Project Gutenberg 2017-07-12 Public domain in the USA. 453 Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) 1837 1899 Brinton, D. G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton, Daniel Garrison 04012237 The American Race A Linguistic Classification and Ethnographic Description of the Native Tribes of North and South America E-text prepared by Adrian Mastronardi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) "The American Race" by Daniel G. Brinton is a scientific publication written in the late 19th century. The work aims to systematically classify and describe the native tribes of North and South America, focusing heavily on their languages and cultures. This ambitious study emphasizes the importance of linguistic classification in understanding the relationships among various tribes and provides insights into their histories and characteristics. The opening of the book sets the stage for Brinton's exploration of the American race, outlining the linguistic classification methods and the major themes that will be addressed. Brinton discusses the variety of theories surrounding the origins of American inhabitants and critiques previous scholars' contributions. He stresses the significance of linguistics as a foundational indicator of cultural and ethnic identity among Native American tribes, while he also notes challenges in accurately defining locations and classifications due to historical migrations and spelling variations of tribal names. This introduction establishes a framework for further ethnographic and linguistic analysis that follows in the text. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 65.4 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Indians Indians -- Languages E011 Text Category: History - American Category: Archaeology & Anthropology Category: Language & Communication 1014459 2025-07-22T05:55:23.783459 text/html 978308 2024-10-23T02:19:44 text/html 409849 2025-07-22T05:55:45.657824 application/epub+zip 424470 2025-07-22T05:55:27.763488 application/epub+zip 384076 2025-07-22T05:55:25.565425 application/epub+zip 810691 2025-07-22T05:55:55.483800 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 722780 2025-07-22T05:55:43.652869 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 683729 2022-09-25T03:05:35.374621 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 666306 2025-07-22T05:55:19.698499 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 646425 2024-10-23T02:19:44 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16982 2025-07-22T05:55:55.654776 application/rdf+xml 15579 2025-07-22T05:55:25.899454 image/jpeg 1851 2025-07-22T05:55:25.738414 image/jpeg 372524 2025-07-22T05:55:23.843465 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia