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"[A] comprehensive and permanent record of all the important tribes of the United States and Alaska that still retain to a considerable degree their primitive customs and traditions. The value of such a work, in great measure, will lie in the breadth of its treatment, in its wealth of illustration, and in the fact that it represents the result of personal study of a people who are rapidly losing the traces of their aboriginal character and who are...
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Document / 57th Congress 1st session-76 Congress 3rd Session volume no. 452-194
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Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology volume bull. 40
House document volume 60th Congress, no. 1529
Smithsonian Institution volume Bulletin 40 pt. 1-2
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House document volume 60th Congress, no. 1529
Smithsonian Institution volume Bulletin 40 pt. 1-2
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Includes chapters on Athapascan, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Kwakiutl, Eskimo and Chukchee. (AB1739).
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Senate executive document volume 35th Congress, 2nd session, no. 46
Senate executive document volume 33rd Congress, 2nd session, no. 78
Senate executive document volume 36th Congress, 2nd session
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Senate executive document volume 33rd Congress, 2nd session, no. 78
Senate executive document volume 36th Congress, 2nd session
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Lakeside classics volume 51
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"General Thomas James pioneered on two widely separated frontiers. As a member of the St. Louis Missouri Fur Company's expedition of 1809-10 to the headwaters of the Missouri he was one of the first Americans to traverse this then remote area; and as a trader to Santa Fe and to the Comanche Indians in the years 1821-23 he was again one of the first Americans to describe the southwestern area extending from St. Louis to Santa Fe. General James' experiences...
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Nephew to Sitting Bull, chief of the Sioux, Pte San Hunka (White Bull) was a famous warrior in his own right. He had been on the warpath against whites and other Indians for more than a decade when he fought the greatest battle of his life. On the afternoon of June 25, 1876, five troops of the U. S. Seventh Cavalry under the command of George Armstrong Custer rode into the valley of the Little Big Horn River, confidently expecting to rout the Indian...
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Miscellaneous publication volume no. 237
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This publication is a summary of the records of food plants used by the Indians of the United States and Canada which have appeared in ethnobotanical publications during a period of nearly 80 years. -- First sentence from foreword.