occasional hunting, supply them with food, while by the sale of
i At the recent election in November, 1900, they were debarred by the local polling officers from
either registering or voting, and the matter is now being contested.
hooneyJ PRESENT CONDITION 1S1
ginseng and other medicinal plants gathered in the mountains, with
fruit and honey of their own raising, they procure what additional
supplies they need from the traders. The majority are fairly com-
fortable, far above the condition of most Indian tribes, and hut little,
if any. behind their white neighbors. In literary ability they may
even be -aid to surpass them, as in addition to the result of nearly
twenty years of school work among the younger people, nearly all the
men and some of the women can read and write their own language.
All wear civilizedcostumes, though an occasional pair of moccasins
is seen, while the women find means to gratify the racial love of
color in the wearing of red bandanna kerchiefs in place of bonnets. The
older people still cling to their ancient rites and sacred traditions, hut
the dance and the ballplay wither and the Indian day is nearly spent.
Ill— NOTES TO THE HISTORICAL SKETCH
(1) Tribal synonymy (page 15): Very few Indian tribes are known to us under
the names by which they call themselves. One reason for this is the fact that the
whites have usually heard of a tribe from its neighbors, speaking other languages,
before coming upon the tribe itself. Many of the popular tribal names were origi-
nally nicknames bestowed by. neigh boring tribes, frequently referring to some peculiar
custom, and in a large number