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Julia Keen Bloomfield. US 10 329.34 532261669 HARVARD COLLEGE DEC 9 1908 LIBRARY . Cright jund Copyright 1907 BY J. K. BLOOMFIELD . ΤΟ THE ONEIDAS , and their many loyal friends ,
Julia Keen Bloomfield. US 10 329.34 532261669 HARVARD COLLEGE DEC 9 1908 LIBRARY . Cright jund Copyright 1907 BY J. K. BLOOMFIELD . ΤΟ THE ONEIDAS , and their many loyal friends ,
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Julia Keen Bloomfield. ΤΟ THE ONEIDAS , and their many loyal friends , of the past as well as of the present ; and IN MEMORY OF BISHOP KEMPER who so ardently desired their history written ; also TO REV . F. W. MERRILL , for ten years ...
Julia Keen Bloomfield. ΤΟ THE ONEIDAS , and their many loyal friends , of the past as well as of the present ; and IN MEMORY OF BISHOP KEMPER who so ardently desired their history written ; also TO REV . F. W. MERRILL , for ten years ...
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... Friends , however , have been exceedingly kind in bringing me books of value from which to cull notes . Among them I ... friend on hearing of Bishop Kemper's earnest desire to have same account of these faithful Indians written and ...
... Friends , however , have been exceedingly kind in bringing me books of value from which to cull notes . Among them I ... friend on hearing of Bishop Kemper's earnest desire to have same account of these faithful Indians written and ...
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... Friends and Brothers , you are members of many tribes and nations . You have come here , many of you a great distance from your homes . We have convened for one common purpose to promote one common interest and that is to provide for ...
... Friends and Brothers , you are members of many tribes and nations . You have come here , many of you a great distance from your homes . We have convened for one common purpose to promote one common interest and that is to provide for ...
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... friendship . " Brothers , if we be united in this bond , the Great Spirit will smile upon us and we shall be free ... Friends and Brothers , -I have now fulfilled my mis- introduction among them of fire - water with all its IN CENTRAL ...
... friendship . " Brothers , if we be united in this bond , the Great Spirit will smile upon us and we shall be free ... Friends and Brothers , -I have now fulfilled my mis- introduction among them of fire - water with all its IN CENTRAL ...
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Page 135 - Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: 5. To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Page 83 - I am an aged hemlock. The winds of an hundred winters have whistled through my branches ; I am dead at the top. The generation to which I belonged, have run away, and left me ; why I live, the Great Good Spirit only knows. Fray to my Jesus, that I may have patience to wait for my appointed time to die.
Page 114 - Oneida immediately discharged his rifle and wounded him ; he fell. Throwing down his rifle and his blanket, the Indian plunged into the creek and swam across ; as soon as he had gained the opposite bank, he raised his tomahawk, and with a yell, sprang like a tiger upon his fallen foe. Butler supplicated, though in vain, for mercy ; the Oneida, with his uplifted axe, shouted in his broken English, 'Sherry Valley ! remember Sherry Valley...
Page 37 - And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of music. And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.
Page 119 - Your roads still traverse those same lines of communication which bound one part of the Long House to the other. Have we, the first holders of this prosperous region, no longer a share in your history?
Page 28 - ... property, and the infrequency of crime, dispensed with a vast amount of the legislation and machinery, incident to the protection of civilized society. While, therefore, it would be unreasonable to seek those high qualities of mind, which result from ages of cultivation, in such a rude state of existence, it would be equally irrational to regard the Indian character as devoid of all those higher characteristics which ennoble the human race. If he has never contributed a page to science, nor a...
Page 126 - If a white man, in travelling through our country, enters one of our cabins, we all treat him as I do you ; we dry him if he is wet, we warm him if he is cold, and give him meat and drink, that he may allay his...
Page 12 - Forest,' and whose home is everywhere, shall be the fourth nation, because of your superior cunning in hunting. "And you, SENEGAS, a people who live in the 'Open Country,
Page 98 - Was it an alien, a foreign nation, who had struck you, we should look into the matter. We hope, through the wise government and good pleasure of God, your distresses may be soon removed and the dark clouds be dispersed.