214 AMERICAN NATIVE RACES OF MEN 



west to the Rocky Mountains — a splendid domain. They 

 were among the original and early immigrants ; they went 

 west ages ago, and some of their people, as the Tutelos 

 of Virginia, the Biloxis of Louisiana, and the Winnebagos, 

 are still represented on the Atlantic coast, these once 

 famous tribes being the ancestors of the warlike Dakotas, 

 who once held sway in the immediate vicinity of the Alle- 

 ghany Mountains. It is believed that there are forty-two 

 thousand Dakotas living to-day, represented by the follow- 

 ing tribes : Assiniboins, living in the Saskatchewan, the 

 Minetaris of the Yellowstone country, the Omahas of 

 Nebraska, the Ponkas, the Arkansas Osages, the Dakota 

 Hidatsas, and the Crows of Montana. 



On the great plains of the West are found the finest types 

 of the American Indian. In the same general country of 

 the Dakotas we find the Pawnees ; with them the Wichitas 

 are fine Indians who have become truly modernized. The 

 Kiowans, Comanches, and Shoshones are splendid physical 

 types. 



The Indians of the Pacific slope present a most interest- 

 ing field, due to the remarkable division of language and 

 to the fact that some of them stand at the head of all the 

 American native races in the domestic arts. Alongshore 

 from Lower California to Alaska no less than thirty-nine 

 different Hnguistic f amihes have, according to Powell, been 

 found, and two hundred years ago almost every prominent 

 village along what is now known as the King's Highway 

 had some more or less pronounced difference in language. 

 Ethnologists recognize three fairly distinct types on the 

 Pacific coast, — the Indians of the Northwest, those of 

 Oregon-California, and lastly the Pueblos. The natives 



