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I’saktika, “having a fork in the creek.” 
T’sa"kona, (meaning ?). 
T"yakni chula (original orthography Ayaknee chuelah), “Fox land,’ said 
by the native who furnished this name to belong to the Fox clan." 
Calakalak, ‘‘ geese.” 
Cawiha"ka’, “shouting to the racoon.”’ (?). 
The reader should be on his guard against assuming that this list 
represents an absolutely accurate classification. While most of my in- 
formants agreed among themselves, there were, as indicated in the 
footnotes, discrepancies in their testimony. More important are the 
discrepancies between my list and that of Doctor Speck. It is true 
that the side that he calls Imosaktca" agrees in its make up, so far as 
material is available, with that I have called Tcuka falaha, but three 
of the clans listed by him on the opposite side were placed by my 
informants among the Tcuka falaha also—the I"yatkaca, from which 
the prophet of the side is said to have been taken, the Intcica waya’, 
and the Intciskilik koba’fa’. Only the I*koni, Intcuka kolofa, and 
perhaps the Intcuka lipa are with the Tcukilissa where we should 
expect to find them. The rapid fading of native knowledge regard- 
ing such things sufficiently accounts for the discrepancies, although 
the occurrence of two branches of the Intiliho on opposite sides in- 
dicates that the position of many of the local groups may not have 
been as rigid as would at first be supposed. The following items 
regarding house group usages are taken from a native text: 
If any accident befell a man married into a house group from outside or 
adopted in any other manner, the people of that group would care for him 
as if he were one of themselves, but if they found a man among them for 
some other purpose they would send him away. Sometimes people of suspicious 
character came to live among them but then they would not have anything to 
do with them or help them in any manner and not infrequently such persons 
died in consequence. But if one of their own people fell ill the members of 
the group cared for him faithfully. 
These people usually trusted in their prophets, doctors, and leading men, 
followed their advice, and were themselves respected in consequence, but the 
ignorant among them did not have any respect for the law or themselves and 
would move about from one place to another thinking to better their condition. 
They could not find any place to suit them, however, because others distrusted 
them and they suffered accordingly. Some of these people had families. At 
times such a person would go to an Indian whom he believed to be a friend and 
stay with him for a while but the latter would soon get tired of him, and he 
would have to move away. If they had been properly brought up they would 
have managed differently, but they did not know how to behave, would take 
things that did not belong to them, and finally ceased to care what they did. 
After the others had stood this for a while they generally took them out and 
whipped them. If they did not then move out of the way, they would whip 
them again, and if they still hung about they would kill them. After a man 
had been whipped once he was an outcast and was not allowed to take part 
in any collective undertakings. He could not be restored to favor among his own 
people but he might go to some other group where he was not known, and if 
%a Information from a single informant. 
