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Tutelo clans may be Bear, Deer, Snipe or Bird, Turtle, and Wolf.
There are Tutelo words for wolf clan and snipe clan. Both clans are found among the Cayuga, these could be Tutelo words for the Cayuga clans. There are also Tutelos from the Bear and Deer clans that lived with the Cayuga.
The info below is from Siouan Sociology – A Posthumous Paper By James Owen Dorsey. This paper looks at all of the Siouan tribes, also check out the section on Biloxi.
THE TUTELO
It is impossible to learn whether the Tutelo ever camped in a circle The author obtained the following clan names (descent being in the female line) from John Key, an Indian, on Grand River reservation, Ontario, Canada, in September, 1882: On “one side of the fire” were the Bear and Deer clans, the Wolf and Turtle being on the other side. John Key’s mother, maternal grandmother, and Mrs Christine Buck were members of the Deer clan. There were no taboos. The Tutelo names of the clans have been forgotten.
http://omahatribe.unl.edu/etexts/oma.0004/oma.0004.ch-17.html
I’m wondering if the folks on the deer and bear side of the fire migrated north, and the turtle and wolf side stayed south.
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