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Title: Boys' Book of Indian Warriors
and Heroic Indian Women

Author: Edwin L. Sabin

Release Date: January 30, 2010 [EBook #31131]

Language: English

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[Frontispiece: Chief Joseph. Courtesy of The American Bureau of
Ethnology.]

BOYS' BOOK OF

INDIAN WARRIORS

AND

HEROIC INDIAN WOMEN

BY

EDWIN L. SABIN

PHILADELPHIA

GEORGE W. JACOBS & COMPANY

PUBLISHERS

_Copyright, 1918, by_

_George W. Jacobs & Company_

_All rights reserved_

_Printed in U. S. A._

Alas! for them, their day is o'er,
Their fires are out on hill and shore;
No more for them the wild deer bounds,
The plough is on their hunting grounds;
The pale man's axe rings through their woods,
The pale man's sail skims o'er their floods,
Their pleasant springs are dry;
* * * * * *

CHARLES SPRAGUE.

FOREWORD

When the white race came into the country of the red race, the red race
long had had their own ways of living and their own code of right and
wrong. They were red, but they were thinking men and women, not mere
animals.

The white people brought their ways, which were different from the
Indians' ways. So the two races could not live together.

To the white people, many methods of the Indians were wrong; to the
Indians, many of the white people's methods were wrong. The white
people won the rulership, because they had upon their side a
civilization stronger than the loose civilization of the red people,
and were able to carry out their plans.

The white Americans formed one nation, with one language; the red
Americans formed many nations, with many languages.

The Indian fought as he had always fought, and ninety-nine times out of
one hundred he firmly believed that he was enforcing the right. The
white man fought after his own custom and sometimes after the Indian's
custom also; and not infrequently he knew that he wa