Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico1907 |
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Page 193 - We conquered you, we made women of you; you know you are women, and can no more sell land than women.
Page vi - Algonquian and Iroquoian families, and through his wide general knowledge of Indian history and customs he rendered aid in many other directions. A list of Linguistic Families of the Indian Tribes North of Mexico, with Provisional List of the Principal Tribal Names and Synonyms (55 pp., octavo), was at once printed for use by the collaborators of the Bureau in connection with the complete compilation, and although the list does not include the Californian tribes, it proved of great service in the...
Page 170 - On the evolution of language, as exhibited in the specialization of the grammatic processes, the differentiation of the parts of speech, and the integration of the sentence; from a study of Indian languages, by JW Powell. P. 1-16. Sketch of the mythology of the North American Indians, by JW Powell. P. 17-5C. Wyandot government: a short study of tribal society, by JW Powell.
Page 167 - Their food, clothing, and domestic accommodations: The diseases prevalent among them, and the remedies they use...
Page 167 - ... the extent and limits of their possessions; their relations with other tribes or nations; their language, traditions, monuments; their ordinary occupations in agriculture, fishing, hunting, war, arts, and the implements for these; their food, clothing, and domestic...
Page 167 - The diseases prevalent among them, and the remedies they use; "Moral and physical circumstances which distinguish them from the tribes we know; "Peculiarities in their laws, customs, and dispositions ; "And articles of commerce they may need or furnish, and to what extent.
Page 173 - ... cleanse their houses, squares, and the whole town, of their filth, which with all the remaining grain and other old provisions they cast together into one common heap, and consume it with fire. After having taken medicine, and fasted for three days, all the fire in the town is extinguished. During this fast they abstain from the gratification of every appetite and passion whatever. A general amnesty is proclaimed; all malefactors may return to their town.
Page 391 - Indian corn and dryed peaches. These Congerees have abundance of storks and cranes in their savannas. They take them before they can fly and breed them as tame and familiar as a dunghill fowl. They had a tame crane at one of these cabins that was scarcely less than six feet in height, his head being round, with a shining natural crimson hue, which they all have.
Page 173 - When a town celebrates the busk," says he, " having previously provided themselves with new clothes, new pots, pans, and other household utensils and furniture, they collect all their worn out clothes and other despicable things, sweep and cleanse their houses, squares, and the whole town, of their filth, which with all the remaining grain and other old provisions they cast together into one common heap, and consume it with fire. After having taken medicine, and fasted for three days, all the fire...
Page 247 - All authorities agree that this was an important division and came first in the circle. The name is said to have originated from several of the band in an emergency, having once made the aorta of a buffalo do duty as a pipe. Grinnell gives this story, and also an alternative one, which renders it 'small windpipes,' from a choking sickness sent as a punishment for offending a medicine beaver.