The Indian tribes of the upper Mississippi Valley and region of the Great Lakes as described by Nicolas Perrot, French commandant in the Northwest
Subtitle: Bacqueville de la Potherie, French royal commissioner to Canada; Morrell Marston, American army officer; and Thomas Forsyth, United States agent at Fort Armstrong
By: tr., ed., annotated, and with bibliography and index by Emma Helen Blair ...
Contributors: Perrot, Nicolas, 1644-1718.; Marston, Morrell, 1785-1831.; Forsyth, Thomas, 1771-1833.
Series: Western Americana, 1550-1900 -- reel 57, no. 553.
Publisher: Arthur H. Clark
Published: 1911
Place of publication: Cleveland, O
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Northwest, Old; Indians of North America -- Northwestern States
Notes: L.C. set incomplete: (v. 1: map) wanting.

Additions to bibliography: vol. II, p. 357.

"Doctor Paul Radin ... revised the proofs for the second half of volume II ... The index was prepared by Gertrude M. Robertson.--Addenda.

Master microform held by: ResP.

Bibliography: vol. II, p. 299-352.

Microfilm. Woodbridge, Conn., Research Publications, 1975. reels. 35 mm. (Western Americana ; reel 57, no. 553)
Table of contents: title: Table of Contents Vol. 1; title: -Memoir on the manners, customs, and religion of the savages of North America. By Nicolas Perrot.; title: -History of the savage peoples who are allies of New France, by Claude Charles Le Roy.; title: Table of Contents Vol. 2; title: -History of the savage peoples who are allies of New France, by Claude Charles Le Roy (continued from Vol. 1).; title: -Memoirs relating to the Sauk and Foxes, letter to Reverend Dr. Jedidiah Morse, by Major Morrell Marston, U.S.A., commanding at Fort Armstrong, Ill., November, 1820.; title: -“Account of the manners and customs of the Sauk and Fox nations of Indian traditions.” A report on this subject, sent to General William Clarks, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, by Thomas Forsyth, Indian agent for the U.S. Government, St. Louis, January 15, 1827.; title: Appendices:; title: A. Biographical sketch of Nicolas Perrot.; title: B. Notes on Indian social organization, mental and moral traits, and religious beliefs; and accounts of three remarkable religious movements among Indians in modern times. Mainly from writings of prominent ethnologists, the remainder by Thomas Forsyth and Thomas R. Roddy.; title: C. Various letters, etc., describing the character and present condition of the Sioux, Potawatomi, and Winnebago tribes, “written for this work by missionaries and others who know these people well”.