Identifier: annualreportofbu219smit (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Ethnology Indians
Publisher: Washington : U. S. Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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ndians of all this sectionof countiy—the river sources of northern Wisconsin—the FolsAvoin Sauteurs. Arrowsniiths map (London, 1796; additions,1802) shows the Ojil)wa occupying the territory both north and .southof Lake Superior, and shows Burntwood river (Bois Brule) as thepassage into the country of the Wild Rice Indians. It leads to the headwaters of St Croix river, half-way down the course of whichis a Chippeway village called the Rice people. About 10,000 Ojibwa Indians had access to wild rice from the timethey drove the Fox Indians out of the wild-rice fields until, .say, theyear 1825. or in round numl)ers two hundred years, and this is aboutthe present Ojibwa population in the United States who use wild rice. 1 Warren, op. cit.. p. 299.= Ibid., p. 309,■iIVjirt.,pp.309-.510.nbiil,,p.38, s Schoolcraft, Narrative, appendix, p. 57fi. Coues, Pike, vol. i, pp. 3J2-343. The portable wigwams in which these Indians visit the rice fields are ilhistrateil in plate-s i.xviib, r,.xxix.
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jexks) dakota migrations 1043 The Dakota Ethnologists hsive shown that the Indian tribes of the Siouan lin-guistic stock at one time occupied the Piedmont and coastwise areasbetween the Appalachian range and the Atlantii in tht- present statesof Vii-ginia. North Carolina, and South Carolina. Allen has provedthat the Imsou. prior to the year LSon, had crossed the .\ppalacliian.sfrom the west and occupied the Piedmont area, entering tliis regionprol)al)ly l)y the way of Cumberland gap. W J )McGee puts thesetwo facts together, and suggests that the iiison led the ancestors ot theDakota, one of the Siouan-speaking tribes, from the Piedmont intothe western prairies, where history found them. Hale* suggests thatthe valley of Ohio river and of Big Sandy river, which flow.s into theOhio and whose headwaters almost interlace those of the southerlyflowing Cape Fear river, was the thoroughfaie of these Indians andtiie bison. Further than this, Allen points out on the map accom-panjing his memoir

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