old time law

creek laws before the whites came

Before there was a constitution, there was just rules, laws that every talwa town abided by. If a woman with a husband was goin around with another man and the woman's husband's kin found out, both would be whipped without count. Then if the kept seeing each other, the second time they had an ear cut off. If they still didn't quit, they had the soft part of the nose, the tip, cut off. Same law applied if a man had a wife but went with another woman. If that woman's kin found the same actions were carried out.
This was the law of the old ones.
The women enforced the law.
In some cases only clan members from the specific families involved were used to carry out the law.