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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 460 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CREEK . Muskogian. I I,000 in See also:

Oklahoma. Large See also:element of See also:American citizens, making See also:good Gatschet, See also:Migration See also:Legend of the See also:white b I o o d; progress. Various religious Creeks (.884-1888); Speck, Mem. some See also:negro. faiths. Amer. Anthrop. Assoc., 1907. CROws Siouan. 1804 at See also:Crow Agency, See also:Montana. Little.

Improving industrially and financi- See also:

Simms, Publ. See also:Field Columb. See also:Mus., (Absaroka). ally. Morals still See also:bad. 1903; See also:Schultz, My See also:Life as an See also:Indian (N.Y., 1907). DAKOTA Siouan. About 18,000 in See also:South and 4400 in Considerable white Capable of and making good See also:pro- Writings of Dorsey, Riggs, Eastman, (Santee, See also:Yankton, See also:North Dakota; 3200 in Montana; See also:blood, varying gress. Episcopal, See also:Catholic, See also:Con- &c. Riggs, Contrib. N. Amer.

Teton—Sioux). 900 in See also:

Minnesota. Seemingly with different sec- gregational See also:missions with good re- Ethnol., vol. vii., 189o, and vol. ix., decreasing. tions. suits. 1893; Wissler, Journ. Amer. Folk- See also:Lore, 1907; Eastman, Indian Boy- See also:hood (1902).

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