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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 tliose 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 Grouse (Aweniyont), Ghief and Mrs Edward Gornplanter, 

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

 Lay jr, Skidmore Lay, Mrs Emily G. Parker (Tuscarora), Mrs Gas- 

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

 others; on the Onondaga Reservation, Ghief and Mrs Baptist 

 Thomas, Marvin Grouse 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), Ghief Michael 

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

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

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

 Chief Danford, Elijah Danford, 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, haben 



a the same sound prolonged 



a as in what; Germ, man 



a as in hat, m-an, ran 



a the same sound prolonged 



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



