The American Race / A Linguistic Classification and Ethnographic Description of the Native Tribes of North and South America

This work offers a continent-wide linguistic and ethnographic survey of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, prioritizing grammatical structure and morphology over physical or cultural traits to determine affinities. It reviews competing origin theories, discusses physical characteristics, languages, social organization, religion, myths, arts, and material culture, and proposes a stock-based classification with regional groupings (North Atlantic, North Pacific, Central, etc.). Individual stocks and tribes are described briefly with attention to locations, linguistic features, and cultural practices, and the author reflects on methodological issues such as terminology, orthography, and the limits of available data.