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something. Ha ha, our friends have come. Sit opposite (those 

 opposite said). As long as we live we will attend to the fire for 

 you." "Listen, our friends, they are speaking." "Ha, ha, sit 

 opposite me" (a new clan has entered). They sat down. "You 

 Water-spirit clan, what relation, my friend, will you be to me?" 

 "What relation shall I be to you ? You will be my chief." "Good. 

 Now listen, a dog is howling. Let us wait for him." So the Thun- 

 derbirds waited for him. "Let us call him." "Ha, ha, my friend, 

 we wish to teach the two-legged walkers something. As we say so 

 will the Wifinebagoes ever be." Again the Thunderbirds spoke, 

 "Listen, some one has said something. Two people have come. 

 We will call them the Bufl'alo clan." 



The Warrior Clan 



introduction 



There are not many members of this clan left, although it seems 

 to have been quite important in the old days, to judge from the 

 number of effigy mounds all over Wisconsui. There seems little 

 doubt but that those bird effigies with unsplit tail are supposed to 

 represent tliis clan. 



Only one version of the origin myth was obtamed. There is little 

 to be said about it except that it mentions the fact that it was custo- 

 mary to have names for dogs. One statement seems to point toward 

 cannibalism. As was pointed out m the preceding discussion, there 

 is a boastful claim that they were chiefs. 



Although, at the present time, this clan is known only as the 

 wonayire ua'TiJcciJc (fear-inspiring men), its older name was hawk, 

 and as such it was still known to J. O. Dorsey. Wlien the present 

 name began to be popular, it is impossible to say, but we feel confi- 

 dent that it has been in partial use for a considerable length of time. 

 The change is quite in line with the rather common habit of referring 

 to the Thunderbird clan as the chief clan and the Bear clan as the 

 soldier clan. In other words, we have a name indicative of the func- 

 tions of a clan superseding the older animal name. It is only in the 

 case of the Warrior clan, however, that this substitution has been 

 complete. 



There is no indication in the myth that the Warrior clan was ever 

 localized. A number of informants stated that the clan was but 

 a division of a general bird plu-atry. In version 2 of the Thunder- 

 bird clan origin myth it is stated that the second of the two brothers 

 was the ancestor of the Warrior clan. Dorsey, as we have seen, 

 obtained the same information. 



The Warrior clan seems to have had a lodge in the northwest 

 corner of the village. In this lodge they claimed that prisoners were 



