Primitive Secret Societies; a Study in Early Politics And Religion
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DECLINE OF TRIBAL SOCIETIES 123 tions of their own. The admission of women is here also doubtless a late development. In the Omaha fraternities they are admitted only through the vision of their male relatives. Women may pass through the various degrees of the Midewiwin of the Ojibwa and the Mitawit of the Menomini, but their duties in the ceremonials are strictly subordinate. 1 The Wacicka fraternity, the principal or- ganization among the Omahas, Winnebagos, and Dakotas, closely resembles the... Midewiwin. Only chiefs and their immediate relatives of both sexes could be members. Ac- cording to one account, the society "tended to concupis- cence." 2 The female members of the Hopi Snake fraternity do not take part in the public Snake Dance, "but join the society and offer their children for initiation as a protection against rattle-snake bites and for the additional benefit of the invocations in the Kiva per- formances." 3 Among the Sia Indians, women are admitted to all the fraternities except the organizations called Snake and Cougar, or Hunters and Warriors.
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