Clans & Societies with Charles Hunter

Yeah I know I come in and help Charlie when he goes over his portion of his curriculum of Klan ships he explains it uh-uh we get it gets kind of confusing I think at times but from the odds-on Mandan side you have the Klan ships they have that what we have left is seven clans we have a three client members and your four Klan members my mother was a four clan member so that’s what I’m a member of and it was from her mother and her mother so like when he said he’d take passed on from the mother’s side so we tried to explain that to kids you know what to break it down to our students and saying if your mother has a clan that’s what you’re a member of now if your father has a clan you’re a child of that clan so my father was a member of three clan so I’m a child of that so that goes were Jerome and Charlie gnam their dad was a fork line member the same clan I was so they’re a child of it and that’s where explain where I might be their clan father clan uncle so on your on your dad’s side your clan side on that you know he they have oh you have a lot of respect for them they’re the ones who are gonna take care of you after you like you said after you leave you know but also while you’re here you acknowledge him and thought of stuff like he said give it to the gift he said so I mean you acknowledge that and when you go back to your clan side like my mother even though she’s a Ricker or a real crow but there were hid outside - she has a clan so her siblings are my Civil War considered siblings so my uncle’s my blood uncle’s her brothers and her sisters would be my brother my Big Brothers and Big Sisters so we try to break it down where the students understand it so we can tease each other so I when I get a chance to tease her brothers my uncle’s iolite easily that’s my enjoyment and like Jerome said we you know families they have a lot of humor you find a lot of humor and stuff ah same thing you know they get the ones who can dish it out we got to receive it too and then I have a lot of that some uncles on my dad site that would they really tease us you know he can’t say nothing we gotta you gotta take it now but that’s the respect part like he said and growing up having that instilled in us to or you know right and wrong from that you don’t question it and so a fortune upon that and I recur aside with our societies we have a couple societies I belong to two of them as well fortunate on that one is the old Scout society I belong to that’s come in a long line of our Arikara Scouts neaten back to 1800s and before that so I’m a descendant of that as well direct descendant of that myself being in a military as well veteran having been in combat and overseas and even to today I’m still part of the military so I take a lot of pride in that my siblings a little bit too with that both all my siblings were all in the military and you know and we help out you know when we have an opportunity to or we have stuff coming up but also one of our other societies I belong to I helped with is I’m I helped with the drum taking care of the drum for our society that’s been a position passed down from the same thing allotted a lot of years a lot of generations and being passed to me from one of my uncles so I’ve fortunate enough to help with that’s been quite a few years now but that’s you know as a society we have we have like he said different positions he’s held a few and ours there we have different ones who have different roles different and stuff and yet the biggest thing is learning that growing up just understanding that I didn’t kind understand it growing up a lot and we never question anything either but it’s so it’s kind of kind of interesting seeing it now how many years later these different things being passed on like myself I don’t consider myself very old I guess being fortunate of growing up seeing a lot of that being around a lot of that and helping like my parents helped a lot with a lot of that my grandparents so when my dad like with our society he’s saying a lot for a lot of the events a lot of the functions Oh having to be tagged along with him all the time seeing a lot of that heard a lot of the songs fortunate to learn quite a few of them and getting kind of learning that route of that and he like I said we just you know when were called upon or ass bottom you know were told never to say no you help as best you can because one time we’re gonna be in a hardship and you know you’re gonna have to ask somebody for help too as well so that’s I guess that was one of the biggest teachings of that we still carry on today