68 THE OSAGE TRIBE [bth. ann. 36 



For the enforcement of their orders the two chiefs shall be empow- 

 ered to select and appoint 10 officers, one from each of the following 

 gente-^: 



On the Ho^'-ga side: Wa-^a'-be or I°-gtho°'-ga; Ta I-ni-ka-shi-ga; 

 0'-pxo°; Ho°'-ga A-hiu-to°; Ho°'-ga U-ta-no°-dsi. 



On the Tsi'-zhu side: Ni'-ka-wa-ko°-da-gi; Tho'-xe; Tsi'-zhu 

 Wa-no°; Mi-k'i° Wa-no"; Tse-do'-ga-in-dse. 



These officers shall bear the title A'-ki-da, Soldier, and shall be 

 chosen because of the military honors that they had won as well as 

 for their personal friendship for the chief. The chief in selec ting his 

 officers shall not be restricted to his own division, but he may, 

 according to his own preference, choose his officers from any of the 

 designated gentes of the opposite division. These officers shall have 

 their houses close to that of the chief. 



The officers selected from three of these designated gentes were 

 honored with special titles, which afterwards became in these gentes 

 personal names. These titles, and later the names, were: A'-ki-da 

 To^-ga, Great Soldier, for the officer chosen from the Wa-(?a'-be gens 

 or the related I^-gtho^'-ga gens; A'-ki-da Zhi^-ga, Little Soldier, for 

 the one chosen from the fa' I-ni-ka-shi-ga gens; and A'-ki-da 

 Ga-hi-ge,^ Chief Soldier, for the one from the Ni'-ka-wa-ko°-da-gi gens. 



It was agreed at this time that the office of the chief shall descend 

 to the lineal male heirs. In case the heir is disqualified for the office 

 owing to mental infirmity or indifference to the customs held sacred 

 by the people, the A'-ki-da in council shall determine who of the 

 nearest kin to the former chief shall succeed to the office. 



The gentes from which the two Ga-hi-ges or chiefs were chosen 

 were the Wa'-tse-tsi gens (the people who descended from the stars), 

 of the Wa-zha'-zhe subdivision of the Ho°'-ga great division; and the 

 Tsi'-zhu gens of the Tsi'-zhu great division. The title Wa-shta'-ge, 

 Gentle, was at that time added to the names of these two gentes, so 

 that in speaking of them both the name and the title were men- 

 tioned, as Wa'-tse-tsi Wa-shta'-ge (sometimes called the Po^'-ka 

 Wa-shta'-ge), and the Tsi'-zhu Wa-shta'-ge. This gens was some- 

 times called Tsi'-zhu Wa-bi"' I-ta-zhi, the fsi'-zhu who do not 

 touch blood, because the people of that gens are supposed to refrain 

 from the shedding of blood. The rule that required the chief to 

 protect a man fleeing to his house for refuge applied to all the families 

 of this gens. 



It was also agreed that the house of the chief should be held as 

 sacred as it repre-ents two life-giving powers — the Earth and the 

 Sun. The house stands for the earth and must have two doors, one 

 opening toward the rising sun and the other toward the setting sun. 



' This title appears as a personal name in the Omaha Ta-ija' gens. See 27th Ann. Rept. Bur. Amer. 

 Elhn , p. 182. 



