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!
Nothing definite was known of the
clans of the Hurons until the appearance of Morgan's Ancient Society in
1877, Powell's Wyandot Government (1st Rep. B. A. E., 1881), and
Connolley's The Wyandots (Archaeol. Rep. Ontario, 92, 1899).
From the last writer, who corrects the work of the
former authorities, the following list of Huron clans is taken:
Great Turtle
Little Water Turtle
Mud Turtle
Wolf
Bear
Beaver
Deer
Porcupine
Striped Turtle
Highland Turtle
Snake
Hawk.
These, according to Powell, were organized into four
phratries or clan brotherhoods, but Connolley denies that four phratries
ever existed. The evidence appears to indicate, however, that the
four-phratry organization was merged into one of three, of which the Wolf
clan constituted one and acted as executive and presiding officer.
