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Show THE UTDJAJX LAJTGTJAQZS.' "The first essential stefo lq the work of the Bureau of Ethnology was a classification classi-fication of the American Indian tribes Into groups allied by language. It waa found that within tht area with which the Nation has to deal there are spoken some 500 different languages languages as distinct from each other as French Is from English, and that these languages lan-guages can be grouped in some fifty or sixty families. It was found, further, that. In connection with the differences in language, are -many other distinction distinc-tion requiring attention. Tribes allied in language, are often, allied also in capacity, ca-pacity, habits, tastes, social organisations, organisa-tions, religion and arts and Industries. |