The Leading Facts of American HistoryGinn, 1891 - 359 pages |
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... chief objects in view , - accuracy of statement , simplicity of style , impartiality of treatment . In the preparation of this work his grateful acknowledgments are due to J. Franklin Jameson , Professor of History in Brown University ...
... chief objects in view , - accuracy of statement , simplicity of style , impartiality of treatment . In the preparation of this work his grateful acknowledgments are due to J. Franklin Jameson , Professor of History in Brown University ...
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... chief of each tribe through whose country they passed was compelled to serve as a guide until they reached the next tribe . If an Indian refused to be a slave or a beast of burden for these insolent Spaniards , his fate was pitiful ...
... chief of each tribe through whose country they passed was compelled to serve as a guide until they reached the next tribe . If an Indian refused to be a slave or a beast of burden for these insolent Spaniards , his fate was pitiful ...
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... chief found that he had mysteriously dis- appeared , he asked where he was . The Spaniards replied that their captain had gone on a journey to heaven ; but that he would soon return . What the chief said we are not told ; but he doubt ...
... chief found that he had mysteriously dis- appeared , he asked where he was . The Spaniards replied that their captain had gone on a journey to heaven ; but that he would soon return . What the chief said we are not told ; but he doubt ...
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... chief families east of the Mississippi were : I. The Algonquins , extending from that river to the Atlantic . II . The Iroquois , occupying the greater part of what is now the State of New York , and surrounded by Algonquins . III . The ...
... chief families east of the Mississippi were : I. The Algonquins , extending from that river to the Atlantic . II . The Iroquois , occupying the greater part of what is now the State of New York , and surrounded by Algonquins . III . The ...
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... chief , but the chief had little real power . All important matters were settled by councils . The records of these councils were kept in a peculiar manner . The Indian could not write , but he could make pictures that often did as well ...
... chief , but the chief had little real power . All important matters were settled by councils . The records of these councils were kept in a peculiar manner . The Indian could not write , but he could make pictures that often did as well ...
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