_Ah'-pai-tup-iks_ Blood People.
_Ah-kai-yi-ko-ka'-kin-iks_ White Breasts.
_Ki'yis_ Dried Meat.
_Sik-ut'-si-pum-aiks_ Black Patched Moccasins.
_Sik-o-pok'-si-maiks_ Blackfat Roasters.
_Tsin-ik-sis'-tso-yiks_ Early Finished Eating.
_Kut'-ai-im-iks_ They Don't Laugh.
_I'-pok-si-maiks_ Fat Roasters.
_Sik'-o-kit-sim-iks_ Black Doors.
_Ni-taw'-yiks_ Lone Eaters.
_Ap'-i-kai-yiks_ Skunks.
_Mi-ah-wah'-pit-siks_ Seldom Lonesome.
_Nit'-ak-os-kit-si-pup-iks_ Obstinate.
_Nit'-ik-skiks_ Lone Fighters.
_I-nuks'-iks_ Small Robes.
_Mi-aw'-kin-ai-yiks_ Big Topknots.
_Esk'-sin-ai-tup-iks_ Worm People.
_I-nuk-si'-kah-ko-pwa-iks_ Small Brittle Fat.
_Kah'-mi-taiks_ Buffalo Dung.
_Kut-ai-sot'-si-man_ No Parfleche.
_Ni-tot'-si-ksis-stan-iks_ Kill Close By.
_Mo-twai'-naiks_ All Chiefs.
_Mo-kum'-iks_ Red Round Robes.
_Mo-tah'-tos-iks_ Many Medicines.
It will be readily seen from the translations of the above that each gens
takes its name from some peculiarity or habit it is supposed to possess. It
will also be noticed that each tribe has a few gentes common to one or both
of the other tribes. This is caused by persons leaving their own tribe to
live with another one, but, instead of uniting with some gens of the
adopted tribe, they have preserved the name of their ancestral gens for
themselves and their descendants.
The Blackfoot terms of relationship will be found interesting. The
principal family names are as follows:--