b. The Kena, or Blood Indians.
c. The Piegan.
To these must be added numerous extinct tribes.
II. The Iroquois class has been larger than it is now, many of its members being extinct. It still, however, contains the Wiandots, or Hurons, of the parts between Lakes Simcoe, Huron, and Erie; the once famous and formidable Mohawks, the Senekas, the Onondagos, the Cayugas, the Oneidas, and the Tuskaroras.
III. To the Sioux class belong the Assiniboins of the Red River, and the Osages of Arkansas; tribes widely distant. It is the great Sioux to which nine-tenths of the Valley of Missouri originally belonged—Sioux, whose original hunting-grounds included the vast prairie-country from the Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi, and who again appear as an isolated detachment of Lake Michigan; Sioux, known under the names of Winebagoes, Dahcotas, Yanktons, Tetons, Upsarokas, Mandans, Minetaris, Missouris, Osages, Konzas, Ottos, Omahaws, Puncas, Ioways, and Quappas.
None of the Sioux tribes came in contact with the sea. None of them belonged to the great forest districts of America. Most of them hunt over the country of the buffalo. This makes them warlike migratory hunters; with fewer approaches to agricultural or industrial civilisation than any Indians equally favoured by soil and climate.
It is the Iroquois, the Sioux, and certain members of the Algonkin stock, upon which the current and popular notions of the American Indian, the Red Man, as he is called, have been formed.
GROUP XIII.
GREENLANDERS.
Greenland is occupied by the same family that occupies the coast of Labrador. It does more. It extends all along the northern coast of North America; all along the shores of the Arctic Sea, both east and west. It extends to Russian America, and beyond it to the other side of Behring’s Straits, and to the Aleutian Islands. Hence, there are certain members of the family to which the Greenlanders belong in Asia.
The general name for this is Eskimo, a word, which, like Malay and Mongol, is used in a general, as well as a particular sense. It denotes a large family, and it means the special occupants of the coast of Labrador, and the coast of the Arctic Sea.