Archives of aboriginal knowledge. Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of (14578649560)

Identifier: archivesofaborig03scho (find matches)
Title: Archives of aboriginal knowledge. Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864. dn United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. cn
Subjects: Indians of North America United States
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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him. Tecarahoga, a word which has been exhibited by writers on theIroquois as an equivalent for generalissimo, was a mere term for a tribal war-captain,and did not denote an officer of the confederacy. Mishinowa, in the Algonquin, signifies, a bringer; one who acts as an economicalaid to the chief The word is from the verb meezh, to bring. If he is to bring aidin war, he then takes the name of Ogimaus. 10. In the shallow waters of the rivers and lakes, extending north of the latitude40°, the Zizania Palustris is found in such quantities as to furnish one of the principalmeans of Indian subsistence. It is thus still obtained in the principal shallow lakes andstreams of Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and in the valleys of the upperMississippi and Mis.souri. It is ripe in September. The labor of gathering it is acare of the females. The places where each family is to gather it, are generally Peruvian. Creek. Chippewa. ■* North-east Algonquiu. Mohawk. Vide Stones Life of Brant.
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