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determining and fixing their special type of culture. They had ceased 

 to be nomadic hunters when their corn fields and vegetable gardens 

 flourished. Many of the tribes of eastern North America were agri- 

 culturalists to an extent hardly realized by those unfamiliar with early 

 records and this is especially true of the Huron-Iroquois family, 

 though it is not to be disputed that the Algonquin tribes of the east 

 and southeast had large fields and raised corn and other vegetables 

 on a large scale. 



My principal informants as to names and recipes are the follow- 

 ing Iroquois Indians : on the Tonawanda Seneca Reservation, Lyman 

 Johnson, Otto Parker, Peter Sundown ; on the Allegany Reservation, 

 Mrs Henry Logan, Mrs Fred Pierce and others ; on the Cattaraugus 

 Reservation, Mrs Aurelia Jones Miller, George Dolson Jimerson, 

 Thomas Silverheels, Mrs Frank Patterson, Mrs Emily Tallchief , Mrs 

 Julia Crouse (Aweniyont), Chief and Mrs Edward Cornplanter, 

 Chief and Mrs Delos Big Kettle, John Jake, George Pierce, John 

 -Lay jr, Skidmore Lay, Mrs Emily C. Parker (Tuscarora), Mrs Cas- 

 sie Gordon (Cayuga), Job King, Mrs Naomi Jimeson and many 

 others; on the Onondaga Reservation, Chief and Mrs Baptist 

 Thomas, Marvin Crouse and others; on the Grand River Reserva- 

 tion of the Six Nations, Canada, Albert Hill, Chief and Mrs D. C. 

 Loft, Mr and Mrs Seth Newhouse (all Mohawks), Chief Michael 

 Anthony and Lawson Montour (Delaware), Chief Josiah Hill (Nan- 

 ticoke), Chief Jacob Johnson, Fred Johnson (Oneida), Chief Gibson 

 (Seneca) and many others, of the Oneida of Muncytown, Ontario, 

 Chief Dan ford, Elijah Dan ford, and of the Caughnawaga Mohawk, 

 Mr and Mrs Longfeather (James Hill), Mrs Dibeux, Mrs Saylor 

 and others. 



As far as practicable the writer has followed the system of orthog- 

 raphy used by the Smithsonian Institution in recording American lan- 

 guages, and especially that employed by Hewett in his Cosmology. 

 For certain reasons there are a few minor departures from the sys- 

 tem as employed by Hewett but in general there is little difference. 



Alphabet and abbreviations 



a as in father, bar; Germ, hah en 



a the same sound prolonged 



a as in what; Germ, man 



a as in hat, man, ran 



a the same sound prolonged 



a as in law, all; Fr. o in or 



