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time; nothing but Indian.  The Indian which they investigate was as much modern and historic as he was ancient and prehistoric, and in the investigations the former view was kept more prominent than the latter, indeed the latter has been almost entirely overlooked.  Even the investigations among the mounds have been principally to prove their modern construction, their immediate relation to the modern Indian, and to show that if not entirely made since the discovery of the continent by Columbus, it was such a short time previous as to be practically of that epoch.

     I have not said these things by way of complaint nor to cast opprobrium upon my own country.  I only say them to make good my statement that the interest of the government of the United States and its people in the history of the prehistoric occupants of this country is not equal to that of the European governments and people in the prehistoric occupants of their country.

     It is then small wonder that I, who have