The American Race: A Linguistic Classification and Ethnographic Description of the Native Tribes of North and South America |
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Page 104 - Not that the crania have the same indices. On the contrary, they present great and constant differences within the same tribe; but these differences are analogous one to the other, and on fixed lines. There are many other physical similarities which mark the Pacific Indians and contrast them with those east of the mountains. The eyes are less oblique, the nose flatter, the lips fuller, the 'chin more pointed, the face wider. There is more hair on the face and in the axilla, and the difference between...
Page 35 - ... independent race ? I believe that it was in the north temperate zone. It is there we find the oldest signs of man's residence on the continent; it is and was geographically the nearest to the land-areas of the Old World ; and so far as we can trace the lines of the most ancient migrations, they diverge from that region. But there are reasons stronger than these. The American Indians cannot bear the heat of the tropics even as well as the European, not to speak of the African race. They perspire...
Page 103 - As a rule the tribes of the western coast are not connected with any east of the mountains. What is more singular, although they differ surprisingly among themselves in language, they have marked anthropologic similarities, physical and psychical. Virchow has emphasized the fact that the skulls from the northern point of Vancouver's Island reveal an unmistakable analogy to those from the southern coast of California; and this is to a degree true of many intermediate points.
Page 34 - Racial peculiarities are slowly developed in certain " areas of characterization, ' ' but once fixed are indelible. Can we discover the whereabouts of the area which impressed upon primitive American man — an immigrant, as we have learned, from another hemisphere — those corporeal changes which set him over against his fellows as an independent race ? I believe that it was in the north temperate zone. It is there we find the oldest signs of man's residence on the continent; it is and was geographically...
Page 114 - These statements assign a distribution of the language over an area about 450 miles from east to west, and 300 miles from north to south. It...
Page ix - So far as I know, this is the first attempt at a systematic classification of the whole Am. race on the basis of Ig.
Page 82 - While each nation was to retain its own council and its management of local affairs, the general control was to be lodged in a federal senate, composed of representatives elected by each nation, holding office during good behavior, and acknowledged as ruling chiefs throughout the whole confederacy.
Page 116 - Zuni families. No relationship has been discovered between either of these and any tribe outside the territory I have referred to. The culture of the Pueblos, both ancient and modern, bears every mark of local and independent *This affinity was first demonstrated by Buschmann in his Spuren der aztekischen Sprache, though Mr. Bandelier erroneously attributes it to later authority. See his very useful Report of Investigations among the Indians of the South Western United States, p.
Page 35 - Thus when compared with the other inhabitants of America, from every point of view the Indian seems to be at a disadvantage, much of which may be due to the path which he took from the Old World to the New. Before the red man lost his American heritage, he must have enjoyed it for thousands...
Page 68 - ... for this position. The Beothukan stock is included in the Powellian classification of independent linguistic families of North America. Brinton thinks that in Beothuk may be detected "some words borrowed from the Algonkin, and slight coincidences with the Eskimo." He also ventures the opinion that "derivation was principally, if not exclusively by suffixes, and the general morphology seems somewhat more akin to Eskimo than Algonkian examples.