ASIATIC TRIBES OF NORTH AMERICA. 



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ADDENDUM. 



THE DACOTAH FAMILY, 



It is only since writing the foregoing article that I have found the 

 relations of this important family. The Dacotah languages differ so 

 widely in then* vocabulary, or rather in their vocables, from the 

 Iroquois, that, in spite of grammatical construction, and the equally 

 warlike character of the two people, it was hard to imagine a com- 

 munity of origin. In the labials that are wanting in the Wvandot 



