A Synopsis of the Indian Tribes Within the United States East of the Rocky Mountains, and in the British and Russian Possessions in North America

• Main Author: Gallatin, Albert
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 1836
• Subjects: American Studies; Canadian History; History; Indigenous Studies; Other American Studies; Race; Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies; United States History; Pacific; Indian; Long Island; Copper Mine; algonkin
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/zeaamericanstudies/16; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/zeaamericanstudies/article/1015/viewcontent/Gallatin_Indian_Tribes_1836_FULL.pdf; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/zeaamericanstudies/article/1015/filename/0/type/additional/viewcontent/Map_of_Tribes_of_NA.jpg; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/zeaamericanstudies/article/1015/filename/1/type/additional/viewcontent/Gallatin_TABLE_1826.jpg

Published in the American Antiquarian Society's Archaeologia Americana, vol. 2, (1836), pp. 1-422. A 208-page geographical, historical, and cultural introduction is followed by 214 pages of appendices of linguistic materials. Sect. I. Indian Tribes north of the United States Eskimaux. Kinai, Koluschen, &c., on the Pacific Ocean Athapascas, (Northern, Cheppeyans, Copper Mine, &c., Sussees, Tacullies) Sect. II. Algonkin-Lenape and Iroquois, Algonkin-Lenape Northern (Knistinaux, Algonkins, Chippeways, Ottowas, Potowotamies, Mississagues) Northeastern (Labrador, Micmacs, Etchemins, Abenakis) Eastern (New England, Mohicans, Manhattans, Long Island, Delawares and Minsi, Nanticokes, Susquehannocks, Conoys, Powhatans, Mannahoks, Pamlicoes) Western, (Menomonies, Sauks, Foxes, Kickapoos and Mascoutins, Miamis and Piankishaws, Illinois, Shawnoes) Iroquois Northern (Wyandots or Hurons, Extinct Tribes, Five Nations) Southern (Tuteloes, Nottoways, Tuscaroras) Sect. III. Southern Indians, (east of the Mississippi and in Louisiana) Extinct Tribes of Carolina Catawbas; Cherokees (Guess's alphabet) Muskhogees (proper, Seminoles, Hitchittees,) Uchees; Natchez Alibamons and Coosadas Choctaws and Chicasas Southern Indians at the time of De Soto's expedition, Their social state (division into clans, worship of the sun, monarchical government; Natchez) Tribes of Lower Louisiana, east and west of the Mississippi (great diversity of languages) Sect. IV. Indians west of the Mississippi, East of the Rocky Mountains Sioux (Winebagoes, Dahcotas and Assiniboins, Shyennes, Minetares, Mandares, Crows, Quappas, Osages, Kansaws, Ioways, Missouris, Ottoes, Omahaws, Puncas,) Pawnees and Ricaras; habits of western Indians Black Feet, Rapid Indians, other erratic tribes West of the Rocky Mountains: Want of vocabularies; Salish, Atnahs, Shoshonees, Chinooks Sect. V. General Observations. Climate; forests and prairies; geographical notices Conjectures (Asiatic origin; semi-civilization of Mexico; ancient works in United States,) Means of ...