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give different descriptions of it, some of which are full of 
nonsense, and most of them have some kind of punishment 
for the wicked ; but with many it is not a place, but a trans- 
migration into some bad animal. The Miwoks, Yokuts, and 
Monos, as they believe in annihilation, have no place of future 
rewards or punishments.* 
But the limit of this article forbids my giving any detailed 
statement of the beliefs of all the tribes; I can do but little 
more than to name them. The Nez Percés, Flatheads, Bella- 
Bellas, Chippewyans, and Indians around the mouth of the 
Columbia River, believe both in a place of future rewards and 
punishments,t as do also the Skokomish Indians; but the 
latter do not fear hell very much, as only the very bad go 
there. The Alaskans believe that the bodies of those who 
are burned will be warm in the next world, and the rest cold. 
The Dakotas believe in a land of Good Spirits, but some 
believe in a punishment only in this life, and others in a 
future house of the Bad Spirit.t 
The Arikarees, Osages, inhabitants of the West Indies,§ 
Omahas,|| Sacs and Foxes, and Caddoes,§ inhabitants of New 
England and New Jersey** believe in both a state of rewards 
and punishments, and the Iroquoistt+ and Eskimo in, at least, 
a placo of happiness.t{ 
According to Bancroft, in his Native [aces of the Pacific, 
the Thlinkeets, Sicannis, Kenai, Tinnehs, Aleuts, Clallams, 
Nez Percés, Flatheads, Haidahs, Nevada Indians, Snakes, 
Pimas, Maricopas, Comanches, and Miztecs believe in a 
heaven; the natives of Millbank Sound, Selish tribes, 
‘Chinooks, Californians, Mojaves, Yumas, Mayas, and Nicara- 
guans have both a heaven and a hell; the Ahts, Apaches, and 
Pend O’Reilles believe in neither ; the Nez Percés, Flatheads, 
and Haidahs believe in the restoration of the wicked; and 
the Apaches in metempsychosis. 
Even among the relics of the Mound Builders has been 
found a stone which had on one side a representation of a 
sacrificial scene, and on the other one of the happy hunting- 
grounds. 
Resurrection.—Prescott says that it was a belief in the 
* Contributions to N. A. Ethnology, vol. iii. 
+ Dunn, On Oregon Territory. 
{ Mathew’s Hidatsas and Gospel among the Dakotas. 
§ Bradford’s American Antiquities. 
|| Long’s Expedition. 
WT Annual Report, Bureau of Ethnology, 1879-80, p. 95. 
** Hayward’s Book of All Religions. ++ Ibid. 
tt Major J. W. Powell, Article in San Francisco Pacific. 
