the ethnological notebooks of karl marx - Marxists Internet Archive

press upon the village Indians o f N eu M exico u. M exico, tending to forcedisplaced u. fragm entary tribes towards and through the Istmus into SouthAm erica, w o h in diese w ou ld carry the first germ s o f progress developedby the V illage Indians. Repeated at intervals o f time it w ould tend tobestow upon South Am erica a class o f inhabitants fa r superior to the wild bandsformerly supplied, and at the expense o f the N orthern section thus im poverished.So South Am erica would attain the advanced position in developm ent,even in an inferior country, w hich seems to have been the fact. T hePeruvian legend o f Manco Capac u. Mama Oello, children o f the sun, brotherand sister, husband and wife shows that a band o f village Indians, m igratingfrom a distance, though not necessarily from N orth Am erica direct, had gath-__ered together and taught the rude tribes o f the Andes the higher arts o f lifeI including the cultivation o f Mai^e and plants; legend dropped out the band,retained only the leader and his wife.2)tes (nach Valley o f Columbia) natural initial centre: the peninsula betweenL akes Superior, H uron u. Michigan, the seat o f the Ojibwas u. nursery land o fmany Indian tribes.j t ) natural in itia l centre: the L a ke region o f Minnesota, the nursery ground derpresent D akotian tribes. G rund anzunehmen, dass Minnesota was a p a rt ofthe Algonkin area v o r B esetzg dch d. D akotas.Sobld cultivation o f mai^e u. plants erschien, it tended to localise the people u.support them in sm aller areas, as w ell as to increase their numbers; übertrugaber nicht control des Continents to the most advanced tribes der Village Indians,die fa s t nur von Cultivation subsisted. Horticulture spread unter d. principaltribes in the Lower Status o f barbarism, im proved greatly their condition.T h ey held, mit den non horticultural tribes, the great areas o f N orth Am ericaw hen discovered, u. v . ihren ranks the Continent replenished m it inhabitants.Incessant warfare d. aborigenes mit einander; als R egel the mostpersistent warfare unter tribes speaking different stock languages, w ie z.B.zw ischen Iroquois u. A lgonkin tribes u. der ersteren ditto m it d. D akotatribes. D aggen A lgonkin u. D akota tribes lived at peace mit each other,gezeigt dch occupation o f continuous areas. D ie Iroquois pursued a w ar o fextermination gegen their kindred tribes, the E ries, N eutral N ation, theHurons u. d. Susquehannocks. Tribes speaking dialects derselben stocklanguagekönnen sich verständigen, com pose their differences, u. lernen, in virtueo f their com m on descent, sich als natural allies zu betrachten.Bevölkerungs^ahl121 in a given area limited b y amount o f the subsistence itafforded; w hen fish u. game the main reliance fo r food., immense area requiredto maintain a small tribe. A ls farinaceous foo d hinzukam , area occupied b ya tribe s till large in proportion to the number o f the people. New York - mit47,000 □ miles hatte nie m ehr als 2j,ooo Indians, inclus. m it d. Iroquois d.Algonkins on the eastside des Hudson u. upon the Long Island u. d. E ries u.N eutral N ation in d. westlichen Seite des Staats. A personal government,gegründet upon gentes, unfähig hinreichde central power zu entw ickeln to160