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Show 284 BASIS OP AMERICAN HISTORY [ 1450 with, The Illinois and Indiana Indians ( 1884). This work covers particularly the historical period. For the Iroquois, J. C. Pilling, Bibliography of the Ir-oquoian Languages ( 1888), should be consulted. Of the early writers, the Jesuit Relations and the descriptions of Lafitau, Charlevoix, and Champlain, mentioned above, as well as G. Sagard, Le grand voyage du pays des Hurons ( 1632), are the best. The most authoritative work is of later date. Cadwallader Colden, History of the Five Indian Nations ( 1727), and D. Cusick, Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations ( 1828), are two important early accounts of the league. Incomparably the most notable of all the researches on the Iroquois are the works of L. H. Morgan, of which League of the Ho - de~ no~ sau-nee, or Iroquois ( 1851), " Systems of Consanguinity," etc. ( Smithsonian Institution, Contributions to Knowledge, 1871), and Ancient Society ( 1877), are the chief. These are all masterly treatises; and, while many of Morgan's more general theories and conclusions cannot be accepted, he remains practically unassailed in his statements of facts. H. Hale, Iroquois Book of Rites ( 1883), is also a scholarly piece of work and indispensable for the student. Both Morgan and Hale had the great advantage of intimate personal acquaintance with the Iroquois. W. M. Beau-champ has also published a number of papers of interest on the Iroquois, in the New York State Museum Bulletins. The introduction to F. Parkman, The Jesuits in North America ( 1867), gives a general discussion of the Indians with whom the Jesuits came in contact, and the whole book refers liberally and critically to the Relations. For the southern branch of the Iroquois family, the Cherokee, the monographs qf C. C. Royce, " The Cherokee Nation of Indians" ( Bureau of Ethnology, Fifth Annual Report, 1887), J. Mooney, " The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokee" ( Bureau of Ethnology, Seventh Annual Report, 1891), " Myths of the Cherokee" ( Bureau of Ethnology, Nineteenth Annual Report, 1900), cover the ground and refer to the sources. |