Minetari

American: dialect of Sioux , N. division, called “Grosventre,” i.e. “big-bellies,” Ehatsar ; other dialects are Alasar , or Fall-Indians, and Kattanahaws . Ludewig, London, 1858, p. 119. ⁂ Dr. Latham objects to the word “Alasar.” According to that great authority it is a misnomer, arising from some confusion between the words “Ahnenin” and “Atsina.” The former are cla ed by Gall at in as Arrapahoes . See “Amer. Ethnol.,” vol. ii., where the same vocabulary is printed as Atsina . We have no original authority for the word “Alasar,” but it appears in Jülg’s “Vater,” p. 253. See Trübner’s “Ludewig,” p. 12; also Latham’s “Elements,” p. 457, where it is shown that there are two different tribes called Fall-Indians, one Algonkin and one Sioux .