History for ready reference, Volume 1, A-ElbaLarned, J. N. (Josephus Nelson)
History
History for ready reference, Volume 1, A-Elba
Larned, J. N. (Josephus Nelson)
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the colonies, and the way to Greenland was entirely forgotten
in the mother country. ... The features of the natives in the
Southern part of Greenland indicate a mixed descent from the
Scandinavians and Eskimo, the former, however, not having left
the slightest sign of any influence on the nationality or
culture of the present natives. In the year 1585, Greenland
was discovered anew by John Davis, and found inhabited
exclusively by Eskimo."
_H. Rink, Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo,
introduction and chapter 6._
_H. Rink, The Eskimo tribes._
"In 1869, I proposed for the Aleuts and people of Innuit stock
collectively the term Orarians, as indicative of their
coastwise distribution, and as supplying the need of a general
term to designate a very well-defined race. ...The Orarians
are divided into two well-marked groups, namely the Innuits,
comprising all the so-called Eskimo and Tuskis, and the
Aleuts."
_W. H. Dall, Tribes of the Extreme Northwest (Contributed
to North American Ethnology, volume 1), part 1._
AMERICAN ABORIGINES:
Esselenian Family.
"The present family was included by Latham in the
heterogeneous group called by him Salinas. ... The term
Salinan [is now] restricted to the San Antonio and San Miguel
languages, leaving the present family ... [to be] called
Esselenian, from the name of the single tribe Esselen, of
which it is composed. ... The tribe or tribes composing this
family occupied a narrow strip of the California coast from
Monterey Bay south to the vicinity of the Santa Lucia
Mountain, a distance of about 50 miles."
_J. W. Powell, Seventh Annual Report, Bureau of
Ethnology, pages 75-76._
AMERICAN ABORIGINES:
Etchemins.
See above: ALGONQUIAN FAMILY.
AMERICAN ABORIGINES:
Eurocs, or Yuroks.
See below: MODOCS, &c.
AMERICAN ABORIGINES:
Five Nations.
See below: IROQUOIS CONFEDERACY.
AMERICAN ABORIGINES:
Flatheads (Salishan Family).
See Note, Appendix E.
"The name Flathead was commonly given to the Choctaws, though,
says Du Pratz, he saw no reason why they should be so
distinguished, when the practice of flattening the head was so
general. And in the enumeration just cited [Documentary Hist.
of New York, volume 1, page 24] the next paragraph. ... is: 'The
Flatheads, Cherakis, Chicachas, and Totiris are included under
the name of Flatheads by the Iroquois."
_M. F. Force, Some Early Notices of the Indians of Ohio,
page 32._
"The Salish ... are distinctively known as Flatheads, though
the custom of deforming the cranium is not confined to them."
_D. G. Brinton, The American Race, page 107._
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