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THE WINNEBAGO TRIBE 



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ceremonial connections: first, in the organization of the village; 

 second, in the arrangement of the clans while on the warpath; third, 

 as the basis of organization at the "chief" feast; and lastly, as the 

 basis of organization of the ceremonial lacrosse game. 



According to the majority of the older people, when the old social 

 organization was still intact, each village was divided into two halves 

 by an imaginary line running due northwest and southeast, the 

 waygeregi clans dwelling in one half, with the chief's lodge in the 

 south, and the manegi clans dwelling in the other half, with the bear 

 or soldier lodge in the north (fig. 33). Although this arrangement 

 has now become almost legendary, it was corroborated by many 

 of the older people. To what extent every village was organized 

 on this basis it is impossible to state. When this question was 



Fig. 3:*.— Plan of village according to Thundercloud, of the Thunderbird clan. 



directly put to individuals, the answer was always in the affirmative. 

 Quite a number of old individuals, however, denied vigorously that 

 such had ever been the organization of the village, and claimed 

 instead that the lodges of the Chief and the Soldier (Bear) clan 

 were in the center of the village (fig. 34) . 



In looking over the clan affiliations of the informants, we noticed, 

 however, that the first arrangement was always given by members 

 of the bird clans, and the second arrangement by members of the 

 Bear clan and generally also by others on the manegi side. This 

 fact, of course, makes the decision as to the relationship of these 

 two types of village organization quite difficult. There can be no 

 question as to the existence of a twofold division of the tribe as 

 far as marital relations were concerned, nor as to the segregation 



