ABSTRACT
The first events of Fox life that became reasonably clear were those seeming to express recurrent consistencies of be-havior. Of all such events, the most revealing were those where outsiders were not much involved: informal Indian dancing at the Pow-wow grounds; a Fox funeral and the formal adoption rituals that followed some weeks after in which surviving children adopted a ceremonial parent; and several others. The Fox were poor, but they talked very little about their poverty. The more drastic effects of low income were lessened by three facts peculiar to the Indian community. Most of the Indians were relatively indifferent to some of the material needs that require a large share of the income of the average white family. Miller's full report considers the whole range of occasions when Fox men needed to coordinate their activities politically. Again and again he reports how very gingerly the Fox handled authority.
