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CHAP. XIV. 



EYTHINYUWUK, OR CREES AND CHIPPEWAYS. 



NATIONAL NAMES. — DIVISION. — TRIBES. — TERRITORY. — WARS 

 WITH THE MENGWE. — CONVENTIONAL CHARACTER NOT TRUE. 

 — PERSONS. — GAIT. — CRIMES. — WABUNSI. — WIGAVAMS. — RELI- 

 GIOUS BELIEF. VAPOUR BATHS. — EVERLASTING FIRE. ITS 



RITES. USED IN SICKNESS. ITS PRIESTS. ITS ORIGIN. — 



CHIEF SUN. POLICY. — CALUMET. MAIZE. FOOD. REIN- 

 DEER. BISON WHITE-FISH. EARTH-WORKS. POTTERY. 



LANGUAGE. HALF-BREEDS. — COLONY OF RED RIVER OR 



OSNABOYA. — SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS. 



The people who designate themselves Eytldnyuwuh 

 or Ininyu-we-u, occupy the country lying between 

 the. Rocky Mountains and Hudson's Bay, and reach- 

 ing from the 'Tinne boundary down to the plains 

 of the Saskatchewan and valley of the St. Lawrence; 

 their hunting-grounds on the plains interlocking 

 with those of the Dakotas or Sioux. They are 

 identified as a nation with the Algonkins and Lenni- 

 lenape or Delawares, who once OAvned the whole 

 country east of the Mississippi as far south as Caro- 

 lina, but who, blighted by the precocious expansion 

 of the Anglo-Saxon colonists, have dwindled down 

 to a few remnants of mixed blood. The generic 

 term Algic, taken from the root of the word Al- 

 gonkin, has been employed by the philologists of 

 the United States to comprehend all the tribes who 



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