PUBLISHER'S NOTE

This collection of Indian stories is the first in a series of volumes of historic tales retold from "St. Nicholas."

The books do not pretend to give anything like connected history, but by means of the story that thrills and interests they impart the real spirit of the times they depict in a way no youthful reader will be likely to forget.

Most of the stories in this book a boy of eight or nine can read for himself, and these are the years of his school life when he is being taught something of our colonial history and of the myths and legends of primitive man. Thus these stories, while delighting many children and tempting them to read "out of hours," will serve a very useful purpose.


CONTENTS

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Onatoga's Sacrifice John Dimitry[1]
Waukewa's Eagle James Buckham[10]
A Fourth of July Among the Indians W. P. Hooper[22]
A Boy's Visit To Chief Joseph Erskine Wood[43]
Little Moccasin's Ride on The Thunder-Horse Colonel Guido Ilges[54]
The Little First Man and the Little First Woman William M. Cary[74]
Fun Among the Red Boys Julian Ralph[87]
The Children of Zuñi Maria Brace Kimball[100]
The Indian Girl and Her Messenger-bird George W. Ranck[112]
How the Stone-age Children Played Charles C. Abbott[115]
Games and Sports of the Indian Boy Dr. Charles Alexander Eastman[123]
An Old-time Thanksgiving M. Eloise Talbot[136]
Some Indian Dolls Olive Thorne Miller[155]
The Walking Purchase George Wheeler[159]
The First Americans F. S. Dellenbaugh[171]