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The Iroquoian concept of the soularticle 1895 • Hewitt, J. N. B.
Iroquois • North America > Eastern Woodlands
In this article Hewitt discusses Iroquois' ideas about the soul and its relation to the body, dreams, etc. The author discusses what the old Iroquois philosophers conceived the soul to be, and speculates on the origins of their concepts of immortalit...Indian tribes of the upper MissouriBook 1930 • Denig, Edwin Thompson & Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton)
Assiniboine • North America > Plains and Plateau
This monograph presents a general ethnography of traditional Assiniboine society as it existed in the mid 1850s. The author lived with the Indians for an entire year, (probably around 1854), gathering information and confirming the data obtained from...