James Owen Dorsey

SIOUAN ALPHABET.

CONTENTS.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.

CHAPTER II. THE STATE.

CHAPTER III. THE GENTILE SYSTEM. TRIBAL CIRCLES.

CHAPTER IV. THE KINSHIP SYSTEM AND MARRIAGE LAWS. CLASSES OF KINSHIP.

CHAPTER V. DOMESTIC LIFE. COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE CUSTOMS.

CHAPTER VI. VISITING CUSTOMS.

CHAPTER VII. INDUSTRIAL OCCUPATIONS.

CHAPTER VIII. INDUSTRIAL OCCUPATIONS (CONTINUED). FOOD AND ITS PREPARATION.

CHAPTER IX. PROTECTIVE INDUSTRIES. WAR CUSTOMS.

CHAPTER X. AMUSEMENTS AND CORPORATIONS.

CHAPTER XI. REGULATIVE INDUSTRIES. THE GOVERNMENT.

CHAPTER XII. THE LAW.

INDEX.

FOOTNOTES.

Transcriber's Note:

The letters a-i, upper case and lower case, enclosed in square brackets are script font. All other letters enclosed in square brackets are rotated 180 degress.

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION——BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY.
OMAHA SOCIOLOGY.
BY
REV. J. OWEN DORSEY.

Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 205-370.