item: #1 of 9 id: 11029 author: Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) title: American Hero-Myths: A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent date: None words: 66766 flesch: 69 summary: In an Algonkin dialect _missi wabu_ means the great light of the dawn; and a common large rabbit was called _missabo_; at some period the precise meaning of the former words was lost, and a variety of interesting myths of the daybreak were transferred to a supposed huge rabbit! The statement of Montezuma that Quetzalcoatl _had already returned_, but had not been well received by the people, and had, therefore, left them again, is very interesting. keywords: american; ancient; aztec; brothers; cap; city; culture; darkness; dawn; day; de la; de los; deity; del; derivation; divinity; doubt; earth; east; fact; father; footnote; form; god; gods; good; heaven; hero; historia; historia de; history; iii; ioskeha; king; land; language; las; legend; lib; life; light; lord; los; man; maya; meaning; means; men; mexico; morning; mother; myth; mythology; names; nations; native; nature; new; people; peru; place; points; por; power; present; quetzalcoatl; race; rains; religion; return; sahagun; similar; sky; son; stone; sun; tezcatlipoca; things; time; tlapallan; tollan; tribes; tula; viracocha; vol; water; west; white; winds; words; world; worship; yucatan cache: 11029.txt plain text: 11029.txt item: #2 of 9 id: 28627 author: Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe title: Incentives to the Study of the Ancient Period of American History An address, delivered before the New York Historical Society, at its forty-second anniversary, 17th November 1846 date: None words: 12313 flesch: 59 summary: Monuments and ruins have been disinterred in the ancient seats of human power, in the oriental world, and inscriptions deciphered, which give vitality to ancient history. [11] With respect to intercalations, various periods have been taken by ancient nations. keywords: america; character; continent; days; discovery; era; evidences; historical; history; languages; mexico; nations; origin; period; society; tribes; valley; world; years cache: 28627.txt plain text: 28627.txt item: #3 of 9 id: 29215 author: Morton, Samuel George title: Some Observations on the Ethnography and Archaeology of the American Aborigines date: None words: 6448 flesch: 58 summary: The simple flattening or depression of the forehead, causing the rest of the head to expand, both posteriorly and laterally; a practice yet prevalent among the Chenooks and other tribes at the north of the Columbia river, in Oregon. These ruins have been supposed to be the remains of a _pueblo_ or aboriginal city; but he adds that the occurrence of the Spanish coat of arms in more than one instance sculptured and painted upon the houses, prevents the adoption of such an opinion; and that traditional report (and tradition only) mentions this as a city that was sacked and desolated in the Indian insurrection of 1680.[12-*] Now had it not been for the occurrence of the heraldic paintings, this city might have been still regarded as of purely Indian origin and occupancy; as might also the analogous ruins of Abo, Tagique and Chilili in the same vicinity; for although these may have been originally constructed by the natives, yet as they are supposed to be near the ancient mines, it is not improbable that the conquerors in these, as in many other instances, drove out the rightful owners, and took possession for themselves;[12-+] for that they did possess and inhabit the towns above enumerated is a fact beyond question. keywords: american; crania; fig; form; head; indian; mexico; race; tribes cache: 29215.txt plain text: 29215.txt item: #4 of 9 id: 31351 author: Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) title: A Record of Study in Aboriginal American Languages date: None words: 6764 flesch: 67 summary: Proceedings of the _American Philosophical Society_, November, 1893. 