In this process they were made to forget their boyhood attachments and commenced being men. Upon the occasion that an initiate remembered his former life he was taken out and put through the rigors of the huskanaw again with even more severity. It was not unusual for him to die under this rigorous process. These initiates were older than those observed by Smith nearly eighty years earlier. Candidates are choice young men.
Candidates drink intoxicating beverage.
Candidates secluded from community. Candidates became non-hereditary leaders. Initiated noted for being just and impartial.