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Show CHAPTER XX I communicating the information. contained in the following. chapters,in whic I mean t treat especiall pe ly of of some tribes of f thethe. aborigines of North America,I shall take for ante that the un(lu ucqumvlu Ch dvin James, . Say, and Schoolerat. - Dr. E. James speaks especially o s by ¥ the originof the North American Todians, of their near affinity to cach other; of the recentl broached hypothesis of their descent from the Tsraelites, which heo p proves to be groundiess an 1 3 ool sl bl onk et o St S unjust treatment which t 3 suffer from the A r\gln»\m Ac of t Tndian nations would long sinee have been converted t in fixed abodes, e the Cherokees &c, fthe carlir missonaries had better undetood the wor on which th were sent. It is notorious that this subject was treated, in carly times, with. th most. wnwarrantable want of diseretion, and posiive ignorance ; that the greatest. injustice wa exercised towards the Indian population, and that, even now, wrongs untold are heaped on thi much to be pitied and oppressed race. A large portion of those nations has entiely disappeared and the accounts which have heen pres ctved of them are. extremely imperfect; others ar expelled from ther native seats, mixed together in small fragments of various tribes, hal degencrated, ..,,,1 coneqendy now ffrlin butbut litle that can nterest the inquirer. Siuch wer the Indians ey saw: ouly to the west and north-vest of the Missss ippi may th Indians be yet rm. d i thei original state. Before, however, of them in general, T i deseribe more in detail & small tribe which h hitherto been very mp"mn, Kanow The Mandans (( el w o C nadians, les Mandals), by which name these Indians are geneiy given them by the Sioux, were formerly a numerou rally known, though w peaple, who, according to. T aged man, lately deceastsed, inhabited thirteen, an Digital image© 2004 Marriot Libary, University o Utah. Al ighs reserved |