The North American Indian. Volume 19 - The Indians of Oklahoma. The Wichita. The southern Cheyenne. The Oto. The Comanche. The Peyote cult. ~ Paperbound

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Illinois Confederacy
15
Delawares
21
THE
25
Kiowa
29
The Strong Man Who Overcame the Witches
58
Surroundthefire Ceremony
72
Buffalobundle Ceremony
80
Mythology
85
Band and Society Legends
135
General Description
151
Genesis of the Clans
158
The Buffalo Owl Pigeon and Snake Clans
162
Why the Buzzard is Not Good to
171
Why Manyikathe is Called the Thief
176
The Man and the
192
Peyote Ritual
203

The Man Who Married a Fish
98
The Man Who Was Transformed into a Snake
104
Origin of the Fortyfour Chiefsticks and the Election
110
Peyote Experiences
214
TRIBAL SUMMARY
223
VOCABULARIES
230

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หน้า 6 - Systematic hunts were made by the same men for Indian graves, to rob them of the silver pendants and other valuables deposited with the dead. A Georgia volunteer, afterward a colonel in the Confederate service, said: '• I fought through the civil war and have seen men shot to pieces and slaughtered by thousands, but the Cherokee removal was the crudest work I ever knew.
หน้า 8 - Yamasee and other conquered tribes, Yuchi, and a large negro element from runaway slaves. When Hawkins wrote, in 1799, they had 7 towns, which, increased to 20 or more as they overran the peninsula. While still under Spanish rule the Seminole became involved in hostility with the United States, particularly in the War of 1812, and again in 1817-18, the latter being known as the first Seminole war. This war was quelled by Gen. Andrew Jackson, who invaded Florida with a force exceeding 3,000 men, as...
หน้า 6 - The history of this Cherokee removal of 1838, as gleaned by the author from the lips of actors in the tragedy, may well exceed in weight of grief and pathos any other passage in American history. Even the much-sung exile of the Acadians falls far behind it in its sum of death and misery. Under Scott's orders the troops were disposed at various points throughout the Cherokee country, where stockade forts were erected for gathering in and holding the Indians preparatory to removal (43).
หน้า 22 - ... 1789, by permission of the Spanish government, a part of them removed to Missouri, and afterward to Arkansas, together with a band of Shawnee.
หน้า 26 - Missouri river, the whole comprising the larger part of what is now the state of Missouri and the northern part of Arkansas. The territory remaining to them, all of the present state of Oklahoma north of the Canadian and Arkansas rivers, was still further reduced by the provisions of treaties at...

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