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Grand Council. A weekly meeting to which the public are invited and is commonly given over to merrymaking and demonstrations.
MEMBERSHIP
The membership is divided into three groups:
The Little Lodge, for those under puberty.
The Big Lodge, for those who have reached puberty.
The Red or Medicine Lodge, for men over twenty-one who would learn the power of the spiritual.
The organization consists of:
- Little Lodge
- Pappooses, the lowest degree
- Abinodji, or children
- Boys, the highest degree
- Big Lodge
- Indian Boys, newly admitted and raw
- Young Braves, partly trained
- Minisinos, or tried and proven men
Sagamores, members who have won 24 coups or honors.
Grand Sagamores, members who have won 24 grand coups or honors.
Sachems, members who have won 48 coups or honors.
Grand Sachems, members who have won 48 grand coups or honors.
Bands or Clans. Each is composed of a Chief and any number of members from three up to nine – that is ten in all – under an adult who is either an Old Guide or a Medicine Man (Shaman).
Tribes or Camps. A Tribe is a group of at least two Bands and totalling not less than twenty members. Each tribe has a Head Chief, Second Chief, Third Chief, Wampum Keeper, Tally Keeper, Councillors, Braves, an Old Guide, if not a Medicine Man, a Totem, a Totem-pole, and a War Cry. A Tribe of the minimum number of twenty members and two Bands may enroll unattached members till enough of them are secured to form a new Band.
