151).
If with a hope of other views we turn to our magnificent national work on the Indians (History, Conditions, and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States: Washington, 1851-9), a great disappointment awaits us.

That work was unfortunate in its editor.
It is a monument of American extravagance and superficiality.

Mr.
Schoolcraft was a man of deficient education and narrow prejudices, pompous in style, and inaccurate in statements.

The information from original observers it contains is often of real value, but the general views on aboriginal history and religion are shallow and untrustworthy in the extreme.
A German professor, Dr.J.G.Mueller, has written quite a voluminous work on American Primitive Religions (_Geschichte der Amerikanischen Ur-religionen_, pp.

707: Basel, 1855).