_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._
Each phratry has the right to certain religious ceremonies and the
preparation of certain medicines.
Each gens has the exclusive right to worship its tutelar god, and each
individual has the exclusive right to the possession and use of a
particular amulet.
_CRIMES._
The violations of right are crimes. Some of the crimes recognized by
the Wyandots are as follows:
1. Adultery.
2. Theft.
3. Maiming.
4. Murder.
5. Treason.
6. Witchcraft.
A maiden guilty of fornication may be punished by her mother or female
guardian, but if the crime is flagrant and repeated, so as to become a
matter of general gossip, and the mother fails to correct it, the
matter may be taken up by the council women of the gens.
A woman guilty of adultery, for the first offense is punished by
having her hair cropped; for repeated offenses her left ear is cut
off.
_THEFT._
The punishment for theft is twofold restitution.
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