Crossword-Solution: HIDATSA 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

For why should the slaughter of an ox or a sheep be a greater wrong than the felling of a fir or an oak, seeing that a soul is implanted in these trees also?" Similarly, the Hidatsa Indians of North America believe that every natural object has its spirit, or to speak more properly, its shade.

Some of the Hidatsa Indians explain the phenomena of gradual death, when the extremities appear dead first, by supposing that man has four souls, and that they quit the body, not simultaneously, but one after the other, dissolution being only complete when all four have departed.

The smell of the burning leather they claim keeps the ghost out; but the true friends of the dead man take no such precautions." From this account it will be seen that the Hidatsa as well as the Algonkins and Mexicans believed that four days were required before the spirit could finally leave the earth.

The African Mabas[121] call 10 _atuk_, great 1; the Hottentots[122] and the Hidatsa Indians call 100 great 10, their words being _gei disi_ and _pitikitstia_ respectively.

His statement is, "the Arikaras, Mandans, Minnitarris [Hidatsa], Crows [Absaroka], Cheyennes, Snakes [Shoshoni], and Blackfeet [Satsika] all understand certain signs, which, on the contrary, as we are told, are unintelligible to the Dakotas, Assiniboins, Ojibwas, Krihs [Crees], and other nations.