Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American IndiansJackson, William Henry
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Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians
Jackson, William Henry
Indians of North America -- Biography; Indians of North America -- Portraits -- Catalogs
The sub-chief of the tribe and chief of the Hot Creek band of the
Modocs; although hardly twenty-one years of age, is known throughout
Christendom as one of the most fearless warriors that the red men
ever sent to fight the pale-faces. He led the tribal forces that
suffered most severely. After the massacre he quarrelled with
Captain Jack; and, with "Bogus Charley," "Hooker Jim," and
"Steamboat Frank," became scout for General Jeff. C. Davis--which
led to the capture of the remnants of the Modoc army.
1010. STEAMBOAT FRANK.
One of the participators in the Modoc war, but after the massacre of
General Canby's party, left his tribe, and as a scout under General
Davis, did good service in securing the capture of the remnants of
Captain Jack's forces.
1011. WI-NE-MA, or _Tobey Riddle_.
The modern Pocahontas, who, at the risk of her own life, saved the
life of Col. A. B. Meacham, chairman of the Modoc peace commission,
at the Modoc massacre. The Oregon Statesman truly says: "A truer
heroine was never born in the American forest than the poor Indian
woman, Tobey Riddle, whose exertions to save one who had befriended
herself and people were no less daring and resolute than the
devotion of Pocahontas. We have nowhere read of a woman, white,
black, or red, performing an act of sublimer heroism than Tobey
Riddle, when, under suspicions of treachery, she returned to her
people in the rocks, with an almost absolute certainty of being
flayed alive. The description of that event is one of the finest
passages in Mr. Meacham's speech, and is a fitting tribute to the
courage and fidelity of his dusky, lion-hearted friend. The
gratitude, fidelity, and devotion of that poor squaw ought to
forever put to silence and shame those heartless savages who, in the
midst of a Christian civilization, are clamoring for the extinction
of a people whom God had planted where they were found." Tobey is 28
years of age, and the wife of Frank Riddle. She is honored by all
who know her.
3. ROGUE RIVERS.
The Rogue Rivers, so called from the stream upon which they have lived
for a long time, have also been known by the names Lototen or Tototutna.
As a general rule the coast tribes are inferior in physique and
character to the inland tribes, but an exception must be made in favor
of the Rogue Rivers. "The men are tall, muscular, and well made, the
women are short and some of them quite handsome, even in the Caucasian
sense of the word." They are associated with some 15 or 20 tribes or
bands at the Siletz agency, the whole numbering less than 1,500 souls.
_List of illustrations._
978. OL-HA-THE, or _George Harvey_.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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