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the matter. If, on the other hand, he submitted to whatever punishment the Bear 

 clansmen inflicted on him without resistance and apologized to them, then they would 

 build him a new lodge and supply it with better goods than those which they had been 

 compelled to destroy. 



This is the way in which the .=oldiers act when they are on duty. They never jest 

 and their word is a command. If it is not immediateh- obeyed, their next move is 

 to punish. For that reason one generally listens to them and their commands. WTien 

 they are not on duty they are the same as other people. Different members of the 

 tribe are on duty at different times, for the leader changes them about frequenth . 



If a field of rice is found in some swamp or lake the Bear clan 

 people are informed and they go over and keep watch over it and 

 give every person an equal chance at pickmg it. If a person sneaks 

 away and takes advantage of the others, the Bear clan people punish 

 him. 



The Bear clansmen guard the village almost all the time. When 

 a council is held they guard the council lodge, and when a person is 

 tried for some crime, particularly that of murder, a trial which gen- 

 erally takes place in the Thunderbird clan lodge, then they care- 

 fully guard this lodge, lest the prisoner trv to escape or his relatives 

 or confederates try to rescue him. 



Certain actions and remarks are not permitted in the Bear clan 

 lodge. They are the following: 

 To peep into the lodge. 



To make the remark that they live in a nice lodo'e. 

 To sit in the doorway. 



To give a deep sigh or snort inside the lodge. 



Should any person do one. of these forbidden things, the Bear 

 clansmen would be compelled to give the most valued thing in the 

 lodge to the offender. 



If a man seduced a woman, he was brought to the lodge of the 

 Bear clan and severely whipped. If the soldier whipped him too 

 severely, he in turn was whipped. 



If a murderer was brought to the Bear clan lodge and the chief 

 of the tribe asked that the man be freed, the rest of the tribe would 

 beg the relatives of the murdered man to relent; but if the murderer 

 was turned over to the soldiers, they would take him to the lodge of 

 the murdered man's relatives and let one of them kill hun. 



According to one informant, the Deer clansmen acted as servants 

 to the Bear clan. 



The Bear and the Wolf clans are friends, and although, as we 

 indicated on page 201, each clan is paired off with another^ the rela- 

 tionship of the Bear and Wolf clans is partieulariy intimate. It was 

 even claimed that a Bear clansman would revenge the death of a 

 Wolf clansman. For no other clans did the author hear this state- 

 ment made. The women are addressed by the men and by each 

 other as "my opposite," referring unquestionably to the positions in 



