Show I 1 lk wo we hate irom from nir mr A boll bell sit or 0 the interior D do p rement a very inkman e 9 work on en to th ibo 0 study of indian by W rowell rewell the famous civil engineer who its ID file abo employment of iho ibis governments bu bad traveled throughout utah colorado arizona and the neighboring regions the work woric li Is accompanied by sj four foor kinship charts designed to fresco in ia alaa mr irp 04 head bed cf aitho the bureau borden ol of lifson hn dinall gy has bw erl arl given great to the la ia vesti gation of indian language tad rod la in this mir odelon a to itself atu btu baudy y lo hio presents tho the elementary feets in oral way vy we we r told that ibal in hi tho the of the work rescomb res camb sad the of the dif fermil linguistic stocks toc lf a vast me of facts bd bad to bo be grouped together and od snorted anti buch vocals clarici and dd gram maroof of ladisa speech fiech as u had bail been from lim flood to time pro wll revised with as collected collaw tho the result to li it substantial Pr Orrt kod bud ft a very largo increase lu in tho the students in ia the work to want tho this demanded by separated cpa rated investigators from rom time to lo times the iho present work orel published in faw abil ad now this second acquired the in up lof iia work tho the ellior toy boys wit it dw adt ddt a t purport to bo be a philosophic treatment of its ct of languages it Is imply ft series of explanations of certain aber universally found by students lude oli of indian timex alio ei being of such a character as experience has bu shown would bed beat wee meet t tho the cantil gaqi at work lo in the field of languages with which they kro are unfamiliar the bank Is a ft a boata directions for collector Furt berthe author ulmor says olt it his bem been also effort draft ol of the iho author to the ducly study of language with the tha study of other branches or of anthropology for a language li Is beat batt tood when the riby tho maltry of thought embodied IQ in the language am beat bat known carrying out purpose mr ht powell pr oRenta ft a full alphabet adapted mainly from one mr whit doyi preparation and gives minute directions for its employment la fit cording tho the sounds of the mine language this thi Is I 1 followed with a 6 full line of explanations with respect reaped to the personality of 0 the lad indiana latis their d dram food end other amid neofa par ticul ara then follows follow a long schedule in black for filling it in the words ord which the student sony may collect from the iho la in irwill will bo that flie abo work in strictly bat it LIMA aiumu to be boft help to the abo practical student of indian andlar jan itta grages and customs with its lt aid any ono having the ahr time anti family or of irich intelligent or a tribe might collect rule facts and of the most valuable character and dd if jul duly y recorded in tho the order given such luch information would bo be of great and imme help to the choso who are at work reducing the be facts facia to 10 homogeneous form and system yit cin it WM was ft a good thought to arrange this introduction wo we trust and believe that it will bo be sa an important aid to in ili the tracing of indian history find that the tb result may yield a 6 riel rich harvest or of recta on some points or of the indian problem as yet too obscure obscuro to bo be for iao loblanco io Blanco lanc if by meave or of of words rod and customs the relations relation a of the diffor eat bands or of indiana shall bo be more grouped and their ideas tod and tradition traced to a common source important ilgian cigut may bo be 1 thrown upon which of them Is en titled to lo be considered red the origin nal stock glockl and possibly bly when traced to first sources a connection may bo be firmly established bei between vReen the iho primi five indiana or of america and some old world talk lolk which will definitely mile the abo old question qu calion where they first como came from framl |