Clan meeting

A Clan meeting is an event held in the Clan camp when a Clan leader convokes the Clan members to share important information with them.
==Purpose==
A Clan meeting has one or more of the following purposes:
*Announcing important events or sharing information, such as relating what happened at a Gathering, such as Firestar sharing the news of the Gathering when RiverClan proclaimed that the lake was theirs.
*Conduct a ceremony, such as appointing new apprentices, warriors and deputies, confirming the retirement of elders, or changing the name of a cat, such as Firestar calling a Clan meeting for the appointment of Lionblaze as a warrior.
*Warn Clan members about dangers, such as the fox traps, a flood, or an impending attack, such as Firestar calling a Clan meeting from the results of the battle with WindClan and ShadowClan.
*Bring the Clan members together to discuss an important matter, such as Leafstar calling the cats together to decide what to do about the Twoleg torturing cats.
==Procedure==
Clan meetings have no fixed dates; a meeting can be called at any time, whenever the leader feels the need to do so. It is the privilege of the Clan leader to convoke a meeting. However, sometimes other Clan cats do it; for example if they feel that an important information or question must be brought to the Clan, such as Mousefur calling a meeting in Sunset, or if the leader is not available, such as when Fireheart called a meeting in A Dangerous Path.
To begin the meeting, the leader climbs to a high place, (such as the Highrock in the ThunderClan forest camp) where all cats gathered below can see and hear them well. They open the meeting with the words "Let all cats old enough to catch their own prey gather here beneath the Highrock (or Highledge) for a Clan meeting". The call is similar for the other Clans with the Clan leader calling the Clan together underneath a vantage point. RiverClan's call is different, and references those old enough to swim with "Let all cats old enough to swim gather to hear my words!". 
ShadowClan's call is "Let all cats old enough to catch their own prey join here beneath the Clanrock (Pinebranch) for a meeting!" SkyClan's call is "Let all cats old enough to catch their own prey join here beneath the Rockpile (Highroot, Tallrock, Tallstump) for a Clan meeting!" WindClan's call is "Let all cats old enough to catch prey gather beneath Tallrock for a Clan meeting." On the rare occasions of Clan meetings in the Dark Forest, a leader calls out with these words: "Let all cats old enough to kill their own enemies gather here!" Once having the attention of all cats, the leader passes the message or performs the required ceremony.
==Meeting locations==
===ThunderClan===
===ShadowClan===
===RiverClan===
===WindClan===
===SkyClan===
==Trivia==
===Author statements===
*Victoria Holmes explained that in the lake territories, RiverClan leaders sit on a hawthorn tree stump and ShadowClan's leaders stand on a fallen log.
==See also==
*Gathering
*Camp
==Notes and references==
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Category:Clan life