[1464] Fergus Hist. Series, No. 27 (1884). Cf. Hough’s map of the tribal districts of Indiana in his Rept. on the Geology and Nat. Hist. of Indiana (1882).
[1465] See Vol. IV. 298.
[1466] Cf. Hist. Mag., Sept., 1861; and Peter D. Clarke’s Origin and Traditional Hist. of the Wyandotts (Toronto, 1870). Clarke is a native Indian writer.
[1467] Cf. I. A. Lapham on the Indians of Wisconsin (Milwaukee, 1879); and E. Jacker on the missions in Am. Cath. Quart., i. 404; also Miss Fletcher’s Report, ch. 21.
[1468] Vol. VII.
[1469] Cf. her Report (1888), ch. 10, and her Indian ceremonies (Salem, Mass., 1884), taken from the xvi. Report of the Peabody Museum of Amer. Archæology and Ethnology, 1883, pp. 260-333, and containing: The white buffalo festival of the Uncpapas.—The elk mystery or festival. Ogallala Sioux.—The religious ceremony of the four winds or quarters, as observed by the Santee Sioux.—The shadow or ghost lodge: a ceremony of the Ogallala Sioux.—The “Wawan,” or pipe dance of the Omahas.
The Minnesota Hist. Soc. Collections have much on the Dacotahs.
[1470] Ab-sa-ra-ka, home of the Crows, being the experience of an officer’s wife on the plains, with outlines of the natural features of the land, tables of distances, maps [etc.] (Philad., 1868).
[1471] These may be supplemented by Letheman’s account of the Navajos in the Smithsonian Rept., 1855, p. 280; and books of adventures, like Ruxton’s Life in the Far West; Pumpelly’s Across America and Asia; H. C. Dorr in Overland Monthly, Apr., 1871 (also in Beach’s Indian Miscellany); James Hobbs’ Wild life in the far West (Hartford, 1875),—not to name others, and a large mass of periodical literature to be reached for the English portion through Poole’s Index. Cf. Miss Fletcher’s Report (1888).
[1472] A Journal, kept at Nootka Sound, by John R. Jewitt, one of the surviving crew of the ship Boston, of Boston, John Salter, commander, who was massacred on 22d of March, 1803. Interspersed with some account of the natives, their manners and customs (Boston, 1807). Another account has been published with the title, “A narrative of the adventures and sufferings of J. R. Jewitt,” compiled from Jewitt’s “Oral relations,” by Richard Alsop; and another alteration and abridgment by S. G. Goodrich has been published with the title, “The captive of Nootka.” Cf. Sabin, Pilling, Field, etc. Cf. also Hist. Mag., Mar., 1863. The French half-breeds of the Northwest are described by V. Havard in the Smithsonian Rept., 1879.