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Item The Prophet Dance of the Northwest and Its Derivitives: The Source of the Ghost Dance - transcript.(George Banta Publishing Co., 1935) Spier, Leslie"The so-called Ghost Dance religions of the Indians have for long been regarded as one of the most interesting phenomena of latter Indian life. In the religions, cults and dances, the imagination of the native American expressed and recorded its grief over the loss of ancient liberties and pleasures, its indignation and protest against the domination of the whites and the consequent decay of native cultures."Item Response to Relander's interest in buying General Series in Anthropology.(UNPUBLISHED, 1953-09-14) Spier, Leslie"Your order should be addressed directly to me (not to the Banta Company, which merely forwards orders), and it would save me a bit of bookkeeping if you would be good enough to sent a remittance with your order. I pay the postage on any shipment."Item Tribal Distribution in Washington - transcript (duplicate - part 2).(UNKNOWN, 1935) Spier, Leslie"On the basis of tradition he infers that originally there was in Oregon east of the Cascades, first, Salish speaking peoples on the south bank of the Columbia; south of them were Molala and Cayuse in a band of territoriy from the Cascade Range, or west of it, eastward to the Snake river; and still farther south the Sahaptins lying with the Cascade Range to the west and the Klamath tribe to the south."Item Tribal Distribution in Washington - transcript (duplicate).(UNKNOWN, 1936) Spier, Leslie"Here too residence with a particular local group is no criterion that an individual 'belongs' to that tribal or national unit. Again, dialectic and territorial community are the cue to the larger groupings. At the same time it is not desirable to assume that dialect and tribal groupings are one and the same thing..."Item Tribal Distribution in Washington - transcript.(UNKNOWN, 1936) Spier, Leslie"In western Washington the villages appear to have been largely autonomous in a political sense but differentiated only slightly in culture. Local groups of this kind have been marshaled by dialect both by the native and by ethnographers, who forthwith refer to the dialect groups as tribes. Further, present day informants have great difficulty in answering the apparently simple question, to what tribe or tribelet do they belong. This is because the majority combine in their immediate ancestry affiliation with a number of local groups."