The United States, Том 1E. Stanford, 1898 - 466 страница |
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... Tribes 263 Pueblo and Moki Indians 266 Numbers of the Indians - Are they Dying Out ? 271 Progress in Civilisation 273 Intermarriage between Whites and Indians - Prehistoric Remains 274 Mound Builders 275 Ruins in the South - West 279 ...
... Tribes 263 Pueblo and Moki Indians 266 Numbers of the Indians - Are they Dying Out ? 271 Progress in Civilisation 273 Intermarriage between Whites and Indians - Prehistoric Remains 274 Mound Builders 275 Ruins in the South - West 279 ...
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... tribes , the Sioux . From these rocky fastnesses they long repelled the invading white man . It is only within a few years that the advancing wave of civilisation has here acquired sufficient power to sweep the red man away , and put ...
... tribes , the Sioux . From these rocky fastnesses they long repelled the invading white man . It is only within a few years that the advancing wave of civilisation has here acquired sufficient power to sweep the red man away , and put ...
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... tribes . The place , by them named Deseret , in the Territory of Utah , was , the very next year , ceded by Mexico to the United States ; and twenty years later its isolation was disturbed by the Pacific Railway crossing the continent ...
... tribes . The place , by them named Deseret , in the Territory of Utah , was , the very next year , ceded by Mexico to the United States ; and twenty years later its isolation was disturbed by the Pacific Railway crossing the continent ...
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... tribes , horse - stealing , if from a member of some other tribe , is the highest of virtues . In the western United States among white people not many years ago this same crime was punishable by death , and that without form of trial ...
... tribes , horse - stealing , if from a member of some other tribe , is the highest of virtues . In the western United States among white people not many years ago this same crime was punishable by death , and that without form of trial ...
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... tribes of the East still remain- ing on their native soil . Indian Wars The history of this series of wars , which began with the struggles of the feeble colony of Plymouth to main- tain itself , the last act of which is probably yet to ...
... tribes of the East still remain- ing on their native soil . Indian Wars The history of this series of wars , which began with the struggles of the feeble colony of Plymouth to main- tain itself , the last act of which is probably yet to ...
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