The Momi people, now a subgens of the Missouri Bird gens, abstain from small birds which have been killed by large birds, and they can not touch the feathers of such small birds.
Tsepa ʞaxe of the Wasape gens said that it formed the fourth subgens of his own people.
In that year one of the Ta yatcajĭ subgens (of the Taqtci or Deer gens) was iekiye number 1.
The I´-ba-ṭse is a subgens of the Elk and has the right to take names relating to that animal.
This subgens had the office of making the stem for the peace pipe.
The name Sho´-ḳa is the title of a subgens from which the principal gens chooses a man or woman to act as official messenger at the performance of a tribal rite.
Refers to the office of this subgens of urging the messengers to prompt action.
Those belonging to the subgens of the infant cannot eat anything cooked for the feast, but the men of the other subgentes are at liberty to partake of the food.
A man cannot marry a woman of thesubgens of the wife of his son, nephew, or grandson; nor can he marry a woman of the subgens of the husband of his daughter, niece, or granddaughter.
Gahige said that his subgens had a series of Eagle birth-names, as well as the Buffalo birth-names common to the whole gens.
The name of this last subgens means "Those who do not touch swans," but this is only a name, not a taboo, according to some of the Omahas.
The Keepers of the Pipe and Jiñga-gahige's subgens seem to form one of the three divisions recognized by La Flèche.
He cannot marry any woman of the subgens of his father's mother, for the same reason; but he can marry any woman belonging to the other subgentes of his paternal grandmother's gens, as they are not his kindred.
Another tradition is that the first man of this subgens emerged from the water with an ear of red corn in his hand.
Two Crows cannot marry any Iñke-sabě woman belonging to the subgens of his son's wife; but he can marry one belonging to either of the remaining subgentes.
When a child is named on the fifth day after birth, all of the gentiles are not invited, the only person who is called is an old man who belongs to the subgens of the infant.
He said that the members of the second subgens could not touch charcoal, in addition to the general taboo of the gens.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "subgens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
