Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1885 — A Sioux Custom. [ARTICLE]

A Sioux Custom.

Miss Alice Fletcher, the student of Indim household customs, says that among the Sioux, when one family borrows a kettle from another it is expected that when tho kettle is returned a small portion of the food that has been cooked in it will bo left* rn the bottom. The language has a particular word lo designate this remnant. “.Should this custom be disregarded by any one, that person would never be able to borrow again, ns the owner must always know what was cooked in her kettle” A. white woman, on one occasion, returned a scoured kettle, intending to teach a lesson in cleanliness; but her act became the talk of tho camp as a fresh example of the meanness of whites.