Thus the American Indians, including the Siouan stock, are made up of
families organized into clans or gentes, and combined in tribes, sometimes
united in confederacies, all on a basis of kinship, real or assumed; and
the organization is shaped and perpetuated by a series of devices
pertaining to the plane of prescriptorial culture, whereby each member of
the organization is constantly reminded of his position in the group.
FOOTNOTES
1 Prepared as a complement and introduction to the following paper oil
"Siouan Sociology," by the late James Owen Dorsey.
2 "A synopsis of the Indian tribes ... in North America," Trans, and
Coll. Am. Antiq. Soc., vol. II, p. 120.
3 "Indian linguistic families of America north of Mexico," Seventh
Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, for 1885-86 (1891), pp.
111-118. Johnson's Cyclopedia, 1893-95 edition, vol. VII, p. 546,
etc.
4 Correspondence with the Bureau of Ethnology.
5 "The Tutelo tribe and language," Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., vol. xxi,
3883, p. 1.
6 Siouan Tribes of the East; Bulletin of the Bureau of Ethnology,
1894.
7 The subdivisions are set forth, in the following treatise on "Siouan
Sociology."
8 Travels in the Interior of North America; Translated by H. Evans
Lloyd; London, 1843, p. 194. In this and other lists of names taken
from early writers the original orthography and interpretation are
preserved.
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