Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico: N-Z

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Frederick Webb Hodge
U.S. Government Printing Office, 1910 - 31 páginas
 

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Página 330 - Pushmataha was a warrior of great distinction. He was wise in council, eloquent in an extraordinary degree, and on all occasions, and under all circumstances, the white man's friend.
Página 218 - President to execute the powers conferred by this act he is hereby authorized, at his discretion, to organize a board of commissioners, to consist of not more than ten persons, to .be selected by him from men eminent for their intelligence and philanthropy, to serve without pecuniary compensation, who may, under his direction, exercise joint control with the Secretary of the Interior over the disbursement of the appropriations made by this act...
Página 392 - Roanoak, distant from the harbour by which we entered, seven leagues: and at the north end thereof was a village of nine houses, built of cedar and fortified round about with sharp trees to keep out their enemies, and the entrance into it made like a turnpike, very artificially.
Página 273 - The poison, however, had left its mark upon him. The skin rotted and fell off until it left the bones and sinews bare, with a horrible smell. The wound was in the wrist, and the poison had reached as far as the shoulder when he was cured. The skin on all this fell off The army proceeded without taking any rest, because the provisions had begun to fail by this time.
Página 107 - The Commissioner of Indian Affairs shall, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior and "agreeable to such regulations as the President may prescribe, have the management of all Indian affairs and of all matters arising out of Indian relations.
Página 362 - What have our brothers done more than the rulers of your people have done? and what crime has this man committed by executing, in a summary way, the laws of his country, and the injunctions of his God?
Página 362 - And what crime has this man committed, by executing, in a summary way, the laws of his country, and the command of the Great Spirit?4 Red Jacket's speech, in defense of "tradition...
Página 362 - ... religion. Red Jacket can never be the friend of such men. The Indians can never be civilized — they are not like white men. If they were raised among the white people, and learned to work, and to read as they do, it would only make their situations worse.
Página 334 - Voyages, p. 21, Albany, 1861. "The old village of the Akansea, where they formerly received the late Father Marquette, and which is discernible now only by the outworks (dehors), there being no cabins left.
Página 422 - The wind beginning to rise a little, we cast a horseman's coat about him ; for he was stark naked, only a leather about his waist, with a fringe about a span long or little more.

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