Sketches of the History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians: With a Plan for Their Melioration, Volumen 1 |
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We are not starving yet - we wish you to permit us to enjoy the chase until the
game of our country is exhausted until the wild animals become extinct . Let us
exhaust our present resources before you make us toil and interrupt our
happiness ...
We are not starving yet - we wish you to permit us to enjoy the chase until the
game of our country is exhausted until the wild animals become extinct . Let us
exhaust our present resources before you make us toil and interrupt our
happiness ...
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When we become hungry , naked when the game of our country becomes
exhausted , and misery encompasses our families , then , and not till then , do I
want those good people among us . Then they may lend us a helpang hand --
then ...
When we become hungry , naked when the game of our country becomes
exhausted , and misery encompasses our families , then , and not till then , do I
want those good people among us . Then they may lend us a helpang hand --
then ...
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This method of conveying instruction is , I believe , common to most Indian
nations ; it is so , at least , amongst all those that I have become acquainted with ,
and lays the foundation for that voluntary submission to their chiefs , for which
they are ...
This method of conveying instruction is , I believe , common to most Indian
nations ; it is so , at least , amongst all those that I have become acquainted with ,
and lays the foundation for that voluntary submission to their chiefs , for which
they are ...
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they ought to be removed ; besides we have been threatened by Mr . Hyde , who
came among us as a school - master and a teacher of our children , but has now
become a black - coat , and refused to teach them any more , that unless we ...
they ought to be removed ; besides we have been threatened by Mr . Hyde , who
came among us as a school - master and a teacher of our children , but has now
become a black - coat , and refused to teach them any more , that unless we ...
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... I have become heir to all his property . " The white man not being satisfied , and
renewing his demand , the Indian immediately took a coal from the fire - place ,
and made two striking figures on the door of the house , the one representing the
...
... I have become heir to all his property . " The white man not being satisfied , and
renewing his demand , the Indian immediately took a coal from the fire - place ,
and made two striking figures on the door of the house , the one representing the
...
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Página 154 - 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 men.
Página 43 - And it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite; My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
Página 131 - Indian frienrU residing thereon and united with them, in the free use and enjoyment thereof; but it shall remain theirs until they choose to sell the same to the people of the United States, who have the right to purchase.
Página 2 - Congress of the United States, entitled "an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned." And also to an act entitled "an act supplementary to an act entitled an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
Página 44 - Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought...
Página 43 - And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand ; and they came unto Balaam, and spake unto him the words of Balak. And he said unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the Lord shall speak unto me : and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.
Página 97 - They care for little, because they want but little ; and the reason is, a little contents them. In this they are sufficiently revenged on us. If they are ignorant of our pleasures, they are also free from our pains. They are not disquieted with bills of lading and exchange» nor perplexed with Chancery suits and Exchequer reckonings.
Página 154 - 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.
Página 92 - A multitude like which the populous north Poured never from her frozen loins to pass Rhene or the Danaw when her barbarous sons Came like a deluge on the south, and spread Beneath Gibraltar to the Libyan sands.
Página 98 - ... of body, that he will even sweat to a foam. The other part is their cantico, performed by round dances, sometimes words, sometimes songs, then shouts; two being in the middle that begin; and, by singing and drumming on a board, direct the chorus. Their postures in the dance are very antick and differing, but all keep measure. This is done with equal earnestness and labor, but great appearance of joy.
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| Título | Sketches of the History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians: With a Plan for Their Melioration, Volumen 1 Sketches of the History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians: With a Plan for Their Melioration, James Buchanan (British consul at New York.) |
| Autor | James Buchanan |
| Editor | W. Borradaile, 1824 |
| Procedencia del original | la Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 4 Oct 2007 |
| N.º de páginas | 156 páginas |
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