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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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| [Preface] | 1 |
| [Introduction] | 5 |
| By A. L. Kroeber, Professor of Anthropology, University of California | |
PLAINS TRIBES: | |
| [Takes-the-pipe, a Crow Warrior] | 17 |
| By Robert H. Lowie, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California | |
| [A Crow Woman’s Tale] | 35 |
| By Robert H. Lowie, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California | |
| [A Trial of Shamans] | 41 |
| By Robert H. Lowie, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California | |
| [Smoking-star, a Blackfoot Shaman] | 45 |
| By Clark Wissler, Curator of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History | |
TRIBES OF THE MIDDLE WEST: | |
| [Little-wolf Joins the Medicine Lodge] | 63 |
| By Alanson Skinner, Assistant Curator, Public Museum, Milwaukee | |
| [Thunder-cloud, a Winnebago Shaman, Relates and Prays] | 75 |
| By Paul Radin, Late of the Department of Anthropology, University of California | |
| [How Meskwaki Children Should Be Brought Up] | 81 |
| By Truman Michelson, Ethnologist, Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution | |
EASTERN TRIBES: | |
| [In Montagnais Country] | 87 |
| By Frank G. Speck, Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania | |
| [Hanging-flower, the Iroquois] | 99 |
| By Alexander A. Goldenweiser, Lecturer in Anthropology, New School of Social Research | |
| [The Thunder Power of Rumbling-wings] | 107 |
| By M. R. Harrington, Ethnologist, Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation | |
| [Tokulki of Tulsa] | 127 |
| By John R. Swanton, Ethnologist, Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution | |
TRIBES OF THE SOUTH-WEST: | |
| [Slender-maiden of the Apache] | 147 |
| By P. E. Goddard, Curator of Ethnology, American Museum of Natural History | |
| [When John the Jeweler was Sick] | 153 |
| By A. M. Stephen, Sometime Resident Among the Hopi and Navaho | |
| [Waiyautitsa of Zuñi, New Mexico] | 157 |
| By Elsie Clews Parsons, Member of the Hopi Tribe | |
| [Zuñi Pictures] | 175 |
| By Stewart Culin, Curator of Anthropology, Brooklyn Institute Museum | |
| [Havasupai Days] | 179 |
| By Leslie Spier of the Department of Sociology, University of Washington | |
| [Earth-tongue, a Mohave] | 189 |
| By A. L. Kroeber, Professor of Anthropology, University of California | |
MEXICAN TRIBES: | |
| [The Chief Singer of the Tepecano] | 203 |
| By J. Alden Mason, Assistant Curator in Anthropology, Field Museum of Natural History | |
| [The Understudy of Tezcatlipoca] | 237 |
| By Herbert Spinden, Lecturer in Anthropology, Harvard University | |
| [How Holon Chan Became the True Man of His People] | 251 |
| By Sylvanus G. Morley, Associate, Carnegie Institution of Washington | |
| [The Toltec Architect of Chichen Itza] | 265 |
| By Alfred M. Tozzer, Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University, and Curator Middle American Archaeology, Peabody Museum | |
PACIFIC COAST TRIBES: | |
| [Wixi of the Shellmound People] | 273 |
| By N. C. Nelson, Associate Curator of North American Archæology, American Museum of Natural History | |
| [All Is Trouble Along the Klamath] | 289 |
| By T. T. Waterman, Ethnologist, Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation | |
| [Sayach’apis, a Nootka Trader] | 297 |
| By Edward Sapir, Head of Division of Anthropology, Geological Survey of Canada | |
NORTHERN ATHABASCAN TRIBES: | |
| [Windigo, a Chipewyan Story] | 325 |
| By Robert H. Lowie, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California | |
| [Cries-for-salmon, a Ten’a Woman] | 337 |
| By T. B. Reed and Elsie Clews Parsons. Mr. Reed is an Alaskan (Ten’a) student in Hampton Institute | |
ESKIMO: | |
| [An Eskimo Winter] | 363 |
| By Franz Boas, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University | |
| [Appendix] | 381 |
| [Notes on the Various Tribes] | |
| [Illustrator’s Notes] | |
Preface
“She always says she will come, and sometimes she comes and sometimes she doesn’t come. I was so surprised when I first came out here to find that Indians were like that,” the wife of the Presbyterian Missionary in an Indian town in New Mexico was speaking, as you readily infer, on her servant question.
“Where did you get your impressions of Indians before you came here?”
“From Fenimore Cooper. I used to take his books out, one right after the other from the library at New Canaan, Connecticut, where I grew up.”
At that time, during the youth of this New Englander past middle age, few anthropological monographs on Indian tribes had been written, but it is doubtful if such publications are to be found in New England village libraries even to-day, and it is more than doubtful that if they were in the libraries anybody would read them; anthropologists themselves have been known not to read them. Between these forbidding monographs and the legends of Fenimore Cooper, what is there then to read for a girl who is going to spend her life among Indians or, in fact, for anyone who just wants to know more about Indians?