The Indian tribes of the upper Mississippi Valley and region of the Great Lakes
By: as described by Nicolas Perrot, French commandant in the Northwest, Bacqueville de la Potherie, French royal commissioner to Canada, Morrell Marston, American army officer, and Thomas Forsyth, United States agent at Fort Armstrong ; translated, edited, annotated, and with bibliography and index by Emma Helen Blair.
Contributors: Blair, Emma Helen, d. 1911.; Bacqueville de La Potherie, M. de 1668-1738.; Marston, Morrell, 1785-1831; Radin, Paul, 1883-1959.; Forsyth, Thomas, 1771-1833
Publisher: Kraus Reprint
Published: 1969
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Northwest, Old; Indians of North America -- Northwestern States
Notes: Originally published: Cleveland : A.H. Clark, 1911.

Includes bibliography.
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”.