[Illustration: TEOCALLI OF THE SUN, PALENQUE, YUCATAN Discovered about 1750; 28 × 38 feet on the ground, about 25 feet high without the “roof-comb,” a feature of the Palenque buildings here particularly well preserved. Like all the structures of the group, this crowns a mound of considerable height. The construction is stone; ornamentation, stucco. Charnay calls attention to the resemblance to a Japanese temple. On pages 210, 235, and 237 constructive features are shown, on page 185 is a reproduction of a tablet from it, and on page 238, second figure, is the ground plan. Page 404 gives another of the group, and page 436 shows geographical location. From a photograph by Maudsley ] The North-Americans of Yesterday A Comparative Study of North-American Indian Life Customs, and Products, on the Theory of the Ethnic Unity of the Race By Frederick S. Dellenbaugh “But their name is on your waters, Ye may not wash it out.”—_Mrs. Sigourney._ [Illustration] With over 350 Illustrations. And an Appendix giving list of stocks, sub-stocks and tribes G. P. Putnam’s Sons New York and London The Knickerbocker Press +Copyright+, 1900 BY FREDERICK S. DELLENBAUGH Fourth Printing The Knickerbocker Press, New York To MAJOR POWELL WHOSE COURAGE SOLVED THE PROBLEM OF THE COLORADO RIVER AND WHOSE FORESIGHT ESTABLISHED THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED IN MEMORY OF DAYS AFLOAT AND AFIELD NOTE The author suggests the reading in conjunction with this volume of the first four chapters of his _Breaking the Wilderness_: Also the article in the _Atlantic Monthly_ for March 1906, by Charles M. Harvey: _The Red Man’s Last Roll Call_. [Illustration: MOKI DRAWINGS OF STARS] PREFACE The basis of this volume is eight lectures given before the Lowell Institute in Boston in 1894. They have been expanded by the addition of further matter relating to the various subjects, but even with these additions there is but a brief _résumé_ of the vast store of material extant.