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WINNEBAGO  . Siouan . 1070 in See also:

Nebraska; t285 in Wiscon- able . Citizens of U.S., making See also:good See also:pro- Dorsey, See also:Mythology of the See also:Wichita \VvoNDot . Iroquoian. See also:sin . Considerable. gress . See also:Catholic and See also:Protestant (See also:Washington, 19o4) and other See also:writ- 1 A>;nt i . Sahaptian . 385 in See also:Oklahoma; r at Anderdon, No pure-bloodsleft, See also:missions. togs . Y'et.~ utvKNIvES . Athabaskan . See also:Ontario, See also:Canada. hardly a See also:half- Many good citizens of U.S. and pro- Thwaites, See also:Coll .

Stale His !. See also:

Soc . Wis- Y USIA . Yuman . About 15oo in Washington. See also:blood. gressing . Suffering from liquor See also:cousin, 1892; See also:Fletcher, fount . Amer . 'Lank Zunian . About Soo N.E. of See also:Great Slave See also:Lake Considerable. and the mescal See also:bean to some ex- Folk-See also:Lore, 189o; McGee, 75th See also:Ann . in N.W . Canada . Not much. See also:tent .

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Rep . See also:Bur . Ethnnl., 1893-1894 . 807 at Fort Yuma Agency, See also:California, Some S p an i sh More See also:white than See also:Indian . See also:Powell, 1st Ann . Rep . Bur . Ethnol., and a few at See also:San See also:Carlos, See also:Arizona . (Mexican) blood . See also:Late reports indicate See also:bad See also:influence 1879-188o; Connelley, Ann . See also:Arch . See See also:Pueblos .

Zuflian. of whnes . Rep . Ontario, 1905, and See also:

Wyandot No See also:practical advance as yet . Folk-Lore (See also:Topeka, 7899); Merwin, Progress good . Catholic and Pro- Trans . See also:Kansas See also:State Hirt . Soc., testant missions . 1906 . See Pueblos . Pandosy, Grams,, and Did. of Yakima (7862); See also:Lewis, Mem . Amer . Anlhrop .

Assoc., 1906 . Writings of I'etitot, Morice, &c . Peti- tot, Amour du See also:

Grand See also:Lac See also:des Es- chives (7891), and Monographic des Dene-Dindjie (1876) . See See also:Carriers, See also:Chipewyan . Gatschet, Ztschr. i . Ethnolsgie (1893); 'I-rippell, Overland Monthly, 1889; Dorsey, See also:Indians of the Soulh-See also:west (19o3) . See See also:Mission Indians . See Pueblos (Zunian) . From the tables it will be seen that the See also:American Indians in some parts of See also:North See also:America are not decreasing, but either holding their own or even increasing; also that Popula- tion, &G. thousands of them are now to all intents and purposes the equals in See also:wealth, See also:thrift, See also:industry and intelligence of the See also:average white See also:man and citizens with him in the same society . In certain regions of the See also:continent small tribes have been annihilated in the course of See also:wars with other Indians or with the whites, and others have been decimated by disease, See also:famine, &c.; and over large areas the aboriginal See also:population, according to some authorities, has vastly diminished . Thus Morice estimates that the Athabaskan population at See also:present in Canada (about 20.000) is less than one-seventh of what it was a See also:century or more ago; See also:Hill-Tout thinks the See also:Salishan tribes (c . 15,000) number not one-fifth of their population a See also:hundred years ago, and equally great reductions are claimed for some other peoples of the North Pacific region; Kroeber thinks probable an Indian population in California of 150,000 before the arrival of the whites, as compared with but 15,000 now; by some the arid regions of the See also:south-west are supposed to have sustained a very large population in earlier times; certain of the Plains tribes are known to have lost much in population since contact with the whites .

But under better care and more favourable conditions generally some tribes seem to be taking on a new See also:

lease of See also:life and are apparently beginning to thrive again . A considerable portion of the " disappearance " of the Indian is through amalgamation with the whites . Undoubtedly, in some parts of the See also:country, exaggerated ideas prevalent in the See also:early colonial See also:period as to the See also:numbers of the native population have interfered with a correct estimate of the See also:aborigines past and present . Mooney thinks that the See also:Cherokee " are probably about as numerous now as at any period in their See also:history " (Nndh. tiler . Inds., 1907, pt. i . P . 247), and this is perhaps true also of some other tribes See also:east of the See also:Mississippi . See also:Major J . \V . Powell was of See also:opinion that the Indian population north of See also:Mexico is as large to-See also:day as it was at the See also:time of the See also:discovery . This, however, is not the view of the See also:majority of authorities . The See also:total number of Indians in Canada (Ann .

