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Show is8o] AUTHORITIES 283 of the Bureau of Ethnology. G. A. Dorsey is also publishing elaborate monographs on the myths and ceremonials, in the Field- Columbian Museum Reports. For the Kiowa the best information will be found in J. Mooney's admirable study, " The Calendar History of the Kiowa Indians " ( Bureau of Ethnology, Seventeenth Annual Report, 1898). ALGONQUIAN TRIBES The bibliography of the Algonquian tribes is enormous. I t will be found exhaustively treated in Pilling, Bibliography of the A Igonquian Languages ( 1891). Of early works which may be especially recommended to the student are the Jesuit Relations; S. de Champlain, Les Voyages de la Nouvelle France Occidentals ( 1632); Jonathan Carver, Travels, etc. ( 1778); P. F. X. Charlevoix, Histoire et Description Generate de la Nouvelle France ( 1744); J. F. Lafitau, Moeurs des Sauvages Ameriquaines ( 1724). Most of these deal primarily with the Iroquois but have much of interest regarding the Algonquian tribes of the northeast. The Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society afford invaluable information regarding the New England tribes. J. G. E. Heckewelder, History of the Indian Nations Who Once Inhabited Pennsylvania and the Neighboring States ( 1818; later ed., 1876), is the standard authority on the Delaware and contiguous tribes. Captain John Smith, Generall Historie of Virginia ( 1624), is the best early account of the southern tribes of the family. For the Ojibwa, T. L. McKenney, Sketches of a Tour of the Lakes ( 1827); C. Atwater, Indians of the Northwest ( 1850); G. Copway, Traditional History of the Ojibway Nation ( 1850); and W. W. Warren, " History of the Ojibway" ( Minnesota Historical Society, Collections, 1885), are recommended. W. J. Hoffman, " The Midewiwin, or ' Grand Medicine Society* of the Ojibwa " ( Bureau of Ethnology, Seventh Annual Report, 1891), is excellent on the religious ceremonials of the tribe. For the central Algonquian tribes consult, in addition to the above, H. N. Beck- |