Hodge, Frederick Webb, Compiler. The Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico. Bureau of American Ethnology, Government Printing Office. 1906.
These pages will provide an alphabetical listing for all the villages, towns, and settlements in what was Canada at the time the Handbook of American Indian of North America was written. Acous to Atlkum Beauport to Burrard Saw Mills Indians Cabbasagunti to Cumshewa Dadens to Douglas Ecorce to Ewawoos Flowpahhoultin to Friendly Village Gachigundae to Gyitwulnakyel Hachaath to Hwotsotenne Iahenhouton to Ittatso
These pages will provide an alphabetical listing for all the villages, towns, and settlements in what was the state of California at the time the Handbook of American Indian of North America was written. Abaxcal to Azucsagna Badwisha to Bushamul Caacat to Cuyamus Dahnohabe to Duasno Echantac to Estuc Fax to Fyules Gabacamanini to Gupa Hahamogna to Hutucgna Ialamma to Iyis
These pages will provide an alphabetical listing for all the villages, towns, and settlements in what was the state of Arkansas at the time the Handbook of American Indian of North America was written. Aguacay to Aquixo Cachaymon to Chavite Guachoya to Guasco Imaha
These pages will provide an alphabetical listing for all the villages, towns, and settlements in what was the state of Arizona at the time the Handbook of American Indian of North America was written. Acachin to Aycate Babacomero to Busanic Caborh to Cumaro Dueztumac Elogio to Etipsikya Four Mile Ruin to Fresnal Gaibanipitea to Gutubur Harsanykuk to Hushkovi Iguanes to Imiak
These pages will provide an alphabetical listing for all the villages, towns, and settlements in what was the state of Alaska at the time the Handbook of American Indian of North America was written. Afognak to Aziavik Batza to Bolshoigor Carmel to Claikehak Dahet to Dyea Eider to Eyak Fetkina to Fugitive Gapkaliptoua to Gutheni Hachimuk to Hutsnuwu Ibin to Ivan
These pages will provide an alphabetical listing for all the villages, towns, and settlements in what was the state of Alabama at the time the Handbook of American Indian of North America was written. Abihka to Aucheucaula Cahawba Old Towns to Crow Town Emussa to Eufaula Faluktabunnee to Fusihatchi Galley to Ghuaclahatche Hatchichapa to Huhliwahli Ikanachaka to Istudshilaika
These pages will provide an alphabetical listing for all the villages, towns, and settlements in what was Mexico at the time the Handbook of American Indian of North America was written. Aboreachic to Azqueltan Babasaqui to Buquibava Caborca to Cusihuiriachic Durango Ecatacari to Espejos Galilali to Gumisachic Hecatari to Huvaguere Igualali to Ixtacan
These pages will provide an alphabetical listing for all the villages, towns, and settlements in what was Canada at the time the Handbook of American Indians of North America was written (1908). To this date we only have some of the villages through the I’s. We’ll keep adding as we can. A – Canadian Indian Villages, Towns and Settlements B – Canadian Indian Villages, Towns and Settlements C – Canadian Indian Villages, Towns and Settlements D – Canadian Indian Villages, Towns and Settlements E – Canadian Indian Villages, Towns and Settlements F – Canadian Indian Villages, Towns and Settlements G … Read more
Indian Use of Illumination – The employment of artificial light among the Indians was limited by their simple habits and needs to the camp-fire and the torch, in which respect they are found in the same culture grade as other indigenous groups.
