﻿REPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  SECRETARY 
  59 
  

  

  Oklahoma. 
  He 
  first 
  studied 
  tlie 
  linguistics, 
  sociology, 
  and 
  physical 
  

   anthropology 
  of 
  the 
  Kickapoo. 
  Kickapoo 
  in 
  certain 
  respects 
  is 
  very 
  

   important 
  linguistically. 
  While 
  working 
  on 
  Arapaho 
  he 
  was 
  able 
  

   to 
  formulate 
  many 
  phonetic 
  shifts 
  of 
  complexity. 
  Even 
  so, 
  the 
  

   amount 
  of 
  vocabulary 
  that 
  can 
  be 
  proved 
  to 
  be 
  Algonquian 
  is 
  very 
  

   small. 
  The 
  grammatical 
  structure 
  is, 
  however, 
  fundamentally 
  Algon- 
  

   quian. 
  It 
  is 
  also 
  true 
  that 
  there 
  are 
  a 
  few 
  traits 
  which 
  are 
  dis- 
  

   tinctly 
  un-Algonquian 
  ; 
  for 
  example, 
  the 
  order 
  of 
  words. 
  

  

  The 
  first 
  week 
  in 
  August 
  Doctor 
  Michelson 
  went 
  to 
  Tama, 
  Iowa, 
  

   10 
  renew 
  his 
  work 
  among 
  the 
  Foxes. 
  He 
  there 
  restored 
  phonetically 
  

   some 
  te^ts 
  previously 
  obtained 
  in 
  the 
  current 
  syllabic 
  script 
  and 
  

   worked 
  out 
  some 
  translations. 
  He 
  also 
  obtained 
  some 
  grammatical 
  

   notes 
  on 
  these 
  texts. 
  Some 
  new 
  Fox 
  syllabic 
  texts 
  were 
  collected 
  

   and 
  new 
  and 
  important 
  ethnological 
  data 
  were 
  obtained. 
  

  

  Doctor 
  Michelson 
  returned 
  to 
  Washington 
  in 
  September. 
  He 
  cor- 
  

   rected 
  proofs 
  of 
  Bulletin 
  89, 
  Observations 
  on 
  the 
  Thunder 
  Dance 
  of 
  

   the 
  Bear 
  Gens 
  of 
  the 
  Fox 
  Indians, 
  and 
  prepared 
  for 
  publication 
  by 
  

   the 
  bureau 
  a 
  memoir 
  entitled 
  " 
  Notes 
  on 
  the 
  Great 
  Sacred 
  Pack 
  of 
  the 
  

   Thunder 
  Gens 
  of 
  the 
  Fox 
  Indians." 
  Early 
  in 
  June 
  Doctor 
  Michelson 
  

   left 
  for 
  Oklahoma, 
  where 
  he 
  obtained 
  more 
  Kickapoo 
  linguistic 
  notes, 
  

   further 
  elucidating 
  the 
  relation 
  of 
  Kickapoo 
  to 
  Fox. 
  From 
  this 
  it 
  

   appears 
  that 
  Kickapoo 
  di 
  merges 
  more 
  widely 
  in 
  idiom 
  than 
  hitherto 
  

   suspected. 
  He 
  also 
  secured 
  some 
  Kickapoo 
  texts 
  in 
  tlie 
  current 
  

   syllabic 
  script 
  and 
  obtained 
  new 
  data 
  on 
  social 
  organization. 
  Some 
  

   brief 
  Shawnee 
  linguistic 
  notes 
  were 
  collected. 
  These 
  show 
  that 
  while 
  

   Shawnee 
  is 
  in 
  certain 
  respects 
  very 
  important 
  for 
  a 
  correct 
  under- 
  

   standing 
  of 
  Fox 
  phonology, 
  as 
  a 
  whole 
  it 
  is 
  not 
  as 
  archaic. 
  It 
  is 
  also 
  

   now 
  clear 
  that 
  Shawnee 
  is 
  further 
  removed 
  from 
  Sauk 
  and 
  Kickapoo 
  

   than 
  he 
  had 
  previously 
  surmised. 
  Doctor 
  Michelson 
  witnessed 
  sev- 
  

   eral 
  Kickapoo 
  dances 
  and 
  attended 
  a 
  Shawnee 
  ball 
  game. 
  

  

  In 
  June, 
  1929, 
  Mr. 
  John 
  P. 
  Harrington, 
  ethnologist, 
  completed 
  his 
  

   report 
  on 
  the 
  Taos 
  Indians, 
  who 
  inhabit 
  a 
  large 
  pueblo 
  on 
  an 
  eastern 
  

   affluent 
  of 
  the 
  Rio 
  Grande 
  in 
  north-central 
  New 
  Mexico. 
  These 
  are 
  

   the 
  northernmost 
  of 
  the 
  New 
  Mexico 
  Pueblo 
  Indians 
  and 
  are 
  

   peculiarly 
  interesting 
  because 
  of 
  the 
  long 
  intimate 
  relations 
  they 
  

   have 
  had 
  with 
  the 
  Jicarilla 
  Apaches, 
  Utes, 
  Comanches, 
  and 
  other 
  

   tribes 
  of 
  Great 
  Plains 
  culture. 
  During 
  the 
  period 
  of 
  Spanish 
  

   domination 
  in 
  New 
  Mexico 
  the 
  Taos 
  had 
  to 
  play 
  the 
  double 
  and 
  dif- 
  

   ficult 
  role, 
  because 
  of 
  their 
  frontier 
  position, 
  of 
  persuading 
  the 
  

   Spanish 
  that 
  they 
  were 
  really 
  on 
  their 
  side, 
  and 
  the 
  Plains 
  Indians 
  

   that 
  they 
  were 
  really 
  on 
  theirs. 
  The 
  relations 
  with 
  the 
  Plains 
  

   Indians 
  existed 
  far 
  back 
  in 
  Taos 
  history 
  and 
  amounted 
  at 
  times 
  to 
  the 
  

   incorporation 
  of 
  large 
  bodies 
  of 
  these 
  Indians 
  in 
  the 
  blood 
  which 
  went 
  

   to 
  make 
  up 
  the 
  present-day 
  Taos. 
  And 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  still 
  more 
  remote 
  

  

  