CONTENTS 



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Letter of transmittal 393 



The Assiniboin 



History 395 



Origin 395 



Name and geographical position 396 



Ancient and modern habitat 397 



Vestiges of early tradition 398 



Names and events in history 399 



Present rulers and condition 401 



Intertribal rank and relations 403 



Magnitude and resources of territory a cause of the multiplication of 



tribes 405 



Geography 406 



Figure of the globe 406 



Local features of the habitat 406 



Surface of the country 407 



Facilities for grazing 408 



Effect of firing the prairies 408 



Waste lands 409 



Effects of volcanic action 409 



Saline productions 409 



Coal and mineral products 410 



Climate 410 



Wild animals 410 



Ancient bones and traditions of the monster era 411 



Animals used as armorial marks 412 



The horse — Era of importation 412 



Pictographs — Charts on bark 412 



Antiquities 413 



Pipes 413 



Vessels and implements 414 



Astronomy and geology 414 



Earth and its motions 414 



The sun 415 



The sky 415 



Future life — Indian paradise 41S 



Arithmetic 418 



Numeration 418 



Coin 420 



Keeping accounts 420 



Elements of figures 421 



Medicine 422 



General practice 422 



Depletion by bleeding 426 



Stoppage of blood and healing art 427 



Amputation 427 



Theory of diseases and their remedy 428 



Part urition 429 



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