Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 242 pages of information about Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico.

Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 242 pages of information about Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico.

  1859.  Kane (Paul).

  Wanderings of an artist among the Indians of North America from Canada
    to Vancouver’s Island and Oregon through the Hudson’s Bay Company’s
    territory and back again.  London, 1859.

The interesting account of the author’s travels among the Indians, chiefly in the Northwest, and of their habits, is followed by a four page supplement, giving the names, locations, and census of the tribes of the Northwest coast.  They are classified by language into Chymseyan, including the Nass, Chymseyans, Skeena and Sabassas Indians, of whom twenty-one tribes are given; Ha-eelb-zuk or Ballabola, including the Milbank Sound Indians, with nine tribes; Klen-ekate, including twenty tribes; Hai-dai, including the Kygargey and Queen Charlotte’s Island Indians, nineteen tribes being enumerated; and Qua-colth, with twenty-nine tribes.  No statement of the origin of these tables is given, and they reappear, with no explanation, in Schoolcraft’s Indian Tribes, volume V, pp. 487-489.

In his Queen Charlotte Islands, 1870, Dawson publishes the part of this table relating to the Haida, with the statement that he received it from Dr. W. F. Tolmie.  The census was made in 1836-’41 by the late Mr. John Work, who doubtless was the author of the more complete tables published by Kane and Schoolcraft.

  1862.  Latham (Robert Gordon).

  Elements of comparative philology.  London, 1862.

The object of this volume is, as the author states in his preface, “to lay before the reader the chief facts and the chief trains of reasoning in Comparative Philology.”  Among the great mass of material accumulated for the purpose a share is devoted to the languages of North America.  The remarks under these are often taken verbatim from the author’s earlier papers, to which reference has been made above, and the family names and classification set forth in them are substantially repeated.

  1862.  Hayden (Ferdinand Vandeveer).

  Contributions to the ethnography and philology of the Indian tribes of
    the Missouri Valley.  Philadelphia, 1862.

This is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the Missouri River tribes, made at a time when the information concerning them was none too precise.  The tribes treated of are classified as follows: 

       I. Knisteneaux, or Crees. }
      II.  Blackfeet. } Algonkin Group, A.
     III.  Shyennes. }
      IV.  Arapohos. } Arapoho Group, B.
       V. Atsinas. }
      VI.  Pawnees. } Pawnee Group, C.
     VII.  Arikaras. }
    VIII.  Dakotas. }
      IX.  Assiniboins. }
       X. Crows. }
      XI.  Minnitarees. } Dakota Group, D.
     XII.  Mandans. }
    XIII.  Omahas. }
     XIV.  Iowas. }

  1864.  Orozco y Berra (Manuel).

  Geografia de las Lenguas y Carta Etnografica de Mexico Precedidas de
    un ensayo de clasificacion de las mismas lenguas y de apuntes para
    las inmigraciones de las tribus.  Mexico, 1864.

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