Produced by Roger Burch with scans from the Internet Archive. {Transcriber's Note: Quotation marks have been standardized to modern usage. Footnotes have been placed to immediately follow the paragraphs referencing them. Transcriber's notes are in curly braces; square brackets and parentheses indicate original content.} {Illustration: Frontispiece--Norman B. Wood.} LIVES of FAMOUS INDIAN CHIEFS FROM COFACHIQUI, THE INDIAN PRINCESS, AND POWHATAN; DOWN TO AND INCLUDING CHIEF JOSEPH AND GERONIMO. Also an answer, from the latest research, of the query, WHENCE CAME THE INDIAN? Together with a number of thrillingly interesting INDIAN STORIES AND ANECDOTES FROM HISTORY * * * * * COPIOUSLY AND SPLENDIDLY ILLUSTRATED, IN PART, BY OUR SPECIAL ARTIST. * * * * * By NORMAN B. WOOD Historian, Lecturer, and Author of "The White Side of a Black Subject" (out of print after twelve editions) and "A New Negro for a New Century," which has reached a circulation of nearly a _hundred thousand copies._ {Illustration: Two Indians in a canoe.} PUBLISHED BY AMERICAN INDIAN HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY Brady Block, Aurora, Ill. Copyrighted in 1906 by American Indian Historical Publishing Co., Aurora, Illinois. * * * * * All rights of every kind reserved. {Illustration: seal.} PRINTING AND BINDING BY THE HENRY O. SHEPARD CO. ENGRAVING BY THE INLAND-WALTON CO. CHICAGO. TO THEODORE ROOSEVELT, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, Who has observed closely and recorded justly the character of the Red Man, and who, in the words of Chief Quanah Parker, "is the Indian's President as well as the white man's," this volume is respectfully dedicated by THE AUTHOR. CONTENTS * * * * * page Introduction, 11 CHAPTER I. Cofachiqui, The Indian Princess, 21 CHAPTER II. Powhatan, or Wah-Un-So-Na-Cook, 41 CHAPTER III. Massasoit, The Friend of the Puritans, 65 CHAPTER IV.