History of the conspiracy of Pontiac, and the war of the North American tribes against the English colonies after the conquest of Canada . HISTORY OF THE CONSPIRACY OF PONTIAC. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. — INDIAN TRIBES EAST OF THEMISSISSIPPI. The Indian is a true child of the forest and thedesert. The wastes and solitudes of nature are hiscongenial home. His haughty mind is imbued withthe spirit of the wilderness, and the light of civiliza-tion falls on him with a blighting power. His unrulypride and untamed freedom are in harmony with thelonely mountains, cataracts, and rivers among whichhe dw
History of the conspiracy of Pontiac, and the war of the North American tribes against the English colonies after the conquest of Canada . HISTORY OF THE CONSPIRACY OF PONTIAC. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. — INDIAN TRIBES EAST OF THEMISSISSIPPI. The Indian is a true child of the forest and thedesert. The wastes and solitudes of nature are hiscongenial home. His haughty mind is imbued withthe spirit of the wilderness, and the light of civiliza-tion falls on him with a blighting power. His unrulypride and untamed freedom are in harmony with thelonely mountains, cataracts, and rivers among whichhe dwells; and primitive America, with her savagescenery and savage men, opens to the imagination aboundless world, unmatched in wild suFmity. The Indians east of the Mississippi may be dividedinto several great families, each distinguished by aradical peculiarity of language. In their moral andintellectual, their social and political state, these va-rious families exhibit strong shades of distinction; but,before pointing them out, I shall indicate a few promi-nent characteristics, which, faintly or distinctly, markthe whole in common.
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