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This historical and anthropological work tells about the social organization of Wyandots, the family, the gens, the phratry, the tribe. The Wyandot people, also called the Huron, are peoples of North America who emerged as a tribe around the north shore of Lake Ontario.
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Wyandot Government - John Wesley Powell
John Wesley Powell
Wyandot Government: A Short Study of Tribal Society
Bureau of American Ethnology
Published by Good Press, 2019
goodpress@okpublishing.info
EAN 4057664585318
Table of Contents
THE FAMILY.
THE GENS.
THE PHRATRY.
GOVERNMENT.
CIVIL GOVERNMENT.
METHODS OF CHOOSING AND INSTALLING COUNCILLORS AND CHIEFS.
FUNCTIONS OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT.
MARRIAGE REGULATIONS.
NAME REGULATIONS.
REGULATIONS OF PERSONAL ADORNMENT.
REGULATIONS OF ORDER IN ENCAMPMENT AND MIGRATIONS.
PROPERTY RIGHTS.
RIGHTS OF PERSON.
COMMUNITY RIGHTS.
RIGHTS OF RELIGION.
CRIMES.
THEFT.
MAIMING.
MURDER.
TREASON.
WITCHCRAFT.
OUTLAWRY.
MILITARY GOVERNMENT.
FELLOWHOOD.
Index
In the social organization of the Wyandots four groups are recognized—the family, the gens, the phratry, and the tribe.
THE FAMILY.
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The family, as the term is here used, is nearly synonymous with the household. It is composed of the persons who occupy one lodge, or, in their permanent wigwams, one section of a communal dwelling. These permanent dwellings are constructed in an oblong form, of poles interwoven with bark. The fire is placed in line along the center, and is usually built for two families, one occupying the place on each side of the fire.
The head of the family is a woman.
THE GENS.
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The gens is an organized body of consanguineal kindred in the female line. The woman carries the gens,
is the formulated statement by which a Wyandot expresses the idea that
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