Handbook to the ethnographical collections . Fk;. 243.—War-club. NootkaSoiind, NW. America. i^Captain Cook.). FiGf. 244.—Club of whales-bone. Nootka Sound, NW. America. The Indians of the North American Plains The various tribes of the North American Plains as thoy werein the early times of European discovery may be classed in a fewcomprehensive groups principally on linguistic grounds. AboutLakes Erie and Ontario, and along tlie Kiver St. Lawrence, livedthe Wyandot-Iroquois family, the two members of which, theWyandot or Huron, and the Iroquois, were in a state of constantfeud. At the time of
Handbook to the ethnographical collections . Fk;. 243.—War-club. NootkaSoiind, NW. America. i^Captain Cook.). FiGf. 244.—Club of whales-bone. Nootka Sound, NW. America. The Indians of the North American Plains The various tribes of the North American Plains as thoy werein the early times of European discovery may be classed in a fewcomprehensive groups principally on linguistic grounds. AboutLakes Erie and Ontario, and along tlie Kiver St. Lawrence, livedthe Wyandot-Iroquois family, the two members of which, theWyandot or Huron, and the Iroquois, were in a state of constantfeud. At the time of the first European settlements the Iroquoishad formed a powerful political confederacy called the Six Nations,and composed of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, Cayuga,ami Tusf-nrora tribes. The Wyandot-Iroquois group was surrounded by tril)es belong-ing to the great Algonkin family ; on the north by Ottawa, 204 AMERICA Ghippewn, and Ciee ; on the west by Blackfoot, Cheyenne,Arapaho, Illinois ; on tho east and south l)y Micmac, Mohicanand Delaware of the Atlantic Seaboard, and by Powhattan and KALE
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