Native Americans: 22 Books on History, Mythology, Culture & Linguistic Studies. James Mooney

the 634-636, 640

      Trade and intercourse between Eskimo tribes 462-470

      Tununirmiut Eskimo tribe, situation of 442-444

      Tununirusirmiut Eskimo tribe, situation of 442-444

      Turner, L. M., cited 420, 462, 520, 565, 567, 608 note

U

      Udleqdjun 636, 637

      Ugjulirmiut Eskimo tribe, situation of 458

      Uissuit 621

      fabulous people in Eskimo tradition 640

      Ukusiksalirmiut Eskimo tribe, situation of 458

      Ungavimiut Eskimo tribe, situation of 463

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      Warmow, cited 425, 583

      The Siouan Indians

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William John McGee

Table of Contents

       The Siouan Stock

       Definition

       Extent of the Stock

       Tribal Nomenclature

       Principal Characters

       Phonetic and Graphic Arts

       Industrial and Esthetic Arts

       Institutions

       Beliefs

       Somatology

       Habitat

       Organization

       History

       Dakota-Asiniboin

       ¢Egiha

       ʇƆiwe're

       Winnebago

       Mandan

       Hidatsa

       The Eastern and Southern Tribes

       General Movements

       Some Features of Indian Sociology

      The Siouan Stock

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      Definition

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Extent of the Stock

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      Out of some sixty aboriginal stocks or families found in North America above the Tropic of Cancer, about five-sixths were confined to the tenth of the territory bordering Pacific ocean; the remaining nine-tenths of the land was occupied by a few strong stocks, comprising the Algonquian, Athapascan, Iroquoian, Shoshonean, Siouan, and others of more limited extent.

      The Indians of the Siouan stock occupied the central portion of the continent. They were preeminently plains Indians, ranging from Lake Michigan to the Rocky mountains, and from the Arkansas to the Saskatchewan, while an outlying body stretched to the shores of the Atlantic. They were typical American barbarians, headed by hunters and warriors and grouped in shifting tribes led by the chase or driven by battle from place to place over their vast and naturally rich domain, though a crude agriculture sprang up whenever a tribe tarried long in one spot. No native stock is more interesting than the great Siouan group, and none save the Algonquian and Iroquoian approach it in wealth of literary and historical records; for since the advent of white