Winyan
(That is, a Woman Tried and Proven)
T0 become a Winyan, the Pathfinder must take at least twenty of the following tests:
1. Walk seven miles in two hours and write an account of it.
2. Swim one hundred yards in three minutes.
3. Single paddle a canoe one mile in twenty minutes.
4. Know how to splice a rope, and lash a rope end.
5. Make a rubbing-stick fire with tools made by self.
6. Make a stick bed; or else a serviceable bow and arrow.
7. Set up a tepee, or a two-man tent, single-handed.
8. Be able to make a comfortable, rainproof shelter, and a dry comfortable bed, also light a fire and cook a meal, with no tools or utensils but a hatchet and what one can make with it.
9. Know twenty-five native wild birds.
10. Know ten native wild quadrupeds.
11. Know thirty forest trees or shrubs, show appropriate camp articles made from five kinds of the same.
12. Know twenty wild flowers.
13. Know and show use of five medicinal herbs.
14. Plant successfully ten desirable trees or ten wild flowers or plants.
15. Organize a clean-up, covering at least one block in town.
16. Must have successfully run a camp not less than seven for at least a week, or if not in camp must have led a Band for a month.
17. Show by examination and practice a good acquaintance with all the essentials of modern etiquette: Forms of address, salutation, introduction, calling, etc.
18. Advanced first aid: Know the methods for panic prevention: what to do in case of fire, ice, electric, and gas accidents; how to help in case of runaway horses, mad dog or snake bite, treatment for dislocations, unconsciousness, poisoning, fainting, apoplexy, sunstroke, heat exhaustion and freezing; know treatment for sunburn, ivy poisoning, bites, and stings, nosebleed, earache, toothache, inflammation or grit in eye, cramp or stomach-ache and chills; demonstrate artificial respiration.
19. Know how to make and run a latrine.
20. Dance any good camp-fire dance and teach it to a group.
21. Run the Council, including singing the Omaha and any acceptable “Good-night Song”.
22. Have done a daily good turn for six moons.
