The American Indians / Their History, Condition and Prospects, from Original Notes and Manuscripts
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It is now twenty-six years since I first entered the area of the Mississippi valley, with the view of exploring its then but imperfectly known features, geographical and geological. Twenty-two years of this period have elapsed since I entered on the duties of an Executive Agent for the United States Government in its higher northern latitudes among the Indian tribes in the west. Having devoted so large a portion of my life in an active sphere, in which the intervals of travel left me favourable opportunities of pursuing the languages and history of this branch of the race, it appears to be a just expectation, that, in sitting down to give some account of this people, there should be some preliminary remarks, to apprise the reader how and why it is, that his attention is recalled to a topic which he may have supposed to be well nigh exhausted. This it is proposed to do by some brief personal reminiscences, beginning at the time above alluded to.
The year 1814 constituted a crisis, not only in our political history, but also in our commercial, manufacturing, and industrial interests. The treaty of Ghent, which put a period to the war with England, was a blessing to many individuals and classes in America: but, in its consequences, it had no small share of the effects of a curse upon that class of citizens who were engaged in certain branches of manufactures. It was a peculiarity of the crisis, that these persons had been stimulated by double motives, to invest their capital and skill in the perfecting and establishment of the manufactories referred to, by the actual wants of the country and the high prices of the foreign articles. No pains and no cost had been spared, by many of them, to supply this demand; and it was another result of the times, that no sooner had they got well established, and were in the high road of prosperity than the peace came and plunged them headlong from the pinnacle of success. This blow fell heavier upon some branches than others. It was most fatal to those manufacturers who had undertaken to produce fabrics of the highest order, or which belong to an advanced state of the manufacturing prosperity of a nation. Be this as it may, however, it fell with crushing force upon that branch in which I was engaged. As soon as the American ports were opened to these fabrics, the foreign makers who could undersell us, poured in cargo on cargo; and when the first demands had been met, these cargoes were ordered to be sold at auction; the prices immediately fell to the lowest point, and the men who had staked in one enterprise their zeal, skill and money, were ruined at a blow.
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
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AMERICAN INDIANS.
THEIR HISTORY,
CONDITION AND PROSPECTS,
PERSONAL REMINISCENCES.
NO. II.
NO. III.
NO. IV.
NO. V.
SCENES AND ADVENTURES
IN THE OZARK MOUNTAINS.
PRELIMINARY REMARKS.
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
THE BIRD.
PERSONAL INCIDENTS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE INDIAN RACE, DRAWN FROM NOTES OF TRAVEL AND RESIDENCE IN THEIR TERRITORIES.
CHARACTER OF THE RED MAN OF AMERICA.
PERSONAL INCIDENTS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE RED RACE, DRAWN FROM NOTES OF RESIDENCE AND TRAVEL IN THE INDIAN TERRITORIES.
DOMESTIC CONDITION OF THE TRIBES AND CONSTITUTION OF THE INDIAN FAMILY.
THE MANITO TREE.
TALES OF A WIGWAM.
THE WHITE STONE CANOE.
THE LYNX AND THE HARE.
THE WORSHIP OF THE SUN.
SHINGEBISS.
EARLY INDIAN BIOGRAPHY.
PISKARET.
THE SAUSTAWRAÝTSEES,
EARLY SKETCHES OF INDIAN WOMEN.
WASBASHAS;
THE BOY WHO SET A SNARE FOR THE SUN;
AMPATA SAPA;
MUKAKEE MINDEMOEA;
THE TOAD-WOMAN.
BOSH-KWA-DOSH,
THE QUADRUPED WITH THE HAIR BLOWN OFF ITS SKIN.
MÄSH-KWA-SHA-KWONG,
WA-WA-BE-ZO-WIN,
THE SWING ON THE LAKE SHORE.
TAKOZID,
THE SHORT-FOOT.
MACHINITO, THE EVIL SPIRIT;
REPOSE OF THE SOUL.
THE LITTLE SPIRIT, OR BOY-MAN.
AN ODJIBWA FAIRY TALE.
AINGODON AND NAYWADAHA.
NARRATED FROM THE ORAL RELATION OF NABANOI, BY MR. GEORGE JOHNSTON.
SKETCHES OF THE LIVES OF
NOTED RED MEN AND WOMEN
MODE OF WRITING AN INDIAN LANGUAGE.
SKETCHES OF THE LIVES OF
NOTED RED MEN AND WOMEN,
THE RABID WOLF.
MOOWIS,
THE MAN MADE UP OF RAGS AND DIRT.
THE LONE LIGHTNING.
SKETCHES OF THE LIVES OF
NOTED RED MEN AND WOMEN,
RULING CHIEF OF THE MIAMIS.
THE MAGICIAN OF LAKE HURON.
CORN-PLANTING, AND ITS INCIDENTS.
CORN SONG.
TO HEALTH.
DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL MANNERS OF THE INDIANS, WHILE ON THEIR WINTERING GROUNDS.
PUGASAING;
THE GAME OF THE BOWL.
REVERENCE AND AFFECTION FOR PARENTS.
ANDAIG WEOS, OR CROWS-FLESH.
ORIGIN
HISTORY OF THE RACE.
TRADITIONS OF THE ARCTIDÉS.
HISTORICAL TRADITIONS OF THE CHIPPEWAS, ODJIBWAS, OR ODJIBWA-ALGONQUINS.
MYTHOLOGY, SUPERSTITIONS, AND RELIGION OF THE ALGONQUINS.
INDIAN MUSIC, SONGS, AND POETRY.
CHANT TO THE FIRE-FLY.
ETHNOLOGY.
ADVERTISEMENT.
A.
LANGUAGE.
LECTURES ON THE GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURE OF THE INDIAN LANGUAGE.
LECTURE III.
LECTURE IV.
THE ERA OF THE ARRIVAL OF THE FRENCH IN THE UPPER LAKES.
SHINGABA-WOSSINS, OR IMAGE STONES.
CHAPTER I.
GRAVE CREEK MOUND.
NAMES OF THE AMERICAN LAKES.
GEOGRAPHICAL TERMINOLOGY OF THE U. STATES,
LETTERS ON THE ANTIQUITIES OF THE WESTERN COUNTRY,
ERA OF THE SETTLEMENT OF DETROIT, AND THE STRAITS BETWEEN LAKES ERIE AND HURON.
THE CHOCTAW INDIANS.
SECOND VOYAGE.
THIRD VOYAGE.
THE INFLUENCE OF ARDENT SPIRITS ON THE CONDITION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS.
VENERABLE INDIAN CHIEF.
FATE OF THE RED RACE IN AMERICA:
NURSERY AND CRADLE SONGS OF THE FOREST.
CHAPTER XIX.
PAWNEE BARBARITY.
"THE LOON UPON THE LAKE."
ODJIBWA SONG.
NIAGARA, AN ALLEGORY.
A PSALM.
TRADITIONARY WAR SONGS
ODJIBWA ALGONQUINS.
DEATH SONG.
APPENDIX.
NARRATIVE
ALEXANDER HENRY, Esq.
NARRATIVE OF THE CAPTIVITY
FRANCES NOBLE.
NARRATIVE OF THE CAPTIVITY
QUINTIN STOCKWELL.
NARRATIVE OF THE CAPTIVITY
PETER WILLIAMSON.
NARRATIVE OF THE CAPTIVITY
JONATHAN CARVER.
NARRATIVE OF THE CAPTIVITY
MRS. SCOTT.
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