. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. zir 3IO zO< IT UJ UJ ccO iiJ ^2 o z I CO <q: I JESKS] PROPERTY-RIGHT IN WILD RICE 1073 quently unite their labors and divide the product aecording to someprearranged ag-reement or social custom. It mast not be lost sightof. however, that if the food of any worthy family fails, the entirefood supply of the social group is available to make up the Pokagon writes of wild rice among the Pottawatomi: Ourpeople always divide everything when want comes to the door. Among manv No
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. zir 3IO zO< IT UJ UJ ccO iiJ ^2 o z I CO <q: I JESKS] PROPERTY-RIGHT IN WILD RICE 1073 quently unite their labors and divide the product aecording to someprearranged ag-reement or social custom. It mast not be lost sightof. however, that if the food of any worthy family fails, the entirefood supply of the social group is available to make up the Pokagon writes of wild rice among the Pottawatomi: Ourpeople always divide everything when want comes to the door. Among manv North Auierican Indian tribes, especially those culti-vating fields of maize, certain harvest lands are set aside by the tribe,in which the family has a sort of fee tail. In general, it may be saidthat such a family controls for its own use, but not for disposal inany way, definite harvest lands for stated periods of time, provided itcomply with certain requirements—usually those of cultivation. Marquette repoited something similar among the Dakota in } divided the wild-rice fields so th
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