Crossword-Solution: TCE 3 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

HOFFMAN from TCE-CAQ-A-DAQ-A-QIC (Lean Wolf), chief of the Hidatsa Indians of Dakota Territory, who visited Washington in 1880: FOUR YEARS AGO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AGREED TO BE FRIENDS WITH US, BUT THEY LIED.

They are the sweat houses, called in the Navaho language _çó‘tce_, a term probably derived from _qáço‘tsil_, “sweat” and _ĭnçĭníl‘tce_, the manner in which fire is prepared for heating the stones placed in it when it is used.

This ceremony has a very important place in the medicine-man’s therapeutics, for devils as well as diseases are thus cast out; but aside from their religious use, the _çó‘tce_ are often visited by the Indians for the cleansing and invigorating effect of the bath, with no thought of ceremonial.

The Navaho, as a race or individually, are not remarkable for cleanliness, but they use the _çó‘tce_ freely.

The _çó‘tce_ on the east is merely an uncovered frame, and after the patient enters it and hot stones have been rolled in it is covered with many blankets and a large buckskin is spread over all.