23. In _Proceedings_ of American Philosophical Society, November, 1897. keywords: american; american philosophical; language; mexico; nahuatl; native; notes; philosophical; proceedings; society; stock; vocabulary cache: 31351.txt plain text: 31351.txt item: #5 of 9 id: 31413 author: Anderson, Robert E. (Robert Edward), M.A., F.A.S. title: The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West date: None words: 47514 flesch: 65 summary: Landing at Tabasco, where Grijalva had found the natives friendly, Cortés found that the Yucatans had resolved to oppose him, and were presently assembled in great numbers. The king is served with great state, and his behavior is so decent that it is pleasant to see him. keywords: america; ancient; army; atlantic; aztec; balboa; capital; century; chief; city; civilization; coast; columbus; continent; cortés; country; cuba; day; days; discovery; emperor; europe; feet; general; god; gold; greenland; human; indians; island; king; lake; land; men; mexican; mexico; montezuma; natives; new; north; ocean; people; peru; pizarro; place; soldiers; south; spain; spaniards; spanish; stone; sun; temple; time; west; work; world; years cache: 31413.txt plain text: 31413.txt item: #6 of 9 id: 42564 author: Holmes, William Henry title: Art in Shell of the Ancient Americans Second annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, pages 179-306 date: None words: 66294 flesch: 69 summary: Many species of the _Fissurella_ and _Dentalium_ shells were in common use, advantage being taken of the natural perforations for stringing, the latter being quite extensively used for money on the Pacific slope. Carved from _pectunculus_ shells. keywords: art; beads; belt; body; busycon; coast; cross; cut; design; diameter; end; examples; fig; figure; form; gorgets; half; head; human; illustration; inches; indians; length; lines; manner; mound; museum; national; natural; new; number; objects; ornaments; pendants; perforations; plate; present; shell; shell beads; specimen; stone; surface; tenn; time; tribes; use; wampum; white cache: 42564.txt plain text: 42564.txt item: #7 of 9 id: 42742 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Indian Chief: The Story of a Revolution date: None words: 77796 flesch: 79 summary: Well? But, Don Cornelio continued, at sunrise Don Louis left the camp, accompanied by Don Valentine; and though it is now near midday, he has not yet returned. Thanks, count, thanks; and now, by heavens, ask of me anything you please, and I shall not know how to repay the pleasure you have caused me. Good heavens! keywords: adventurers; angela; brother; camp; captain; chief; colonel; cornelio; count; country; curumilla; don; don louis; doña; father; french; frenchmen; general; good; great; guerrero; hand; head; heart; hunter; laville; left; louis; love; man; men; mexican; missionary; moment; order; place; present; sir; time; valentine; voice; way; words cache: 42742.txt plain text: 42742.txt item: #8 of 9 id: 42808 author: Bancroft, Hubert Howe title: The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 2, Civilized Nations The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 2 date: None words: 315684 flesch: 75 summary: Compónese aquella palabra de _huaxin_, perdiendo _in_ por contraccion, muy usada en mexicano al componerse las palabras, y de _tlan_, partícula que significa donde hay, ó abunda algo, y que sirve para formar colectivos. Nine, _chico nahui_,--These names from six to nine are simply those from one to four, with a prefix whose meaning is not altogether clear, but which is said to be composed of _chico_, 'at one side,' and _ihuan_ or _huan_, meaning 'near another,' 'with,' or simply 'and.' keywords: + =; -the; = +; = =; = |; account; acosta; age; ahau; amer; american; animals; annales; ant; antiq; anáhuac; apologética; arms; articles; authorities; authority; authors; aztec; battle; bernal; bien; birds; black; blood; bodies; body; boturini; bourbourg; brasseur; brasseur de; cacao; cada; calendar; camargo; cap; capital; carbajal; care; cartas; casas; case; central; centre; century; ceremonies; ceremony; certain; chapter; character; che; chich; chief; children; cities; city; civ; civilization; civilized; classes; clavigero; coast; codex; cogolludo; col; colors; common; como; compans; conq; conquest; copper; corn; cortés; cotton; council; country; court; culture; custom; cut; dance; dans; day; days; de bourbourg; de doc; de el; de la; de los; de oro; de que; de sus; de