item: #1 of 20
          id: 14590
      author: Lighthall, W. D. (William Douw)
       title: A New Hochelagan Burying-ground Discovered at Westmount on the Western Spur of Mount Royal, Montreal, July-September, 1898
        date: None
       words: 2687
      flesch: 69
     summary: They examined the spot and remains, Mr. Brown concluding them to be probably Indian from the prominent cheek bones and large mouths. Among the bones of No III skeleton were 2 small rib bones of a bird.
    keywords: bones; feet; montreal; skeleton; skull
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        item: #2 of 20
          id: 14777
      author: Lighthall, W. D. (William Douw)
       title: Hochelagans and Mohawks: A Link in Iroquois History
        date: None
       words: 6619
      flesch: 67
     summary: The early Jesuits agreed that they were an off-shoot of the Huron race whose strongholds were thickly sown on the eastern shore of Lake Huron, but the Jesuits were not clear as to their course of migration from that region, it being merely remarked that they had once possessed some settlements on the St. Lawrence below Montreal, with the apparent inference that they had arrived at these by way of Lake Champlain. This is simply the Ottawa route to Lake Huron used by the Jesuits in the next century.
    keywords: algonquins; cartier; champlain; country; hochelaga; huron; iroquois; lake; montreal; people; river; stadacona
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        item: #3 of 20
          id: 18635
      author: None
       title: The Treaty Held with the Indians of the Six Nations at Philadelphia, in July 1742 To which is Prefix'd an Account of the first Confederacy of the Six Nations, their present Tributaries, Dependents, and Allies
        date: None
       words: 13249
      flesch: 77
     summary: will be necessary to be advanced to _Conrad Weiser_ to defray those Expences, Mr. _Logan_ on the Proprietaries Behalf, proposes to advance 40_l._ and the Treasurer declaring he had no publick Money in his Hands, and that if he had, he would not advance Money without the Assembly's Order; it is recommended to Mr. _Preston_ and Mr. _ _They have generally been stiled the_ Five Nations _of_ Indians, _bordering upon_ Pensilvania _and_ New-York; _but, since the Arrival of the_
    keywords: brethren; chiefs; council; desire; goods; governor; indians; land; logan; nations; people; present; time; wampum
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        item: #4 of 20
          id: 19
      author: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
       title: The Song of Hiawatha
        date: None
       words: 33115
      flesch: 72
     summary: Such was Hiawatha's Wedding, Such the dance of Pau-Puk-Keewis, Such the story of Iagoo, Such the songs of Chibiabos; Thus the wedding banquet ended, And the wedding guests departed, Leaving Hiawatha happy With the night and Minnehaha. Till at sunset Hiawatha, Leaning on his bow of ash-tree, Wounded, weary, and desponding, With his mighty war-club broken, With his mittens torn and tattered,
    keywords: black; deer; eyes; forest; heart; hiawatha; keewis; kwasind; land; laughing; little; lodge; man; men; minnehaha; nokomis; o'er; pau; people; puk; red; river; round; snow; tree; war; water; white; wigwam; wild; wind
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        item: #5 of 20
          id: 22096
      author: Powers, Mabel
       title: Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children
        date: None
       words: 26606
      flesch: 97
     summary: He wanted to go at once on the chase, and hunt food for his wife and little boy. It was growing cold, and there was little wood in the cabin to burn.
    keywords: bear; boy; children; corn; day; earth; fire; fox; illustration; indian; little; man; mother; people; spirit; time; tree; wigwam
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        item: #6 of 20
          id: 22601
      author: Hale, Horatio
       title: Hiawatha and the Iroquois Confederation A Study in Anthropology. A Paper Read at the Cincinnati Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in August, 1881, under the Title of "A Lawgiver of the Stone Age."
        date: None
       words: 7563
      flesch: 61
     summary: The persistent desire for peace, pursued for centuries in federal unions, and in alliances and treaties with other nations, has been manifested by few as steadily as by the countrymen of Hiawatha. The chiefs who ventured to oppose him were taken off one after another by secret means, or were compelled to flee for safety to other tribes.
    keywords: atotarho; chief; council; dekanawidah; hiawatha; iroquois; league; mohawk; nation; peace; people; tribes
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        item: #7 of 20
          id: 30795
      author: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
       title: The Song of Hiawatha: An Epic Poem
        date: None
       words: 41572
      flesch: 76
     summary: Such was Hiawatha's Wedding, Such the dance of Pau-Puk-Keewis, Such the story of Iagoo, 370 Such the songs of Chibiabos; Thus the wedding banquet ended, And the wedding guests departed, Leaving Hiawatha happy With the night and Minnehaha. Till at sunset Hiawatha, 195 Leaning on his bow of ash-tree, Wounded, weary, and desponding, With his mighty war-club broken, With his mittens torn and tattered, And three useless arrows only, 200 Paused to rest beneath a pine-tree, From whose branches trailed the mosses, And whose trunk was coated over With the Dead-man's Moccasin-leather, With the fungus white and yellow.
