VI THE BLOODY BELT OF PONTIAC (1760-1763) When It Passed Among the Red Nations VII THE BLOODY BELT OF PONTIAC (1763-1769) How an Indian Girl Saved Fort Detroit VIII LOGAN THE GREAT MINGO (1725-1774) And the Evil Days that Came Upon Him IX CORNSTALK LEADS THE WARRIORS (1774-1777) How He and Logan Strove and Died X LITTLE TURTLE OF THE MIAMIS (1790-1791) He Wins Great Victories XI LITTLE TURTLE FEARS THE BIG WIND (1792-1812) And It Blows Him into Peace XII THE VOICE FROM THE OPEN DOOR (1805-1811) How It Traveled Through the Land XIII BRIGADIER GENERAL TECUMSEH (1812-1813) The Rise and Fall of a Star XIV THE RED STICKS AT HORSESHOE BEND (1813-1814) And the Wonderful Escape of Chief Menewa XV BLACK-HAWK THE SAC PATRIOT (1831-1838) The Indian Who Did Not Understand XVI THE BIRD-WOMAN GUIDE (1805-1806) Sacagawea Helps the White Men XVII THE LANCE OF MAHTOTOHPA (1822-1837) Hero Tales by Four Bears the Mandan XVIII A SEARCH FOR THE BOOK OF HEAVEN (1832) The Long Trail of the Pierced Noses XIX A TRAVELER TO WASHINGTON (1831-1835) Wijunjon, the "Big Liar" of the Assiniboins XX THE BLACKFEET DEFY THE CROWS (1834) "Come and Take Us!" XXI THE STRONG MEDICINE OF KONATE (1839) The Story of the Kiowa Magic Staff XXII RED CLOUD STANDS IN THE WAY (1865-1909) The Sioux Who Closed the Road of the Whites XXIII STANDING BEAR SEEKS A HOME (1877-1880) The Indian Who Won the White Man's Verdict XXIV SITTING BULL THE WAR MAKER (1876-1881) An Unconquered Leader XXV CHIEF JOSEPH GOES TO WAR (1877) And Out-Generals the United States Army XXVI THE GHOST DANCERS AND THE RED SOLDIERS (1889-1890) And Sitting Bull's Last Medicine LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Chief Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_ King Philip (missing from book) Pontiac, The Red Napoleon An Indian Brave Young Kiowa Girl (missing from book) Red Cloud Standing Bear Sitting Bull BOYS' BOOK OF INDIAN WARRIORS CHAPTER I PISKARET THE ADIRONDACK CHAMPION (1644) HOW HE SCOUTED AGAINST THE IROQUOIS It was in early spring, about the year 1644, that the warrior Piskaret of the Adirondack tribe of the Algonkins set forth alone from the island Allumette in the Ottawa River, Canada, to seek his enemies the Iroquois. For there long had been bitter, bitter war between the vengeful Algonkins[1] and the cruel Hurons on the one side, and the proud, even crueler Five Nations of the Iroquois on the other side. At first the Adirondacks had driven the Mohawks out of lower Canada and into northern New York; but of late all the Algonkins, all the Hurons, and the French garrisons their allies, had been unable to stem the tide of the fierce Iroquois, rolling back into Canada again.