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Omaha Kinship Terminology and Spruce-Fir Pollen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

George I. Quimby
George I. Quimby*
Affiliation:
Chicago Natural History Museum, Chicago, Ill.
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Abstract

Two points raised in a review of Indian Life in the Upper Great Lakes are discussed. The points questioned were statements about Winnebago social organization and the late glacial and early postglacial vegetation of the Upper Great Lakes. A review of the available evidence suggests that the Winnebago had an Omaha type of kinship system and that the late glacial and early post-glacial vegetation included spruce and fir or spruce and deciduous trees with coeval differences of vegetation being due to factors of soil, drainage, light, elevation, and pioneering ability instead of climate.

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American Antiquity , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , July 1962 , pp. 91 - 92
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1962

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