The Documentary History of the State of New York/Volume I/Chapter I/Article III

ENUMERATION OF THE INDIAN TRIBES
CONNECTED WITH THE GOVERNMERT OF CANADA; THE WARRIORS AND ARMORIAL BEARINGS OF EACH NATION. 1736.

[Paris Doc. VIII.]

All the Northern Nations have this in common; that a man who goes to war denotes himself as much by the device of this wife's tribe as by that of his own, and never marries a woman who carries a similar device to his.

If time permitted, you would, Sir, have been better satisfied with my researches.

I would have written to the Interpreters for the Posts, who would have furnished me with more certain information than that I could obtain from the Voyageurs whom I questioned. I am engaged at the history of the Scioux, which you have asked from Monsieur de Linerat.

Missilimakinak.