Archives of Aboriginal Knowledge - Six Illus.Volumes

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Archives of
Aboriginal Knowedge
Containing All The
Original Papers
Laid Before Congress,
Respecting the
History, Antiquities, Language, Ethnology,
Pictography, Rites, Superstitions
And Mythology
Of the Indian Tribes of
The United States
In Six Volumes
By Henry Schoolcraft
1869
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Illustrated, Indexed, Searchable
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PART FIRST.
DIVISION OF THE TOPIC.
I. GENERAL HISTORY, A.
II. MENTAL TYPE OF THE INDIAN RACE, A.
III. ANTIQUITIES OF THE UNITED STATES, A,
IV. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE INDIAN COUNTRY, - - - A.
V. TRIBAL ORGANIZATION, HISTORY, AND GOVERNMENT, - A.
VI. INTELLECTUAL CHARACTER AND CAPACITY OF THE RED MAN, A.
VII. POPULATION AND STATISTICS, A.
APPENDIX.
INQUIRIES RESPECTING THE HISTORY, PRESENT CONDITION, AND
FUTURE PROSPECTS OF THE INDIAN TRIBES OF THE UNITED STATES.
“IN 1846, several gentlemen of literary, social, or political eminence, united withthe writer of the present work, in a memorial to Congress on the subject of the
INDIAN TRIBES; their history, condition, and destiny, and the "imperfect andfragmentary" state of our information respecting them.*
“On the 4th of March, 1847, Congress responded to this appeal in behalf of theRace, by directing the Secretary of War (who, at this period, had the jurisdiction of
Indian Affairs f) to collect and digest such statistics, and other information, as werenecessary to a full historical understanding of the subject. The Author was honored
with a commission to execute this trust, and directed to report the result of hisinvestigations through the Bureau of Indian Affairs. He immediately transferred
his residence from New York, to Washington; in order to avail himself of thenecessary facilities and sanctions of the office, in the prosecution of the inquiry.
“The First Part of the investigations made in pursuance of this appointment, isnow submitted. In carrying out the object, while presenting the existing state of the
various tribes, it has been sought to group them, by the tie of languages, into genericfamilies, or stocks ; and, so far as practicable, to restore those ethnological links in
the chain of their history which denote resemblance, and ancient affinities. To dothis, not only the principles of the languages are required, but the Indian antiquities
and traditions, their physical traits, and the mental type and psychological peculiarities of the Race; which become so many points of comparison, and helps to
investigation.
“In the examination of the Indian history, great importance has ever been attachedto the principles of their languages. The author conceives that he has had unusual
opportunities of becoming acquainted with the principles of these ancient mediumsof human thought. He has devoted many years of his leisure to these investi
gations, while residing, in an official capacity, in the West. The theme has beenpursued with all the ardor and hopefulness of youth, and the perseverance
of maturer years, passed in the vicissitudes of a frontier life. If, to many, thewilderness is a place of wearisome solitude, to him it assumed, under these influ
ences, far more the semblance of the choicest recesses of an academic study. This study has only been intruded upon by the cares of business, and the higher duties
of office ; but it has ever been crowned, in his mind, with the ineffable delights that attend the hope of knowledge, and the triumph of research. Thirty years
thus spent on the frontiers, and in the forests, where the Red Race still dwells, have exhibited them to his observation in almost every possible development. He
has been placed in a variety of situations to observe the structure and capacities of the Indian mind, in its minutest idiosyncracies ; to glean his notions of life, death,
and immortality; his conceptions of the character and being of a God, who is universally acknowledged as the Creator ; and to detect the secret springs of his acts,
living and dying. The peculiarly intimate relations the author has held to them (having married a highly educated lady, whose grandfather was a distinguished
aboriginal chief- regnant, or king,) has had the effect of breaking down towards himself, individually, the eternal distrust and suspicion of the Indian mind, and to
open the most secret arcana of his hopes and fears, as imposed by his religious dogmas, and as revealed by the deeply-hidden causes of his extraordinary acts and
wonderful character.
“The mental type of the aborigines, which has been systematically pursued through the recondite relations of their mythology and religion ; their notions of the duality
of the soul ; their conceptions of a complex spiritual agency affecting man and beast ; their mysterious trust in a system of pictographic symbols, believed to have
a reflex power of personal influence ; and their indomitable fixity in these peculiarities, reveal the true causes, he apprehends, why the race has so long and so
pertinaciously resisted, as with iron resistance, all the lights and influences which Europe and America united have poured upon their mind, through letters, arts,
knowledge, and Christianity.
“The United States has maintained relations with some seventy tribes who occupythe continental area east of the Rocky Mountains. The great practical object,
which has at all periods pressed upon the Government, has been the preservation of peace, on the constantly enlarging circle of the frontiers. This effort, basing
itself on one of the earliest acts of WASHINGTON, has been unintermitted. Occupying the peculiar relation of a mixed foreign and domestic character, the intercourse
has called for the exercise of a paternal as well as an official policy. No people has ever evinced such a non-appreciating sense of the lessons of experience, in the
career of their history and destiny ; and the problem of their management has still returned to us, to be repeated again What line of policy is best suited to advance
their prosperity? The present plan of collecting information respecting their actual condition, character, and prospects, is based on an appeal to the entire official organi
zation of the Department on the frontiers ; and is believed to be the most efficient one that can be pursued to collect a body of authentic information, which may
serve as the record from which the tribes are to be judged. Its results will be communicated as the materials accumulate.”
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