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Excerpt from California Place Names of Indian OriginTo avoid an array of foot-notes, most references have been cited in the text in a simplified form, which will be clear upon consultation of the following list.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 technolo...

Excerpt from California Kinship Systems The following systems of relationship designation were collected at intervals during the last fifteen years, but mostly before 1908, in the course of various field studies of the California Indians. They are in most cases unsupported by genealogies or concrete records, probably the majority of the lists are not wholly exhaustive, and in a few instances the data may not be entirely correct. I have long h...

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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...

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Excerpt from Gros Ventre Myths and Tales Some of the mythical incidents that have the most common distribution in central North America, but that so far have not been found among either the Arapaho or Gros Ventre, are the story of the theft of light or the sun, of the theft of, or some other means of obtaining, water, of the supernatural being that has been wounded by a human being, so that a human medicine man only can extract the weapon, of...

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Excerpt from Indian Myths of South Central California The material on which this paper is based was collected in the years 1901 to 1906 as part of the work of the Ethnological and Archaeological Survey of California carried on by the Uni versity of California's Department of Anthropology, which owes its existence and continued support to the interest of Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousan...

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 hund...

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