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Show 288 BASIS OF AMERICAN HISTORY [ 1450 etc. ( 1871), also contain much information. For Mexico the works of A. F. Bandelier, already mentioned, are the best, and for the northwest the studies of F. Boas are the authorities. The general reader will find a remarkable condensation of the work of Morgan and Bandelier in the introduction to John Fiske, Discovery of America ( 1892). In his treatment of the Iroquois and Aztec, Fiske is judicious; but his more general views are open to much objection. Special studies of significance are J. W. Powell, " Wyandot Government" ( Bureau of Ethnology, First Annual Report, 1881); J. O. Dorsey, " Omaha Sociology" ( Bureau of Ethnology, Third Annual Report, 1884), and " Siouan Sociology," Bureau of Ethnology, Fifteenth Annual Report, 1897). INDIAN RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY E. B. Tylor, Primitive Culture ( a vols., 1871), is the standard work on primitive religion, and is good in its treatment of American religious ideas. It also gives full references. The special studies on Indian religion are all in connection with inquiries bearing on mythology and ceremonials. D. G. Brinton, Myths of the New World ( 1868), and American Hero Myths ( 1882), are the only comprehensive works of value. They are dogmatic and untrustworthy, though learned. The American Folk- Lore Society, organized in 1888, publishes a Journal and a series of Memoirs, in which there is much material of great value. Several institutions, particularly the American Museum of Natural History and the Field- Columbian Museum, are also devoting attention to the collection of myths from special stocks, and the results may be found in their regular publications. Of the published collections, the following may be especially recommended: S. T. Rand, Legends of the Micmacs ( 1894); E. Petitot, Traditions Indiennes du Canada Nord- Ouest ( 1886); F. Boas, Indianische Sagen ( 1895); W. Matthews, Navaho Legends ( 1897); J. A. Teit, Thompson River Indian |