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ment or another tribe is held. It is really a representative government....From the very form of their government, the whole people have pledged themselves,...to keep the treaty.

The executive power is vested in the Soldiers Lodge... and the head soldier has the power of life and death in his hands. The Soldiers Lodge executes all the orders of the council. The members are elected and they elect the headsoldier, who is usually a man of energy and character, and who often has more influence than the chief. When the headsoldier leads a war party he is treated with the greatest honor that can possible be shown him. The members of the party vie with each other in waiting on him, - his campfire is made first, his food is cooked first, and his comfort is to be considered above everything else. On the other hand the headsoldier must be at the front in battle and he must be the last in a retreat, and he must be ready to sacrifice his life for the safety of the party any moment it may be required of him.

There are rules governing the conduct of a war party... an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. A tribe occupies a piece of land which is the permanent home of the tribe. The tribe lives in villages, in mud-lodges....and in tents. Some of the bigger lodges are capable of holding two or three hundred people at a council or feast. Each one also claims a ...hunting ground and it was while encroaching on others