The Evolution of Marriage and of the Family

by Ch. Letourneau

[921] Ibid. p. 543.

[922] Doménech, loc. cit., pp. 338, 425, 467.

[923] Charlevoix, Journal, etc., t. vi. p. 39.

[924] Id., ibid., t. v. p. 271.

[925] Id., ibid., t. vi. p. 44.

[926] Mœurs des Sauvages, ii. 266; iii. 56, 69, 70, 72, 76, 92, 97, 98, 120.

[927] Ibid., t. ii. pp. 274, 275.

CHAPTER XVII.
THE FAMILIAL CLAN AND ITS EVOLUTION.

I. The Clan among the Redskins.—Primitive form of the Tribe—The Clan.

II. The Family among the Redskins.—Classes of relations among the Omahas—The family among the Iroquois-Senecas, the Omahas, etc.—Primitive familial stage of the Redskins—Adoption and its miracles—Rise and evolution of masculine filiation in America—Exogamy and endogamy.