They certainly acted very impartially, or they considered that already one important office,--the office of maseua, or war-captain,--was held by a member of one of the most numerous hanutsh, Tyame.

It appeared unwise to them to refuse to as large a cluster as Shyuamo an adequate representation in the executive powers of the community.

So they chose Hoshkanyi, as a member of the Turquoise clan, and proposed him for the office of tapop, or civil chief.

That more opposition was not made to this selection was due to two facts,--first, to the tacit acknowledgment on the part of all that it seemed fair to give Shyuamo a share in the tribal government, and second, to the equally tacit conviction that Hoshkanyi, while in appearance a man of determination and perspicacity, was in fact but a pompous and weak individual, ambitious and vain, and without the faculty of doing harm.

In both these points public opinion at the Rito was right.
It will be seen from what has been said that there prevailed a strong desire on the part of the chief religious authorities to preserve a certain equilibrium between the components of the tribe.