LA FLESCHE] TRIBAL RITES FREE TRANSLATION 67 



For the perpetuation of the memory of these events, as well as for 

 the guidance of the people in organizing their forces for defensive or 

 aggressive warfare, the No^'-ho^-zhi^-ga formulated rites and cere- 

 monial acts which were memorized by men capable of such a task 

 and handed down by them to the successive generations. 



Civil Government: Chieftainship and Duties 



In the progress of time the No'"-ho°-zhi°-ga made a third "move 

 to a new country." (See chart, fig. 2.) At this time the civil branch 

 of the tribal government was instituted. It was then agreed that the 

 people should be governed by two men, one for each of the two great 

 tribal divisions, who should bear the official title of Ga-hi'-ge, Chief. 

 The duties assigned to these two chiefs were as follows: 



1. When two men quarrel, come to blows, and threaten to kill each 

 other, the chief shall compel them to cease fighting. 



2. When a murder is committed and a relative of the person slain 

 threatens to take the life of the murderer in revenge, the chief shall 

 compel the relative to keep the peace. 



3. If the relative persists in his effort to take the life of the slayer, 

 the chief shall expel him from the tribe. 



4. If the relative takes the life of the slayer when the chief had 

 already offered him the sacred ])ipe to smoke, the chief shall give the 

 order for him to be put to death. 



5. The chief shall require the murderer to bring gifts to the rela- 

 tives of the man he has slain as an offering of peace. 



6. If the murderer refuses to do this, the chief may call upon the 

 people to make the peace offering and then expel the murderer from 

 the tribe. 



7. If a man's life is threatened by another and he flees to the house 

 of the chief, he shall protect the fleeing man. 



8. If a murderer pursued by the relatives of the slain man flees 

 into the house of the chief, he shall protect the man. 



9. If- a stranger, although he be from an enemy tribe, enters the 

 house of the chief for safety, the chief shall protect him. 



10. When a war party comes home with captives, the chief shall 

 give them their lives and have them adopted into the tribe.* 



When the tribe goes out for the annual buffalo hunt it shall be the 

 duty of the chief to designate the route to be taken and the site in 

 which the camp is to be pitched, and the order shall be proclaimed 

 by a crier. The two chiefs shall take turns each day in conducting 

 the journey, both when going forth and when returning to the home 

 viUage. 



< It is from this sacrod duty that the Tfi'-zhii WarShta-ge gens have as one of their gentile personal names 

 the name Ni'-wa-thc, The CivcT of Life; also Wa-ni'.e-to", which has t!ie sam^ meanini,'. 