Rep . Dept . Ind . Alf., 1907) for 1907 is given as 110,345, as compared with 109,394 for the previous See also:

year, not including the See also:Micmac in See also:Newfoundland and the Indians and See also:Eskimo in that See also:part of Labrador belonging to Newfoundland . In 1903 the figures were 108,233 . The gain may be largely due to more careful enumeration of Indians in the less well-known parts of the country, but there is evidently no marked decrease going on, but rather a slight increase in Ontario, See also:Quebec, New See also:Brunswick, &c . In the See also:United States (exclusive of See also:Alaska, which See also:counts about 30,000) the Indian population (Ann . Rep . Ind . Aff., 195-6) is estimated at 197,289, no including the " Five Civilized Tribes," of whose numbers (94,292) some 65,000 can be reckoned as Indians—a total of 382,000 . The figures of 197,289, according to the See also:report, show an increase in population " due mainly to increase in number of Indians reported from California." The See also:financial See also:condition of the Indians of the Dominion of Canada for the year ending See also:March 31, 1907, is indicated in the following table: Total Amount Total Income of Real and for the See also:Personal Year . See also:Property .

Ontario . $7,566,125 $1,426,690 Quebec 1,781,330 915,783 N . Brunswick . 189,701 109,892 N . See also:

Scotia . . 151,949 76,603 P . E . I . . . . 6,370 15,374 See also:Manitoba 2,102,044 348,966 B . See also:Columbia 7,475,719 1,501,456 Sask . . .

7,721,532 548,533 See also:

Alberta . . . 5,154,789 211,839 Total $30,129,659 $5,155,052 The total amounts earned during the year were: from See also:agriculture, $1,337,948; See also:wages and See also:miscellaneous See also:industries, $714,125; fishing, $544,487; See also:hunting and trapping, $630,633 . Of these hunting and trapping show a decided decrease over 1906 . The Indian See also:Trust Fund amounts to $5,157,566.59 . The total See also:appropriation in connexion with the Indians of the Dominion for all purposes for the year 1906–1907 was $1,o55,oto and the actual See also:expenditure some $114,000 less . The total amount of sales of lands for the benefit of Indian tribes was $422,086.13 . The See also:balance to the See also:credit of the Itndian savings See also:account for the funding of the annuities and earnings of pupils at See also:industrial See also:schools, together with collections from Indians for See also:purchase of See also:cattle and for ranching expenses, was $51,708.92 . According to the Report of the See also:Commissioner of Indian Affairs the total amount of trust funds held by the United States See also:government for the Indians, in lieu of investment, amounted to $36,352,950.97, yielding for 1906 See also:interest at 4 and 5% of $1,788,237.23 . The total incomes of the various tribes from all See also:sources for the year ending See also:June 30, 1906, was $6,557,554.39, including interest on trust funds, treaty agreement and obligations, gratuities, Indian See also:money, proceeds of labour, &c . While the See also:general constitution of the American aborigines north of Mexico is such as to justify their designation as one " American See also:race," whose nearest congener is to be found in the " Mongolian race " of eastern See also:Asia, &c., there is a wide range in variation within the American tribes with respect to particular See also:physical characteristics . Some authorities, Phkal like Dr Hrdlicka (Handb .

Amer . Inds . N. of Mex., istics . 1907, pt. i. p . 53), See also:

