The Natural History of the Varieties of ManLatham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
Science
The Natural History of the Varieties of Man
Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
Ethnology
5. _Ottawas._--On the river Ottawa, in the islands of Lake
Superior. Northern part of Michigan, Closely allied to the
Proper Algonkins.
6. _Montagnards_, _Mountaineers._--The French name and its
translation, of the name of the tribes between Montreal and the
mouth of the St. Lawrence.
7. _Scoffis_--_Nascopies_.--The Algonkins of Labrador.
Conterminous with the Eskimo.
8. _Sheshatapoosh._--Ditto.
9. _Abenakis._--In the state of Maine, in the valley of the
Kennebec.
10. _Etchemin._---From whom the state of Maine, took its name.
A tribe of these occupy the valley of the St John's River, in
New Brunswick.
11. _Passamaquoddy._--Maine. A branch of the Etchemin.
12. _Micmacs._--New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, parts
of Labrador and Newfoundland.
13. _Penobscot._--Maine.
14. _Messisaugis._--North of Lake Ontario, at its junction with
the St. Lawrence.
15, 16. _Pequod and Mohicans._--Extinct. In 1674, in
Connecticut.
17. _Narraganset._--Extinct. In 1674, in Rhode Island.
18. _Massachusetts._--Extinct. In 1674, in the state so called.
19, 20, 21, 22, 23.--_The Pawkunnawkuts_ (_or Wampanoag_),
_the Pawtucket_, _the Pennakuk_, _the Nipmuk_, _the
Montaug_.--Extinct. In 1674, in Long Island. The language of
these Indians is represented by Jonathan Edwards' Grammar of
the Mohican, and by Eliot's translation of the Bible.
24. _Lenni-Lenapi or Delawares._--Three tribes, _a._ the Unami,
or Turtle. _b._ The Minsi or Wolf. _c._ The Unalachtigo, or
Turkey.
25. _The Monakans_(?)--Extinct. Virginia, one day's journey
beyond the Falls, at Richmond. People of the high country as
opposed to the Powhattans of the low--said to build stone
houses.
The Indians of Virginia, especially the Powhattans, will
be noticed in the sequel as affording a measure of the
civilization of the Algonkins.
26. _The Pamticoes_ (_Pamticoughs_).--South Carolina. This is
the southernmost limit of the Eastern Algonkins.
The list is now continued from the south-eastern boundary of
the Ojibways, and from the parts south of Lake Superior, and
west of Lake Michigan.
27. _The Menomeni._--Due south of Lake Superior, from which
they are separated by the Ojibways.
28, 29. The _Sauks_=_white-clay_ and the _Ottogami_=_foxes_.
These last are also called _Musqkuakuik_=_red-clay_.
30. _The Kickapoos._--Southern part of Illinois. Closely allied
to the Sauks and Foxes.
31. _The Potawotomi._--South of Lake Michigan.
32. _The Shawno._--The most south of the Western Algonkins,
being south of the Ohio, in the state of Kentucky. Now removed
to the west of the Mississippi, to a reserve immediately south
of that of the Delawares.
33, 34, 35, 36, 37.--Illinois Indians=the Miami, Piankeshaws,
Kaskkaias(?)[121], Cabokias, Tamaronas, Peorias, and Mitchigami.
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