TABLE OF CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I. | |
| SOCIAL AND GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION. | |
| The Gens: organized upon Idu; rights, privileges, and obligations of its members—The Phratry: its character and functions—The Tribe: its composition and attributes—The Confederacy of Tribes: its nature, character, and functions. | 1 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| THE LAW OF HOSPITALITY AND ITS GENERAL PRACTICE. | |
| Indian tribes in three dissimilar conditions—Savage tribes—Partially horticultural tribes—Village Indians—Usages and customs affecting their house life—The law of hospitality practiced by the Iroquois; by the Algonkin tribes of lower Virginia; by the Delawares and Munsees; by the tribes of the Missouri, of the Valley of the Columbia; by the Dakota tribes of the Mississippi; by the Algonkin tribes of Wisconsin; by the Cherokees, Choctaws, and Creeks; by the Village Indians of New Mexico, of Mexico, of Central America; by the tribes of Venezuela; by the Peruvians—Universality of the usage—It implies communism in living in large households. | 42 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| COMMUNISM IN LIVING. | |
| A law of their condition—Large households among Indian tribes—Communism in living in the household—Long Houses of the Iroquois—Several families in a house—Communism in household—Long Houses of Virginia Indians—Clustered cabins of the Creeks—Communism in. the cluster—Hunting bands on the plains—The capture a common stock—Fishing bauds on the Columbia—The capture a common stock—Large households in tribes of the Columbia—Communism in the household—Mandan houses—Contained several families—Houses of the Sauks the same—Village Indians of New Mexico—Mayas of Yucatan—Their present communism in living—Large households of Indians of Cuba, of Venezuela, of Carthagena, of Peru. | 63 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| USAGES AND CUSTOMS WITH RESPECT TO LAND AND FOOD. | |
| Tribal domain owned by the tribe in common—Possessory right in individuals and families to such land as they cultivated—Government compensation for Indian lands paid to tribe; for improvements to individuals—Apartments of a house and possessory rights to lands went to gentile heirs—Tenure of land among sedentary Village Indians at Taos, Jemez, and Zuñi—Among Aztecs or Ancient Mexicans, as presented by Mr. Bandelier; in Pern—The usage of having but one prepared meal each day, a dinner—Rule among Northern tribes—A breakfast as well as a dinner claimed for the Mexicans—Separation at meals, the men eating first, and by themselves, and the women and children afterwards. | 123 |
