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1907 · Mishawaka and South Bend (boundary)
The tribe. Mishawaka Tribe No. 304, Improved Order of Red Men, stands in Howard's 1907 Mishawaka list with its officers named: John C. Quick, sachem; George Hitesman, secretary. In South Bend, Howard's closing sweep names Montauk Tribe No. 426 and Leota Council No. 44, Degree of Pocahontas — the Degree of Pocahontas being the order's women's auxiliary, its local unit a council. The borrowed names are stated plainly, as the row requires: the order takes its titles from Native American life — tribe for lodge, sachem for presiding officer, wigwam for hall — a white fraternity's borrowed vocabulary, printed here without euphemism and without endorsement.
The wigwam. Howard names Tribe No. 304's officers but no wigwam — no hall name, no address — and no other source reached supplies one. The wigwam is a named gap: its settler is the Improved Order of Red Men records (the Grand Council's lodge returns) and the South Bend Tribune's lodge-notice columns. No Red Men body is seated in Clay or Harris township in either history.
Sources:
- Howard (1907), vol. 1, p. 345 (Mishawaka Tribe No. 304, I.O.R.M., officers) and p. 463 (Montauk Tribe No. 426; Leota Council No. 44, Degree of Pocahontas).