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84 BUREAU OF AMERICAN" ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 103
Without doubt this is a folk-explanation of an already existing
name. While it has toteniic suggestions, it is applied to a non-
totemic group.
As we shall see when we consider Choctaw government, the men
of every town were ranged in four classes, the first consisting of the
chiefs, the second of the Hatak holitopa, " beloved men," or leading
warriors, the third of the Tashka or common warriors, and the
fourth of " those who have not struck blows or who have killed only
a woman or a child." We may suspect that, as was the case among
the Creeks and apparently among the Chickasaw, the path to advancement
was to a certain extent smoothed by circumstances of
birth. But this is a vicious disturbance of the survival of the best
which is not confined to Indian society.
Tekms of Kelationspiip
The j)rincipal terms of relationship are given in the following
table, constructed in part from data collected by mj^self and in part
from data obtained from the lists of Morgan and the entries in
Byington's dictionary.