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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesaborigines ambulance Apaches arms army arrow attack battle Billy blanket body brave Braveheart buffalo buried called camp canon cavalry Charlie Young chief Chippewas clothing coffin commanding officer Cook's crossing customs dance dangers dead death desert dian disease endured enemy face famous Father feet fire frontier gallant garrison Grand Medicine grave ground guard Guard mount half-breed head horses hospital hunting Indian tribes Indian women Jornada Jornada del Muerto journey killed labor lodge lonely look medicine-man menstruation Mexico miles moccasins mules never night non-commissioned officer North American Indians Ojibways pale-face patient pipe plains pony express prairie reached rider river Santa Fe trail scalp scouts seemed Shadley shaft Sioux smoke soldiers Spirit squaw surgeon te-pee tent tion tomahawk torture travois United States Army veteran wagons warrior westward White Earth White Earth Reservation wigwam woman wound writer Popular passagesPage 138 - Thus departed Hiawatha, Hiawatha the Beloved, In the glory of the sunset, In the purple mists of evening, To the regions of the home-wind, Of the Northwest wind, Keewaydin, To the Islands of the Blessed, To the kingdom of Ponemah, To the land of the Hereafter ! VOCABULAEY THE SONG OF HIAWATHA. Page 139 - Should you ask me, whence these stories, Whence these legends and traditions, With the odors of the forest, With the dew and damp of meadows, With the curling smoke of wigwams, With the rushing of great rivers, With their frequent repetitions, And their wild reverberations, As of thunder in the mountains. I should answer, I should tell you: "From the forests and the prairies, From the great lakes of the Northland, From the land of the Ojibways... Page 121 - Come not back again to suffer, Where the Famine and the Fever Wear the heart and waste the body. Soon my task will be completed, Soon your footsteps I shall follow To the Islands of the Blessed, To the Kingdom of Ponemah, To the Land of the Hereafter ! Page 138 - Gitche Manito, the Mighty!" Cried he with his face uplifted In that bitter hour of anguish, "Give your children food, O father! Give us food, or we must perish! Give me food for Minnehaha, For my dying Minnehaha! Page 68 - Colorado, some years ago, I was called to see a man who had received a severe and apparently desperate arrow-wound through the right chest in a skirmish with Indians a day or two before. The arrow had penetrated quite through the right lung. Either the arrow-head had passed quite through between the posterior ribs in the first instance, or had nearly done so, and had finally been pushed out (probably by some one familiar with arrow-wounds). At any rate... Page 263 - ... entrails taken out and exposed; hands cut off; feet cut off; arms taken out from sockets; private parts severed and indecently placed on the person; eyes, ears, mouth, and arms penetrated with spearheads, sticks, and arrows; ribs slashed to separation with knives; skulls severed in every form, from chin to crown; muscles of calves, thighs, stomach, breast, back, arms, and cheek taken out. Page 83 - There the wrinkled old Nokomis Nursed the little Hiawatha, Rocked him in his linden cradle, Bedded soft in moss and rushes, Safely bound with reindeer sinews; Stilled his fretful wail by saying: "Hush! the Naked Bear will hear thee!" Lulled him into slumber, singing: "Ewa-yea! my little owlet! Page 263 - Eyes torn out and laid on the rocks; noses cut off; ears cut off; chins hewn off; teeth chopped out; joints of fingers; brains taken out and placed on rocks with other members of the body; entrails taken out and exposed; hands cut off; feet cut off; arms taken out from sockets; private parts severed and indecently placed on the person; eyes, ears, mouth, and arms penetrated with spear-heads, sticks, and arrows; ribs... Page 58 - The success of every expedition against Indians depends, to a degree, on the skill, fidelity, and intelligence of the men employed as scouts and guides, for not only is the command habitually dependent on them for good routes and comfortable camps, but the officer in command must rely on their knowledge of the position and movements of the enemy. Page 150 - It can be proved that the introduction of Christianity into the Indian tribes has been productive of immense good. It has changed customs as old as any on the earth. It has dethroned error, and has enthroned truth. This fact is enough to convince any one of the unjustness and falsity of the common saying, that, " the Indian will be Indian still. Bibliographic information
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