Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri

The preface says the manuscript is entitled A Report to the Hon. Isaac I. Stevens, Governor of Washington Territory, on the Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri, by Edwin Thompson Denig. The report has been edited and arranged with an introduction, notes, a biographical sketch of the author, and a brief bibliography of the tribes mentioned in the report, the preface adds, and the editor has added two photographs of Edwin Thompson Denig and his Assiniboin wife. The contents list headings including courtship and marriage, music, hospitality, throwing buffalo in a park and deer hunting, among others.

The writer says that ordinarily during the day in private families there is an evenness of temper, and great cordiality exhibited, with much affection shown to their children. The writer says many lullabies are sung to children by their mothers, with but few words introduced, consisting mostly of humming of different tunes to put them to sleep.