TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER I. 
SOCIAL AND GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION. 
The Gens: organized upon kin; rights, privileges, and obligations of its members—The Phratry: its 
character and functions—The Tribe: its composition and attributes—The Confederacy of Tribes: its 
nature, character, and functions. 
CHAPTER EI 
THE LAW OF HOSPITALITY AND ITS GENERAL PRACTICE. 
Indian tribes in three dissimilar conditions—Savage tribes—Partially horticultural tribes—Village 
Indians—Usages and customs affecting their house life—The law of hospitality practiced by the 
Iroquois; by the Algonkin tribes of lower Virginia; by the Delawares and Munsees ; by the tribes 
of the Missouri, of the Valley of the Columbia; by the Dakota tribes of the Mississippi; by the 
Algonkin tribes of Wisconsin; by the Cherokees, Choctaws, and Creeks; by the Village Indians of 
New Mexico, of Mexico, of Central America; by the tribes of Venezuela; by the Peruvians—Univer- 
sality of the usage—It implies communism in living in large households. 
CHAPTER III. 
COMMUNISM IN LIVING. 
A law of their condition—Large households among Indian tribes—Communism in living in the house- 
hold—Long Houses of the Iroquois—Several families in 2 house—Communism in household—Long 
Houses of Virginia Indians—Clustered cabins of the Creeks—Communism in the cluster—Hunting 
bands on the plains—The capture « common stock—Fishing bands on the Columbia—Vhe capture 
a common stock—Large households in tribes of the Columbia—Communism in the household— 
Mandan houses—Contained several families—Houses of the Sauks the same—Village Indians of 
New Mexico—Mayas of Yucatan—Their present communism in living—Large households of Indians 
of Cuba, of Venezuela, of Carthagena, of Peru. 
CHAPTER IV. 
USAGES AND CUSTOMS WITIL RESPECT TO LAND AND FOOD. 
Tribal domain owned by the tribe in common—Possessory right in individuals and families to such land 
as they cultivated—Government compensation for Indian lands paid to tribe; for improvements to 
individuals—Apartments of a house and possessory rights to lands went to gentile heirs—Tenure of 
land among sedentary Village Indians at Taos, Jemez, and Zuni—Among Aztecs or Ancient Mexi- 
cans, as presented by Mr. Bandelier ; in Peru—The usage of having but one prepared meal each day, 
a dinner—Rnle among Northern tribes—A breakfast as well as a dinner claimed for the Mexicans— 
Separation at meals, the men eating first, and by themselyes, and the women and children after- 
wards. 
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