Illustrations of the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians : with letters and notes written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existing ; with 360 engravings, from the author's original paintings . that with the paintings I have madeamongst the Mandans and Crows, and other tribes ; and with their beautifulcostumes which I have procured and shall bring home, I shall be able toestablish the fact that many of these people dress, not only with clothescomfortable for any latitude, but that they also dress with some con
Illustrations of the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians : with letters and notes written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existing ; with 360 engravings, from the author's original paintings . that with the paintings I have madeamongst the Mandans and Crows, and other tribes ; and with their beautifulcostumes which I have procured and shall bring home, I shall be able toestablish the fact that many of these people dress, not only with clothescomfortable for any latitude, but that they also dress with some consider-able taste and elegance. Nor am I quite sure that they are entitled to thename of jooor, who live in a boundless country of green fields, with goodhorses to ride; where they are all joint tenants of the soil, together; wherethe Great Spirit has supplied them with an abundance of food to eat—wherethey are all indulging in the pleasures and amusements of a lifetime of idle-ness and ease, with no business hours to attend to, or professions to learn—where they have no notes in bank or other debts to pay—no taxes, notithes, no rents, nor beggars to touch and tax the sympathy of their soulsat every step they go. Such might be poverty in the Christian world, but 58. %; /;v,:r^- SG 211 is sure to be a blessing where the pride and insolence of comparative wealthare unknown. I mentioned that this is the nucleus or place of concentration of the im-nierous tribe of the Sioux, who often congregate here in great masses tomake their trades with the American Fur Company ; and tliat on my wayup the river, some months since, I found here encainped, six hundred fami-lies of Sioux, living in tents covered with buftalo hides. Amongst these therewere twenty or more of the different bands, each one with their chief at theirhead, over whom was a superior chief and leader, a middle-aged man, oimiddling stature, with a noble countenance, and a figure almost equallingthe Apollo, and I painted
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