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iferfe Medicine Practises of the Northeastern Al- 

 gonlcins: Frank Gr. Speck. 

 This paper -presents lists of plants used in the 

 medicine practises of several eastern Algonkin 

 tribes — the Montagnais, Penobscot and Mohegan. 

 Practically devoid of ceremonial associations in 

 this area, the pseudo-scientific use of herbs by the 

 northeastern tribes is taken as another indication 

 of the primitive character of their culture. As- 

 suming that a simple herbalism unmodified by- 

 ritual is more elementary than where subordinated 

 to ceremonial practises, the author brings forth 

 another reason for regarding the northeast as a 

 region where a fundamentally characteristic type 

 of Algonkian culture has survived unmodified by 

 contact with outside and more advanced types. 

 The associations of color, taste, name and the like, 

 are shown to underlie the remedies and their func- 

 tions in most cases, as appears in the botanical 

 identifications and the analyses of native names. 



The Social Significance of the CreeJc Confederacy : 

 John B. Swanton. 



The Creek confederacy was a result of those 

 social linkings from which, in all parts of the 

 world, nationalities and governments have arisen. 



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