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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. Title: Lives of Famous Indian Chiefs From Cofachiqui, the Indian Princess and Powhatan, down to and including Chief Joseph and Geronimo Author: Norman B. Wood Release Date: January 27, 2019 [EBook #58781] Language: English *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LIVES OF FAMOUS INDIAN CHIEFS *** Produced by Roger Burch with scans from the Internet Archive. {Transcriber's Note: Quotation marks have been standardized to modern usage. Footnotes have been placed to immediately follow the paragraphs referencing them. Transcriber's notes are in curly braces; square brackets and parentheses indicate original content.} LIVES of FAMOUS INDIAN CHIEFS FROM COFACHIQUI, THE INDIAN PRINCESS, AND POWHATAN; DOWN TO AND INCLUDING CHIEF JOSEPH AND GERONIMO. Also an answer, from the latest research, of the query, WHENCE CAME THE INDIAN? Together with a number of thrillingly interesting INDIAN STORIES AND ANECDOTES FROM HISTORY COPIOUSLY AND SPLENDIDLY ILLUSTRATED, IN PART, BY OUR SPECIAL ARTIST. By NORMAN B. WOOD Historian, Lecturer, and Author of "The White Side of a Black Subject" (out of print after twelve editions) and "A New Negro for a New Century," which has reached a circulation of nearly a hundred thousand copies. PUBLISHED BY AMERICAN INDIAN HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY Brady Block, Aurora, Ill. Copyrighted in 1906 by American Indian Historical Publishing Co., Aurora, Illinois. All rights of every kind reserved. PRINTING AND BINDING BY THE HENRY O. SHEPARD CO. ENGRAVING BY THE INLAND-WALTON CO. CHICAGO. TO THEODORE ROOSEVELT, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, Who has observed closely and recorded justly the character of the Red Man, and who, in the words of Chief Quanah Parker, "is the Indian's President as well as the white man's," this volume is respectfully dedicated by THE AUTHOR. CONTENTS page Introduction, 11 CHAPTER I. Cofachiqui, The Indian Princess, 21 CHAPTER II. Powhatan, or Wah-Un-So-Na-Cook, 41 CHAPTER III. Massasoit, The Friend of the Puritans, 65 CHAPTER IV King Philip, or Metacomet, The Last of the Wampanoaghs, 85 CHAPTER V Pontiac, The Red Napoleon, Head Chief of the Ottawas and Organizer of the First Great Indian Confederation, 121 CHAPTER VI. Logan, or Tal-Ga-Yee-Ta, The Cayuga (Mingo) Chief, Orator and Friend of the White Man. Also a Brief Sketch of Cornstalk, 173 CHAPTER VII. Captain Joseph Brant, or Thay-En-Da-Ne-Gea, Principal Sachem of the Mohawks and Head Chief of the Iroquois Confederation, 191 CHAPTER VIII. Red Jacket, or Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, "The Keeper Awake." The Indian Demosthenes, Chief of the Senecas, 237 CHAPTER IX. Little Turtle, or Michikiniqua, War Chief of the Miamis, and Conqueror of Harmar and St. Clair, 283 CHAPTER X. Tecumseh, or "The Shooting Star," Famous War-chief of the Shawnees, Organizer of the Second Great Indian Confederation and General in the British Army in the War of 1812, 317 CHAPTER XI. Black Hawk, or Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, and His War, 363 CHAPTER XII. Shabbona, or Built Like a Bear, The White Man's Friend, a Celebrated Pottawatomie Chief, 401 CHAPTER XIII. Sitting Bull, or Tatanka Yotanka, The Great Sioux Chief and Medicine Man, 443 CHAPTER XIV Chief Joseph, of the Nez Perces, or Hin-Mah-Too-Yah-Lat-Kekt, Thunder Rolling in the Mountains, The Modern Xenophon, 497 CHAPTER XV Geronimo, or Go-Yat-Thlay, The Yawner, The Renowned Apache Chief and Medicine Man, 529 CHAPTER XVI. Quanah Parker, Head Chief of the Comanches, With, an Account of the Captivity of His Mother, Cynthia Anne Parker, Known as "The White Comanche," 563 CHAPTER XVII. A Sheaf of Good Indian Stories From History, 589 CHAPTER XVIII. Indian Anecdotes and Incidents, Humorous and Otherwise, 673 CHAPTER XIX. Whence Came the Aborigines of America? 721 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. page 1Frontispiece. 