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open to all men of ripe years who have shown a right spirit 

 within, and loving the ways of the woods are willing to help; 

 and who also are voted worthy by the Council of their Medi- 

 cine Lodge. Nevertheless, the High Council of Guidance 

 may withhold its consent, so the election becomes void. 



If besides being Old Guides, they take also the degrees of 

 Camper, Camp Cook, Camp Doctor, and Gleeman, or 

 Herald, they may become Medicine Men of the Lodge, and 

 for those who would follow further, there is the Inmost or 

 Red Lodge of Power whose secrets are known only to the 

 Head Chief of the Lodge and to certain others, but are not 

 to be set down on paper, or given to the people at large. 



In the Medicine Lodge, each Medicine Man has two 

 votes, whereas each Old Guide has but one. 



In every Tribe is at least one Old Guide or Medicine Man, 

 who presides over their search for wisdom, and their 

 Councils, in time of difficulty, helping with his experience 

 and riper knowledge. Four times in every Moon, he should 

 hold Council with his Tribe, from snow around again to 

 snow. 



THE INITIATION OF A BRAVE 



All who would learn the life, and take on the vows of the 

 other Lodges, must pass through three stages of: (i) Indian 

 Boy; (2) Young Brave; and (3) Minisino or Tried Warrior. 



Before being admitted as an Indian Boy, he must: 



(i) Know the laws of the Lodge. 



(2) Have slept out three nights without a roof overhead 

 (tents allowed). 



(3) Be proposed, seconded, posted, for one Moon, if not 

 in camp, or for seven suns when in camp; and then voted 

 into a Band by that Band (one blackball to exclude). 



After this, he faces some trial of his fortitude, and, ii 

 found worthy, may take the vow in this wise: 



