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[Introduction,] 11


[CHAPTER I.]

Cofachiqui, The Indian Princess, 21

[
CHAPTER II.]

Powhatan, or Wah-Un-So-Na-Cook, 41


[CHAPTER III.]

Massasoit, The Friend of the Puritans, 65


[CHAPTER IV.]

King Philip, or Metacomet, The Last of the Wampanoaghs, 85


[CHAPTER V.]

Pontiac, The Red Napoleon, Head Chief of the Ottawas and Organizer of the First Great Indian Confederation,
121


[CHAPTER VI.]

Logan, or Tal-Ga-Yee-Ta, The Cayuga (Mingo) Chief, Orator and Friend of the White Man. Also a Brief Sketch of Cornstalk,
173


[CHAPTER VII.]

Captain Joseph Brant, or Thay-En-Da-Ne-Gea, Principal Sachem of the Mohawks and Head Chief of the Iroquois Confederation,
191


[CHAPTER VIII.]

Red Jacket, or Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, "The Keeper Awake." The Indian Demosthenes, Chief of the Senecas,
237


[CHAPTER IX.]

Little Turtle, or Michikiniqua, War Chief of the Miamis, and Conqueror of Harmar and St. Clair,
283


[CHAPTER X.]

Tecumseh, or "The Shooting Star," Famous War-chief of the Shawnees, Organizer of the Second Great Indian Confederation and General in the British Army in the War of 1812,
317


[CHAPTER XI.]

Black Hawk, or Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, and His War, 363


[CHAPTER XII.]

Shabbona, or Built Like a Bear, The White Man's Friend, a Celebrated Pottawatomie Chief,
401


[CHAPTER XIII.]

Sitting Bull, or Tatanka Yotanka, The Great Sioux Chief and Medicine Man,
443


[CHAPTER XIV.]

Chief Joseph, of the Nez Perces, or Hin-Mah-Too-Yah-Lat-Kekt, Thunder Rolling in the Mountains, The Modern Xenophon,
497


[CHAPTER XV.]

Geronimo, or Go-Yat-Thlay, The Yawner, The Renowned Apache Chief and Medicine Man,
529


[CHAPTER XVI.]

Quanah Parker, Head Chief of the Comanches, With, an Account of the Captivity of His Mother, Cynthia Anne Parker, Known as "The White Comanche,"
563


[CHAPTER XVII.]

A Sheaf of Good Indian Stories From History, 589


[CHAPTER XVIII.]

Indian Anecdotes and Incidents, Humorous and Otherwise, 673


[CHAPTER XIX.]

Whence Came the Aborigines of America? 721

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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1[Frontispiece.]
2[Cofachiqui, The Indian Princess,] 19
3[American Horse, Sioux Chief,] 29
4[Powhatan,] 39
5[Captain Smith and Pocahontas,] 49
6[Pocahontas, or Lady Rebecca,] 59
7[Ope-Chan-Ca-Nough,] 69
8[Massasoit and Pilgrims,] 79
9[Nellie Jumping Eagle,] 89
10[King Philip, or Metacomet,] 99
11 [Philip Rejecting Elliot's Preaching,] 109
12 [Pontiac, The Red Napoleon,] 119
13 [Montcalm at Massacre of Quebec,] 129
14 [Hollow-Horn Bear, Sioux Chief,] 139
15 [Major Campbell and Pontiac,] 149
16 [Hollow Horn,] 159
17 [Starved Rock,] 169
18 [Logan, The Mingo Orator,] 179
19 [Logan and the Two Hunters,] 189
20 [Joseph Brant, Mohawk Chief,] 199
21 [King Hendrick, Mohawk Chief,] 209
22 [Sir William Johnson and the Mohawks,] 219
23 [Leading Hawk,] 229
24 [Red Jacket, Seneca Chief and Orator,] 239
25 [Massacre at Wyoming,] 249
26 [Corn Planter, Seneca Chief,] 259
27 [Adolph Knock and Family,] 269
28 [Red Jacket Presenting Deer,] 279
29 [Little Turtle, Miami War-chief,] 289
30 [Little Turtle's Warriors Chasing St. Clair's Scout] 299
31 [Ouray, Late Principal Chief of Utes,] 309
32 [Tecumseh, The Noblest Indian of Them All,] 319
33 [Tecumseh Rebuking Proctor,] 329
34 [The Prophet, Brother of Tecumseh,] 339
35 [Red Cloud, Noted Sioux Chief,] 349
36 [Death of Tecumseh,] 359
37 [Black Hawk, Sac and Fox Chief,] 369
38 [Buffalo Hunt,] 379
39 [Keokuk, Sac and Fox Chief,] 389
40 [Shabbona, "The White Man's Friend," Pottawatomie Chief,] 399
41 [Fort Dearborn Massacre,] 409
42 [Annie Red Shirt, Indian Beauty,] 419
43 [Waubonsie, Pottawatomie Chief,] 429
44 [Plan of Sitting Bull's Tepee,] 440
45 [Sitting Bull, Noted Sioux Chief and Medicine Man,] 441
46 [Sitting Bull's Family,] 451
47 [Chief Gall, Sioux War-chief,] 461
48 [Chief One Bull and Family,] 471
49 [Rain-In-The-Face, Noted Sioux Warrior,] 481
50 [Sitting Bull's Autograph,] 486
51 [Indian Village,] 491
52 [Chief Joseph, of the Nez Perces, Greatest Indian Since Tecumseh,] 501
53 [Buckskin Charlie, War-chief of Utes,] 511
54 ["Comes Out Holy," Sioux,] 521
55 [Geronimo, Noted Apache Chief and Medicine Man,] 531
56 [Group of Apaches,] 541
57 [Naiche, Apache Chief,] 551
58 [Quanah Parker, Comanche Chief,] 561
59 [Quanah Parker and Two of His Wives,] 571
60 [Comanche Indians Stealing Cows,] 581
61 [Needle Parker, Indian Beauty,] 591
62 [The Mohawk's Last Arrow,] 601
63 [Lone Wolf, Orator and Principal Chief of the Kiowas,] 611
64 [Kiowa Annie, Noted Indian Beauty,] 621
65 [Se-Quo-Yah, The Cherokee Cadmus,] 631
66 [Big Tree, Second Kiowa Chief,] 641
67 [Satanta, Kiowa Chief and Noted Orator,] 651
68 [Chief Simon Pokagon, Pottawatomie,] 661
69 [Dr. Charles A. Eastman,] 671
70 [Dr. Carlos Montezuma,] 681
71 [The Last Shot,] 691
72 [Chief Charles Journey Cake,] 701
73 [Indian Maiden in Japanese Costume,] 713
74 [Japanese Maiden in Indian Costume,] 725
75 [Map Showing How America Was Peopled,] 737
76 [Japanese Man in Garb of Indian,] 749
77 [Indian Man in Japanese Garb,] 761

[INTRODUCTION.]

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.

Thatcher's biography tended to create an appetite for that kind of literature, and we inquired for other lives of noted Indians, but, strange to say, could only hear of one other book devoted to that subject. This was a small volume written by S. G. Goodrich, sixty-two years ago, and he gave only short sketches of perhaps half a dozen Indians of the United States, but the greater portion of the contents was devoted to the Indians of Peru and Mexico.