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Congo (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
emble each other in their internal mechanism. In the Esquimaux Vater's Mithridates, III. Part III. p. 441-444. there is an immense number of forms, derived from the regimen of pronouns. The same is true of the Basque language in Spain, and of the Congo in Africa. Here W. Humboldt, on the Basque Lang. p. 58. is a marvellous coincidence in the structure of languages, at points so remote, among three races so Lafitau, II. 474. different as the white man of the Pyrenees, the black man of Congo, and the copper-colored tribes of North A. Humboldt, Voy. III. 307; Researches, i. 19. America. Now, a characteristic so extensive is to be accounted for only on some general principle. It pervades languages of different races and different continents: it must, then, be the result of a law. As nature, when it rose from the chaos of its convulsions and its deluges, appeared with its mountains, its basins, and W. von Humboldt, Berl. Acad. <*>LIV. 240 its valleys, all so fashioned that man
Greenville (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
ed; and when, in 1732, the number of Indian fighting men in Pennsylvania was estimated to be seven hundred, one half of them were Shawnee emigrants. So desolate was the wilderness, that a vagabond tribe could wander undisturbed from Cumberland River to the Alabama, from the head waters of the Santee to the Susquehannah. The Miamis were more stable, and their own traditions preserve the memory of their ancient limits. My forefather, said the Miami orator Little Turtle, Chap XXII.} at Greenville, kindled the first fire at Detroit; from thence he extended his lines to the head waters of American State Papers, IV. 570, 571 Scioto; from thence to its mouth; from thence down the Ohio to the mouth of the Wabash; and from thence to Chicago, on Lake Michigan. These are the boundaries within which the prints of my ancestor's houses are every where to be seen. And the early French narratives confirm his words. The forests beyond Detroit were at first found unoccupied, or, it may be, ro
De Soto, Jefferson County, Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
of her fathers. In the flashes of the northern lights, men believed they saw the dance of the dead. But the south-west is the Tanner, 322. great subject of traditions. There is the court of the Great God; there is the paradise where beans and maize grow spontaneously; there are the shades of R. Williams, 21. the forefathers of the red men. This form of faith in immortality had also its crimes. It is related that the chief within whose Portuguese Relation c. XXX. Relation territory De Soto died, selected two young and wellproportioned Indians to be put to death, saying the usage of the country was, when any lord died, to kill Indians to wait on him and serve him by the way. Traces of an analogous superstition may be found among Algonquin tribes, and among the Sioux; the Tales of the Northwest, 282. Winnebagoes are said to have observed the usage within the memory of persons now living; it is af- Lett. Ed. IV. Du Pratz. firmed, also, of the Natchez, and doubtless with truth
Labrador (Canada) (search for this): chapter 4
insists on the analogy of its Jomard, in Vail, Notice sur les Indians, 36, 37. forms with the inscriptions of Fezzan and the Atlas. Calm observers, in the vicinity of the sculptured rock, see nothing in the design beyond the capacity of the J. Davis, in Trans. Am. Ac red men of New England; and to one intimately acquainted with the skill and manners of the barbarians, Schoolcraft. the character of the drawing suggests its Algonquin origin. Scandinavians may have reached the shores of Labrador; the soil of the United States has not one vestige of their presence. An ingenious writer on the maritime history of the De Guignes Acad. des Inscrip. t. XXVIII. Chinese, finds traces of their voyages to America in the fifth century, and thus opens an avenue for Asiatic science to pass into the kingdom of Anahuac; but the theory refutes itself. If Chinese traders or emigrants came so recently to America, there would be customs and language to give evidence of it. Nothing is so indeli
France (France) (search for this): chapter 4
of the sea,—were immediately occu- Pichon, 3 pied as a province of France; and, in 1714, fugitives from Newfoundland and Acadia built their he of Nova Scotia. Thus, if on the east the strait of Canso divided France and England, if on the south a narrow range of forests intervened blderness, of which savages were the occupants. The great strife of France and England for American territory could not, therefore, but involvem and the Chippewas. Their relations to the colonists, whether of France or England, were, at this early period, accidental, and related chis for the cession of territories, to encroach even on the empire of France in America. Nor had the labors of the Jesuit missionaries been f the habits of Le Clereq, Etablissement de la Foi dans la Nouvelle France, II. 172. savage life, the Franciscan Zenobe Mambre, whose journal he knowledge of letters remain unknown to the peasant of Germany or France! How languidly did civilization pervade the valleys of the Pyrenee
