[270] Roosevelt, I p. 82. [↑]

[271] Jones, Ojibway Indians, p. 64. [↑]

[272] Mackenzie, I pp. 130, 123. [↑]

[273] Reports of Expl., I p. 443. [↑]

[274] Mackenzie, I p. 271. [↑]

[275] Ibid., II p. 33. [↑]

[276] Eastman, Dahcotah, p. X. [↑]

[277] Bancroft, p. 524. [↑]

[278] Ibid., p. 499. [↑]

[279] Adoption of captives was very frequent among the Indians of North America. Of the tribes, on which we were able to get information, the following practised this custom: Delawares, Ojibways, Shahnees, Crees, Cheyennes, Abenakies, Iroquois, Hurons, Cherokees, Sioux, Hidatsas, Omahas, Osage and Kansas Indians, Mandans, Comanches, Montagnais. See above, pp. 52–65, 192. [↑]