Adultery in American law is a good cause for divorce; but divorce for adultery as far as it might be a public display of jealousy runs counter to Caddo standards of decency. People would think it “an awful disgrace” for a husband to show jealousy in public, to do anything to the other man like …
Sickness may be caused by a witch who has sent something into your body-horse hair, an insect, a bit of cloth, an arrow. Your doctor (konah’) would draw out this thing and send it back into the witch who sent it. Then a fight would be on “between the two witches,” i.e. your doctor and …
The Beaver (t’ao) doctor is the “strongest” (i.e. most powerful) (Ingkanish). He is a daitino (mescal-bean) doctor. He held a medicine dance in early spring. He would throw fire up onto the “grass house” and get it down without the house catching fire. He would shoot another doctor through the heart so that he bled …
Before the corpse is taken out from the house, those present pass their hands over it, from head to feet, and then over their own person. Messages are sent through the deceased to other dead relatives. Anybody arriving too late to see the deceased will go to the grave, to the east side, and, making …
The sibling or cousin nomenclature, I may say incidentally, was quite difficult to work out, as White Moon persistently assumed that the Indian and the English systems were the same. It was only through testing by the genealogical tables that the differentiation became clear first to me, then to him. And then one of the …
Age-Class Terms gayotsi baby sihyat’iti} boy under ten tat’iti} nutyit’it’i} sihnuti} girl under ten nutyit’it’i} tishiyatsi boy, about ten and over tinuti girl, about ten and over shiyatsi youth, eighteen or twenty nutitsi maiden, eighteen or twenty hanistih mature or old man sayatih mature or old woman Joking Relationship: Respect Between relations by marriage within …
To an infant a name is given in the family, by any relative, maternal or paternal. White Moon (R. NichaGaiyu’) does not know the relative who gave him this name. The infant name may continue in use or it may be supplanted by a later name, perhaps the name of the being acquired as a …
Boys were sent every morning to bathe in the river, even through the ice. The boys would shoot birds and a little boy liked to show his birds to his grandmother. The older woman in the family would talk to both the girls and the boys about how to take care of themselves. White Moon …
ka’inchi, grandchild, w. sp. Gen. III, 3 > Gen. III, 24 son’s son, w. sp. iba`, mother’s brother Gen. II, 57 > Gen. II, 30 mother’s brother Gen. III, 44 > Gen. III, 12 mother’s brother Gen. II, 57 > Gen. II, 34 (iba`t’iti, little mother’s brother) mother’s brother Gen. II, 63 > Gen. 11,48 …
Gen. II, 63 > Gen. II, 59 parallel cousin removed Gen. III, 37 > Gen. III, 48 father’s sister’s son Du’wi’} Du wi t iti} younger brother, parallel cousin of a male (?) Gen. II, 8 > Gen. II, 12 younger brother Gen. I, 42 > Gen. I, 44 younger half brother Gen. III, …
The following data were recorded in New York City in the winter of 1921-22 with the cooperation of White Moon, a recent Caddo graduate of Carlisle who in New York shrewdly called himself Chief Silver Moon. In Oklahoma he was generally known as Mike Martin. In December, 1927, at Anadarko, Oklahoma, while collecting folk tales …
The Regional Director represents the Southern Plains Region in dealing with other governmental entities and tribal entities. The Regional Director serves as the representative for the Director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs with the responsibility to work toward strengthening intergovernmental assistance to all the Federally-recognized tribes under the jurisdiction of the Southern Plains Regional …
