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Show 282 BASIS OF AMERICAN HISTORY [ 1450 tention should also be called to the work of H. Hale on the languages of the Pacific coast, in connection with the United States Exploring Expedition under Wilkes, published in vol. VI. of the Report of that expedition ( 1846). INDIANS OF THE GREAT PLAINS The literature on this region is now extensive. The best work on the Siouan family has been done by J. O. Dorsey, whose most important papers are, " Omaha Sociology " ( Bureau of Ethnology, Third Annual Report, 1885), " The Cegiha Language" ( Contributions to North American Ethnology, 1892), " A Study of Siouan Cults" ( Bureau of Ethnology, Eleventh Annual Report, 1894), and " Siouan Sociology" ( Bureau of Ethnology, Fifteenth A nnual Report, 1897). A paper by J. Mooney,' * The Siouan Tribes of the East " ( Bureau of Ethnology, Bulletin, 1894), gives a full discussion of the evidence regarding the original eastern habitat of the Sioux. Valuable reports have also been published by S. R. Riggs, A. C. Fletcher, and others. The best early authorities are Jonathan Carver, Travels through the Interior Parts of North America ( 1778); George Catlin, Letters and Notes, etc. ( 1841); and Prince Maximilian zu Wied, Travels in the Interior of North America ( 1843). An exhaustive bibliography up to 1887 will be found in Pilling, Bibliography of the Siouan Languages ( 1887). On the Blackfoot, consult H. Hale," Report on the Black-foot Tribes" ( British Association for the Advancement of Science, Reports, 1886); and for a popular account, G. B. Grinnell, Blackfoot Lodge Tales ( 1903). For the Pawnee or Caddoan family the available material is slight. The early travels already mentioned give some information; and of more modern work may be noted J. B. Dunbar, in Magazine of American History, IV., V., VIII.; G. B. Grinnell, Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk Tales ( 1889); and several papers by A. C. Fletcher on Pawnee ceremonials and myths, published in the Journal of American Folk- Lore, Reports of the Peabody Museum, and under the auspices |