Archives of aboriginal knowledge. Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of (14762205481)

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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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are among these objects;but the progress of building in that vicinity, and the existence of but little curiosityon that head, appears to have destroyed these interesting traces of a people who oncefancied themselves imjDortant, l)ut who now live only in history. The traditions of In this compound of Hollandais and English, the first member of the word is taken from Mohigan ; theinflection kinder (Kind n. plu. er. Adler), cliildren, is improperly, it is thought, spelled kaunder. * Coldens Five Nation?, p. 78, Lond. ed. 1747. A maudlin tone has been assumed by some writers who have bewailed the loss of the ancient supremacy ofthe Delawares and their conquest by the Iroquois, among whom is the excellent and pious John Hcckewelder.We are indebted to him for preserving a valuable body of materials of Indian history; he is to be regarded asliaving had feelings of strong sympathy with the Delawares on this topic. Vide Trans. Hist, and Lit. Com.Am. Phil. Soc., Phil., 1819, 1 vol. 8vo, p. 404.
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