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Title: Historical and statistical information respecting the history, condition, and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States; collected and prepared under the direction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs per act of Congress of March 3rd, 1847
Year: 1851 (1850s)
Authors: Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864 Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875, illus United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs
Subjects: Indians of North America
Publisher: Philadelphia, Lippincott, Grambo
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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or United States Indians. This large genus of the race who exist in sepa-rate groups of languages, but who are assimilated by a peculiar syntax and a coinci-dence of mental and physical type which very unequivocally marks them as a homo-geneous race, occupy the entire area of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains,and east of the tribes of New Mexico, to whom De Vaca applies the term Jumanos.(Humanos.) These latter inhabit the outer northern edge of the circle of the semi-civilized tribes of New Mexico. They retained at that era, (about 1530,) and continueto retain at the present day, the two striking elements of that type (the Toltec type)of civilization: namely, the zea maize and the cotton plant. We have no knowledgehow the latter was fabricated. There was no indication then, nor is there now, that tliedistaff (one of the most ancient implements of mankind) was employed to form the thread.It is only said that they possessed blankets of cotton, and that they cultivated fields
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GENERAL HISTORY. 29 of com. Some amelioration of manners and customs Avas the consequence of thisfixity of pursuits; and we find that De Vaca was escorted on his way to the Pacificwithout the rude, savage manners that he had encountered in Florida and Arkansas,and was uniformly attended by a retinue. Both the condition and position of themodern Navahoes and Moquies concur in favoring the supposition that they aredescended from the ancient Jumanoes. 17. A limit, rather than a starting-point, is thus furnished for the wild hunter tribeswhom both De Vaca and De Soto found in the Mississippi Valley, and in the presentarea of Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas. The evidence of thesetribes coming from the southwest is found in their possessing the zea maize, which theycarried with them, and cultivated to some extent wherever they went; and it con-stitutes one of the best evidences of the track of migration. Like confluent riverspouring from the west, the stream of migratcu31924091889968

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