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100	1		_aDellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel, _d1853-1935
245	1	4	_aThe North-Americans of yesterday
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
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338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-10-04
508			_adeaurider, Robert Tonsing, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520			_aThe North-Americans of yesterday : a comparative study of North-American…. by Frederick S. Dellenbaugh is a comparative ethnological study written in the late 19th century. It surveys the lifeways, arts, languages, governments, myths, and material culture of Indigenous peoples across North America, arguing for their ethnic unity while correcting romanticism and crude “stone-age” time scales. Drawing on fieldwork, museum collections, and the Bureau of American Ethnology, it offers a broad, illustrated synthesis for general readers and students of American archaeology and ethnology. The opening of this study explains its origin in public lectures, acknowledges major scholarly sources, and sets the author’s aim: to present Indigenous North Americans as a coherent, once-vigorous world-race whose cultures varied by environment and history rather than by kind. Dellenbaugh critiques rigid global “Paleolithic/Neolithic” schemes, proposes that pre- or early-glacial land connections and climate shifts drove latitudinal migrations, and sketches a cultural gradient from southern centers (e.g., Yucatec) through Uto-Aztecan, Siouan, Algonquian, Athapascan, to the distinct Eskimo. He contrasts lowland declines with highland florescence (e.g., Nahuatl), notes mountain barriers shaping east–west differences, and argues the glacial era’s effects persisted into recent times. The introductory chapter also repudiates the misnomer “Indian,” adopts “Amerind,” and frankly recounts European brutality while urging objective study beyond stereotype. The next chapter begins a linguistic overview: many stock families and dialects, the persistence of languages (e.g., Tewa at Hano), sign-language and trade jargons like Chinook, the polysynthetic structure (with a Basque analogy), phonetic peculiarities, efforts to standardize transcription, and the notable homogeneity of Eskimo speech. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cNew York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900
653			_aIndians of North America
653			_aIndians of Mexico
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/northamericansof00dellrich
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76978
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