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Illustrations of the manners, customs, & condition of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 2): With letters and notes, written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existingCatlin, George

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Illustrations of the manners, customs, & condition of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 2): With letters and notes, written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existing

Name: Illustrations of the manners, customs, & condition of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 2): With letters and notes, written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existing
Author: Catlin, George

Catlin, George

Indians of North America

Author’s return from the Côteau des Prairies—“Laque du Cygne,” p.
  207, pl. 276.—Sioux taking Muskrats, pl. 277, same page.—Gathering
  wild rice, p. 208, pl. 278.—View on St. Peters river, p. 208, pl.
  279.—The Author and his companion embark in a log canoe at “Traverse
  de Sioux”—Arrive at Fall of St. Anthony, p. 208.—Lake Pepin—Prairie
  du Chien—Cassville—Rock Island, p. 209.—Sac and Fox Indians,
  portraits of, p. 210, pls. 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287,
  289.—Ke-o-kuk on horseback, p. 212, pl. 290.—Slave-dance, p. 213, pl.
  291.—“Smoking horses,” p. 213, pl. 292.—Begging-dance, p. 214, pl.
  293.—Sailing in canoes—Discovery-dance—Dance to the Berdashe, p. 214,
  pls. 294, 295, 296.—Dance to the medicine of the brave, p. 215, pl.
  297.—Treaty with Sacs and Foxes—Stipulations of, p. 215, and 216.


                             LETTER—No. 57.

Fort Moultrie.—Seminolees, p. 218.—Florida war—Prisoners
  of war—Os-ce-o-la, p. 219. pl. 298.—Cloud, King
  Phillip—Co-ee-ha-jo—Creek Billy, Mick-e-no-pah, p. 220, pls. 299 to
  305.—Death of Os-ce-o-la, p. 221.


                             LETTER—No. 58.

North Western Frontier—General remarks on, p. 223.—General appearance
  and habits of the North American Indians, p. 225 to 230.—Jewish
  customs and Jewish resemblances, p. 232, 233.—Probable origin of the
  Indians, p. 234.—Languages, p. 236.—Government, p. 239.—Cruelties
  of punishments, p. 240.—Indian queries on white man’s modes, p.
  241.—Modes of war and peace, p. 242.—Pipe of peace dance, p.
  242.—Religion, p. 242–3.—Picture writing, songs and totems, p.
  246, pls. 306, 307, 308, 309, 310, 311.—Policy of removing the
  Indians, p. 249.—Trade and small-pox, the principal destroyers of
  the Indian tribes, p. 250.—Murder of the Root Diggers and Riccarees,
  252.—Concluding remarks, p. 254 to 256.


                              APPENDIX A.

Account of the destruction of the Mandans, p. 257.—Author’s reasons for
  believing them to have perpetuated the remains of the Welsh Colony
  established by Prince Madoc.


                              APPENDIX B.

Vocabularies of several different Indian languages, shewing their
  dissimilarity, p. 262.


                              APPENDIX C.

Comparison of the Indians’ _original_ and _secondary_ character, p. 266.




                           LETTERS AND NOTES
                                 ON THE
                        NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS.


                             LETTER—No. 32.

                  FORT LEAVENWORTH, _LOWER MISSOURI_.

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