Our Wild Indians |
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Author:
| Dodge, Richard Irving |
ISBN: | 978-0-217-02740-3 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2009 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $24.76 |
Book Description:
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER H. BEYOND THE MISSISSIPPI?THE LANGUAGE, NUMBERS, HABITS, ETC., OF THE INDIANS OF THE GREAT WEST. Origin of the American Indians ? The Defect of Writers on the Indians ? Wonderful Diversity of the Indian Language ? Curious Facts and Tendencies?The Effect of War ? Stupendous Vanity?Invention of...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER H. BEYOND THE MISSISSIPPI?THE LANGUAGE, NUMBERS, HABITS, ETC., OF THE INDIANS OF THE GREAT WEST. Origin of the American Indians ? The Defect of Writers on the Indians ? Wonderful Diversity of the Indian Language ? Curious Facts and Tendencies?The Effect of War ? Stupendous Vanity?Invention of Dialects ? The Passion for War ?The Crafty and Bloodthirsty. Apaches ? The Cheyennes and Arrapahoes ? A Marvellous Alliance ? The Sign Language ? Estimates of Population ? Superstitious Dread of being Counted ? Indian Extermination ? Nomadic Proclivities ? The Winter Encampment ? Home Attachments ? Love for an Old Encampment ? Cherished Memories?Home Sickness ? Mental Peculiarities ? Acute Perceptions?Til-Directed Efforts ? Indian Schools ? Indian Orators ? How they Rehearse their Speeches ? Swaying a Savage Audieuce. discussion of the origin of the American Indians is out of place and unnecessary, until scientific men have finally agreed as to the origin of the human race. Suffice to say here that the Indian is, to my mind, an evidence of the unity of races. Wherever we find them, savages have something in common each with the other, and the most civilized races have not so far outgrown their ancestry as to have entirely gotten rid of every savage trait. Supposing the Western continent to have been originally uninhabited by man, there is no physical or CATLIN. 43 geographical reason why it should not have been peopled from Asia or elsewhere. Even before the days of David, people went down to the sea in ships; the winds blew then as now, and a succession of adverse storms might have peopled America, from any one of the earlier maritime nations of the Eastern world. Whether the very many customs which the Indians have in common with the ancient...