Originally published as the Forty-Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. This edition published with a new introduction by David Reed Miller.
Remarks on Linguistic Ethnology: Introductory to the Report of Dr. A. F. Chamberlain on the Kootenay Indians ...
Report of the Kootenay Indians of South-eastern British Columbia
Report: 1892 on the North-Western Tribes of Canada
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Author/Creator
Alexander Francis Chamberlain
Horatio Hale
Description
Includes Remarks on Linguistic Ethnology: Introductory to the Report of Dr. A.F. Chamberlain on the Kootenay [Kootenai] Indians of South-Eastern British Columbia by Horatio Hale.
Report includes the following papers:
Report of the Director by J. W. Powell
The Sia by Matilda Coxe Stevenson
Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory by Lucien M. Turner
A Study of Siouan Cults by James Owen Dorsey
Report includes the following papers:
Report of the Director by J. W. Powell
Stone Implements of the Potomac-Chesapeake Tidewater Province by William Henry Holmes
The Siouan Indians: A Preliminary Sketch by W. J. McGee
Siouan Sociology: A Posthumus Paper by James Owen Dorsey
Tusayan Katcinas by Jesse Walter Fewkes
The Repair of Casa Grande Ruin, Arizona, in 1891 by Cosmos Mindeleff
Report includes the following papers:
Report of the Director by J. W. Powell
Burial Mounds of the Northern Sections of the United States by Prof. Cyrus Thomas
The Cherokee Nation of Indians by Charles C. Royce
The Mountain Chant: A Navajo Ceremony by Dr. Washington Matthews
The Seminole Indians of Florida by Clay MacCauley
The Religious Life of the Zuñi Child by Mrs. Tilly E. Stevenson
Report - 1885 on the north-western tribes of the Dominion of Canada
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Author/Creator
Committee on North-Western Tribes of the Dominion of Canada of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
Horatio Hale
Description
"Reports on the physical characters, languages, industrial and social condition of the North-western tribes of the Dominion of Canada," focuses on Blackfoot, Cree and Ojibwe/Ojibway, 1885 era.
Preliminary Notes on the Indians of British Columbia
Report on the Sarcee Indians
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Author/Creator
Franz Boas
[Edward Francis Wilson]
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Committee appointed to research and report on "physical characters, languages, and industrial and social condition of the North-Western Tribes of the Dominion of Canada; includes some commentary on the Sarcee peoples, and Inuit.
Report - 1887 on the North-Western Tribes of Canada
Report on the Blackfoot Tribes
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Author/Creator
Horatio Hale
Edward Francis Wilson
Description
Designed to be a record of characteristics and condition of First Nations people prior to intermarriage, dispersion, or contact with Europeans. An attempt to retain knowledge regarding the arts, customs and beliefs.
The Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibwa Nation
The Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibwe Nation
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Author/Creator
G. Copway (Kah Ge Ga Gah Bowh)
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As the author, Kah-Ge-Ga-Gah-Bowh, states it is "the first volume of Indian history written by an Indian, with a hope that it may in some degree benefit his nation"..
Physical Characteristics of the Tribes of British Columbia
Summary of the Work of the Committee in British Columbia
The Chilcotin
The North-Western Tribes of Canada: Twelfth and Final Report of the Committe, Consisting of Professor E. B. Tylor (Chairman), Sir Cuthbert E. Peek (Secretary), Dr. G. M. Dawson, Mr. R. G. Haliburton, Mr. David Boyle and Hon. G. W. Ross ...
The Social Organisation of the Haida
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Author/Creator
Franz Boas
Livingston Farrand
Description
Includes essays on the Chilcotin, Haida and linguistics.