28 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull, 194 



this information from his father, Old-Woman-Crawling, who came 

 from Awaxawi) : 



Hidatsa Village Clan membership 



Wolf Chief Three-clan moiety 



Two Nights Waterbuster 



Gives- A way-his- Arrows Prairie Chicken 



Bloody Awaxenawita 



Runs Waterbuster 



Awatixa Village 



Blackens-his- Moccasins Waterbuster 



Young-White-Bear Maxoxati 



Stirrup Knife 



Two Tails Maxoxati 



Awaxawi Village 



Crow Bull Awaxenawita 



Roadmaker Waterbuster 



This tribal council was composed of persons whose names commonly 

 appear in the journals of travelers and traders of that period. The 

 village representatives of the tribal council were outstanding individ- 

 uals, respected primarily for their good judgment and mihtary ac- 

 complishments, who were members of their respective village councils 

 from which they received their authority. When a member died or 

 lost prestige, as in the instance of One-eyed Antelope who stole a 

 woman and killed her husband when he returned from warfare to 

 claim her, the position was not filled until the next year at the time of 

 the summer buffalo hunt and the NaxpikE ceremony. There were no 

 regular meetings of the council. If one of the members had something 

 to discuss with the others, he would have a feast prepared and the 

 matter was discussed at that time. On other occasions, as when a 

 pipe bearer arrived for the purpose of arranging a peace treaty or the 

 peaceful admission of his band for trading, the council met to deter- 

 mine the attitude of the people. The council frequently would refuse 

 to discuss matters with young men of an enemy tribe, knowing that 

 such an arrangement did not carry the authority of the band leaders. 

 It appears that the council also had an earlier understanding with the 

 Mandan, for in his journals of 1806, Alexander Henry wrote of a 

 party of Arikara that had arrived at the nearby Mandan villages to 

 arrange a treaty: 



About 30 Big Bellies soon arrived on horseback, at full speed; they brought an 

 interpreter with them. This party consisted of some of the principal war chiefs, 

 and other great men, who did not appear well pleased, but looked on the Pawnees 

 with disdain. After some private consultation they desired the Pawnees to 

 return immediately to their own villages and to inform their great war chief, 

 Red Tail, that if he sincerely wished for peace he must come in person, and then 

 they would settle matters, as they were determined to have nothing to do with a 

 private party of young men. [Henry, 1897, p. 335.] 



