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…Honors Committee, they may reject one or two of your list as being improperly identified. However, you have given perhaps 5 more than we required so you still are within the law, and are awarded the Coup without delay. So also in the claiming of ranks: do not be satisfied to turn in 24 Coups for the rank of Sagamore, though, strictly, that is all that is required. Have a couple extra to allow for some which the Committee may not accept.
Your Tribal Honors Committee should consist of three persons with the broadest knowledge available. It should always be of adults, possessed of good judgment and of the strong desire to keep up the standards of the League. All honors must be submitted to these three persons who pass not only on the material submitted, but on the form in which the claim is made out. This saves endless time and trouble later, when the claims are submitted to the National Honors Committee for the higher ranks.
All Coup claims should be carefully preserved either by the individual attaining them; or in the case of children, by the Guide. They should also be recorded in the Tribal Tally, which would be accepted as legal evidence, should they, by some unfortunate accident, be lost.
Ranks in the Big Lodge
The ranks must be taken in order.
WAYSEEKER. To qualify for the Big Lodge — that is, to enter as a Wayseeker — one must:
Be over 12 years of age.
Know the 4 Torches or Lamps, and the 12 laws.
Take one of the initiations.
Be voted in unanimously by the other members of the group.
Having passed this, the candidate becomes a Wayseeker and receives the Big Lodge badge of the lowest rank.
PATHFINDER. This is the next higher rank. To win the rank of Pathfinder, the Wayseeker must have won 12 Coups, 3 under each Lamp; know and tell publicly the story of the First Fire; make and explain the Sand Painting; be a Woodcrafter at least three months.
When these tests have been satisfactorily passed, the member is called out in Council, the Guide then in charge reads a list of the Coups won, cuts from the horned shield ..text pokračuje
