Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians ...J. W. Bradley, 1859 - Indians of North America |
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Page 769 - religious, would convey but a faint idea of the deep hue " of piety and devotion which pervades the whole of their " conduct. Their honesty is immaculate ; and their purity "of purpose, and their observance of the rites of their " religion, are most uniform and remarkable. They are, "certainly, more like a nation of saints than a horde of
Page 756 - He said he had been told that when all the white people were born, their white medicine-man had to stand by and look on — that in the Indian country the women would not allow that — they would be ashamed — that he had been along the Frontier, and a good deal amongst the white people, and he had seen them whip their little children — a thing that is very cruel — he had heard also, from several white...
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