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took care of the children and got the wood and water. The tribe always camped near a stream. The young girls usually carried the water and looked on it as fun. The women also did the tanning of the hides. At home the women usually put in the small crop of Indian corn, beans and pumpkins, and the produce of the fields was considered theirs. They dried the corn and pumpkins for winter use. A man would not think of giving away any of the field produce without asking his wife. Neither would she give away any of the meat without asking him. ...When a woman marries, her property (an Indian's wealth is usually reckoned by the number of horses he has) is her own and her husband cannot dispose of it without her consent. If there is any trouble and they separate, she takes her own property with her. Of course there are men among us who tyrannize over their wives just as there are among you...and we have also among us what you call henpecked husbands. ...

The men are beginning now to do most of the work in the fields.

In the domestic government of the tribe ...the punishment for stealing was that a man had to restore twice the value of what he stole to the one he stole from. The penalty for murder was usually banishment. It was a severe punishment. The rules with regard to young girls were very strict. A girl was not allowed to go anywhere without an older woman with her and a girl could not speak to any man excepting her