. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. wild rice grewquite extensively in that expanse of the United States lying betweenthe Mississippi river and the Rocky mountains. 1 Mr John Dunn Hunter was a captive from childhood to young manhood among the Osage Indians,and during the tirst quarter of the nineteenth century roamed over the Missouri and Arkansascountry, which he describes as being bounded on the east by the state of Missouri and Mississippiriver; north by the British dominions; west by the Rocky mountains; and south by the Arka
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. wild rice grewquite extensively in that expanse of the United States lying betweenthe Mississippi river and the Rocky mountains. 1 Mr John Dunn Hunter was a captive from childhood to young manhood among the Osage Indians,and during the tirst quarter of the nineteenth century roamed over the Missouri and Arkansascountry, which he describes as being bounded on the east by the state of Missouri and Mississippiriver; north by the British dominions; west by the Rocky mountains; and south by the Arkansasriver and territories of the Mexican empire I Hunter, Memoirs of a Captivity, pp. 137,138). He classi-fies the lands ot this extensive territory under five heads, as follows: (1) Alluvial or river bottom, (2)fertile prairies, (3) hills, (4) morasses or swamps, (5) barrens or sterile prairies. He says of themorasses or swamps, In general they afford the wild rice, from which, after the buffaloes and othergrazing animals have tramped over it, the Indians collect their supplies (ibid., p. 142).. ?ENKS] HABITAT IN WILD-RICE DISTRICT 1033 Thus it will he seen that Zizmiid inpiidird occurs in ull the c-oinnuiM-wealths of the United , .so far as ascertained by correspondence,except in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Indian , Nevada, New Mexico, Oreg^on, Tennessee, Utah, West Vir-ginia, and Wyoming. Most of these states lie in or west of the Kockvmountains. It is believed that the plant grows in both West Virginiaand Tennessee, but it has not yet been reported. There are threi^ states from which no data have l)een collected, , South Carolina, and Washington. It is believed that theplant grows in the former two. Habitat in the Wild-kice District Wherever the last glacier left little mud-bottomed, water-filled hol-lows, there wild rice has itself, if other conditions arefavorable. Such ponds and lakes are characteristic of the a
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