[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 1 Schoolcraffs Notes, 278, etc. pelled to join it. Those two tribes were "* Schooler affs Notes, 1 1 8, 1 20, etc. the younger, and the three others the older "The time when the confederacy was members of the confederacy." — Galla-formed is not known, but it was presumed tin. "The Oneidas^ and Cayugas are to be of a recent date, and the Oneidas their children." — Zinxcndorf. and Cayugas are said to have been com-40 THE INDIAN TRIBES but national or confederated action required the concurrence of all the tribes, and hence, when a decision was made, it was clothed with all the power of the most full popular will.1 There was no female suffrage among them, and yet females had the power, by adoption, to rescue prisoners from death, and to com mand a cessation of war. When so determined by the matrons, the braves returned from the conflict without compromiting the character of the tribe for bravery. But this feature in their customs was common to all the Indian nations. It remains to be shown that they had any forms of government peculiar to themselves. Their power was in their confederation,