“Ho-Chunk people told Radin that the Warrior clan is paired with the Hawk clan, but could be symbolized by the depiction of human being. The lower division is represented by clans of the earth and water.”
“An interesting alternative to the two-division model was given to Radin by some Ho-Chunk: the clans are divided into three groups headed by the thunderbird, bear, and water spirit.”
Even though these two quotes contradict one another they are from the same descendents of the mound builders. I found it interesting that people from the same tribe have different ideas on how things were in the day of mound builders and that Birmingham and Eisenberg would include this information in there article. Later they also go forward and take the side of the second members of the Ho-Chunk witch I found interesting. The reason they agreed with the second group was because it made more sense in what they were discovering in the mounds. But who is to say that they were correct and the other descendents are wrong. The first descendents might have the more correct answer and therefore a more complicated way of interpreting the mounds. I think that it was not the best idea to include both interpretations on how the tribes worked around the time of the mound builders. They base the rest of there arguments and interpretations only with the assumption that one group was write and the other completely wrong.
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