The Life and Legacy of the Most Famous Indian Chiefs

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Norman B. Wood . The Life and Legacy of the Most Famous Indian Chiefs

The Life and Legacy of the Most Famous Indian Chiefs

Table of Contents

Chapter I. Cofachiqui, the Indian Princess. A True Story of De Soto and His Cavaliers

Chapter II. Powhatan, or Wah-un-so-na-cook

Chapter III. Massasoit. The Friend of the Puritans

Chapter IV. King Philip, or Metacomet. The Last of the Wampanoags

Chapter V. Pontiac, the Red Napoleon. Head Chief of the Ottawas; And Organizer of the First Great Indian Confederation

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

Chapter VII. Captain Joseph Brant, or Thayendanegea, Principal Sachem of the Mohawks, and Head Chief of the Iroquois Confederation

Chapter VIII. Red Jacket, or Sa-go-ye-wat-ha, "The Keeper Awake"—the Indian Demosthenes—Chief of the Senecas

Chapter IX. Little Turtle, or Michikiniqua. War-chief of the Miamis, and Conqueror of Harmar and St. Clair

Chapter X. Tecumseh, or "the Shooting Star." Famous Shawnee War-chief—Organizer of Second Great Indian Confederation and General in the British Army in the War of 1812

Chapter XI. Black Hawk, or Ma-ka-tai-me She-kia-kiak, and His War

Chapter XII. Shabbona, the White Man's Friend—The Celebrated Pottawatomie Chief

Chapter XIII. Sitting Bull, or Tatanka Yotanka, the Great Sioux Chief and Medicine Man

Chapter XIV. Chief Joseph, of the Nez Perces, or Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt

Chapter XV. Geronimo, or Go-yat-thlay, the Yawner,

Chapter XVI. Quanah Parker, Head Chief of the Comanches

Chapter XVII. A Sheaf of Good Indian Stories from History

I. An Indian Stratagem

II. The Mohawk's Last Arrow

III. Audubon's Night Of Peril

IV. An Hour Of Terror, And Midnight Feast

V. Story Of An Honest Indian

VI. "Go!" A Story Of Red Cloud

VII. McDougal And His Kind Indian Neighbor

VIII. Story Of Se-quo-yah, The Cherokee Cadmus

IX. John Jaybird, The Indian Relic-maker, And The City Dude

X. Proof That The Indian Population Of The United States Is Increasing

XI. Rich Indian Maid

XII. Monuments Erected To Some Of The Famous Indians

XIII. Piskaret, The Hero Of The Adirondacks

XIV. Gen. Ely S. Parker

XV. Biographical Sketch Of Doctor Eastman

XVI. Dr. Carlos Montezuma

Chapter XVIII. Indian Anecdotes and Incidents, Humorous and Otherwise

This Indian Made A Decided "Hit."

They Were Wined And Dined At The Expense Of The Government

An Indian's Glass Wagon

"Heap Smell." The Indian Knew What He Wanted And Where To Get It

Truth Of The Choctaws. When They Give Their Word They Keep It

A Null And Void Drink

Tiger Tail, The Seminole Chief, And The Plate-glass Window

Indian Etiquette

Doll Averted War. Kindness To Apache Child Prevented Trouble With The Indians

Moving Pictures Amaze The Indians

A Witty Red Man Who Was Grateful For Kindness

Gave The Brave His Hat

"The Black White Man."

Indian Mode Of Getting A Wife

Move Farther

The Gunpowder Harvest

Tarhe, Or The Crane, The Patriotic Wyandot Chief

Noble Deed Of A Young Pawnee Warrior

Indian Girl's Romance. Enters Harvard Because Her Ancestor Spared A White Man

An Indian Girl's Taste Of Civilization

Leaving The Latch-string Out

"A Woman Can't Hold Her Tongue."

Enormous Amount Of Money Spent On Indians

The Surprised Indians

A Professor In Wolf's Clothing

Chapter XIX. Whence Came the Aborigines of America?

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Norman B. Wood

From Cofachiqui the Indian Princess to Geronimo

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As Mason well says, "Call him a savage, but remember that his shining love for his daughter only throws into darker shadow the infamous proposition of the civilized Englishman to tear away the three days' bride from the arms of her Indian lover and give her to a man who had already a wife in England. Call him a barbarian, but forget not that when his enemies hungered he gave them food. When his people were robbed, whipped and imprisoned by the invaders of his country, he had only retaliated and had never failed to buy the peace to which he was entitled without money and without price. Call him a heathen, but do not deny that when he said that, if the English should do him an injury, he would not resent it but only move further from them, he more nearly followed the rule of the Master, of whom he was ignorant, than did the faithless, pilfering adventurers at the fort, who rolled their eyes heavenward and called themselves Christians."

No candid person can read the history of this famous Indian with an attentive consideration of the circumstances under which he was placed without forming a high estimate of his character as a warrior, statesman and a patriot. His deficiencies were those of education and not of genius. His faults were those of the people whom he governed and of the period in which he lived. His great talents, on the other hand, were his own and these are acknowledged even by those historians who still regard him with prejudice.

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