American IndiansD.C. Heath & Company, 1898 - 227 pages |
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Algonkin altar animal arrows Aztecs baby beads bear Blackfeet blankets body bone boys buffalo built California called camp canoes Cañon carved Catlin cave ceremony Cherokees chief cliff Coahuilla colors corn Creeks curious dancers dead dress ethnologist feathers federacy feet fire fish four front GEORGE CATLIN grave ground Haida hand head horse hundred hunting Indians Iroquois killed language Lenape lived Mandans Mary Mary Jemison medicine Mexico moccasins Moki mounds mountain Northwest Coast Ojibwa Oneida Onondagas oolachen ornaments painted Pani persons poles priests Pueblos Queen Charlotte Islands raven River rubbed ruins sacred Sacs and Foxes Shaman shell side Siouan Sioux skin smoke snake dance sometimes spirits square sticks stone story sun dance things Tirawa Tlingit to-day told took totem totem post town tribes usually village walls wampum warriors woman women wood young Zuñi
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Page 120 - Brother, listen to what we say. There was a time when our forefathers owned this great island. Their seats extended from the rising to the setting sun. The Great Spirit had made it for the use of Indians.
Page 121 - The white people had now found our country, tidings were carried back, and more came amongst us ; yet we did not fear them, we took them to be friends ; they called us brothers ; we believed them, and gave them a larger seat At length their uumbere had greatly increased ; they wanted more land ; they wanted our country.
Page 121 - Their numbers were small. They found friends and not enemies. They told us they had fled from their own country for fear of wicked men, and had come here to enjoy their religion. They asked for a small seat. We took pity on them, granted their request, and they sat down amongst us. We gave them corn and meat.
Page 121 - But an evil day came upon us. Your forefathers crossed the great waters, and landed on this island. Their numbers were small. They found friends and not enemies. They told us they had fled from their own country for fear of wicked men, and come here to enjoy their religion.
Page 141 - The natives carry on considerable trade with the adjoining states; some of them export cotton in boats down the Tennessee to the Mississippi, and down that river to New Orleans. Apple and peach orchards are quite common, and gardens are cultivated, and much attention paid to them.
Page 143 - ... the emigration must be commenced in haste, but, I hope, without disorder. I have no power, by granting a farther delay, to correct the error that you have committed. The full moon of May is already on the wane, and before another shall have passed away, every Cherokee man, woman, and child, in those states, must be in motion to join their brethren in the far West.
Page 123 - Our family, as usual, was busily employed about their common business. Father was shaving an axe-helve at the side of the house; mother was making preparations for breakfast; — my two oldest brothers were at work near the barn; and the little ones, with myself, and the woman and her three children, were in the house. Breakfast was not yet ready, when we were alarmed by the discharge of a number of guns, that seemed to be near. Mother and the women before mentioned, almost fainted at the report,...
Page 121 - The white people had now found our country. Tidings were carried back and more came amongst us. Yet, we did not fear them. We took them to be friends. They called us brothers. We believed them and gave them a larger seat. At length, their numbers had greatly increased. They wanted more land; they wanted our country. Our eyes were opened and our minds became uneasy. Wars took place. Indians were hired to fight against Indians and many of our people were destroyed.
Page 121 - Brother, our seats were once large, and yours were very small; you have now become a great people, and we have scarcely a place left to spread our blankets; you have got our country, but are not satisfied; you want to force your religion upon us. Brother, continue to listen. You say that you are sent to instruct us how to worship the Great Spirit agreeably to His mind, and if we do not take hold of the religion which you White people teach, we shall be unhappy hereafter; you say that you are right,...
Page 143 - Cherokees — The President of the United States has sent me, with a powerful army, to cause you', in obedience to the treaty of 1835, to join that part of your people who are already established in prosperity on the other side of the Mississippi. Unhappily, the two years which were allowed for the purpose, you have suffered to pass away without following, and without making any preparation to follow, and now, or by the time...