Archives of aboriginal knowledge. Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of (14742391636)

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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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^ wide, with a platform on eachside about two feet high and six wide. On this platform they all sleep in summer;generally four families in a lodge, sometimes more. If there are four families, eachone will have a corner, and if there are more, (young married people, for instance,)they take the middle.
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HISTORY, AND GOVERNMENT. 237 1C4.—Sociality in the lodge circle. Are tlie inmates taciturn and formal, or dothey, when relieved from the presence of strangers, evince a general ease and spirit ofsociality ? Is this observed particularly on their Avintcring grounds in remote parts ofthe forest? Do they eat at certain hours of the day? How many meals do theytake in the twenty-four hours ? Do they address the Great Spirit at any meal or feast,by way of prayer? Are their appetites regular or capricious, admitting of greatpowers both of abstinence and of repletion ? We believe they are diflSdent, and have some respect for strangers, and are moremodest before them than at other times, and are very secret in sleeping together. Ihave lived Avith them for many days and months at a time, and never saw an impropersecret exposure. Their habits and customs are not the same in winter as in summer.The men say they do not sleep with their wives more than once or twice a month. Inthe winter they hav