Xll CONTENTS. Page Western, (Menomonies, Sauks, Foxes, Kickapoos and Mascoutins, Miamis and Piankishaws, Illinois, Shawnoes,) - 60 Iroquois, - 69 Northern, (Wyandots or Hurons, Extinct Tribes, Five Nations,) - ib. Southern, (Tuteloes, Nottoways, Tuscaroras,) 80 Sect. III. Southern Indians, (east of the Mississippi and in Louisiana,) Extinct Tribes of Carolina, 83 Catawbas; Cherokees (Guess's alphabet) - - 87 Muskhogees (proper, Seminoles, Hitchittees,) 94 Uchees ; Natchez, . 95 Alibamons and Coosadas, - - - - 96 Choctaws and Chicasas, - 98 Southern Indians at the time of De Soto's expedition, 102 Their social state (division into clans, worship of the sun, monarchical government; Natchez) - 107 Tribes of Lower Louisiana, east and west of the Mis- sissippi (great diversity of languages), - 114 Sect. IV. Indians west of the Mississippi, a. East of the Rocky Mountains, - 120 Sioux (Winebagoes, Dahcotas and Assiniboins, Shyennes, Minetares, Mandares, Crows, Quappas, Osages, Kansaws, Ioways, Missouris, Ottoes, Omahaws, Puncas,) - ib Pawnees and Ricaras; habits of western Indians, 128 Black Feet, Rapid Indians, other erratic tribes, 132 b. West of the Rocky Mountains, ... 134 Want of vocabularies ; Salish, Atnahs, Shoshonees, Chinooks, - ib. Sect. V. General Observations. Climate ; forests and prairies ; geographical notices, 136 Conjectures (Asiatic origin ; semi-civilization of Mexico; ancient works in United States,) - 142 Means of subsistence, (hunter state ; agricultural labor confined to women,) - 149 Labor the only means of preserving and civilizing the Indians, (Cherokee civilization,) - 154 Sect. VI. Indian Languages. Diversity of vocabularies and similarity of grammatical forms ; gender and number, - 160 Substantive verb ; conversion of nouns, &c. into verbs, reciprocal ; pronouns, - 174 Transitions, - 183 Tenses and moods, compound words, multiplied forms, defective information, - 197 Suggestions respecting highly inflected languages, 201 Grammatical forms in the earliest stages of society, 206
