Lives of Famous Indian Chiefs / From Cofachiqui, the Indian Princess, and Powhatan; down to and including Chief Joseph and Geronimo. Also an answer, from the latest research, of the query, Whence came the Indian? Together with a number of thrillingly interesting Indian stories and anecdotes from history

Historian, Lecturer, and Author of The White Side of a Black Subject (out of print after twelve editions) and A New Negro for a New Century, which has reached a circulation of nearly a hundred thousand copies.
PUBLISHED BY
Brady Block, Aurora, Ill.
Copyrighted in 1906 by American Indian Historical Publishing Co., Aurora, Illinois.
All rights of every kind reserved.
PRINTING AND BINDING BY THE HENRY O. SHEPARD CO. ENGRAVING BY THE INLAND-WALTON CO. CHICAGO.
Who has observed closely and recorded justly the character of the Red Man, and who, in the words of Chief Quanah Parker, is the Indian's President as well as the white man's, this volume is respectfully dedicated by
We do not propose to apologize for writing this book, for the reasons that those who approve would not consider it necessary and those who oppose would not accept the apology. Therefore, we can only offer the same explanation as that made twenty-four centuries ago by the Father of History when he said: To rescue from oblivion the noble deeds of those who have gone before, I, Herodotus of Halicarnassus, write this chronicle.
We deem it well, however, to mention a few of the many reasons which impelled us to attempt the somewhat laborious but congenial task of preparing this work.
First of all, we were gratified and inspired by the kind reception accorded our first literary venture, The White Side of a Black Subject, which is now out of print after reaching twelve editions. Added to this was the still more generous treatment of our second production, A New Negro for a New Century. Nearly a hundred thousand copies of this book have been sold up to date, and the demand is still increasing.
Having done what we could to vindicate the Afro-American, we next began to consider the First American, when by chance a copy of Thatcher's Indian Biography fell into our hands. We read this book with much interest, and were impressed with two facts. First of all, we noticed that while the author gave the lives of a few chiefs well known to this generation, he filled the book up with village or sub chiefs, of whom even historians of this age never heard. Then, too, the book in question was seventy-four years old.