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12 distinguished by having feathers of different colours fastened to the rim of their ears. Each clan was composed of the descendents of one family, and being blood connexions were forbidden to intermarry with those of the same clan. Each clan camped by itself. (Anciently the Cherokees as well as Creeks, had seven sides to their council hourses, and when assembled each clan occupied its own appropriate side though the men sat on one end of the seats and the women on the other . Each clan was veiwed in all respects as one family.)
They had one standard under the special direction of the priests. This was a long pole, with the bark taken off and the wood painted white, and an eagle tail tried to the end of it. This was raised by the direction of their leader, and when they marched it was taken down and carried by two men The priests were called U ni ky wi ie hi. They also had another standard under the direction of the priest for the war, (el ska yu gu stu e ga) This was painted red and had a red cloth fastened to the top. This was raised only to call the people to war. When any one saw this he raised the war whoop and ran to it. The war dance commenced round this standard. citation: Thomas Smith.
They were one year in performing the journey through the wilderness. When they came to rivers their leader, by the direction of God, struck there with his rod, and the water above stopped which that below flowed down,so as to make the passage easy even for children. Thus they crossed four river or water in their journey. The way was so dreadful that if God had not led them, they could never have got through. After crossing the fourth river in the manner mentioned above they came to the country which God had given them; and called the town where they first rested Tah, mi tu. citation: Thomas Smith.
It took them a great many years to get through the wilderness to their country, and on account of the dangers of the way a great part of the people were destroyed before they got through. citation: Nutsawi (P. log