Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 54266-h.htm or 54266-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/54266/54266-h/54266-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/54266/54266-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/histindiansnorth00goodrich HISTORY OF THE INDIANS, OF NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA. By the Author of Peter Parley’S Tales. Boston: Bradbury, Soden & Co. M DCCC XLIV. [Illustration] Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1844, by S. G. GOODRICH, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. Stereotyped by Metcalf, Keith & Nichols, Cambridge. Wm. A. Hall & Co., Printers, 12 Water Street. CONTENTS. PAGE INTRODUCTION 5 ORIGIN OF THE ABORIGINES 10 CLASSIFICATION OF THE INDIANS 16 THE ABORIGINES OF THE WEST INDIES 22 THE CARIBS 34 EARLY MEXICAN HISTORY 41 MEXICO, FROM THE ARRIVAL OF CORTÉS 54 THE EMPIRE OF THE INCAS 80 THE ARAUCANIANS 98 SOUTHERN INDIANS OF SOUTH AMERICA 112 INDIANS OF BRAZIL 121 THE INDIANS OF FLORIDA 129 THE INDIANS OF VIRGINIA 147 THE SOUTHERN INDIANS 160 INDIANS OF NEW ENGLAND 170 THE FIVE NATIONS, &c. 192 THE SIX NATIONS 205 WESTERN INDIANS EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI 219 WESTERN AND SOUTHERN INDIANS 233 VARIOUS TRIBES OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN INDIANS 241 THE INDIANS WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI 256 PRESENT CONDITION OF THE WESTERN INDIANS IN THE UNITED STATES 287 THE PROSPECTS OF THE WESTERN TRIBES 297 [Illustration] HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. INTRODUCTION.