RECAPITULATION -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Indian name | French name |Lodges| Chiefs of bands | Head chief -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wah-to-pah-han-da-toh|Gens du Gauche | 100 |La Main que tremble|} Wah-ze-ab-we-chas-tah|Gens du Nord | 60 |Le Robe de vent |} Wah-to-pan-ah |Gens des Canot | 220 |Le Serpent |} L’ours Fou or We-che-ap-pe-nah |Gens des Filles| 60 |Les Yeux Gris |} Crazy Bear. E-an-to-ah |Gens des Roches| 50 |Premier qui volle |} Hoo-tai-sha-pah |Le Bas Rouge | 30 |Le Garçon bleu |} | |------| | | | 520 | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Average, four and one half persons per lodge. Total, 2,340 souls. These 520 lodges form the nation, with the exception of those residing in the north, whom they never visit. The bands named are distinct and usually encamped in different sections of country, though they mingle for a short time when circumstances require it, such as scarcity of buffalo in some part of their lands or on an approach of a numerous enemy. When these causes for combination cease they separate and occupy their customary grounds severally, within three or four days’ travel of each other. The chief of the whole nation is Crazy Bear, made so by the commissioner of the United States at the Laramie treaty in 1851, not having as yet, however, that popular rule which will follow in due time if the treaty stipulations on both sides are complied with. CHIEFS.—In each and all the bands mentioned there are several men bearing the character, rank, and name of chiefs. But he only is considered as chief of the band who heads and leads it. Yet this power does not give him a right to tyrannize over any of the other chiefs, or dictate to them any course they would not willingly follow; neither does it detract from their dignity and standing to acknowledge him as the head. Some one must be the nominal leader, and as this place involves some trouble and action and is not repaid with any extra honors or gifts it is not in general much envied. Moreover, this leader is mostly, if not always, supported by numerous connections who second his views and hence his authority. In fact, these bands are nothing more than large families, the chiefs resembling the old patriarchs, being intermarried and connected in such a way as to preclude the probability of clashing of interests or separation. These are the elements of the bands. The chief is little more than the nominal father of all and addresses them as his children in a body.