The American Race A Linguistic Classification and Ethnographic Description of the Native Tribes of North and South America

The hue of the skin is generally said to be reddish, or coppery, or cinnamon color, or burnt coffee color. It is brown of various shades, with an undertone of red. Individuals o...

The psychic identity of the Americans is well illustrated in their languages. There are indeed indefinite discrepancies in their lexicography and in their surface morphology; bu...

In the upper valleys of the rivers Daule, Chone and Tachi, there still survive some families of the “painted Indians,” who were referred to by Cieza de Leon as Manivis, now usua...

Some of both these tribes still survive; but this is not the case with the _Timucuas_, who occupied the valley of the St. John river, Florida, and its tributaries, and the Atlan...

Who these busy planters were has supplied material for much speculation. As usual, the simplest explanation has been the last to be welcomed. In fact, there is no occasion for u...

The Kechua language is one of harsh phonetics, especially in the southern dialects, but of considerable linguistic development. The modifications of the theme are by means of su...

The Mixtecs adjoined the Zapotecs to the west, extending along the coast of the Pacific to about the present port of Acapulco. In culture they were equal to the Zapotecs; having...

_Apaches_, in Arizona, Chihuahua, Durango, etc. _Ariquipas_, in southern Arizona. _Atnahs_, on Copper river, Alaska. _Beaver Indians_, see _Sarcees_. _Chepewyans_, north of the...

Of these tongues I have classed the Leca and Maracani as dialects of the Takana, not from comparison of vocabularies, for I have seen none of either, but from the locations of t...

The _Subtiabas_ are inhabitants of the valley of that name near the modern city of Leon in Nicaragua. They were called Nagrandans by Mr. E. G. Squier,[213] because the site of a...

The Carib stock is one of the most extensively distributed in the southern continent. At the discovery its dialects were found on the Lesser Antilles, the Caribby Islands, and o...

_Tlinkit_ or _Koloschan_, in southern Alaska. _Haidah_ or _Skittagetan_, on Queen Charlotte Islands. Dialects--Masset, Skidegate, etc. _Tshimsian_ or _Chimmessyanian_, on Nass a...

It is not easy to say who were the Tirripis and Turbacos, who lived about the mouth of the Magdalena River, though the names remind us of the Chibcha stock. Approaching the Gulf...

On the Rio Chambira, adjacent to the Yameos and Omaguas, dwelt in the early part of the last century the _Itucales_ and Varinas or Uarunas, who, according to Coleti, spoke allie...

The Gualachos, who spread from the river Iguaza to the sea coast, spoke a Guarani dialect in which the sounds of _f_, _j_ and _l_ were present, which, in pure Guarani, are absen...

Dr. Paul Ehrenreich, who has a mass of unpublished material about the Caraja language, says it is wholly unconnected with the Carib group. _Verhandlungen der Berliner Anthrop. G...

[72] On the relative position of the Chukchis, Namollos and Yuit, consult Dall in _American Naturalist_, 1881, p. 862; J. W. Kelly, in _Circular of the U. S. Bureau of Education...

The _Otomacos_ remain, as Gilii placed them, an independent stock, with their single dialect, the Tarapita. The Jesuits first encountered them in 1732, amid the forests south of...

[231] On the Chocos consult _Zeitschrift für Ethnologie_, 1876, s. 359; Felipe Perez, _Jeografia del Estado del Cauca_, p. 229, sq. (Bogota, 1862.) The vocabulary of _Chami_, co...

This is an important point, and applies to a series of archæological discoveries which have been announced from time to time from the Pacific coast. Thus, in Nicaragua, human fo...

_Lule._ _Vilela._ _Chunupi._ _Mataco._ Man, pelé, nitemoi, nitepac, { pairé, { inoon, D. Woman, uacal, quisle, jiolé, chiegua. Sun, yny, olò, oló, iguala. Moon, alit, copī, cocp...

Professor of American Archæology and Linguistics in the University of Pennsylvania, and of General Ethnology at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia; Vice-President of...

Few of the Pampean tribes have been induced to accept civilization or Christianity. They still believe in their good spirit, _Chachoa_, and in one of evil or misfortune, _Gualic...

In the above vocabularies the relation of the Zoque to the Mixe is more clearly shown than that of the Zapotec to the Mixtec. A more extended comparison of the two latter has be...

These four vocabularies of some dialects of the Arawak stock, from localities wide apart, disclose extensive variations from the standard tongue. They are, however, rather appar...