A DISSERTATION PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY OF BRYN MAWR COLLEGE BY SARA HENRY STITES 1904 PRESS OF LANCASTER, PA. CONTENTS. SKETCH OF THE ECONOMIC SYSTEMS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. The Arctic, the Barren, the Forest, the Plain, and the Desert-Oasis Environments;-the domestic economy characteristic of the Barren and Arctic Environments, the village economy charac- teristic of the Western Forest Environment, the republican clan economy characteristic of the Plain Environment, the Potential utilities:-Food products—animal and vegetable; Raw The Hurons, a related tribe living in a similar environment... CHAPTER II.-THE PRODUCTIVE ACTIVITIES OF THE IROQUOIS. Manner of production:-root grubbing, and fruit and nut gathering; Relative importance of these different activities:-the growing ten- dency of the Iroquois to depend for subsistence upon agricul- |