    keywords: black; come; day; deer; earth; eyes; father; forest; hand; heart; heaven; hiawatha; illustration; keewis; land; laughing; little; love; man; men; nokomis; o'er; pau; people; puk; red; river; round; sea; snow; sun; tree; war; water; white; wigwam; wild; wind
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        item: #8 of 20
          id: 31926
      author: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
       title: The Story of Hiawatha, Adapted from Longfellow
        date: None
       words: 55900
      flesch: 77
     summary: On the summer evenings, little Hiawatha would hear the pine-trees whisper to one another and the water lapping in the lake, and he would see the fire-flies twinkle in the twilight; and when he saw the moon and all the dark spots on it he asked Nokomis what they were, and she told him that a very angry warrior had once seized his grandmother and thrown her up into the sky at midnight, right up to the moon, said Nokomis, and that is her body that you see there. They wrestled after evening had come upon them, until at last Hiawatha threw Mondamin to the ground, who lay there as if dead.
    keywords: air; arrow; black; canoe; chibiabos; dead; deer; forest; great; heart; hiawatha; iagoo; keewis; kwasind; land; little; lodge; man; men; minnehaha; mudjekeewis; nokomis; pau; people; puk; red; river; tree; war; water; white; wigwam; wind
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        item: #9 of 20
          id: 33023
      author: Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
       title: An Address, Delivered Before the Was-ah Ho-de-no-son-ne or New Confederacy of the Iroquois Also, Genundewah, a Poem
        date: None
       words: 14633
      flesch: 68
     summary: The term Ongwe Honwee, which Colden mentions as peculiarly applied to themselves, as proudly contradistinguished from others, is a mere equivalent, in the several dialects, at this day, for the term Indian, and applies equally to other tribes, throughout the continent, as well as to themselves. day.--Neither the Choctaws, the Cherokees, or other expatriated tribes now assembled on the Neosho territory, west of the Mississippi, although they adopted governments for themselves, have had the wisdom to adopt a general union.--The worst and most discouraging fact to the friends of the aboriginal race, in these Tribes, is, that they will not confederate.
    keywords: chief; clans; confederacy; continent; council; general; head; history; iroquois; lakes; light; man; men; nations; new; north; people; power; race; red; spirit; tribes; war; warriors; west
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        item: #10 of 20
          id: 35719
      author: Colden, Cadwallader
       title: The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada Which are dependent on the Province of New-York, and are a barrier between the English and the French in that part of the world
        date: None
       words: 67078
      flesch: 75
     summary: The Weather continuing very cold, and the _Indians_ averse to fighting, Major _Schuyler_ gave over the Pursuit on the 20th, having lost only four private Men, and as many _Indians_, two Officers and twelve Men Christians and _Indians_ were wounded. [Footnote 28: In the Straights between Lake _Erie_ and _
    keywords: albany; belt; brethren; cadarackui; canada; chain; corlear; country; enemy; england; english; fort; french; general; governor; indians; king; men; mohawks; montreal; nations; new; party; peace; people; prisoners; reason; river; sachems; time; virginia; war; york
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        item: #11 of 20
          id: 35720
      author: Colden, Cadwallader
       title: Papers Relating to an Act of the Assembly of the Province of New-York For encouragement of the Indian trade, &c. and for prohibiting the selling of Indian goods to the French, viz. of Canada
        date: None
       words: 82142
      flesch: 69
     summary: No; and as this Matter can be easily cleared up, we are anxious it should be done; for we are positive no such thing was ever mentioned to us at _Onandago_, nor any where else. In Consideration thereof, of our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and meer Motion) have given and granted, and by this our present Charter, for us, our Heirs and Successors, do give and grant unto the said _William Penn_, his Heirs and Assigns, all that Tract or Part of Land in _America_, with the Islands therein contained, as the same is bounded on the East by _Delawar_ River, from twelve Miles Distance Northwards of _Newcastle_
    keywords: act; aforesaid; albany; assembly; brethren; brother; canada; commissioners; council; country; e n; e t; english; excellency; french; goods; government; governor; great; heirs; indians; king; lands; maryland; men; n t; nations; new; people; persons; place; present; province; river; s e; shall; t h; time; trade; virginia; war; william; years; york
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        item: #12 of 20
          id: 39401
      author: Aimard, Gustave
       title: The Frontiersmen
        date: None
       words: 73951
      flesch: 75
     summary: These huts were arranged in a circle, and in the centre was one smaller than the others; and from the fact, that it was more neatly as well as securely constructed, Ichabod _guessed_ that it must be occupied by Singing-Bird. Rogers, who now found he would not be suffered to proceed in the making of the arrest, by the actual touching of the person of Ichabod, cried out-- Ichabod Jenkins, I arrest you by virtue of ---- but his voice was drowned in the yells of the Senecas; and the two intruders were immediately seized and bound.
    keywords: attack; barton; bird; brother; cottage; day; direction; eagle's; enemy; eyes; faces; fire; forest; friend; good; great; guthrie; ichabod; indians; know; life; look; moment; new; night; pale; panther; party; place; ralph; rifle; ruth; saw; senecas; singing; time; tuscarora; want; way; wing
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        item: #13 of 20
          id: 46795
      author: Rathborne, St. George
       title: The Pioneer Boys on the Great Lakes; or, On the Trail of the Iroquois
        date: None
       words: 70466
      flesch: 81
     summary: Bring Bob, him read trail of crazy fly on bark! Whenever Bob and Sandy Armstrong went into the great forests to seek game, or discover likely places where their traps might be set to advantage in the approaching autumn, they were always warned before leaving home to keep constantly on the watch for Indians.