un; dead; death; dec; del; des; description; development; diaz; dos; dress; duran; ears; earth; ecles; ellos; empire; end; eran; espinosa; estos; evil; extent; face; fact; family; father; feast; feathers; feet; festival; figures; fine; fire; flesh; flowers; fol; following; food; force; foreign; form; friends; gama; game; gardens; garments; gen; general; geschichte; god; gods; gold; gomara; good; government; grand; great; ground; guatemala; hair; half; hand; head; heart; herrera; hist; history; home; honor; house; huitzilopochtli; human; humboldt; husband; icazbalceta; idea; idols; iii; incense; ind; indios; information; institutions; intellectual; ixtlilxochitl; judges; kind; king; kingdom; kingsborough; knowledge; labor; lake; landa; language; las; las casas; law; laws; left; les; lib; life; long; lord; maguey; maize; making; man; manner; market; marriage; martyr; mas; material; matter; maya; means; mej; men; mendieta; merchants; messico; mex; mexican; mexico; michoacan; military; mind; monarch; monarq; montezuma; month; mother; motolinia; muy; nahua; names; nat; nations; native; natural; nature; new; nicaragua; nobles; non; north; number; occasion; offerings; order; origin; original; ornaments; otros; oviedo; paper; para; parents; parts; people; period; person; peter; picture; pimentel; place; point; por; porque; position; power; preceding; prescott; present; priests; princes; principal; progress; property; provinces; public; punishment; purpose; que; qui; quiché; rank; reason; red; relacion; religion; rest; right; rites; royal; sacrifice; sahagun; savage; second; service; set; sidenote; sign; slaves; sobre; society; son; sons; south; spaniards; spanish; speak; square; squier; state; steps; stone; storia; subject; succession; sun; sus; system; série; table; temple; tenian; ternaux; tezcuco; tezozomoc; thee; things; thou; thought; throne; tierra; time; tlax; todos; toltec; tom; torquemada; towns; tribes; una; veytia; victims; viii; vna; vol; volume; voy; walls; war; warriors; water; way; wealth; weapons; west; white; wife; women; wood; words; work; world; writers; writing; ximenez; y de; y el; y en; y la; y los; y que; year; ynd; young; yucatan; | +; | =; | atemoztli; | quecholli; | remensis; | toxcatl; | | cache: 42808.txt plain text: 42808.txt item: #9 of 9 id: 58781 author: Wood, Norman B. (Norman Barton) title: Lives of Famous Indian Chiefs From Cofachiqui, the Indian Princess, and Powhatan; down to and including Chief Joseph and Geronimo. Also an answer, from the latest research, of the query, Whence came the Indian? Together with a number of thrillingly interesting Indian stories and anecdotes from history date: None words: 223146 flesch: 72 summary: But at length an appeal to his vanity availed, and on being assured that his picture was wanted to hang with those of Washington and Jefferson, and other great men in the National Galleries, he consented; and having once broken his resolution, no longer resisted, and was painted by several artists. He was courted by that celebrated worshiper of great men, Boswell; and sat for his picture twice during the visit, once at Boswell's request, and once for the Earl of Warwick, who caused Romney, the eminent painter, to make a portrait of him for his collection. keywords: account; afterward; american; arms; army; attack; band; battle; black; blood; body; brant; british; brother; bull; camp; captain; chief; children; civilization; command; council; country; day; days; dead; death; enemy; english; face; fact; family; father; feet; fire; following; force; fort; friends; general; geronimo; good; government; governor; great; ground; half; hand; hawk; head; heart; history; home; hope; horses; house; illustration; indians; influence; interpreter; jacket; john; joseph; king; land; language; left; life; like; little; look; major; man; men; miles; morning; mother; nation; near; new; night; north; number; order; party; people; philip; place; point; pontiac; power; powhatan; present; president; prophet; quanah; race; red; return; river; sachem; savages; shabbona; sioux; sitting; smith; soldiers; son; spirit; states; tecumseh; thought; time; treaty; tribes; united; village; visit; war; warriors; washington; water; way; west; white; wife; wild; women; words; wounded; years; young cache: 58781.txt plain text: 58781.txt