50 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 196 



COMMENTARY 



There is no internal evidence that would categorize this document 

 as either a set of regulations for the Gadu:g{i) or as an edict of the 

 Wolftown Council, yet it is certainly one or the other, and most 

 likely the former. 



As previously stated, Fogelson and Kutsche (1961, p. 87) define 

 the Gadu:g(i) as "... a group of men who join together to form a 

 company, with rules and officers, for continued economic and social 

 reciprocity," There is, however, some doubt that this definition 

 would coincide with what the Oklahoma Cherokee consider the 

 Gadu:g{i) to be. In their conservative communities of Adair, 

 Sequoyah, and Cherokee Counties which up until a few years ago 

 were as fully, if not more nativistically orientated as any community 

 in North Carolina, we have personally seen Httle evidence of the 

 organizational continuity of the Gadu:g{i). In Oklahoma one 

 speaks of calhng for a Gadu:g{i), not calling out the Gadu:g(i). 

 While it functions, it may have rules and ofiicers, but upon reconstitu- 

 tion for another specific task it has new rules, new ofiicers, and new 

 personnel. One wonders if socioeconomic factors peculiar to North 

 CaroHna, the locus of a small segment of the Cherokee people, might 

 have engendered and insured the much studied continuity of the 

 Gadu:g{i) there. 



Gilbert (1943, p. 306) interprets the Gadu:g{i) of the time of his 

 investigation as "aboriginally remnantal." Fogelson and Kutsche 

 (1961) state that Gilbert believes the Gadu:g(i) to be a survival of 

 the aboriginal town settlement. For what weight such may throw to 

 one side or the other of the question, we find in The Inoli Letters 

 proof of the existence of the Gadu:g(i) side by side and interlocked 

 with a township organization. 



Mooney's caption appears to be: "Company Rule etc Borrowd 

 Money WW." 



NO. 15— TSO:TSAGA^^ SELLS HIS HOUSEHOLD FURNISHINGS 



11 'The-Three-Which-He-Ate.' 



12 Idiomatic for 'where I was livin?.' 



