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1907 · South Bend (boundary)
Howard's roster seats the Improved Order of Red Men in South Bend as Montauk Tribe No. 426, with its women's auxiliary as Leota Council No. 44, Degree of Pocahontas. The borrowed names are stated plainly, as the row directs: the Red Men were a fraternity of white men whose entire vocabulary — tribe, wigwam for the hall, council, degrees named for Pocahontas and for peoples like the Montauk — was borrowed from the Native nations its members did not belong to; the borrowing is the order's defining feature and is printed as such, without the period's romance. No tribe or council of the order seats in Osceola or Penn Township in the record reached; the wigwam for this ground stood in South Bend.
Sources: Howard (1907), vol. 1, Part 73 record.