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Show 278 BASIS OP AMERICAN HISTORY [ 1450 tortcal and Statistical Information Respecting the History, Condition, and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States ( 1851), and the same author's American Indians ( 1851), strongest for the Iroquois and eastern Algonquian Indians. G. Catlin, Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians ( 1841), excellent for the tribes of the northern plains; J. L. McKenney and J. Hall, History of the Indian Tribes of North America ( 1836- 1844); S. G. Drake, Aboriginal Races of North America ( i860). Full references to the numerous other works of general scope will be found in Pilling, Bibliographies, noted below. For the last twenty-five years researches of great importance have been appearing, the bulk of which are contained in the Annual Reports of the Bureau of American Ethnology. This series will be found a storehouse of information on all subjects connected with the Indians, and while the value of the papers is very unequal they are in general well done. They will be referred to more in detail below. INDIAN LINGUISTICS The modern linguistic study of the Indians dates from the publications of Albert Gallatin issued at intervals from 1836 to 1853. A valuable bibliography of Gallatin and the authors who followed him in this field will be found in J. W. Powell," Indian Linguistic Families" ( Bureau of Ethnology, Seventh Annual Report, 1891). This paper of Powell's is the most important single publication on the subject which has yet appeared, its value resting laqjely on the linguistic map which accompanies it and which is reproduced in this volume. The best recent work on Indian languages has been done by A. S. Gatschet, J. O. Dorsey, and F. Boas, whose researches have been made chiefly under the auspices of the Bureau of Ethnology. Exhaustive linguistic bibliographies by J. C. Pilling have been issued by the same institution as follows: " Bibliography of the Eskimo Language " ( Bulletin, 1887);" Bibli- |
