Indian Traits: Being Sketches of the Manners, Customs, and Character of the North American Natives, Volume 2J. & J. Harper, 1833 |
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... - Of Skirmishes on the Frontiers - 15 4 CHAPTER III . The Dancing of the Indians - Dancing - scene among the Delawares - The Assineboins - The Chippewas - The A 2 Missasagas - The Virginians - The Western Indians- The Fire.
... - Of Skirmishes on the Frontiers - 15 4 CHAPTER III . The Dancing of the Indians - Dancing - scene among the Delawares - The Assineboins - The Chippewas - The A 2 Missasagas - The Virginians - The Western Indians- The Fire.
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... Fire , Begging , Pipe , Discovery , and War Dances- Religious Dances - Indian Music CHAPTER IV . Government of the Indians - Nature of the Chief's Authority --- Anecdotes illustrating its Exercise - Authority of the Council - Individual ...
... Fire , Begging , Pipe , Discovery , and War Dances- Religious Dances - Indian Music CHAPTER IV . Government of the Indians - Nature of the Chief's Authority --- Anecdotes illustrating its Exercise - Authority of the Council - Individual ...
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... fire of the Chippewas - Canadian Customs of Mourning - Customs of other Northern Tribes - Pres- ents to the Dead- " Feasts with the Dead " -Anecdotes- Account of the Burial of the Wife of Shingask - Orator- ical Honours paid to the Dead ...
... fire of the Chippewas - Canadian Customs of Mourning - Customs of other Northern Tribes - Pres- ents to the Dead- " Feasts with the Dead " -Anecdotes- Account of the Burial of the Wife of Shingask - Orator- ical Honours paid to the Dead ...
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... fire , or on the earth . It is These feasts differ according to circumstan- ces . Sometimes each man's allowance is no more than he can despatch in a couple of hours . At other times the quantity is sufficient to supply each of them ...
... fire , or on the earth . It is These feasts differ according to circumstan- ces . Sometimes each man's allowance is no more than he can despatch in a couple of hours . At other times the quantity is sufficient to supply each of them ...
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... fire ; and each person , before he begins to eat , cuts off a small piece of meat , which he casts into the flame , as a sacrifice to some spirit whose favor they wish to conciliate . They have also feasts made after dreaming something ...
... fire ; and each person , before he begins to eat , cuts off a small piece of meat , which he casts into the flame , as a sacrifice to some spirit whose favor they wish to conciliate . They have also feasts made after dreaming something ...
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Indian Traits: Being Sketches of the Manners, Customs, and ..., Volume 2 Benjamin Bussey Thatcher Visualização integral - 1844 |
Indian Traits: Being Sketches of the Manners, Customs, and ..., Volume 2 Benjamin Bussey Thatcher Visualização integral - 1833 |
Indian Traits: Being Sketches of the Manners, Customs, and ..., Volume 2 Benjamin Bussey Thatcher Visualização integral - 1833 |
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Página 34 - Run for your life," cried the chief to him, " and don't talk now of building houses !" But the poor fellow still insisted, begging and praying to the Captain, who at last finding his exhortations vain, and fearing the consequences, turned his back upon him, and would not hear him any longer. Our mason now began to run, but received many a hard blow, one of which nearly brought him to the ground, which, if he had fallen, would at once have decided his fate.
Página 112 - By the sixth day he was able to walk about ; and within a month he grew quite well, except that he was troubled with a cough. Twenty years after his misfortune he was still alive. Another man, being on his wintering-ground, and from home, hunting beaver, was crossing a lake, covered with smooth ice, with two beavers on his back, when his foot slipped, and he fell. At his side, in his belt, was his axe, the blade of which came upon the joint of his wrist ; and, the weight of his body coming upon the...