separate the Eskimo from the " Indians," regarding them as " a distinct sub-race of the Mongolo-See also:Malay," but this is hardly necessary if, with Boas (Ann . Archaeol . Rep . Ontario, 19o5, p . 85), we " consider the inhabitants of north-eastern Asia and of America as a unit divided into a great many distinct types but belonging to one and the same of the large divisions of mankind." Upon the basis of See also:differences in stature and general bodily conformation, See also:colour of skin, texture and See also:form of See also:hair, shape of See also:nose, See also:face and See also:head, &c., some twenty-one different physical " types " north of Mexico have been recognized . Although the variation in stature, from the See also:short See also:people of See also:Harrison Lake (average 1611 mm.) to the tall See also:Sioux (average 1726 mm.), Eastern Chippewa (average 1723 mm.), See also:Iroquois (average 1727 mm.), See also:Omaha and Winnebago (average 1733 mm.) and other tribes of the Plains and the regions farther east, is considerable, the North American Indian, on the whole, may be termed a tall race . The stature of See also:women averages among the tall tribes about 92%, and among the short tribes about 94% of that of the men . The proportion of statures (adult See also:males) above 1730 mm. in certain Indian tribes (Boas) is as follows: See also:Apache and See also:Navaho, 25'3; See also:Arapaho, 45.9; See also:Arikara, 15.2; See also:British Columbia (See also:coast), 28.8; British Columbia (interior), 16.4; California (south), 32'7; Cherokee (eastern), 21•o; Cherokee (western), 4o•7; See also:Cheyenne, 72.2; See also:Chickasaw, 23.8; See also:Chinook, 36.2; See also:Choctaw, 32.6; See also:Coahuila, 14.2; See also:Comanche, 27.1; See also:Cree, 33.4; See also:Creek, 53.6; See also:Crow, 51.3; See also:Delaware, 41.1; Eskimo (Alaska), 5.9; Eskimo (Labrador), o•o; Flathead, 18.9; Harrison Lake, B.C., t•o; Hupa, 18.7; Iroquois, 52.1; Kiowa, 41.3; See also:Klamath, 20.0; Kootenay, 26•o; Micmac and See also:Abnaki, 45.7; Ojibwa (eastern), 42.7; Ojibwa (western), 42.7; Omaha and Winnebago, 54.9; See also:Oregon (south), 5.1; See also:Ottawa and See also:Menominee, 30.6; See also:Paiute, 22'1; See also:Pawnee, 39.0; See also:Puget See also:Sound and Makah, 6.5; See also:Round Valley, Cal., 3.3; Sahaptin, 28.2; Shuswap, 15.9; Sioux, 50.8; Taos, 18.5; See also:Ute, 12.4; Zuni and Moqui, 1.9 .

Very notable is the percentage of tall statures among the Cheyenne, Creek, Crow, Iroquois, &c . The form of the head (See also:

skull) varies considerably among the Indian tribes north of Mexico, See also:running from the See also:dolichocephalic eastern Eskimo with a cephalic See also:index of 71.3 on the skull to the See also:brachycephalic Aleuts with 84.8 . Several tribes practising deformation of the skull (See also:mound-builders, Klamath, &c.) show much higher brachycephaly . The percentage of cephalic indices above 84 (on the heads of living individuals) among certain Indian tribes (Boas) is as follows: Apache, 87.6; Arapaho, 5.0; Arikara, 24.6; Blackfeet, 6.2; See also:Caddo, 47.2; Cherokee, 2o•o; Cheyenne, 10.4; Chickasaw, 14.4; Comanche, 65.3; Cree, 4.9; Creek, 25•o; Crow, 12.0; Delaware 12.0; Eskimo, (Alaska), io•6; Harrison Lake, B.C., 88.8; Iroquois, 15.4; Kiowa, 25.0; Kootenay, 19.1; See also:Mandan, 4.5; Micmac and Abnaki, 7.0; See also:Mohave, 86.5; See also:Montagnais, 21.7; Moqui, 54.3; Navaho, 49'4; Ojibwa (eastern), 26.6; Ojibwa (western), 10.2; Omaha, 23.0; Oregon (south), 50.9; Osage, 79.1; Ottawa and Menominee, 24.7; Pawnee, 4.8; See also:Pima, 9.6; Round Valley, Cal., 4.8; Sahaptin, 57.4; Shuswap, 59'9; Sioux, 9.6; Taos, 6.o; Ute, 8.9; Wichita, 96.o; Winnebago, 66.8; Zuni, 41.4 . The Apache, Mohave, Navaho, Osage, Sahaptin, Wichita and Winnebago practised skull-deformation, which accounts in part for their high figures . The brachycephalic tendency of the Caddo, Moqui, Shuswap and Zuni is marked; the Comanche, with an average cephalic index of 84.6 and the Harrison Lake people with one of 88.8, are noteworthy in this respect . As in the See also:case of stature, so in the case of head-form, there seems to have been much mingling of types, especially in the See also:Huron-Algonkian region, the Great Plains and the North Pacific coast . The North American Indian may be described in general as See also:brown-skinned (of various shades, with reddish tinge, some-times dark and See also:chocolate or almost See also:black in colour) with black hair and eyes varying from See also:hazel brown to dark brown . Under good conditions of See also:food, &c., the Indian tends to be tall and See also:mesocephalic as to head-form, and well-proportioned and symmetrical in See also:body . The ideal Indian type can be met with among the youth of several different tribes (Plains Indians, Algonkians, Iroquoians, Muskogians and some of the tribes of the south-western United States) . Beauty among the aborigines of America north of Mexico has been the subjectof brief studies by Dr R . W .

