The Clan Is Nothing More Than A

The Clan Is Nothing More Than A Larger Family, With Its Patriarchal Chief As The Natural Head, And The Union Of Several Clans By Intermarriage And Voluntary Connection Constitutes The Tribe.

Is There Not Something Worthy Of Perpetuation In Our Indian Spirit Of Democracy, Where Earth, Our Mother, Was Free To All, And No One Sought To Impoverish Or Enslave His Neighbor?

As A Child I Understood How To Give; I Have Forgotten This Grace Since I Became Civilized.

The Logical Man Must Either Deny All Miracles Or None, And Our American Indian Myths And Hero Stories Are Perhaps, In Themselves, Quite As Credible As Those Of The Hebrews Of Old.

That Is, We Believed, The Supreme Duty Of The Parent, Who Only Was Permitted To Claim In Some Degree The Priestly Office And Function, Since It Is His Creative And Protecting Power Which Alone Approaches The Solemn Function Of Deity.