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Title: The North American Indian

Author: Edward S. Curtis

Release Date: October 3, 2006 [Ebook #19449]

Language: English

Character set encoding: US-ASCII

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN***

[Illustration: The Pool - Apache]

The Pool - Apache

_From Copyright Photograph 1906 by E.S. Curtis_

The North American Indian

Being A Series Of Volumes Picturing And Describing
The Indians Of The United States And Alaska

Written, Illustrated, And Published By Edward S. Curtis

Edited By Frederick Webb Hodge

Foreword By Theodore Roosevelt

Field Research Conducted Under The Patronage Of J. Pierpont Morgan

In Twenty Volumes This, The First Volume, Published In The Year Nineteen
Hundred And Seven

JOHNSON REPRINT CORPORATION
111 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10003

JOHNSON REPRINT COMPANY LTD.
Berkeley Square House, London, W1X6BA

Copyright 1907, by Edward S. Curtis

_Landmarks in Anthropology_, a series of reprints in cultural
anthropology
_General Editor:_ Weston La Barre

First reprinting 1970, Johnson Reprint Corporation

CONTENTS

GENERAL INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME ONE
THE APACHE
HISTORICAL SKETCH
HOMELAND AND LIFE
MYTHOLOGY - CREATION MYTH
MEDICINE AND MEDICINE-MEN
THE MESSIAH CRAZE
PUBERTY RITE
DANCE OF THE GODS
THE JICARILLAS
HOME AND GENERAL CUSTOMS
MYTHOLOGY - CREATION MYTH
MIRACLE PERFORMERS
ORIGIN OF FIRE
THE NAVAHO
HOME LIFE, ARTS, AND BELIEFS
HISTORY
MYTHOLOGY - CREATION MYTH
MIRACLE PERFORMERS
LEGEND OF THE HAPPINESS CHANT
LEGEND OF THE NIGHT CHANT
CEREMONIES--THE NIGHT CHANT
MATURITY CEREMONY
MARRIAGE
APPENDIX
TRIBAL SUMMARY - THE APACHE
THE JICARILLAS
THE NAVAHO
SOUTHERN ATHAPASCAN COMPARATIVE VOCABULARY
INDEX

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