There are many gentes and subgentes which can not be assigned to any of the four categories of elemental powers for want of evidence.
Hence, we may find on further study that in some tribes there are eagle, hawk, and pigeon names for gentes and subgentes whose patron gods are Thunder-beings.
The following appears at first sight to be the proper classification of the subgentes of a Bird gens in a few of the Siouan tribes: Thunder-bird, Eagle, Hawk, and Pigeon.
See also names of the subgentes and of other divisions.
See also names of subgentes and of other divisions.
There is some uncertainty respecting the true positions of a few subgentes in the camping circle.
The archaic names of thesubgentes were not recorded.
The three subgentes here named sat on the same side of fireplace.
All of these five subgentes use the cone-flower symbolic hair cut.
La Flèche and Two Crows said that there were no subgentes in this gens.
The Ponka chiefs who were in Washington in 1880, claimed that in their tribe there used to be eight gentes, one of which has become extinct; and that now there are ten, three subgentes having become gentes in recent times.
The subgentes seem to be composed of a number of groups of a still lower order, which are provisionally termed "sections.
The number of the latter varies, at present, according to the particular gens; though the writer has found traces of the existence of four subgentes in each gens in former days.
Were it not for the institution of subgentes a man would be compelled to marry outside of his tribe, as all the women would be his kindred, owing to previous intermarriages between the ten gentes.
There has evidently been a change in the subgentes since the advent of the white man.
When on the hunt the four subgentes pitch their tents in the following order in the tribal circle: 1.
Were it not for the marriage law, we should say that the ₵atada was a phratry, and its subgentes were gentes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "subgentes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
