Boys' Book of Indian Warriors - and Heroic Indian Women

Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

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Title: Boys' Book of Indian Warriors
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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BOYS' BOOK OF INDIAN WARRIORS ***
Produced by Al HainesChief Joseph.
Courtesy of The American Bureau of Ethnology.
BOYS' BOOK OF
INDIAN WARRIORS
AND
HEROIC INDIAN WOMEN
BYEDWIN 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 owncustom and sometimes after the Indian's custom also; and not infrequently he knew that
he was enforcing a wrong.
Had the Indians been enabled to act all together, they would have held their land, just
as the Americans of today would hold their land against the invader.
Of course, the Indian was not wholly right, and the white man was not wholly
wrong. There is much to be said, by either, and there were brave chiefs and warriors on
both sides.
This book is written according to the Indian's view of matters, so that we may be
better acquainted with his thoughts. The Indians now living do not apologize for what
their fathers and grandfathers did. A man who defends what he believes are his rights is
a patriot, whether they really are his rights, or not.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I PISKARET THE ADIRONDACK CHAMPION (1644)
How He Scouted Against the Iroquois
II PISKARET THE ADIRONDACK CHAMPION (1645-1647)
How He Brought Peace to the Forests
III OPECHANCANOUGH, SACHEM OF THE PAMUNKEYS
(1607-1644)
Who Fought at the Age of One Hundred
IV KING PHILIP THE WAMPANOAG (1662-1676)
The Terror of New England
V THE SQUAW SACHEM OF POCASSET (1675-1676)
And Canonchet of the Big Heart
VI THE BLOODY BELT OF PONTIAC (1760-1763)
When It Passed Among the Red Nations
VII THE BLOODY BELT OF PONTIAC (1763-1769)
How an Indian Girl Saved Fort Detroit
VIII LOGAN THE GREAT MINGO (1725-1774)
And the Evil Days that Came Upon Him
IX CORNSTALK LEADS THE WARRIORS (1774-1777)
How He and Logan Strove and Died
X LITTLE TURTLE OF THE MIAMIS (1790-1791)
He Wins Great Victories
XI LITTLE TURTLE FEARS THE BIG WIND (1792-1812)
And It Blows Him into Peace
XII THE VOICE FROM THE OPEN DOOR (1805-1811)
How It Traveled Through the Land
XIII BRIGADIER GENERAL TECUMSEH (1812-1813)
The Rise and Fall of a Star
XIV THE RED STICKS AT HORSESHOE BEND (1813-1814)
And the Wonderful Escape of Chief Menewa
XV BLACK-HAWK THE SAC PATRIOT (1831-1838)
The Indian Who Did Not UnderstandXVI THE BIRD-WOMAN GUIDE (1805-1806)
Sacagawea Helps the White Men
XVII THE LANCE OF MAHTOTOHPA (1822-1837)
Hero Tales by Four Bears the Mandan
XVIII A SEARCH FOR THE BOOK OF HEAVEN (1832)
The Long Trail of the Pierced Noses
XIX A TRAVELER TO WASHINGTON (1831-1835)
Wijunjon, the "Big Liar" of the Assiniboins
XX THE BLACKFEET DEFY THE CROWS (1834)
"Come and Take Us!"
XXI THE STRONG MEDICINE OF KONATE (1839)
The Story of the Kiowa Magic Staff
XXII RED CLOUD STANDS IN THE WAY (1865-1909)
The Sioux Who Closed the Road of the Whites
XXIII STANDING BEAR SEEKS A HOME (1877-1880)
The Indian Who Won the White Man's Verdict
XXIV SITTING BULL THE WAR MAKER (1876-1881)
An Unconquered Leader
XXV CHIEF JOSEPH GOES TO WAR (1877)
And Out-Generals the United States Army
XXVI THE GHOST DANCERS AND THE RED SOLDIERS
(1889-1890)
And Sitting Bull's Last Medicine
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Chief Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece
King Philip (missing from book)
Pontiac, The Red Napoleon
An Indian Brave
Young Kiowa Girl (missing from book)
Red Cloud
Standing Bear
Sitting Bull
BOYS' BOOK OF INDIAN WARRIORSCHAPTER I
PISKARET THE ADIRONDACK CHAMPION (1644)
HOW HE SCOUTED AGAINST THE IROQUOIS
It was in early spring, about the year 1644, that the warrior Piskaret of the
Adirondack tribe of the Algonkins set forth alone from the island Allumette in the
Ottawa River, Canada, to seek his enemies the Iroquois.
For there long had been bitter, bitter war between the vengeful Algonkins[1] and the
cruel Hurons on the one side, and the proud, even crueler Five Nations of the Iroquois
on the other side. At first the Adirondacks had driven the Mohawks out of lower Canada
and into northern New York; but of late all the Algonkins, all the Hurons, and the
French garrisons their allies, had been unable to stem the tide of the fierce Iroquois,
rolling back into Canada again.
"Iri-a-khoiw" was the Algonkin name for them, meaning "adder." The French
termed them "Mingos," from another Algonkin word meaning "stealthy." The English
and Dutch colonists in America knew them as the Five Nations. Their own title was
"People of the Long House," as if the five nations were one family housed all together
under one roof.
The Mohawks, the Senecas, the Onondagas, the Oneidas and the Cayugas—these
composed the Iroquois league of the Five Nations against the world of enemies. The
league rapidly spread in power, until the dreaded Iroquois were styled the Romans of the
West.
But nearly three hundred years ago they were only beginning to rise. Their home was
in central New York, from the Mohawk country at the Hudson River west to the Seneca
country almost to Lake Erie. In this wide tract were their five principal towns, fortified
by ditches and log palisades. From here they carried war south clear to the Cherokees of
Tennessee, west clear into the land of the Illinois, and north to the Algonkins at Quebec
of the lower St. Lawrence River.
Twelve or fifteen thousand people they numbered. Mohawks, Senecas, Onondagas,
Oneidas and Cayugas still survive, as many as ever and ranking high among the civilized
Indians of North America.
The Hurons lived to the northwest, in a smaller country along the shores of Georgian
Bay of southeastern Lake Huron, in Canada.
"Hurons" they were called by the French, meaning "bristly" or "savage haired," for
they wore their coarse black hair in many fantastic cuts, but the favorite fashion was that
of a stiff roach or mane extending from the forehead to the nape of the neck, like the
bristles of a wild boar's back or the comb of a rooster. By the Algonkins they were called
"serpents," also. Their own name for themselves was "Wendat," or "People of the
Peninsula"—a word which the English wrote as "Wyandot."
They were of the Iroquois family, but for seventy-five years and more they had been
at war with their cousins of the south. They, too, had their principal fortified towns, and
their league, of four independent nations and four protected nations, numbering twenty
thousand. Like those of the Iroquois, some of their bark houses were five hundred feet
long, for twenty families. Yet of this powerful people there remain today only about four
hundred Hurons, near Quebec, and as many Wyandots in Canada and the former Indianhundred Hurons, near Quebec, and as many Wyandots in Canada and the former Indian
Territory of Oklahoma.
The Algonkins lived farther north, along the Ottawa River, and the St. Lawrence to
the east. "Place of spearing eel and fish from a canoe," is the best that we may get from
the word "Algonkin." The "Raised Hair" people did the French first term them, because
they wore their hair pompadoured. But Adirondack was a Mohawk