Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas . A TAIOOED IKDIAN. 168 THRILLING MANDAN MEDICINE LODGE. The Indians are capable of the most extraordinaryacts of self-sacrifice, under the influence of supersti-tion or of patriotism. Mr. Catlin, in his interestingaccount of the Indians, has given us a narrative of thestrange religious ceremonies of the Mandans in theirMedicine Lodge, where they spent four days in aseries of self
Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas . A TAIOOED IKDIAN. 168 THRILLING MANDAN MEDICINE LODGE. The Indians are capable of the most extraordinaryacts of self-sacrifice, under the influence of supersti-tion or of patriotism. Mr. Catlin, in his interestingaccount of the Indians, has given us a narrative of thestrange religious ceremonies of the Mandans in theirMedicine Lodge, where they spent four days in aseries of self-tortures and mutilations too horrible forus to relate, all of which was done from a principle ofobedience to their peculiar superstitious notions. The other tribes exhibit instances not less remark-able of self-sacrifice from patriotic motives. Every Indian is proud of his connection with histribe, jealous of its honour, and implacable when vindicating it. A striking instance of this occurred inWarren county, Illinois, which will remind thereader of an incident in Edward Thirds siege of Ca-lais. Four Indians of the Sac tribe had murderedsome white men, and the War Department instructed INDIAN PATRIOTISM. 169 the United States agent to demand
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