2Cofachiqui, The Indian Princess, 19 3American Horse, Sioux Chief, 29 4Powhatan, 39 5Captain Smith and Pocahontas, 49 6Pocahontas, or Lady Rebecca, 59 7Ope-Chan-Ca-Nough, 69 8Massasoit and Pilgrims, 79 9Nellie Jumping Eagle, 89 10King Philip, or Metacomet, 99 11 Philip Rejecting Elliot's Preaching, 109 12Pontiac, The Red Napoleon, 119 13Montcalm at Massacre of Quebec, 129 14Hollow-Horn Bear, Sioux Chief, 139 15Major Campbell and Pontiac, 149 16Hollow Horn, 159 17Starved Rock, 169 18Logan, The Mingo Orator, 179 19Logan and the Two Hunters, 189 20Joseph Brant, Mohawk Chief, 199 21King Hendrick, Mohawk Chief, 209 22Sir William Johnson and the Mohawks, 219 23Leading Hawk, 229 24Red Jacket, Seneca Chief and Orator, 239 25Massacre at Wyoming, 249 26Corn Planter, Seneca Chief, 259 27Adolph Knock and Family, 269 28Red Jacket Presenting Deer, 279 29Little Turtle, Miami War-chief, 289 30Little Turtle's Warriors Chasing St. Clair's Scout 299 31Ouray, Late Principal Chief of Utes, 309 32Tecumseh, The Noblest Indian of Them All, 319 33Tecumseh Rebuking Proctor, 329 34The Prophet, Brother of Tecumseh, 339 35Red Cloud, Noted Sioux Chief, 349 36Death of Tecumseh, 359 37Black Hawk, Sac and Fox Chief, 369 38 Buffalo Hunt, 379 39 Keokuk, Sac and Fox Chief, 389 40 Shabbona, "The White Man's Friend," Pottawatomie Chief, 399 41 Fort Dearborn Massacre, 409 42 Annie Red Shirt, Indian Beauty, 419 43 Waubonsie, Pottawatomie Chief, 429 44 Plan of Sitting Bull's Tepee, 440 45 Sitting Bull, Noted Sioux Chief and Medicine Man, 441 46 Sitting Bull's Family, 451 47 Chief Gall, Sioux War-chief, 461 48 Chief One Bull and Family, 471 49 Rain-In-The-Face, Noted Sioux Warrior, 481 50 Sitting Bull's Autograph, 486 51 Indian Village, 491 52 Chief Joseph, of the Nez Perces, Greatest Indian Since Tecumseh, 501 53 Buckskin Charlie, War-chief of Utes, 511 54 "Comes Out Holy," Sioux, 521 55 Geronimo, Noted Apache Chief and Medicine Man, 531 56 Group of Apaches, 541 57 Naiche, Apache Chief, 551 58 Quanah Parker, Comanche Chief, 561 59 Quanah Parker and Two of His Wives, 571 60 Comanche Indians Stealing Cows, 581 61 Needle Parker, Indian Beauty, 591 62 The Mohawk's Last Arrow, 601 63 Lone Wolf, Orator and Principal Chief of the Kiowas, 611 64 Kiowa Annie, Noted Indian Beauty, 621 65 Se-Quo-Yah, The Cherokee Cadmus, 631 66 Big Tree, Second Kiowa Chief, 641 67 Satanta, Kiowa Chief and Noted Orator, 651 68 Chief Simon Pokagon, Pottawatomie, 661 69 Dr. Charles A. Eastman, 671 70 Dr. Carlos Montezuma, 681 71 The Last Shot, 691 72 Chief Charles Journey Cake, 701 73 Indian Maiden in Japanese Costume, 713 74 Japanese Maiden in Indian Costume, 725 75 Map Showing How America Was Peopled, 737 76 Japanese Man in Garb of Indian, 749 77 Indian Man in Japanese Garb, 761 INTRODUCTION. We do not propose to apologize for writing this book, for the reasons that those who approve would not consider it necessary and those who oppose would not accept the apology. Therefore, we can only offer the same explanation as that made twenty-four centuries ago by the "Father of History" when he said: "To rescue from oblivion the noble deeds of those who have gone before, I, Herodotus of Halicarnassus, write this chronicle." We deem it well, however, to mention a few of the many reasons which impelled us to attempt the somewhat laborious but congenial task of preparing this work. First of all, we were gratified and inspired by the kind reception accorded our first literary venture, "The White Side of a Black Subject," which is now out of print after reaching twelve editions. Added to this was the still more generous treatment of our second production, "A New Negro for a New Century." Nearly a hundred thousand copies of this book have been sold up to date, and the demand is still increasing. Having done what we could to vindicate the Afro-American, we next began to consider the First American, when by chance a copy of Thatcher's "Indian Biography" fell into our hands. We read this book with much interest, and were impressed with two facts. First of all, we noticed that while the author gave the lives of a few chiefs well known to this generation, he filled the book up with village or sub chiefs, of whom even historians of this age never heard. Then, too, the book in question was seventy-four years old. Thatcher's biography tended to create an appetite for that kind of literature, and we inquired for other lives of noted Indians, but, strange to say, could only hear of one other book devoted to that subject. This was a small volume written by S. G. Goodrich, sixty-two years ago, and he gave only short sketches of perhaps half a dozen Indians of the United States, but the greater portion of the