The Yellowstone national park, historical and descriptive, illustrated with maps, views and portraits . ^. Beaver Dam. AJ^ INDIAN CAMPAIGN THROUGH TIEE PARK. 145 heroic treatment of the long-standing troubles wliieh itrecommends. These Indians were altogether a peculiar people. Theearly missionaries had converted thora to the Christianfaith, and, whether from that cause, or from naturalproclivity, they were among the most religious of ourIndian tribes. There is a general concensus of authoritiesthat, despite certain grave defects of character, they were,mentally and morally, far above the aver
The Yellowstone national park, historical and descriptive, illustrated with maps, views and portraits . ^. Beaver Dam. AJ^ INDIAN CAMPAIGN THROUGH TIEE PARK. 145 heroic treatment of the long-standing troubles wliieh itrecommends. These Indians were altogether a peculiar people. Theearly missionaries had converted thora to the Christianfaith, and, whether from that cause, or from naturalproclivity, they were among the most religious of ourIndian tribes. There is a general concensus of authoritiesthat, despite certain grave defects of character, they were,mentally and morally, far above the average Indian. Inlater times, approaching the period covered by this sketch,they fell under the influence of a class of mystics calleddreamers,^ who taught a doctrine of land ownership whichwas the immediate cause of all their subsequent doctrine was, in substance, that *^the Creative Power,*when He made the earth, made no marks, no lines of divi-sion or separation, upon it, and that it should be allowedto remain as it is;^ that it ^should not be disturbed byman, and that any cultivation of
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