Indian Biography Or An Historical Account Of Those Individuals Who Have Been Distinguished Among The North American Natives As Orators Warriors Statesmen And Other Remarkable Characters Volume Ii

Indian Biography, Or, An Historical Account Of Those Individuals Who Have Been Distinguished Among The North American Natives As Orators, Warriors, Statesmen, And Other Remarkable Characters (Volume Ii) has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Excerpt from Indian Biography, or an Historical Account of Those Individuals Who Have Been Distinguished Among the North American Natives as Orators, Warriors, Statesmen, and Other Remarkable Characters, Vol. 2 of 2 Besides, the savages generally fought under shelter of the woods. The Indians were very numerous, We are informed by one who was present, but we found it out more from their incessant heavy fire, than from what we could otherwise discover of them. They fou ht under cover, though they would fro quently a§vance very close under the smoke of the cannon; and as soon as it began to clear away, the fire became very fatal. Emboldened, however, by success, they sometimes charged the Americans tom ahawk in hand, drove them back on their lines, kept possession of their tents for some minutes, and though repulsed, continually returned to the contest with na doubled fury. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This book is an authoritative historical account of the most distinguished North American natives featuring biographies of orators, warriors, statesmen and other remarkable characters. The book provides a detailed account of the indigenous people of America, their culture, customs, and lives. The work is well-researched and a valuable contribution to the field of Native American history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Indian Biography, Or, An Historical Account Of Those Individuals Who Have Been Distinguished Among The North American Natives As Orators, Warriors, Statesmen, And Other Remarkable Characters (Volume I) has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

"Indian Biography" in 2 volumes is an historical and biographical account of people who have been distinguished among the North American natives as orators, warriors, statesmen, and other remarkable characters. This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents._x000D_ Volume 1:_x000D_ The Indian tribes of Virginia at the date of the Jamestown settlement; their names, numbers and power_x000D_ The Powhatan confederacy…_x000D_ Conduct of Powhatan after Smith's departure for England, and causes of it_x000D_ Hostilities resumed_x000D_ Peace finally effected by the capture of Pocahontas_x000D_ Marriage of Pocahontas with John Rolfe…_x000D_ The family of Powhatan_x000D_ Sequel of the history of Pocahontas_x000D_ Her acts of kindness to the colonists at various times, and especially to Smith_x000D_ Her visit to England in 1616_x000D_ Reception at Court…_x000D_ Sequel of the history of Opechancanough_x000D_ Preparations for War…_x000D_ Biography of other Virginian chieftains_x000D_ Totopotomoi, successor of Opechancanough_x000D_ Plot of the latter against the Hatteras colony_x000D_ Comment on the Carolinian Biography..._x000D_ Synopsis of the New England Indians at the date of the Plymouth settlement_x000D_ The Pokanoket confederacy_x000D_ The Wampanoag tribe…_x000D_ Volume 2:_x000D_ Notices of Indians who submitted to Massachusetts_x000D_ The Squaw_x000D_ Anecdotes of Chickatabot..._x000D_ Farther account of Master Weston's settlement, and the movements of the Indians against him_x000D_ Provocations from the English_x000D_ Magnanimous revenge of the Sachem..._x000D_ Summary account of the Five Nations_x000D_ Government_x000D_ Conquests_x000D_ Population_x000D_ Territory_x000D_ Their negotiations with the French, in 1684_x000D_ History of the Five Nations continued to the time of Adario_x000D_ War between the Confederates and the French_x000D_ Adventures of Black-Kettle..._x000D_ Account of a council of the Confederates at Onondaga, in 1690_x000D_ Speeches of Sadekanatie and other orators_x000D_ Anecdotes of Sadekanatie..._x000D_ Account of the Ottawas_x000D_ Hostility of the northern tribes to the English, after the conquest of Canada_x000D_ Adventures of Henry_x000D_ Supposed feelings of Pontiac towards the English_x000D_ His great project of combination...

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It is well known that the valiant Captain was wont to express his opinions in strong terms, but he has rarely been detected in any great inaccuracy. And the circumstances of this case are in his favor; for it has been truly remarked, that the Powhatan confederacy inhabited a country upon which nature had bestowed singular advantages. Unlike the natives of more northern region, they suffered little from cold, and less from famine. Their settlements were mostly on the banks of James, Elizabeth, Nansamond, York and Chickahominy rivers, all which abounded with the most delicious fish and fowl. In his Potomac expedition, Smith met with "that aboundance of fish, lying so thicke with their heads above the water, as for want of nets, (our barge driving amongst them) we attempted to catch them with a frying-pan." And though the captain naturally enough concluded, after some trials, that this was a poor instrument for his purpose, he persists in adding that "neither better fish, more plentie, nor more varietie for small fish had any of vs euer seene in any place so swimming in the water—but they are not to be caught with frying-pans." He found the stingrays in such abundance among the reeds at the mouth of the Rappahannoc, that he amused himself by nailing them to the ground with his sword: "and, thus," he observes, "we tooke more in owne houre than we could eate in a day." Vast quantities of corn, too, yearly rewarded even the simple agriculture of the Indians, bestowed as it was upon the best portions of a generous soil. "Great heapes" of it were seen at Kekoughtan, "and then they brought him venison, turkies, wild fowle, bread and what else they had." In none of his captivities, or his visits among the natives, did the captain ever suffer from want of food; and he often brought off his boat and his men laden with plenty. The Nansamonds gave him 400 baskets-full at one time. The Chickahominies, though they complained extremely of their own wants, yet "fraughted" him with hundred bushels. The woods furnished another inexhaustible supply both of fruits and game; so that, on the whole, it is very easy to believe, that a considerably greater population than Mr. Jefferson's estimate supposes, might have subsisted without much difficulty on the soil they are known to have occupied. "And now the winter [of 1607—8] approaching," we are informed in another passage, "the rivers became so covered with swans, geese, duckes and cranes, that we daily feasted with good bread, Virginia pease, pumpions and putchamins, [FN] fish, fowle, and diverse sorts of wild beasts, so fast as we could eate them; so that none of our Tuftaffaty humourists desired to go for England." On one occasion, when Smith undertook an exploring tour into the interior, late in the season, a violent storm obliged him and his men to keep Christmas among the savages. "And we were never more merry," he relates, "nor fed on more plenty of good oysters, fish, flesh, wild fowle and good bread, nor ever had better fires in England." In a peaceful interval of a few months, which occurred during the next season, the Indians are said to have brought into Jamestown more than a hundred deer and other beasts daily for several weeks.