Meaning Of The Word "omaha."

The name "Omaha" bears testimony to the long journey of the people, and reveáis some oí the causes which bronght about this breaking np luto distinct tribes. It is composed of two words, ■which siguify "goirjg againsfc the current," or np the stream. The Ornabas ■were the people who went up the stream, while the Qnapa'ws, their near of kin, went, as their name reveáis, "with the current, ' ' or down the stream. The traditions of both these peoples say that the partiug occurred during a hunting expedition, each división finally settling in the lands whithor they had wandered apart. Thi3 epochal hunt must have been centuries ago, for the Quapaws bore their descriptive name in 1540, being mentioned in the Portuguese narrative of De Soto's expedition as then living on the Arkansas river, where they dwelt until 1839, v hen they ceded their long occupied lands to the