Bowers] HIDATSA SOCIAL AND CEREMONIAL ORGANIZATION 67 



CLAN MEMBERSHIP AND AFFILIATIONS 



A census by mformants of the Mandan and Hidatsa living at Fish- 

 hook Village in 1872 — subsequent to the removal of the Crow-Flies- 

 High band — showed the following population by clans: *^ 



Hidatsa clans: 



Maxoxati 



Knife (. MEtsiroku) 



Low cap ( Apukawiku) 



Prairie chicken 



AwaxEnawita 



Waterbusters ( Miripati) 



Xura 



Itisuku 



Mandan clans: 



Waxikena 



Tamisik 



Prairie chicken 



Speckled eagle 



Other tribes: 



Arikara 



Blackf oot 



Crow 



While the Mandan and Hidatsa seemed in general agreement as to 

 whether a mixed household was Mandan or Hidatsa, no definite rule 

 could be made. Although children generally claimed to belong to 

 the mother's tribe, there were numerous exceptions to the rule as 

 in the case of Bad Gun, one of the Mandan chiefs, whose mother 

 was a Hidatsa and whose wife was also. Tribal aflEiliation seemed 

 to be based even more on the individual's participation in social and 

 ceremonial functions. In other similar situations a man and the 

 household would have been classified by the informants as Hidatsa. 

 The extent of Hidatsa-Mandan intermarriage prior to 1872 is indicated 

 by the figures for households. These figures do not include one 

 faction of the Hidatsa who moved away about this time and were 

 accompanied by a few Mandans. We see that there were 296 

 Hidatsas living in recognized Hidatsa households while an additional 

 63 belonging to Mandan clans lived in the same households as did 

 3 Arikaras, and 4 Crows who were brought there by marriage. In 

 addition, there were 81 persons belonging to Hidatsa clans who were 

 living in recognized Mandan households housing 192 persons of 

 Mandan clans. More than 80 percent of this intermixture of Mandans 

 and Hidatsas occurred after 1850. 



11 These figures do not include those mdividuals of alien groups who have been adopted and assumed 

 clan afHliation. 



