darker than59The Ossinipoiles are the Issati of the older travelers,and have sometimes been called the Weepers.Author.This is an error on the part of Henry. Before theSioux obtained firearms from Europeans they used flintknives and arrowheads, made from flint which theyfound on the banks of the Thousand Lakesthem Isan-ta-mde, or "Lake of Knives."called byFrom thiscircumstance the eastern Sioux were called Isan-ya-ti,which has in time been corrupted into modern Santee.The Santee include the Wahpetans and the Wazikute;the Siouan division from which the Assiniboin separatedare the Yankton. Editor.277