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is not linguistic, and as nearly every tribe concerned speaks a different 

 language from all the others, any close linguistic study must be left 

 to the philologist who can afford to devote a year or more to an indi- 

 vidual tribe. The only one of these tribes of which the author claims 

 intimate knowledge is the Kiowa. 



Acknowledgments are due the officers and members of the Office 

 of Indian Affairs and the War Department for courteous assistance 

 in obtaining documentary information and in replying to letters of 

 inquiry; to Mr Be Lancey W. Gill and Mr J. K. Eillers and their 

 assistants of the art and photographic divisions of the United States 

 Geological Survey; to .Mr A. E. Spofford, Librarian of Congress; to 

 Mr F. V. Coville, botanist, Agricultural Department; Honorable T.J. 

 Morgan, former Commissioner of Indian Affairs: Major J. W. Mac- 

 Murray, first artillery. United States Army; Dr Washington Mat- 

 thews, surgeon, United States Army; Captain II. L. Scott, seventh 

 cavalry, United States Army; Captain J. M. Lee. ninth infantry, United 

 States Army: Captain E. L. Huggins, second cavalry. United States 

 Army, of the staff of General Miles; the late Captain J. G. Bourke, 

 third cavalry, United States Army; Captain II. (I.Browne, twelfth 

 infantry, United States Army; Judge James Wickersham, Tacoma, 

 Washington ; Dr George Bird Grinnell, editor of "Forest and Stream." 

 New York city ; Mr Thomas V. Keam and the late A. M. Stephen, Keams 

 Canyon. Arizona; Rev. H. R. Yoth, Oraibi, Arizona; General L. W. 

 Colby, Washington. District of Columbia; Mr I). B. Dyer, Augusta, 

 Georgia; Rev. Myron Eells, Tacoma, Washington; Mr Emile Berliner 

 and the Berliner Gramophone Company, for recording, and Professors 

 John Philip Sousa and F. W. Y. Gaisberg, for arranging the Indian 

 music: W. S. Godbe, Bullionville, Nevada; Miss L.McLaiu, Washing 

 ton City; Addison Cooper, Nashville. Tennessee: Miss Emma C. 

 Sickcls. Chicago; Professor A. H. Thompson, United States Geological 

 Survey, Washington; Mrs L. B.Arnold, Standing Rock, North Dakota; 

 Mr C. H. Bartlett, South Bend, Indiana; Dr T. P. Martin. Taos, New 

 .Mexico, and to the following Indian informants and interpreters: Philip 

 Wells, Louis Menard, Ellis Standing Bear, American Horse, George 

 Sword, and Fire Thunder, of Pine Ridge, South Dakota; Henry Reid, 

 Rev. Sherman Coolidge, Norcok. Sage, and Sharp Nose, ol Fort 

 Washakie, Wyoming: Charley Slice]) of Walker river. Nevada: Black 

 Coyote, Sitting Bull, Black Short Nose, George Bent, Paul Boynton, 

 Robert Burns, Jesse Bent, Clever Warden, Grant Left-hand, and the 

 Arapaho police at Darlington, Oklahoma; Andres Martinez, Belo 

 Cozad, Paul Setkopti, Henry Poloi, Little Bow, William Tivis, George 

 Parton, Towakoui Jim. Robert Dunlap, Kichai. John Wilson, Tama. 

 Igiagyahona, Deou, Mary Zotom, and Eliza Parton of Anadarko, 

 Oklahoma. 



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