NO. 8 



CREEK SQUARE GROUNDS SWANTON 



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GENEALOGIES 



The two brief genealogies which follow will illustrate in some 

 measure the influence of the clan system on marriage. The first is 

 the genealogy of Jeff Canard of Laptako ; the second that of Earnest 

 Gouge of Hanna, the latter of especial interest because it includes 

 the famous orator Hobohll Yahola. 



CONCLUSION 



The busk undoubtedly represents a long period of development, 

 and as the stages through which it passed and the elements entering 

 into it have been lost, we can never understand it fully. Its main 

 purpose, however, was evident. It was to restore the connections 

 of the tribe with the universe which a year of civil or profane living 

 had tended to rupture. Hence the new fire, extracted from its 

 abiding place in the wood and not as yet sullied by contact with 

 humanity. Hence the rigorous fast accompanied by administration 

 of medicines divinely revealed to the ancestors, the general pardon 

 of oft'enders, the sabbath calm prescribed for that period of 

 regeneration, the use of white paint, and the employment of the 

 term white^" the white day," " the wdiite smoke," " the white 

 drink " — in various parts of the ritual. The one discordant note 

 seems to have been provided by the women's dance, since the leaders 



