In the tribal governments there are many institutions, customs, and
traditions which give evidence of a former condition in which society
was based not upon kinship, but upon marriage.
From a survey of the facts it seems highly probably that kinship
society, as it exists among the tribes of North America, has developed
from connubial society, which is discovered elsewhere on the globe. In
fact, there are a few tribes that seem scarcely to have passed that
indefinite boundary between the two social states. Philologic research
leads to the same conclusion.
Nowhere in North America have a people been discovered who have passed
beyond tribal society to national society based on property, i.e.,
that form of society which is characteristic of civilization. Some
peoples may not have reached kinship society; none have passed it.
Nations with civilized institutions, art with palaces, monotheism as
the worship of the Great Spirit, all vanish from the priscan condition
of North America in the light of anthropologic research. Tribes with
the social institutions of kinship, art with its highest architectural
development exhibited in the structure of communal dwellings, and
polytheism in the worship of mythic animals and nature-gods remain.
INDEX
Adultery, Wyandot law for, 66
Chiefs, Wyandot, Election of, 61, 62
Crimes, Wyandot laws for, 66, 67
Encampment regulations (Wyandot), 64
Family, The term, defined, 59
Fellowhood, Wyandot institution of, 68
Gens, The term, defined, 59
Government, Wyandot civil, 61
Functions of, 63
Kinship society, 68, 69
Maiming, Wyandot law for, 66
Marriage regulations (Wyandot), 63, 64
Migration regulations (Wyandot), 64
Military government (Wyandot), 68
Murder, Wyandot law for, 66
Name regulations of the Wyandot tribe, 64
Outlawry, Wyandot institution of, 67
Personal adornment regulations (Wyandot), 64
Phratry defined, 60, 61
Society, Kinship, 68, 69
Theft, Wyandot law for, 66
Treason, Wyandot law for, 67
Tribal government based on kinship, 68, 69
Tribal society, A study of (Wyandot), 59-69
Witchcraft, Wyandot law for, 67
Wyandot criminal laws, 66, 67
for adultery, 66
for maiming, 66
murder, 66
of outlawry, 67
for theft, 66
for treason, 67
for witchcraft, 67
Wyandot government, 59-69
Wyandot military government, 68
Wyandot regulations, 63, 64
of encampment, 64
of migration, 64
of name, 64
of personal adornment, 64
Wyandot rights, 65
of community, 65
of person, 65
of religion, 65
[Transcriber's Note: This index is a subset of the original index
assocated with _First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80_, by J.
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