Lake Superior (search for this): chapter 4
u- Pichon, 3 pied as a province of France; and, in 1714, fugitives from Newfoundland and Acadia built their huts along its coasts wherever safe inlets invited fishermen to spread their flakes, and the soil, to plant fields and gardens. In a few years, the fortifications of Louisburg 1720. began to rise—the key to the St. Lawrence, the bulwark of the French fisheries, and of French commerce in North America. From Cape Breton, the dominion of Louis XIV. extended up the St. Lawrence to Lake Superior, and from that lake, through the whole course of the Mississippi, to the Gulf of Mexico and the Bay of Mobile. Just beyond that bay began the posts of the Spaniards, which continued round the shores of Florida to the fortress of St. Augustine. The English colonies skirted the Atlantic, extending from Florida to the eastern verge of Nova Scotia. Thus, if on the east the strait of Canso divided France and England, if on the south a narrow range of forests intervened between England and
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
of Bacon, the confederacy disappears from history. The Shawnees connect the south-eastern Algonquins with the west. The basin of the Cumberland River is marked by the earliest French geographers as the home of this restless nation of wanderers. A part of them afterwards had their cabins and their Kircheval, 53. springs in the neighborhood of Winchester. Their principal band removed from their hunting-fields in Kentucky to the head waters of one of the great rivers Lawson, 171. of South Carolina; and, at a later day, an encampment of four hundred and fifty of them, who had been straggling in the woods for four years, was found not Adair, 410. far north of the head waters of the Mobile River, on their way to the country of the Muskhogees. It was about the year 1698, that three or four score of their Logan, Mss. families, with the consent of the government of Pennsylvania, removed from Carolina, and planted themselves on the Susquehannah. Sad were the fruits of that hospitalit
Louisiana (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
ization, that their numbers soon promised to increase; and, being placed between the English of Carolina, the French of Louisiana, the Spaniards of Florida,— bordering on the Choctas, the Chickasas, and the Cherokees,—their political importance madec- Quar. Rev. III. 396. torial hieroglyphics were found in all parts of America, Schoolcraft, 1836, 146, 147. —in Southern Louisiana, and in the land of the Wyanwater's dots, among Algonquins and Mohawks. The rudest Vater's Mithridates, III. 324.o the sun in the southern valley of the Mississippi and within the tropics. The Chiti- Du Pratz. Gallatin. mechas of Louisiana, improperly confounded with the Natchez, were on the same low stage of civilization with the Chechemecas, who are descrguages increases near the Gulf of Mexico; and, as if one nation had crowded upon another, in the cane-brakes of the state of Louisiana there are more independent languages than are found from the Arkansas to the pole. In like man ner, they abounded<
Chicago (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
reenville, kindled the first fire at Detroit; from thence he extended his lines to the head waters of American State Papers, IV. 570, 571 Scioto; from thence to its mouth; from thence down the Ohio to the mouth of the Wabash; and from thence to Chicago, on Lake Michigan. These are the boundaries within which the prints of my ancestor's houses are every where to be seen. And the early French narratives confirm his words. The forests beyond Detroit were at first found unoccupied, or, it may be states of Ohio and Michigan, of Indiana, and Illinois, and Kentucky, could hardly have exceeded eighteen thousand. In the early part of the eighteenth century, the Po- Chap. XXII.} tawatomies had crowded the Miamis from their dwellings at Chicago: the intruders came from the islands near the entrance of Green Bay, and were a branch Schoolcraft, 1825, p. 360 of the great nation of the Chippewas. That nation, or, as some write, the Ojibwas,—the Algonquin tribes of whose dialect, mytholog
Quebec (Canada) (search for this): chapter 4
etween Lakes Huron. Erie, and Ontario, had been the dwelling-place of the Chap. XXII.} five confederated tribes of the Hurons. After their defeat by the Five Nations, a part descended the St. Lawrence, and their progeny may still be seen near Quebec; a part were adopted, on equal terms, into the tribes of their conquerors; the Wyandots fled beyond Lake Superior, and hid themselves in the dreary wastes that divided the Chippewas from their western foes. In 1671, they retreated before the powe expressed by the alphabet of European use. The tribes vary in their capacity or their custom of expressing sounds: the Oneidas always changed the letter r; the rest of the Iroquois tribes rejected the letter l. The Algonquins Huron Grammar, in Quebec Lit. and Hist. have no f; the whole Iroquois family never use the semivowel m, and want the labials entirely. The Cherokees, also, employing the semivowels, are in like Trans. II. 94, 95. manner destitute of the labials. Of the several dialect
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