Indian Use of Hematite – An iron ore much used by the native tribes for implements, ornaments, and small objects of problematical use. It is found in many parts of the country and in great abundance in the Iron Mountain district of Missouri and in the Marquette region of Michigan. It occurs as a massive ore, as nodules, and in other forms, distributed through rocks of various classes, and is usually dark in color, showing various shades of gray, brown, and red. The specular varieties are generally rather gray, and have a metallic luster. The red earthy varieties, when compact, … Read more
Indian Use of Hair – One of the most useful materials known to the Indians of the United States was hair, which, as a textile material, was generally more available than vegetal fibers. Hair w y as obtained from the dog, buffalo, mountain sheep, mountain goat, moose, deer, reindeer, elk, antelope, opossum, rabbit, beaver, otter, lynx, and other animals, and human hair was also sometimes employed. In more modern times horsehair was used to stuff balls, drumsticks, dolls, pads, pillows, etc., and tufts of it, frequently dyed, were attached as ornaments to costumes, pouches, harness, ceremonial objects, etc. False hair … Read more
The shells of gourds were employed by the Indians for storage and carrying, as water jugs, dippers, spoons, and dishes, and for mixing bowls, pottery smoothers, rattles, sounders for the rasping stick, roof-drains, masks, parts of ornaments, and other purposes, and the flowers were used as food, coloring material, and in ceremonies. A number of species and varieties were commonly raised, producing fruit of different shapes and sizes globose, lenticular, pyriform, and tubular, with necks of varying length and curve, or without necks, but all of value for the general or special purpose for which they were selectively grown. Gourds … Read more
Among the resources of nature utilized by the tribes of North America bark was of prime importance. It was stripped from trees at the right season by hacking all around and taking it off in sheets of desired length. The inner bark of cedar, elm, and other trees was in some localities torn into strips, shredded, twisted, and spun or woven. The bark of wild flax (Apocynum) and the Asclepias were made into soft textiles. Bark had a multitude of functions. In connection with the most important of wants, the necessity for food, it supplied many tribes with an article … Read more
A history of all of the Indian Tribes (First Nations) of Canada.
Among the North American Indians a tribe is a body of persons who are bound together by ties of consanguinity and affinity and by certain esoteric ideas or concepts derived from their philosophy concerning the genesis and preservation of the environing cosmos, and who by means of these kinship ties are thus socially, politically, and religiously organized through a variety of ritualistic, governmental, and other institutions, and who dwell together occupying a definite territorial area, and who speak a common language or dialect. From a great variety of circumstances-climatic, topographic, and alimental-the social, political, and religious institutions of the tribes … Read more
Among the North American Indians a tribe is a body of persons who are bound together by ties of consanguinity and affinity and by certain esoteric ideas or concepts derived from their philosophy concerning the genesis and preservation of the environing cosmos, and who by means of these kinship ties are thus socially, politically, and religiously organized through a variety of ritualistic, governmental, and other institutions, and who dwell together occupying a definite territorial area, and who speak a common language or dialect. From a great variety of circumstances-climatic, topographic, and alimental-the social, political, and religious institutions of the tribes … Read more
These pages will provide an alphabetical listing for all the Indian towns, villages, and settlements in the United States at the time the Handbook of American Indian of North America was written (1908).
Native American Tools, Implements, and Utensils. While a tool is that with which something is made, an implement that with which work is done, and a utensil that in or on which something is prepared or used up, they can not always be distinguished among primitive peoples, who utilize one thing for many purposes. Many forms are discussed under Art and Industries and in articles devoted to special activities. It must be borne in mind that all such devices were helpers of the skilful hand and a vast deal of excellent work was done with it alone. The Indians of … Read more
North American tribes contained Subdivisions of a geographic or consanguineal character. Social and governmental classes or bodies, especially chiefs and councils, with particular powers and privileges. Fraternities of a religious or semi-religious character, the last of which are especially treated under ”secret societies. Tribes may be divided broadly into those in which the organization was loose, the subdivisions being families or bands and descent being counted prevailingly in the male line, and those which were divided into clearly defined groups called gentes or clans, which were strictly exogamic. Among the former may be placed the Eskimo; the eastern branch of … Read more
It may be doubted whether slavery, though so widespread as to have been almost universal, existed anywhere among very primitive peoples, since society must reach a certain state of organization before it can find lodgment (see Social organization). It appears, however, among peoples whose status is far below that of civilization. Among the Eskimo, slavery appears to have been wholly unknown, although in the part of Alaska immediately N. of the Tlingit, where the Eskimo borrowed much of Indian culture and arts, it is possible that it existed in some form, as Bancroft affirms. Dall discovered no traces of slavery … Read more