Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/americanraceling00briniala Transcriber’s note: Obvious printing, punctuation and spelling errors in the English have been corrected. Others may exist in the American native languages. There is great variation in the spelling of tribal names. THE AMERICAN RACE: A Linguistic Classification and Ethnographic Description of the Native Tribes of North and South America by DANIEL G. BRINTON, A.M., M.D., Professor of American Archæology and Linguistics in the University of Pennsylvania, and of General Ethnology at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia; Vice-President of the Congrès International des Américanistes; Medallist of the Société Américaine de France; President of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, and of the University Archæological Association of the University of Pennsylvania; Member of the Anthropological Societies of Berlin and Vienna, and of the Ethnographical Societies of Paris and Florence; of the Royal Society of Antiquaries, Copenhagen, and of the Royal Society of History, Madrid; of the American Philosophical Society, the American Antiquarian Society, etc. Philadelphia David Mckay, Publisher 1022 Market Street. 1901 Copyright. Daniel G. Brinton. 1891. TO THE CONGRÈS INTERNATIONAL DES AMÉRICANISTES, AN ASSOCIATION WHOSE BROAD SYMPATHIES AND ENLIGHTENED SPIRIT ILLUSTRATE THE NOBLEST ASPECTS OF SCIENCE, AND WHOSE EXCELLENT WORK IN AMERICAN ETHNOGRAPHY, ARCHÆOLOGY, AND EARLY HISTORY HAS CREATED A DEEP AND ABIDING INTEREST IN THESE STUDIES THROUGHOUT EUROPE, THIS WORK IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. So far as I know, this is the first attempt at a systematic classification of the whole American race on the basis of language. I do not overlook Dr. Latham’s meritorious effort nearly forty years ago; but the deficiency of material at that time obliged him to depart from the linguistic scheme and accept other guides.