PRHFACK. 



This work forms tlio third of a series of bibliographies which the 

 Bureau of Ethnology is publishing, eacli relating to one of the more 

 prominent groups of native I^orth American languages. Its predeces- 

 sors relate to the Eskimo and Siouau stocks, its successor, now nearly 

 ready for the printer, to the Muskhogean; and next in order is to be 

 the Athabaskan or the Algonquian, as circumstances may dictate. 



When first prepared for the printer this bibliography did not include 

 the material pertaining to the Cherokee language, it being considered an 

 open question whether that language belonged to the Iroquoian stock. 

 At the request of the Director special attention was given to the sub- 

 ject by a number of the members of the Bureau, and a comparative 

 vocabulary was prepared. The examination of this led the Director to 

 adopt the conclusion that the language does belong to the Irocpioian 

 stock, and its literature has accordingly been incorporated herein. 



The aim has been to include in this catalogue everything, printed or 

 in manuscript, relating to the subject — books, pamphlets, articles iu 

 magazines, tracts, serials, etc., and such reviews and announcements of 

 publications as seemed worthy of notice. 



The dictionary plan has been followed to its extreme limit, the sub- 

 ject and tribal indexes, references to libraries, etc., being included 

 in one alphabetic series. The primary arrangement is alphabetic by 

 authors, translators of works into the native languages being treated 

 as authors. Under each author the arrangement is, first, by i)rinted 

 works, and second, by manuscri[)ts, each group being given chronolog- 

 ically, and in the case of printed books each work is followed through 

 its various editions before the next iu chronologic order is taken up. 



Anonymous printed works are entered under the name of the author 

 when known and under the first word of the title, not an article or prep- 

 osition, when not known. Anonymous works printed in Cherokee char- 

 acters, on the title-pages of which no English appears, are entered under 

 the word Cherokee. A cross-reference is given from the first words of 

 anonymous titles when entered under an author, and from the first words 

 of all titles in the Indian languages whether anonymous or not. Manu- 



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