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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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literated. We have spoken above of thetendency of polyandry to producean intense clannishness, with theaccompanying disso- 1 . Life in the vil- lution of the ties of lage and the ,1 j. ., wigwam. the family proper.This was seen in the manners ofthe Indian warriors. With themeverything depended on thestrength and solidarity of thetribe, and very little on the integ-rity of the family. The social lifeof the Indians was, therefore,tribal rather than domestic. TheIndian village was always a centerof interest and of excitement, butthe wigwam itself and alone wasas solitary as the pine tree thatsheltered it. The warriors return-ing from the chase or from battlemisfht well look to the village as acenter of interest and tribal amusements,but the brave would hardly look to hisown wigwam, with its exhausted squawand sick papooses, as a place to be de-sired. The tie between the Indian and his ownhome was thus rendered indifferent and of Copyrighted by The Jones Brothers Pub Co. I8J/3. Plate XII.
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CULTURE OF AMERICAN MONGOLOIDS. Indian Weapons and Designs. NORTHERN ABORIGINES.—WRITING AND LANGUAGE. 475 no effect. In the village there was some hilarity. There were games and sports. There were the running contest and many games of chance. There Addiction to village sports especially was the dance. and games. r^, -, -. Ihe dance was alwaystribal, never domestic. Music was atribal amusement, and even racing onfoot or with ponies was a tribal sport.If the Indian competed with his fellowfor the prize in marksmanship, it was atribal rather than a neighborly contest.All of these consequences flowed, ifAve mistake not, out of the peculiar char-acter of marriage and family organiza-tion. vStill another result would appearto be the low educational ambition amongour aboriginal nations. Education—thedesire to educate—flows mostly from thestrong affection of the father for his ownchild. This tends to a desire to see the child promoted to a better estate thanthat of his father. It leads

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