History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez Indians ...Headlight printing house, 1899 - 607 páginas |
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... once adopt our principles and institutions , to them a chaos of contradictions . Yet we charge them with the utter want of those virtues that dis- tinguish man from the brute , though well knowing the falsity of the accusation by the ...
... once adopt our principles and institutions , to them a chaos of contradictions . Yet we charge them with the utter want of those virtues that dis- tinguish man from the brute , though well knowing the falsity of the accusation by the ...
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... once directed the attention of Pedro Gutierrez , who also saw it . On the next day , at 2 a . m . , the distant boom of a gun was heard rolling along on the smooth surface of the tranquil waters , the first that ever broke the solitude ...
... once directed the attention of Pedro Gutierrez , who also saw it . On the next day , at 2 a . m . , the distant boom of a gun was heard rolling along on the smooth surface of the tranquil waters , the first that ever broke the solitude ...
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... once asked some particular warrior friend concerning the contents of his totem but was promptly refused with the reply : " You would not be any the wiser thereby . " Every warrior kept his Totem or " Medicine " about his person , by ...
... once asked some particular warrior friend concerning the contents of his totem but was promptly refused with the reply : " You would not be any the wiser thereby . " Every warrior kept his Totem or " Medicine " about his person , by ...
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... once , to accomplish it the second time was a more difficult task . His confidence was gone never again to be secured . I recollect a little incident of this nature among the Choctaws when living east of the Mississip- pi river . A ...
... once , to accomplish it the second time was a more difficult task . His confidence was gone never again to be secured . I recollect a little incident of this nature among the Choctaws when living east of the Mississip- pi river . A ...
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... once asked some particular warrior friend concerning the contents of his totem but was promptly refused with the reply : " You would not be any the wiser thereby . " Every warrior kept his Totem or " Medicine " about his person , by ...
... once asked some particular warrior friend concerning the contents of his totem but was promptly refused with the reply : " You would not be any the wiser thereby . " Every warrior kept his Totem or " Medicine " about his person , by ...
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History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Natchez Indians Horatio Bardwell Cushman Vista previa limitada - 1999 |
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Página 65 - River; then, following the course of the Rio Roxo westward to the degree of longitude 100 west from London and 23 from Washington; then, crossing the said Red River, and running thence, by a line due north, to the river Arkansas; thence, following the course of the southern bank of the Arkansas, to its source, in latitude 42 north; and thence, by that parallel of latitude, to the South Sea.
Página 267 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, 'Logan is the friend of white...
Página 55 - For the benefit and comfort of the Indians, and for the prevention of injuries or oppressions on the part of the citizens or Indians, the United States in Congress assembled shall have the sole and exclusive right of regulating the trade with the Indians, and managing all their affairs in such manner as they think proper.
Página 267 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it: I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country, I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
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Página 303 - PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO ALL WHO SHALL SEE THESE PRESENTS, GREETING : Know ye that, reposing special trust and confidence in the...
Página 59 - States, to promote the civilization of the Choctaw Indians, by the establishment of schools amongst them; and to perpetuate them as a nation, by exchanging, for a small part of their land here, a country beyond the Mississippi River, where all, who live by hunting and will not work, may be collected and settled together.
Página 65 - Line; and, in like manner, His Catholic Majesty cedes to the said United States, all his rights, claims, and pretensions to any Territories, East and North of the said Line, and, for himself, his heirs and successors, renounces all claim to the said Territories forever.
Página 157 - In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
Página 64 - Sabine, in the sea, continuing north, along the western bank of that river, to the 32d degree of latitude; thence, by a line due north, to the degree of latitude where it strikes the Rio Roxo of Nachitoches, or Red River; then following the course of the Rio Roxo westward, to the degree of longitude 100 west from London and 23 from Washington ; then, crossing the said Red River, and running thence by a line due north, to the river Arkansas...