M[)u]t’-s[)i]ks, Braves, tried warriors.

Kn[)a]ts-o-mi’-ta, All Crazy Dogs, about forty years old.

Ma-stoh’-pa-ta-k[=i]ks Raven Bearers.

E’-mi-taks, Dogs, old men. 
                                               Dogs and Tails are
                                               different societies,
Is’-sui, Tails, but they dress alike
                                               and dance together
                                               and alike.

[)E]ts-[=a]i’-nah, Horns, Bloods, obsolete among the
                                               Piegans,
Sin’-o-pah, Kit-foxes, Piegans, but still exists
                                               with Bloods.

[)E]-[)i]n’-a-ke, Catchers or Soldiers, obsolete for 25-30 years,
                                               perhaps longer.

St[)u]’m[=i]ks, Bulls, obsolete for 50 years.

There may be other societies of the All Comrades, but these are the only ones that I know of at present.  The M[=u]t’-s[)i]ks, Braves, and the Knats-o-mi’-ta, All Crazy Dogs, still exist, but many of the others are being forgotten.  Since the necessity for their existence has passed, they are no longer kept up.  They were a part of the old wild life, and when the buffalo disappeared, and the Blackfeet came to live about an agency, and to try to work for a subsistence, the societies soon lost their importance.  The societies known as Little Birds, Mosquitoes, and Doves are not really bands of the All Comrades, but are societies among the boys and young men in imitation of the I-kun-uh’-kah-tsi, but of comparatively recent origin.  Men not more than fifty years old can remember when these societies came into existence.  Of all the societies of the I-kun-uh’-kah-tsi, the Sin’-o-pah, or Kit-fox band, has the strongest medicine.  This corresponds to the Horns society among the Bloods.  They are the same band with different names.  They have certain peculiar secret and sacred ceremonies, not to be described here.

The society of the Stum’-[=i]ks, or Bulls, became obsolete more than fifty years ago.  Their dress was very fine,—­bulls’ heads and robes.

The members of the younger society purchased individually, from the next older one, its rights and privileges, paying horses for them.  For example, each member of the Mosquitoes would purchase from some member of the Braves his right of membership in the latter society.  The man who has sold his rights is then a member of no society, and if he wishes to belong to one, must buy into the one next higher.  Each of these societies kept some old men as members, and these old men acted as messengers, orators, and so on.