Wyandot Government: A Short Study of Tribal Society eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 18 pages of information about Wyandot Government.

Wyandot Government: A Short Study of Tribal Society eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 18 pages of information about Wyandot Government.

Adultery, Wyandot law for, 66

Chiefs, Wyandot, Election of, 61, 62
Crimes, Wyandot laws for, 66, 67

Encampment regulations (Wyandot), 64

Family, The term, defined, 59
Fellowhood, Wyandot institution of, 68

Gens, The term, defined, 59
Government, Wyandot civil, 61
  Functions of, 63

Kinship society, 68, 69

Maiming, Wyandot law for, 66
Marriage regulations (Wyandot), 63, 64
Migration regulations (Wyandot), 64
Military government (Wyandot), 68
Murder, Wyandot law for, 66

Name regulations of the Wyandot tribe, 64

Outlawry, Wyandot institution of, 67

Personal adornment regulations (Wyandot), 64
Phratry defined, 60, 61

Society, Kinship, 68, 69

Theft, Wyandot law for, 66
Treason, Wyandot law for, 67
Tribal government based on kinship, 68, 69
Tribal society, A study of (Wyandot), 59-69

Witchcraft, Wyandot law for, 67
Wyandot criminal laws, 66, 67
  for adultery, 66
  for maiming, 66
  murder, 66
  of outlawry, 67
  for theft, 66
  for treason, 67
  for witchcraft, 67
Wyandot government, 59-69
Wyandot military government, 68
Wyandot regulations, 63, 64
  of encampment, 64
  of migration, 64
  of name, 64
  of personal adornment, 64
Wyandot rights, 65
  of community, 65
  of person, 65
  of religion, 65

[Transcriber’s Note:  This index is a subset of the original index assocated with First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, by J. W. Powell.]

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