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Obvious printing, punctuation and spelling errors in theEnglish have been corrected. Others may exist in the American native languages.
There is great variation in the spelling of tribal names.
The American Race:
A LINGUISTIC CLASSIFICATION AND ETHNOGRAPHIC
DESCRIPTION OF THE NATIVE TRIBES OF
NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA
BY
DANIEL G. BRINTON, A.M., M.D.,
Professor of American Archæology and Linguistics in the University ofPennsylvania, and of General Ethnology at the Academy of NaturalSciences, Philadelphia; Vice-President of the Congrès Internationaldes Américanistes; Medallist of the Société Américaine de France;President of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia,and of the University Archæological Association of the University ofPennsylvania; Member of the Anthropological Societies of Berlin andVienna, and of the Ethnographical Societies of Paris and Florence;of the Royal Society of Antiquaries, Copenhagen, and of the RoyalSociety of History, Madrid; of the American Philosophical Society,the American Antiquarian Society, etc.
PHILADELPHIA
DAVID McKAY, Publisher
1022 Market Street.
1901
Copyright.
DANIEL G. BRINTON.
1891.
TO THE
CONGRÈS INTERNATIONAL DES AMÉRICANISTES,
AN ASSOCIATION
WHOSE BROAD SYMPATHIES AND ENLIGHTENED SPIRIT
ILLUSTRATE THE NOBLEST ASPECTS OF SCIENCE,
AND WHOSE EXCELLENT WORK IN
AMERICAN ETHNOGRAPHY, ARCHÆOLOGY, AND EARLY HISTORY
HAS CREATED A DEEP AND ABIDING INTEREST IN
THESE STUDIES THROUGHOUT EUROPE,
THIS WORK
IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED
BY THE
AUTHOR.
PREFACE.
So far as I know, this is the first attempt at a systematicclassification of the whole American raceon the basis of language. I do not overlook Dr.Latham’s meritorious effort nearly forty years ago;but the deficiency of material at that time obligedhim to depart from the linguistic scheme and acceptother guides.
While not depreciating the value of physical data,of culture and traditional history, I have constantlyplaced these subordinate to relationship as indicatedby grammar and lexicography. There are well-knownexamples in the ethnography of other races,where reliance on language alone would lead the investiga