GOVERNMENT.
Society is maintained by the establishment of government, for rights must be recognized and duties performed.
In this tribe there is found a complete differentiation of the military from the civil government.
CIVIL GOVERNMENT.
The civil government inheres in a system of councils and chiefs.
In each gens there is a council, composed of four women, called Yụ-waí-yu-wá-na. These four women councillors select a chief of the gens from its male members—that is, from their brothers and sons. This gentile chief is the head of the gentile council.
The coucil of the tribe is composed of the aggregated gentile councils. The tribal council, therefore, is composed one-fifth of men and four-fifths of women.
The sachem of the tribe, or tribal chief, is chosen by the chiefs of the gentes.
There is sometimes a grand council of the gens, composed of the councillors of the gens proper and all the heads of households and leading men—brothers and sons.
There is also sometimes a grand council of the tribe, composed of the council of the tribe proper and the heads of households of the tribe, and all the leading men of the tribe.