While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Perryman said that each town consisted of a
number of clans or rather a number of segments of clans, and the Town
Chief (Talwa Miko) was chosen from the principal one. Whenever another
clan increased in numbers and importance so as to exceed that of the
principal clan, a part or the whole of this clan would separate from the
village and establish a new one. This happened only when the people were
so numerous and the leading men so popular that they could induce
members of the other clans to unite with them in the enterprise. In this
way the chiefs of the several tribes came to be widely distributed among
the clans. This statement must, however, be taken with some
qualification since a number of related towns are known to have been
governed by the same clan.
In the Red towns the leading officers were selected
from the military line by the civil moiety, and the leading officers of
the White towns(§) were selected
from the civil moiety by the people of the military moiety, in whom
inhered the military government and who to some extent took part also in
civil affairs, as in a similar manner the civilians took part in
military affairs. But questions of peace were decided by the people of
the White towns, and civil officers were chosen from their body.
Questions relating to war were settled by the people of the Red towns,
and the military officers were chosen there from.