Shufeldt and Dr A . Hrdlicka (Boas Anniv . Vol., New See also:

York, 1996, pp . 38-42) . The extent to which the red and white races have mixed their blood in various parts of North America is greater than is generally thought . The Eskimo of See also:Greenland have intermarried with the Danes, and their kinsmen of Labrador with the See also:English settlers and "summerers." The eastern Algonkian Indians in New See also:England and Acadia have now considerable See also:French, English and Scottish blood . Many of the See also:Canadian Iroquois are more than half French, many of the Iroquois of New York half English . The Cherokee, an Iroquoian people of the Carolinas, have some admixture of Scottish and See also:German blood, to which Mooney would attribute some, at least, of their remarkable progress . In the state of Oklahoma, which has absorbed the old " Indian Territory," the results of race-amalgamation are apparent in the large number of mixed bloods of all shades . In spite of the See also:romance of Pocahontas, the intermarriages of the two races in the Virginian region seem not to have been very See also:common or very important . Nor does there appear to have been much inter-See also:marriage between Spaniards and Indians in the south See also:Atlantic region, though in See also:Texas, &c., there was a good See also:deal . In New See also:France, in spite of the efforts of some See also:recent Canadian-French writers to minimize the fact, intermixture between whites. and Indians began early and continued to be extensive .

In parts of New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, some of the See also:

northern American states and regions of the Canadian north-west, there are Indian villages and white settlements where hardly a single individual of absolutely pure blood can now be found . In the See also:veins of some of the " Iroquois " of Caughnawaga and New York state to-day flows blood of the best colonial stock (See also:Rice, Hill, See also:Williams, Stacey, &c., captives adopted and married within the tribe) . In the great Canadian north-west, and to a large extent also in the tier'of American states to the south, the blood of the Indian, through the mingling of French, Scottish and English traders, trappers, employees of the great See also:fur companies, See also:pioneer settlers, &c., has entered largely and significantly into the life of the nation, the half-breed See also:element playing a most important role in social, commercial and industrial development . In 1879, besides those whose mixed blood had not been remembered and those who wished to forget it, there were, according to Dr Havard (Rep . Smiths . Inst., 1879), at least 22,000 metis in the United States and 18,000 in Canada (i.e. in the north-west in each case) . When the See also:province of Manitoba entered the Canadian See also:Confederation it numbered within the See also:borders some 1o,000 mixed-bloods, one of whom, See also:John Norquay, afterwards became its premier . In the Columbia See also:river region and British Columbia some intermixture has taken See also:place, originating in the conditions due to the See also:establishment of trading-posts, the circumstances of the early See also:settlement of the country, &c.—this has been both French and English and Scottish . Farther north in Alaska the See also:Russian occupation led to not a little inter-mixture, both with the Aleuts, &c., and the coast Indians . In some parts of the far north intermixture of the whites with the Athabaskans is just beginning . In Canada no See also:prohibition of marriage between whites and Indians exists, but such unions are forbidden by See also:law in the states of Arizona, Oregon, North Carolina and South Carolina . A considerable number of the chiefs and able men of the various Indian tribes of certain regions in recent times have had more or less white blood—Iroquois, Algonkian, Siouan, &c.—who have sometimes worked with and sometimes against the whites .

In thg case of some tribes there have been " pure blood " and " mixed blood " factions . Some tribes have frowned upon See also:

miscegenation; even the Pueblos (except See also:Laguna, which is Keresan) have never intermarried with the whites . Both in Canada and the United States strains of Indian blood run in the veins of prominent families . Some of the " first families of See also:Virginia " are proud to descend from Pocahontas, the Algonkian " Princess," who married the Englishman Rolfe . In See also:Maine may still be discovered perhaps those whose See also:line of life goes back to the See also:Baron de St Casteins and his Abnaki See also:bride, while in Ontario and New York are to be met those who trace their ancestry back to the famous Iroquois See also:Joseph See also:Brant and his half-English wife . In the early history of See also:Pennsylvania and See also:Ohio were noted the Montours, descendants of a French nobleman who about Race mixture . 1665 had a son and two daughters by a Huron woman in Canada . In 1817 See also:Captain John S . See also:Pierce, U.S.A., See also:brother of See also:President See also:Franklin Pierce, married the See also:fair Josette la Framboise, who had at least a See also:quarter Indian (Ottawa) blood . In the latter part of the 18th century a See also:young Irish See also:gentleman married Neengai, daughter of the See also:Michigan Ojibwa See also:chief Waubojeeg, and of the daughters See also:born to them one married a Canadian Frenchman of reputation in the early development of the province of Ontario, another the Rev . Mr McMurray, afterwards Episcopal See also:archdeacon of See also:Niagara, and a third See also:Henry R . See also:Schoolcraft, the ethnologist .

