[79] The Dakotas called Lake Calhoun, at Minneapolis,
Minn.--_Mde-mdo-za_--Loon Lake. They also called it _Re-ya-ta-mde_--the
lake back from the river. They called Lake Harriet--_Mde-unma_--the
other lake--or (perhaps) _Mde-uma_--Hazel-nut Lake. The lake nearest
Calhoun on the north--Lake of the Isles--they called _Wi-ta
Mde_--Island-Lake. Lake Minnetonka they called _Me-ne-a-tan-ka_--_Broad
Water_.
[80] The animal called by the French _voyageurs_ the _cabri_ (the kid) is
found only on the prairies. It is of the goat kind, smaller than a deer
and so swift that neither horse nor dog can overtake it. (Snelling's
"_Tales of the Northwest_," p. 286, note 15.) It is the gazelle, or
prairie antelope, called by the Dakotas _Ta-toka-dan_--little antelope.
It is the _Pish-tah-te-koosh_ of the Algonkin tribes, "reckoned the
fleetest animal in the prairie country about the Assiniboin." _Captivity
and Adventures of John Tanner_, p. 301.
[81] The _Wicastapi Wakanpi_ (literally, _men supernatural_) are the
"Medicine-men" or Magicians of the Dakotas. They call themselves the
sons or disciples of _Unktehee_. In their rites, ceremonies, tricks and
pretensions they closely resemble the _Dactyli, Idae_, and _Curetes_ of
the ancient Greeks and Romans, the _Magi_ of the Persians and the Druids
of Britain.
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