Wyandot Government: A Short Study of Tribal Society - Bureau of American Ethnology by John Wesley Powell
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The wigwam or lodge and all articles of the household belong to the
woman--the head of the household--and at her death are inherited by her eldest daughter, or nearest of female kin. The matter is settled by the council women. If the husband die his property is inherited by his brother or his sister's son, except such portion as may be buried with him. His property consists of his clothing, hunting and fishing implements, and such articles as are used personally by himself. Usually a small canoe is the individual property of the man. Large canoes are made by the male members of the gentes, and are the property of the gentes. _RIGHTS OF PERSON._ Each individual has a right to freedom of person and security from personal and bodily injury, unless adjudged guilty of crime by proper authority. _COMMUNITY RIGHTS._ Each gens has the right to the services of all its women in the cultivation of the soil. Each gens has the right to the service of all its male members in avenging wrongs, and the tribe has the right to the service of all its male members in time of war. _RIGHTS OF RELIGION._ |
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