Several Indians, some full-blood, others with more or less white blood in their veins, have rendered See also:

signal service to ethnological See also:science . These deserve See also:special mention: See also:Francis la Flesche, an Omaha, a See also:graduate of the See also:National University Law School, D.C., holding a position in the See also:Office of Indian Affairs; Dr See also:William See also:Jones, a See also:Sac and See also:Fox, in the service of the See also:Field Museum, See also:Chicago, a graduate of Harvard and of Columbia (Ph.D.); and J . N . B . See also:Hewitt, a See also:Tuscarora, ethnologist in the See also:Bureau of American See also:Ethnology, Washington, D.C . In some regions considerable intermixture between negroes and Indians (Science, New York, vol. xvii., 1891, pp . 85-9o) has occurred, e.g. among the Mashpee and See also:Gay Head Indians of See also:Massachusetts, the remnants of the Pequots in See also:Connecticut, the Shinnecocks and the Montauks, &c., of See also:Long See also:Island• the Pamunkeys, Mattaponies and some other small Virginian and Carolinian tribes . In earlier times some admixture of See also:negro blood took place among the Seminoles, although now the remnants of that people still in See also:Florida are much averse to miscegenation . Of the tribes of the Muskogian stock who kept large numbers of negro slaves the Creeks are said to have about one-third of their number of mixed Indian-negro blood . Sporadic intermixture of this sort is reported from the See also:Shawnee, the See also:Minnesota Chippewa, the Canadian Tuscarora, the Caddo, &c., in the case of the last the admixture may be considerable . It is also thought probable that many of the negroes of the whole See also:lower Atlantic coast and Gulf region may have strains of Indian blood . The mythology and folk-lore of the negroes of this region may have borrowed not a little from the Indian, for as Mooney notes (15th Rep .

Bur . Amer . Ethnol., 1900, pp . 232-234), " in all the See also:

southern colonies Indian slaves were bought and sold and kept in See also:servitude and worked in the See also:fields See also:side by side with negroes up to the time of the Revolution." When Dr John R . Swanton visited the See also:Haida recently the richest man among the Skidegate tribe was a negro . Some of the Plains tribes and some Indians of the far west, however, have taken a dislike to the negro . The See also:leader in the " See also:Boston See also:Massacre " of March 5, 1770, was Crispus Attucks, of See also:Framingham, See also:Mass., the son of a negro See also:father and a See also:Natick Indian See also:mother . The physical See also:anthropology of the white-Indian half-blood has been studied by Dr See also:Franz Boas (Pop . Sci . Monthly, New York, 1894) . The culture, arts and industries of the American aborigines exhibit marked See also:correspondence to and dependence upon environ-Culture, ment, varying with the natural conditions of See also:land arts, tn• and See also:water, wealth or poverty of the See also:soil, abundance dustries, or scarcity of plant and See also:animal life subsidiary to human etc. existence, &c . See also:Professor O .

T . See also:

Mason (Handb. of Amer . Inds . N. of Mexico, 1907, pt. i. pp . 427-430; also Rep . Smiths . Inst., 1895, and Pop . Sci . Monthly, 1902) recognizes north of Mexico twelve " ethnic environments," in each of which there is " an ensemble of qualities that impressed themselves on their inhabitants and differentiated them." These twelve " ethnic environments " are: (I) See also:Arctic (Eskimo); (2) See also:Yukon-See also:Mackenzie (practically Athabaskan); (3) Great Lakes and St See also:Lawrence (Algonkian-Iroquoian); (4) Atlantic Slope (Algonkian, Iroquoian, Siouan, &c.); (5) Gulf Coast, embracing region from See also:Georgia to Texas (Muskogian and a number of smaller See also:stocks); (6) Mississippi Valley (largely Algonkian and " mound-buil