    keywords: armstrong; black; blue; bob; boys; brother; cabin; chief; day; eyes; face; fire; forest; french; good; gun; hand; head; home; indians; jacket; kate; kenton; knew; look; man; men; mother; night; old; pat; pontiac; red; sandy; tell; time; trail; tree; village; way; white; young
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        item: #14 of 20
          id: 58228
      author: None
       title: The Legends of the Iroquois
        date: None
       words: 38061
      flesch: 73
     summary: This discovery, if true and there seems no reason for such a statement unless it be true is interesting in this connection and may be looked upon by some as a proof of the claim that about the year A. D. 400 a race of white people occupied the territory bordering the southern shores of the great lakes, and that they were driven away by red men who came from still further north. In the midst of one of the dances peculiar to the Green Corn Festival the oldest sachem of the tribe gave utterance to a prayer of thanksgiving, which has been translated as follows: Great Spirit in the Happy Hunting-Grounds, listen to our words.
    keywords: animals; brothers; chief; children; council; death; eyes; fire; forest; great; home; hunting; indians; iroquois; maiden; men; mohawks; people; place; river; senecas; spirit; sun; time; trees; village; warriors; women; years; young; | |
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        item: #15 of 20
          id: 6581
      author: Mackenzie, J. B.
       title: A Treatise on the Six-Nation Indians
        date: None
       words: 15556
      flesch: 44
     summary: The hut (for, in the majority of cases, it is really little better) that, with excess of boldness, commingles its cramped, unpleasing outlines with the forest's wealth of foliage; and has reared its unshapely structure on the site of the historic wigwam, obliterating, in its ruthless, intrusive, advent, that lingering relic of the picturesque aspect of Indian life--a relic that, with its emblems and inner garniture of war, bids a scion of the race indulge a prideful retrospect of his sometime grandeur, and pristine might; that has power to invoke stirring recollections of a momentous and a thrilling past; to re-animate and summon before him the shadowy figures of his redoubtable sires, and re-enact their lofty deeds: in view of which, there is wafted to him a breath, laden with moving memories of that glorious age, when aught but pre-eminence was foreign to his soul; when, though a rude and savage, he was yet a lordly, being; when he owned the supremacy, brooked the dictation, of none; when his existence was a round of joysome light-heartedness, and he, a stranger to constraint--this habitation of the Indian, to my mind, emphasizes his melancholy, and, perhaps, inevitable decadence, rather than symbolizes his partnership with the white in the more palpable pursuits of a practical, enlightened, and energetic age, or co-activity with him on a theatre of enlarged and more vigorous action. As our notions of early Indian life are so associated with the wigwam, a description of the manner and stages of its construction may be interesting.
    keywords: cases; character; chiefs; course; enfranchisement; government; indian; law; life; man; measure; mind; nature; oratory; power; practice; reserve; respect; way; white; woman; work
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        item: #16 of 20
          id: 6913
      author: Radisson, Pierre Esprit
       title: Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Being an Account of His Travels and Experiences Among the North American Indians, from 1652 to 1684
        date: None
       words: 117514
      flesch: 76
     summary: I told him I had found, though with great difficulty, what I sought after, & that I came to visit them, having taken other men than those I had before; that one of those with me was captain of the shipp lately arrived, & the other 4 were of Cannada. Thus without waiting for the arrival of the ship in which I had come, I resolved to embark myself upon the same shallop, which was named The Little Adventure; which I did not, nevertheless, on the same day, because the Governor found it proper to delay the party until the following day, & of giving me other men in the place of those that I had brought, who sound themselves fatigued.
    keywords: againe; att; bay; bee; ben; boats; boston; bridgar; brother; canada; captain; castors; comes; company; country; danger; day; dayes; doe; downe; end; england; english; ennemy; father; ffor; fire; footnote; fort; france; french; goe; good; governor; great; hands; hee; house; hudson; hurrons; ice; indians; iroquoits; island; lake; leagues; leave; litle; long; man; mass; mee; men; nation; nephew; new; night; noise; number; people; place; putt; radisson; reason; rest; river; savages; saw; seene; shee; shipp; stay; things; thought; time; trade; uppon; voyage; watter; way; weare; wee; wildmen; women; wood; years
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        item: #17 of 20
          id: 7339
      author: Hubbard, John Niles
       title: An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, or Red Jacket, and His People, 1750-1830
        date: None
       words: 76896
      flesch: 65
     summary: Tecumseh and Indian confederation--Aid given by Elskawata--Doings at the Prophet's town--Great Indian council at the West--Red Jacket's claim for precedence to be given the Senecas--His adherence to the United States-- Hostilities encouraged by British agents--Warriors gathered at the Prophet's town--Visited by General Harrison at the head of his troops-- