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Jones, in his Antiquities of Tennessee (chapter ii.), speaks 
of the same facts among the Iroquois, Creeks, Santee Sioux, 
Mandans, Omahas, Hurons, Choctaws, and Natchez; some- 
times the human victims at such places strangling themselves 
with joy. 
Similar facts have been found to be true of the Indians of 
Southern Oregon* and Southern Califorma.t The Aleuts 
have the same belief,t and also the Indians of Southern 
Alaska,§$ and the Miamis.|| 
According to the personal knowledge of the writer, twelve 
tribes, in Washington Territory, Oregon, and Idaho, believe 
tho same. 
We know very little of the Mound Builders, and yet much 
of what we do know is preserved to us, because that they 
believed the same, and hence buried so many articles in their 
tombs, which have been unearthed during the present age. 
In fact, there are very few, if any, exceptions to it. 
Schoolcraft says he never heard of any. When Dr. Jemison, 
a missionary among the Shoshones of Southern Idaho, asked 
an Indian what became of him when he died, he received the 
reply, “‘ That is all of him.” This is a tribe which is said not 
to believe in a Supreme Being. The Miwoks, Yokuts, and 
Monos of California seem likewise to have no belief in the 
future existence of the soul, but believe in its utter annihila- 
tion. They mourn for their dead as without hope; their 
effects are all burned, so that there may be nothing to remind 
the living of them; and their names are never mentioned.{ 
Jacob Baegert says that, after diligent inquiries, he could 
never find the slightest ideas of a future life among the 
Indians of the California Peninsula,** and F’. M. Galt says the 
same of some Peruvian Indians.t+ Most of these tribes have 
been referred to in the first section as having no belief in a 
Supreme Being. : 
On the other hand, all that will be said on the subject 
of future rewards and punishments bears on a belief in 
immortality. 
(b) Sinfulness—I will not dwell long on the subject of 
man’s sinfulness, as nearly all that will be said about sacrifices 
* Smithsonian Report, 1874, pp. 341, 345, 350. 
+ Hadyn’s Bulletin U.S. Survey, vol. ui. No. 1, pp. 34, 38. 
t Dall’s Remains of Later Pre-historic Man in Alaska. 
§ American Antiquarian, vol. iv. p. 137. 
|| Lbid., vol. ii. p, 24. 
“| Contributions to N. A. Ethnology, vol. ii. pp. 349, 388, 
** Smithsonian Report, 1864, p. 390, 
++ Lbid., 1877, p. 311. 
