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Date Posted: Fri, 01/24/03 9:59am
Author: earthw7
Subject: Marriage and divorce

I was wondering what is the opinion on these subjects.
Marriage your parents usually made the arrangement for you future spouse. The husband and his family had to offer a dowry like horses and goods to the future wife family. If accepted the future wife would then make a pair of moccasin for her mother-in-law. The Mother-in-law would give the girl a whole new outfit including moccasin. This would seal the marriage. The in-laws never addressed their son or daughter-in-law. They would tell their daughter or son to pass on a message. We had a ceremony call Bit the knife, a woman would do this if she had only one husband and was faithful. A woman was never condemn for having more than one husband.
In our tradition if a wife or husband was bad you just threw their belonging outside and you were divorced.
Our tribal court went by the old way and it cost $20 to get a divorce. We never worried about settlement or who own what because if there was children involved everything went to the woman, if not everyone just divided there stuff. The children always belong to the family and not the parents so that was never a problem. Today it cost $50.00 to get rid of a bad spouse.
So what do you think about our traditions?

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