In a message dated 7/25/2002 12:29:02 PM Central Daylight Time, wood_owl@hotmail.com writes: > > This is what my Ikbi wrote. > > "It was my understanding that hopia meant "mounder" or "builder of > mounds." The iksa anumoli aided in the mounding, but the mounders were a > seperate "office" or "post" to the best o my knowledge." > > George Ann > Thanks, George Ann, it sounds like from this that the Hopia's were not the "bone pickers" but nevertheless their "office" or "post" put them in a special position of authority within the tribe. John Craven New Orleans