Excerpt from Indian Names Facts and Games: For Camp Fire Girls

During the last few years great interest has been manifested in the American Indians, particularly among our young people, and especially since the development of the organization known as the Camp Fire Girls. With this interest has grown a demand for Indian personal names, and names for clubs and camps. It is chiefly to meet such demand that this little book has been prepared. In compiling the material presented in the following pages, therefore, the needs of Camp Fire Girls particularly have been borne in mind, as it is understood their activities are patterned largely after those of the Indians, respecting whom so much misinformation has been cast abroad and so many popular fallacies have been absorbed by old and young alike. It is hoped that this attempt to correct a few of the misconceptions concerning our Indian tribes will be welcomed by those who are interested in any way in these first people of America.

The writer's thanks are gratefully extended to those members of the Bureau of American Ethnology who generously rendered information and criticized the manuscript. The illustrations are chiefly from material in possession cf the Bureau. The drawing of the totem pole on page 22 is from a copyrighted photograph by Mr. E. S. Curtis, who courteously granted permission for its use.

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