182 ASIATIC TRIBES OF WORTH AMERICA. 
the third personal pronoun, precedes the object possessed ; in other 
words the Choctaw and Peninsular languages practice the post-posi- 
tion of the nominative. ‘Thus in Japanese “the bone of the man” 
is rendered 
otoko no fone, 
and in Choctaw hatak in foni. 
Similarly, ‘‘the finger of the woman” is in Loo-Choo 
tackki noo eebee, 
and in Choctaw tekchi in ibbak-ushi. 
These forms, which give us the English, man’s bone, woman's finger, 
and in which 7m, no, noo represent the possessive inflection ’s, together 
with the close resemblance in the actual words employed, illustrate 
the nearness of the Choctaw to the Peninsular idiom, and render a 
reference to Tchuktchi grammar unnecessary. The personal pro- 
nouns precede the verbal root in Loo-Choo and Japanese as well as 
in Choctaw, and the temporal index of the verb is final. For the 
past tense ta is the Japanese and tee the Loo-Choo index, while in 
Choctaw it is tuk, tok. The Choctaw futures in ching, he and ashki | 
are like the Mongol in ya, ho and sogat. In the formation of the 
passive the Choctaw sometimes inserts an / like the Turkish, but in 
other cases simply changes the final vowel, as in Japanese. The 
Choctaw negative, & or 7k, combined with the initial pronoun, is the 
prefixed Mantchu ako. In Choctaw, Japanese and Loo-Choo the 
accusative precedes the governing verb, and the place of the adjective 
seems in either case to be sometimes before, at others after the noun 
it qualifies. According to Santini, the Koriak verb, like the Tungus, 
is susceptible of all the modifications denoting variety and quality of 
action which characterize the American families of language. The 
Choctaws are undoubtedly the Tshekto, and the Cherokees the 
Koraeki. 
A family more important in many respects, at any rate to the 
Canadian student of American ethnology, is that known as the 
Wyandot, which, in general terms, includes the Hurons and Iroquois. 
These fall into two divisions, a northern and a southern, the latter 
being, in the historical period, natives of North Carolina, and thus 
in proximity to the Choctaws. The most important of the southern 
tribes were the Tuscaroras and Nottoways. The northern tribes 
were, and are still in part, in the neighborhood of the great lakes— 
Huron, Ontario and Erie. The Huron, or Wyandot confederacy, 
