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Excerpt from Arapaho DialectsAccording to the latest authority, Dr. Truman Michelson, 1 the languages of the great Algonkin family fall into four primary, sub stantially co-ordinate, but very unequal groups. Three of these are Blackfoot, Cheyenne, and Arapaho. The fourth, or eastern-central, comprises all the other dialects of the family. The Blackfoot, Chey enne, and Arapaho were buffalo hunters in the open plains. The other tribes with scarc...

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Excerpt from Kinship in the PhilippinesThis essay attempts a review of the more readily available data on the terminologies in use, among the natives of the Philippine Islands, for relatives by blood and marriage, an analysis of these data with a view to the determination of the Filipino system of kinship designation at a former period, the lines of growth of this system and their affect ing causes, the relation of the system to contemporary i...

Excerpt from California Kinship SystemsThere is a curious change of generations implied in the primary or simplest meanings of the terms used to denote relatives beyond the grandfather. Thus in the pure male line.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techno...

Excerpt from Shoshonean Dialects of CaliforniaLinguistically, matters are superficially better, since many vocabularies have been collected and published since the begin ning of the last century. But knowledge of the structure of the language has lagged behind, and there is not yet printed even a sketch of the grammar of any Shoshonean dialect, although it is to be hoped that the researches already made by Mr. H. H. St. Clair of the American M...

Excerpt from University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, 1919-1920, Vol. 16While pursuing other investigations among the Miwok Indians of the Sierra Nevada region during the summer of: 1906, I incidentally secured the following Short series of myths. These are presented without exhaustive study, just as they were obtained from certain Mariposa, or Southern Sierra, Miwok informants. The investigations I refer to...

Excerpt from California Culture ProvincesCahuilla Indians, The, 315 - 380, divi~ sions: habitats, 316, myths, 317, 364 - 378, ceremonies religious 328, 348, burial, 344, initiation and puberty, 345, 347, shamanism, 333, Spiritual beliefs, 339, 342, songs, 344, social orders, 349° social and hygienic customs, 349 355, war-like and legal usages 355 - 356, mode of life and indus tries, 356 - 360, dogs, 361, knowl~ edge, 362, bibliography, 379.Abo...

Excerpt from Three Essays on the Antiquity and Races of ManThe popular but inaccurate expression of this scientific conviction is that man is descended from the monkeys, but that a link has been lost in the chain of descent: the famous missing link. In a loose way this statement re¿ects modern scientific Opinion, but it certainly is partly erroneous. Probably not a single living authority maintains today that man is descended from any species ...

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Excerpt from Handbook of the Indians of CaliforniaAs regards the province of speech, I feel no such hesitation of competence, but here again the subject matter is an essentially dis tinct one, besides being of a nature which generally impresses as technical. The relation of language to civilization is undoubtedly closer than that of head form or skin color, but it is far from in timate. I have therefore considered speech only in so far as the ...

Excerpt from The Religion of the Indians of California, Vol. 4Stringently exacted religious custom. The method of disposing of the dead varied locally between burial and cremation, crema tion being practiced over at least half of the state. Air burial and sea burial were nowhere found. Mourning, which consisted primarily of singing and wailing, began immediately upon death and continued for about a day, sometimes longer by the imme diate relat...

Excerpt from University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 10This practical uniformity in regard to vowel qualities raises the question whether a similar tendency may not be character istic of North American languages in general. The descriptions ordinarily given of Indian vowels, as of u like English 00 or by the orthography ii, are no evidence, unless emanating from a recorder having the distinction of qua...

Excerpt from Types of Indian Culture in CaliforniaThroughout the greater part of the state the civilization of the Indians is very much alike. While the number of groups and of divisions corresponding to tribes, and the number of languages, is large, and no two groups show exactly identical customs and beliefs, the general type of culture is uniform. The exceptions are Southern California and the northwesternmost part of the state. But the ter...

Excerpt from Yuman Tribes of the Lower ColoradoAutobiography of a Winnebago In dian, 381 - 473, youth, 385, mode of life, 386, 391, 398, 406, 412, 424, social customs, 393, 405, 446, 463, 466, ideals and spiritual beliefs, 388, 395, 396, 410, 417, 430 - 449, 451, fasting, 386, 388, 395, 450, 454, feasting, 395, 420, 430, 437, 463, peyote, 430 - 449, shamanism, 400, 421, 455, precepts, 450-473.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundre...

Excerpt from California Place Names of Indian OriginGannett: Henry Gannett, The Origin of Certain place-names in the United States. U. S. Geological Survey, Bulletin 197, 1902. As this is also an alphabetic list, page references have again been omitted.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forg...