American Indian life
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"SHE always says she will come, and sometimes she comes and sometimes she doesn't corne. I was so surprised when I first came out here to find that Indians were like that," the wife of the Presbyterian Missionary in an Indian town in New Mexico was speaking, as you readily infer, on her servant Question. "-Where did you get your impressions of Indians before you came here ?" "From Fenimore Cooper....
More"SHE always says she will come, and sometimes she comes and sometimes she doesn't corne. I was so surprised when I first came out here to find that Indians were like that," the wife of the Presbyterian Missionary in an Indian town in New Mexico was speaking, as you readily infer, on her servant Question. "-Where did you get your impressions of Indians before you came here ?" "From Fenimore Cooper. I used to take his books out, one right after the other from the library at New Canaan, Connecti cu t, where I grew up." At that time, during the youth of this New Englander past middle age, few anthropological monographs on Indian tribes had been written, but it is doubtful if such publications are to be found in New England village libraries e~en to-day, and it is more than doubtful that if they were in the libraries anybody would read them; anthropologUsts themselves have been known not to read them. Between these forbidding monographs and the legends of Fenimore
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION 5; By A L Kroeber, Professor of Anthropology, University of California; PLAINS TRIBES:; TAKIlS-THE-PIPE, A CROW WARRIOR o 17; By Robert H Lowie, 11 ssociate Professor of A nthropoloqy, University of; California; A CROW WOMAN'S TALE 35; By Robert H Lowie, Asrociate Professor of Anthropology, University of; California; A TRIAL OF SliAMANS o 41; By Robert n Lowie, 4uoeiate Professor of Anthropology, University of; Californin; SMOKIN
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