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Show xvi EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION subject of the volume, and will enable the reader easily to follow out any favorite subject of study. Thus, upon a subject described and discussed since the earliest contact between the white and native races, the author has been able to throw a concentrated light, under which the physical basis is seen to furnish a reaction for the native peoples; and these peoples stand out as substantially one, a race prepared from the beginning to assert itself in the history of America. Later volumes will show how some tribes melted away, some fused with their conquerors, and some resisted steadily and exacted life for life before they yielded to white supremacy. |