Excerpt from Burials of the Algonquian, Siouan and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi Within historic times tribes belonging to three great linguistic families dominated the greater part of the country westward from the Mississippi to the eastern Slopes of the Rocky Mountains, and far northward from the valley of Red River, La., into British pos sessions. Their villages were widely scattered and many were stand ing within a century, evidently preserving the same characteristic features unchanged through generations. But the villages Of the people of different parts of the region varied in form and appear ance. The manners and customs Of a tribe, combined with the in fluence exerted by their natural environment, resulted in the develop ment of the several types of habitations, and the same causes made it necessary for them to adopt various ways of disposing of their dead, as will be described in the following pages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.