contents was devoted to the Indians of Peru and Mexico. We now concluded that if there were only two books giving the lives of famous Indians, and both of these published so many years ago, there was certainly room for another book on the subject, which should be confined to the Indian tribes of the United States and cover their entire history from Powhatan to the present time. We trust we will not be misunderstood. We know that many Indian books have been written since the date of those mentioned, but they were on "The Indian Wars," "The Pioneer and the Indian," "The Winning of the West," "The Manners and Customs of the Indian," "Folklore Tradition and Legend," and many other phases of the question. We know that Pontiac, Brant, Red Jacket, Tecumseh, Shabbona, Black Hawk, Sitting Bull, and perhaps others, have had their lives written, but in each of these cases an entire book is devoted to one Indian and his war. Our claim is that we have written the only book giving in a condensed form the lives of practically all the most famous Indian chiefs from the Colonial period to the present time. Lest it be thought that we have an exaggerated idea of our people's interest in the Indian, we will digress long enough to prove the statement to our own satisfaction, and we trust also to that of the reader. Mrs. Sigourney has well said with reference to this point "Ye say they all have passed away, That noble race and brave, That their light canoes have vanished From off the crested wave That 'mid the forests where they roamed There rings no hunter's shout, But their name is on your waters Ye may not wash it out. "Ye say their cone like cabins That clustered o'er the vale Have fled away like withered leaves Before the autumn gale. But their memory liveth on your hills, Their baptism on your shore; Your everlasting rivers speak Their dialect of yore." We have ventured to add a third verse Ye say no lover wooes his maid, No warrior leads his band. All in forgotten graves are laid, E'en great chiefs of the clan; That where their council fires were lit The shepherd tends his flock. But their names are on your mountains And survive the earthquake shock. The mark of our contact with the Indian is upon us indelibly and forever. He has not only impressed himself upon our geography, but on our character, language and literature. Bancroft, our greatest historian, is not quite right when he says, "The memorials of their former existence are found only in the names of the rivers and mountains." These memorials have not only permeated our poetry and other literature, but they are perpetuated in much of the food we eat, and every mention of potatoes, chocolate, cocoa, mush, green corn, succotash, hominy and the festive turkey is a tribute to the red man, while the fragrance of the tobacco or Indian weed we smoke is incense to their memory. On one occasion, according to Aesop, a man and a lion got into an argument as to which of the two was the stronger, and thus contending they walked together until they came to a statue representing a man choking and subduing a lion. "There," exclaimed the man, "that proves my point, and demonstrates that a man is stronger than a lion." To which the king of beasts replied, "When the lions get to be sculptors, they will have the lion choking and overcoming the man." The Indians are neither sculptors, painters nor historians. The only record we have of many of their noblest chiefs, greatest deeds, hardest fought battles, or sublimest flights of eloquence, are the poor, fragmentary accounts recorded and handed down by their implacable enemies, the all-conquering whites. It is hard indeed for one enemy to do another justice. The man with whom you are engaged in a death struggle is not the man to write your history; but such has been the historian of the Indian. His destroyer has covered him up in an unmarked grave, and then written the story of his life. Can any one believe that the Spaniards, cruel, hard-hearted and remorseless as the grave, who swept whole nations from the earth, sparing neither men, women nor children, could or would write a true story of their silent victims? Is it not reasonable to believe that had Philip, Pontiac, Cornstalk, Tecumseh, Black Hawk or Chief Joseph been able to fling their burning thoughts upon the historic page, it would have been very different