Visualizing the Sacred: Cosmic Visions, Regionalism, and the Art of the Mississippian World (Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies)

by George E. Lankford

The Dhegiha also define themselves in terms of an idealized dispersion within the Mississippi River Valley watershed. The Omaha take a name that means the “against-the-current” or “upstream” people, and the Quapaw correspondingly are the “downstream” or “with-the-current” people, referring to the Mississippi River