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Title: Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men ..
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history Ethnology
Publisher: New York, Merrill & Baker
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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, and the Es-quimaux have also been of advantage in 520 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. clearing up many questions relating to thefirst people of North America; and thepersistency of manners andcustoms—thatgreat fact which has often come to therescue of embarrassed scholarship—hasthrown its constant light on many ob-scure parts of the questions here beforeus. We shall now attempt, following thehypothesis of an Asiatic and Polynesianorigin, to delineate the course of dis-tribution of the primitive races throughthe two Americas, and their develop- the Koriaks an.d Chuk-chee tribes, thathas warranted the conclusion of an Asi-atic derivation for the Orarians. The line, therefore, marking the dis-persion of the northeastern stream ofAsiatic Mongoloids into Easy derivationthese extreme parts of Asia °ri^nes frommay well be drawn across the Asiatics,the strait and distributed into the penin-sular region of Northwestern NorthAmerica. In like manner, the clearrelationship of the people inhabiting
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ROUTE OF THE ORARIAN DISPERSION.—Peril Straits.-Drawn by Theodore Weber. Place and affinities of theOrarians. ment into distinct families of the hu-man species. In the extreme northwestern portionof North America we find a rather wide-ly dispersed race, to whichethnographers have giventhe name of Orarians. Ingeneral, they are distributed in that penin-sular part of the continent which extendsfrom the meridian of about one hundredand twenty degrees west to Behringstrait. It is the affinity, almost unmis-takable, of these people with the Yakutsof Northeastern Asia, particularly with the southern part of the Alaskan penin-sula with the Pacific peoples of theAleutian islands, gives warrant for thederivation of the former from the latter.It is in this Alaskan portion of thecountry that ethnographers have placedthe Orarians proper, while to the north,in Upper Alaska, that is, between theYukon and the Arctic ocean, we have adistribution of the Western Esquimaux.Further to the east and cent

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