the ethnological notebooks of karl marx - Marxists Internet Archive

interests, strangers in feeling, schliesslich divergent in speech; separation u.independence follow , though their territories were contiguous. D ies repeateditself von age %u age in newly acquired as well as in old areas__ W hen increasednumbers pressed upon the means o f subsistence, the surplus removed to a new seatw o sie sich m it Leichtigkeit etablirten, weil the government was perfect in everygens u. in any number o f gentes united in a band. [Dies was ‘ organised colonisation'!] U nter d. Village Indians selber Process in etwas m odificirter Form .W hen a village became overcrow ded w ith numbers, a colony w ent up ordow n on the same stream u. commenced a new village; repeated at intervals,several such villages appear, each independent o f the other and selfgoverningb ody; but united in a league or confederacy for mutual protection; dialecticalvariation finally springing up, com pletes their growth into tribes.Tribes form ed by the subdivisions o f an original tribe possess a number o fgentes in common u. speak dialects o f the same language; have a num ber o fgentes selbst nach centuries o f separation. So die Hurons, jezt Wyandotes,haben 6 gentes desselben Namens mit 6 der gentes der Seneca-Iroquois, nachat least 400 J. Trennung. D ie Potawattamies haben 8 gentes selben Namensmit 8 unter d. Ojibwas, w hd d. form er 6 u. d. letzteren 14 different haben;show ing dass neue gentes form ed in each tribe by segmentation seit ihrerTrennung. E in noch älterer Absetzer der Ojibwas - oder eines com m onparent tribe beider - die M iamis, haben nur 3 gentes in com m on mit denformer, W olf \ Loon u. Eagle.Illustrations from tribes in Lower State o f Barbarism.8 M issouri tribes, bei ihrer E ntdeckung occupy the banks des M issouri über1000 miles zus. mit d. banks o f its tributaries, the Kansas u. the P la tte,ebenso the smaller rivers o f Iowa; ebenso W est Bank o f M ississippi downto the Arkansas. T he dialects beweisen dass the people in 3 tribes beforethe last subdivisions, näm lich:1) Punkas u. Omahas; 2) low as, Otoes u. M issouris; 3) Kaws, O sages, u.Quappas; ihre several dialects nearer to each other than to any other dialect derD akotian stock language to w hich they belong; also linguistic necessity fo rtheir derivation von an original tribe, w o v o n sie subdivisions; spreading from acentral point on the M issouri along its banks, above u. b e lo w ; m it increase o fdistance between their settlements - separation in interests, follow ed bydivergence o f speech u. finally by independence. E xtending along a river in aprairie country such a people m ight separate first in 3 tribes, dann in 8,the organisation o f each subdivision remaining complete. D ivision meant aseparation into parts by natural expansion over a larger area, follow ed by a42 complete segmentation. D er uppermost \ tribe on the M issouri - the Punkasat the mouth o f the Niobrara river; the lowermost the Quappas at the mouth o fthe A rkansas on the M ississippi; near 15 00 miles between them. T h eintermediate region, confined to the narrow belt o f forest upon the M issouri, washeld by the rem aining 6 tribes. T h ey w ere strictly River Tribes.Tribes o f L a ke Superior. 1) Ojibwas; 2) Otawas ( = O -tä’-was); 3 ) Pottawa-157