Handbook to the ethnographical collections . 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
Handbook to the ethnographical collections . 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. Fig. 245.—Objects from the NW. coast of America, a. Spear-throWer. Tlingit, Alaska. b. Antler club-haft. c. Ivoryhide-sci-aper, Chilkat country, f?. Slate knife. Shawnee of the modern States of Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky,and Ohio. In the neighliourhood of the Western Algonkins, between the NORTH AMERICA 265 Mississippi and the Eocky Mountains, lay the Dakota or Siouxgroup, comprising amongst others the Sioux proper, the Winne-bago, the Assiniboin and the Crow. The Mandan and Ilidatsa,occupying the same region, seem to form an intermediate classbetween this group and the following. South of the eastern branch of the Algonkin as far as Florida,between the Mississippi and the AtLintic, lay the territory of thetribes forming the Apalachian group. Of this group the moreimportant tribes were the Muscogee or Maskoki of Alabama, the Cherokee, Chickasaw and Choc- taw, the Natchez of the LowerMississippi, and the Mobile andSeminole of Florida. Like th
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