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Ancient society : $b or, Researches in the lines of human progress from savagery, through barbarism to civilizationMorgan, Lewis Henry

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Ancient society : $b or, Researches in the lines of human progress from savagery, through barbarism to civilization

Name: Ancient society : $b or, Researches in the lines of human progress from savagery, through barbarism to civilization
Author: Morgan, Lewis Henry

Morgan, Lewis Henry

Civilization; Political anthropology; Prehistoric peoples; Social evolution; Social structure; Sociology

The Tribe as an Organization.—Composed of Gentes Speaking
    the same Dialect.—Separation in Area led to Divergence
    of Speech, and Segmentation.—The Tribe a Natural
    Growth.—Illustrations.—Attributes of a Tribe.—A Territory and
    Name.—An Exclusive Dialect.—The Right to Invest and Depose its
    Sachems and Chiefs.—A Religious Faith and Worship.—A Council
    of Chiefs.—A Head-Chief of Tribe in some Instances.—Three
    successive Forms of Gentile Government: First, a Government of
    One Power; Second, of Two Powers; Third, of Three Powers.         102


    CHAPTER V.

    THE IROQUOIS CONFEDERACY.

    Confederacies Natural Growths.—Founded upon Common Gentes,
    and a Common Language.—The Iroquois Tribes.—Their Settlement
    in New York.—Formation of the Confederacy.—Its Structure
    and Principles.—Fifty Sachemships Created.—Made Hereditary
    in certain Gentes.—Number assigned to each Tribe.—These
    Sachems formed the Council of the Confederacy.—The Civil
    Council.—Its Mode of Transacting Business.—Unanimity Necessary
    to its Action.—The Mourning Council.—Mode of Raising up
    Sachems.—General Military Commanders.—This Office the Germ of
    that of a Chief Executive Magistrate.—Intellectual Capacity of
    the Iroquois.                                                     122


    CHAPTER VI.

    GENTES IN OTHER TRIBES OF THE GANOWÁNIAN FAMILY.

    Divisions of American Aborigines.—Gentes in Indian Tribes;
    with their Rules of Descent and Inheritance.—I. Hodenosaunian
    Tribes.—II. Dakotian.—III. Gulf.—IV. Pawnee.—V. Algonkin.—VI.
    Athapasco-Apache.—VII. Tribes of North-west Coast.—Eskimos,
    a Distinct Family.—VIII. Salish, Sahaptin, and Kootenay
    Tribes.—IX. Shoshonee.—X. Village Indians of New Mexico,
    Mexico and Central America.—XI. South American Indian
    Tribes.—Probable Universality of the Organization in Gentes in
    the Ganowánian Family.                                            151


    CHAPTER VII.

    THE AZTEC CONFEDERACY.

    Misconception of Aztec Society.—Condition of
    Advancement.—Nahuatlac Tribes.—Their Settlement in
    Mexico.—Pueblo of Mexico founded, A. D. 1325.—Aztec
    Confederacy established, A. D. 1426.—Extent of Territorial
    Domination.—Probable Number of the People.—Whether or not
    the Aztecs were organized in Gentes and Phratries.—The
    Council of Chiefs.—Its probable Functions.—Office
    held by Montezuma.—Elective in Tenure.—Deposition of
    Montezuma.—Probable Functions of the Office.—Aztec
    Institutions essentially Democratical.—The Government a
    Military Democracy.                                               186


    CHAPTER VIII.

    THE GRECIAN GENS.

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