. The white Indian boy : the story of Uncle Nick among the Shoshones. ar broke out and severalIndians were killed and others captured and brought totrial for killing game, I was called on to act as sympathies went out to the Indians at this time. Frontier Troubles 217 They were misunderstood and mistreated as they alwayshave been. The Indian has always been pushed aside,driven, and robbed of his rights. It is a sad thought with me to see the Redmen givingaway so rapidly before our advancing civilization. Wherethousands of the Indians once roamed free, only a scat-tered few remai
. The white Indian boy : the story of Uncle Nick among the Shoshones. ar broke out and severalIndians were killed and others captured and brought totrial for killing game, I was called on to act as sympathies went out to the Indians at this time. Frontier Troubles 217 They were misunderstood and mistreated as they alwayshave been. The Indian has always been pushed aside,driven, and robbed of his rights. It is a sad thought with me to see the Redmen givingaway so rapidly before our advancing civilization. Wherethousands of the Indians once roamed free, only a scat-tered few remain. The old friends of my boyhood dayswith Washakie have almost entirely passed away. Onlyonce in a great while do I find one who remembers Yagaki,the little boy who once lived with their old chiefs when I do happen to meet one — as I did last yearwhen I found Hans, a wealthy Indian, who lives now onhis ranch at the Big Bend in Portneuf Canyon — thenwe have a good time, I tell you, recalling the days of longago when Uncle Nick was among the Caspar W. HodgsonA lily pond in the Yellowstone Park, which was part of the land of theShoshones. GLOSSARY Editorial Note. The Indian words and definitions given in thisglossary have been carefully checked by a scholar of national reputa-tion, who has studied the Shoshone language. He has pronouncedthe words as nearly correct as one can represent in our symbols thesediffering dialects of the Indian tribes. It has been the effort of theeditor to be accurate, but it is difficult to give exactly the sounds ofthe Indian language. Angitapa (Angi-ta-pa). NameappUed by Shoshone Indiansto Rock Creek, Idaho. Antelope (ante-lop). Animalakin to the deer, a native ofthe Western plains and openmountain valleys. Commonlycalled pronghorns. The NorthAmerican pronghorn is not atrue antelope. Balzamoriza (balza-mo-ri-za). Aspecies of plant with showyyellow blossoms, and velvetyleaves, belonging to sunflowerfamily. Commonly known assp
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