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... known aboriginals were a superior people , especially those among the South American Indians , or those of Mexico and Peru . In Central America there have been found extensive remains of architecture and traces of civilization that one ...
... known aboriginals were a superior people , especially those among the South American Indians , or those of Mexico and Peru . In Central America there have been found extensive remains of architecture and traces of civilization that one ...
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... known ancestors . And this without undue praise , we think can be said of the Mohawks on their Canadian Reservation and of the Oneidas on theirs , near Green Bay , Wisconsin . Of the earliest history of the Oneidas we are baffled by ...
... known ancestors . And this without undue praise , we think can be said of the Mohawks on their Canadian Reservation and of the Oneidas on theirs , near Green Bay , Wisconsin . Of the earliest history of the Oneidas we are baffled by ...
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... known , as we have already said , that for more than a century before their discovery by the Dutch , they had been in possession of the beautiful lands , hills and valleys , lakes and streams , in the central part of the State of New ...
... known , as we have already said , that for more than a century before their discovery by the Dutch , they had been in possession of the beautiful lands , hills and valleys , lakes and streams , in the central part of the State of New ...
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... known that whatever event is untraceable to the Indians they invest it with some peculiar legend . And Clark relates one as handed down in connection with the formation of the League . We can give it but in part for it is quite lengthy ...
... known that whatever event is untraceable to the Indians they invest it with some peculiar legend . And Clark relates one as handed down in connection with the formation of the League . We can give it but in part for it is quite lengthy ...
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... known to him , who gave them his reason for coming and invited them to cross the lake and go up the Swa - geh river . " So well pleased was Ta - oun - ya - wat - ha with the coun- try , all the beautiful inland lakes and streams that he ...
... known to him , who gave them his reason for coming and invited them to cross the lake and go up the Swa - geh river . " So well pleased was Ta - oun - ya - wat - ha with the coun- try , all the beautiful inland lakes and streams that he ...
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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...
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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,
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