The Indian miscellany: containing papers on the history, antiquities, arts, languages, religions, traditions and superstitions of the American aborigines ; with descriptions of their domestic life, manners, customs, traits, amusements and exploits ; travels and adventures in the Indian country ; incidents to border warfare; missionary relations, etc.
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Editor | Beach, W. W. (William Wallace) |
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Former owner | Eisenberg, Pablo |
Publisher | Munsell, Joel, 1808-1880 |
Title | The Indian miscellany: containing papers on the history, antiquities, arts, languages, religions, traditions and superstitions of the American aborigines ; with descriptions of their domestic life, manners, customs, traits, amusements and exploits ; travels and adventures in the Indian country ; incidents to border warfare; missionary relations, etc. |
Date Issued | 1877 |
Physical Description | 490 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Languages | English |
Place of Publication | Albany (N.Y.) |
Genre | Books |
Subject | Indians of North America |
Subject | Indians of North America – Languages |
Table of Contents | Historical and mythological traditions of the Algonquins; with a translation of the Walum-Olum, or bark record of the Lenni Lenape / by E. G. Squier -- A ride with the Apaches / by Herbert C. Dorr -- The captivity of Christian Fast / by Geo. W. Hill -- The Esquimaux of Labrador / by A. S. Packard, Jr. -- Indian medicine / by John Mason Browne -- Narrative of the long walk / by John Watson, father and son -- The early Jesuit missionaries of the North Western Territory / by W. B. O. Peabody -- Comparative vocabularies of the Seminole and Makasuke tongues / by Buckingham Smith -- A Sioux vision: Thick-Headed-Horse's dream / by John Hallam -- Joseph Brant, Thayendanegea, and his posterity / by Wm. C. Bryant -- Indian migrations / by Lewis H. Morgan -- A perilous fossil hunt / by William C. Wyckoff -- Indian affairs around Detroit in 1706 / by Col. Charles Whittlesey -- The aboriginal inhabitants of Connecticut / by Luzerne Ray -- The Indian reservations of California / by J. Ross Browne -- The dog sacrifice of the Senecas / by Samuel Crowell -- The Spanish mission colony of the Rappahannock; the first European settlement in Virginia / by John Gilmary Seah -- Alaskan mummies / by W. H. Dall -- Dyeing, spinning and weaving, by the Camanches, Navajoes and other Indians of New Mexico / by J. Henry Peters -- A fortnight among the Chippewas of Lake Superior / by J. J. Ducatel -- The Jane McCrea tragedy / by William L. Stone -- A visit to the standing rock agency / by Daniel Leasure -- Among the Guatusos; a narrative of adventure and discovery in Central America / by O. J. Parker -- The Rev. John Eliot, and his Indian converts / by Rev. Martin Moore -- Indian languages of the Pacific states and territories / by Albert S. Gatschet -- Chastisement of the Yamasees; an incident of the early Indian wars in Georgia -- The last of the Pequods / by Benson J. Lossing -- The tradition of an Indian attack on Hadley, Mass., in 1675 / by George Sheldon. |
Part of | Younghee Kim-Wait (Class of 1982)/Pablo Eisenberg Collection of Native American Literature |
Catalog Record | View this item in the library catalog |
Repository | Amherst College Archives & Special Collections |
Shelf Location | E77 .B36 1877 |
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