82 ORIGIN OF THE WHITE BUFFALO DANCE, [ETH. ANN. 40, 
Sapir, Epwarp. [Review of] The owl sacred pack of the Fox Indians, by 
Truman Michelson. Int. Journ. Amer. Ling., vol. 11, nos. 83-4, pp. 182-184. 
1923. 
Contains a discussion of first-position and second-position verbal stems. 
Warp, Duren J. H. The Meskwaki people of to-day. Iowa Journ. Hist. 
and Polit., vol. 4, pp. 190-219. 1906. 
Gives the more current syllabary; also the phonetic elements of the Fox language as he conceives 
it. The priority of this paper or Jones’s second oneis unknown. The phonetic schemeis better 
regarding vowels than consonants. Itisdeficientinimportantrespects. The philosophic tendencies 
are those of Gobineau, on which see Boas, Mind of Primitive Man, Chap. V (1911), and Michelson, 
Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci., vol. 7, p. 234, 1917. 
We tp, Larnas G.; Ricu, JosepH W.; From, Grorce T. Prefatory note. Jn 
Cha ki ta ko si, Collection of Meskwaki Manuscripts, pp. [v]}-vii, lowa City, 
1907. Publ. State Hist. Soc. Iowa. 
Remarks on the alphabet employed by Cha kii ta ko si (ordinarily known as ‘‘Chuck’’) in volume; 
various remarks on the phonetic elements of Fox. Not of much value. The fact that j is used for 
the ch sound does not point to French influence as is stated: j in French has the value of z in azure; 
while j in the ‘‘ Manuscripts”’ certainly for the most part has the phonetic value of dtc. It is more 
likely that the j isa reflection of English j, heard in a slightly faulty manner. The alphabet is certainly 
not in common use among the Foxes; and I suspect Chuck invented it. The Indian texts contained 
in the volume can be used by the specialist. 
FOLKLORE AND MYTHOLOGY. 
Buatr, Emma Heten. Indian tribes of the Upper Mississippi Valley and region 
of the Great Lakes. Vol. 2, pp. 142-145. Cleveland, 1912. 
The volume contains Marston’s letter to Rev. Dr. Jedidiah Morse, dated November, 1820; originally 
printed in the latter’s report to the Secretary of War, dated November, 1821, printed at New Haven, 
1822. The supposed historic statement that the Shawnees were descended from the Sauk nation by 
a (Sauk or Fox?) chief, is nothing more than a (Sauk or Fox?) variant of the ‘‘ Bear-foot Sulkers,’’ on 
which see Jones, Fox texts, 30,31. To-day the Shawnee tell it of the Kickapoo and vice versa. 
Bussy, Atuir B. Two summers among the Musquakies. Vinton, Iowa, 1886. 
Contains extract from Isaac Galland’s Chronicles, etc. See below. 
Futton, A. R. The Red Men of Iowa. Des Moines, 1882. 
Contains extract from Isaac Galland’s Chronicles, ete. See below. 
GaLLAND, Isaac. Chronicles of Northamerican savages. 1835. 
Complete copies are apparently impossible to obtain. Hasimportant information on the gentes 
and tribal dualdivision. Part of this can not be substantiated to-day. Portions reprinted in Annals 
of Iowa, 1869, under the title of Indian Tribes of the West (especially 347-366); also in Fulton’s The 
Red Men of Iowa, 1882 (131-134), and Busby’s Two summers among the Musquakies, 1886 (52-63). 
Jones, Witutam. Episodes in the culture-hero myth of the Sauks and Foxes. 
Journ. Amer. Folk-Lore, vol. xv, pp. 225-239. 1901. 
— Fox texts. Publ. Amer. Ethn. Soe., vol. 1. Leyden, 1907. 
Most important of all publications on the subject. 
— Notes on the Fox Indians. Journ. Amer. Folk-Lore, vol. xxrv, pp. 209- 
237. 911: 
Contains much matter supplementary to his Fox texts. 
and Micurison, Truman. Kickapoo tales. Publ. Amer. Ethn. Soc., 
vol. rx, Leyden and New York, 1915. 
An abstract of three Fox versions of the Lodge Boy and Thrown Away Cycle is given by Michel- 
son; and there are some other incidental Fox references given by him. (See pp. 134-140.) 
Marsnu, Curtine. Letter to Rev. David Greene, dated March 25, 1835. Wis. 
Hist. Soc. Colls., vol. xv, pp. 104-155. 1900. 
Traditions regarding the Me-shaum (phonetically mi‘cimm™i‘), We-sah-kah (Wi'sA‘ki‘4', the 
culture-hero), the death of his brother, the flood, ete. See pp. 130-134. Most of the information 
given can be substantiated to-day. The parts of the letter appurtenant to Fox ethnology, folklore 
and mythology have been reprinted in the appendix to M. R. Harrington’s Sacred bundles of the 
Sac and Fox Indians (1914). 
