Archives of aboriginal knowledge. Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of (14759922406)

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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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with which the population advances in the new States, andthe indomitable energy and spirit with which it presses towards the shores of thePacific, that the indigenous tribes, who had received the Cis-Mississippi remnants,are already involved in the question which twenty-five years ago threatened thenew tribes, (Vide Plate 24.) And the inquiry now is, how shall these wildhunter tribes be protected ? They exist all along the eastern base of the Rocky Moun-tains. They inhabit the fertile regions of game and buffalo, at the sources of theMissouri and its upper tributaries. They spread from the Arkansas and Red rivers, intowestern Texas and New Mexico. They occupy the mountain gorges and passes ofCalifornia. They are pressed by the natural course of events from the open shores ofthe Pacific, eastward from the Columbia and Sacramento valleys. The onward impulseof increasing Oregon and of awaldug Washington, eschews them. Utah, too, is dis- of tte I WEST or / ; , Mh-,(j;jRl a/xd ARKANSAS by
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THE INDIAN COUNTRY. 181 turbing them in their valley altitudes on the Rocky Mountains. Nebraska, thoughyet without sovereignty or legality of organization, declines to receive them. The Ottoe,the Missouria, the Omahaw, the Pawnee, and Arickaree tribes — the Mandan, Minni-tarees, and Crow or Upsook nation, who were first brought to our notice by Lewis andClark in 1804, begin to cast furtive glances around them, apprehensive for theirterritory. The Assiniboins, who have long resorted to Fort Union, at the mouth ofthe Yellow-Stone, as their forest capital, must, in a few years, seek other haunts orresort to other means. The present is a period of very great geographical activity. Expeditions have beenorganized and despatched, under an act of Congress, to survey the most feasible routefor a rail-road from the Mississippi valley to the Pacific. One of these expeditionsunder Mr. Stevens, Governor of Washington, has just passed through the territories ofthe Dacotahs, the Assiniboins, and t