. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. of women—Education—Universities—Harvard and Yale—Cornell—Literature-Science — Great cities — Religion — The Indians — Past treatment — Reservations — Modemprogress—Theprincipaltribes—Prehistoric remains—The Chinooks—Medicine-men—Religiousideas—Inland Columbian tribes—Character—Women—Medicine-men—The unseen powers—The Californian Indians—The Apaches and Comanches —The Pueblos
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. of women—Education—Universities—Harvard and Yale—Cornell—Literature-Science — Great cities — Religion — The Indians — Past treatment — Reservations — Modemprogress—Theprincipaltribes—Prehistoric remains—The Chinooks—Medicine-men—Religiousideas—Inland Columbian tribes—Character—Women—Medicine-men—The unseen powers—The Californian Indians—The Apaches and Comanches —The Pueblos and Moquis—Indiancharacter generally. THE inhabitants of the greatest Stateill the new world are given to call-ing themselves Americans, although noother people arrogates to itself the ap-pellation belonging to the inhabitantsof a continent collectively. And thistypifies the attitude of the citizens ofthe United States in many strong in their youthful vigour,in their rapid increase, in their ap-parently limitless possibilities, they lookupon themselves as the Americans, andupon their supremacy in America asassured. It may be that in this feature 738. THE INHABITANTS OF THE UNITED STATES. 739 they are ^^nly exaggerating a characteristic of their Teutonic, and es-pecially their English ancestors, who have been but too apt in the past
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