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conduct and thought in accordance with bene 

 ficent customs and council degrees, by the stop 

 ping of bloodshed in the blood-feud through the 

 tender of the prescribed price for the killing of a 

 co-tribesman; by abstaining from eating human 

 flesh; and, lastly, through the maintenance and 

 necessary exercise of power, not only military, 

 but also magic power believed to be embodied in 

 the forms of their ceremonial activities. The 

 tender by the homicide and his family for the 

 murder or killing by accident of a co-tribesman 

 was twenty strings of wampum ten for the 

 dead person, and ten for the forfeited life of the 

 homicide.&quot; 



To this it may be added that the constitution Their 

 of the Six Nation Confederacy is supposed, by 

 many, to have served as a model for the federal 

 union of the American colonies when they asserted 

 and secured their independence. 



Of the tribes on the Pacific Coast the Hand Character of 



the Haida, 



book says: &quot;The Haida, Tlingit, and Tsimshian 

 seem to show greater adaptability to civilization 

 and to display less religious conservatism than 

 the tribes farther south. They are generally 

 regarded as superior to them by the white settlers, 

 and they certainly showed themselves such in 

 war and in the arts. Of all peoples on the north 

 west coast the Haida were the best carvers, paint 

 ers, and canoe and house-builders, and they still 

 earn considerable money by selling carved 

 objects of wood and slate to traders and tourists. 

 Standing in the tribe depended more on the 



