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EAN13
9791041918447
Éditeur
SHS EDITIONS
Date de publication
29 mars 2023
Nombre de pages
446
Dimensions
21 x 14,8 x 3,1 cm
Poids
643 g
Langue
eng

The Mongols

Jeremiah Curtin

SHS EDITIONS

Prix public : 18,00 €

" In 1891 you, as Chairman of the Civil Service Commission, were in Washington. I had just returned to that city from a work of two years among Pacific Coast Indians. Of these, two tribes in California had asked me to intercede for them with the President, who in those days was Benjamin Harrison. These Indians were among the truly wretched and suffering. One tribe of them had been almost exterminated through a massacre inflicted by white men. The other reduced to a feeble remnant through various man-killing processes. Still they were worthy of earnest attention. Their myths have a beauty and a value which should preserve them till literature perishes. These two tribes were the Wintu and the Yana whose account of the world and its origin I published later on in "Creation Myths of Primitive America."
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