72 AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST [n. s., 30, 1928

range. As Mr. McLeod “‘cannot find it in Harmon,” and will not
evidently accept my word for it, I find it necessary to refer him
to the numerous (over a dozen) works of Father Petitot, notably
his Monographie des Déné-Dinjieé,* his Etude sur la Nation mon-
tagnaise,** and other papers, to Bishop Faraud’s Dix-Huit Ans
chez les Sauvages,** Archbishop Taché’s Esquisse sur le Nord-Ouest
de l Amérique,*® the numerous and valuable letters of the latter
as well as those of Petitot printed in the great, but private, peri-
: odical entitled Missions de la Congrégation des Oblats de Marie
Mee Immaculée (O.M.1.) published quarterly ever since 1862, Les
ee Missions Catholiques, of Lyons, France, the Annales de la Propa-
De gation de la Foi, issued in the same place for over three-quarters
a of a century, the Rapports sur les Missions du Diocése de Québec
(1839-74), which contain valuable and plentiful information on
the early Canadian Northwest, without mentioning the innumer-
able letters of such pioneer Mackenzie District missioners as
Fathers Grollier, Séguin, Grouard, Ducot, Ladet, Laity, Gasté,
Lecorre, together with Bishops Grandin, Clut and Pascal,%7 all
printed in the above mentioned Missions des O.M.JI. These
BY invaluable communications are first-hand authorities comparable
ah to those of the Jesuit Relations, to which may be added later pro-
ie ductions by old contemporaneous missionaries, such as Le Gofi’s
Grammar and Dictionary, their Prefaces, etc.

No anthropologist dealing with northern American aborigines
could be excused from studying them if they were open to others
than the members of the Order to which I belong. My four-
volume Histoire de l’Eglise Catholique dans l'Ouest Canadien*®
embodies the substance of all of these, without counting scores
and scores of unpublished communications from the above-
mentioned and other missionaries. This abundant material all

33 Paris, 1876.
* Apud Missions Catholiques; Lyons.

% Bruxelles, 1866. That work is signed Fernand Michel, but it was written after
Bp. Faraud’s notes.

%° Montreal, 1869. That valuable work had originally appeared in the Missions
O.M.1.

57 T could also refer to Protestant publications, but these relate later efforts.
38 Quebec, 1921-23.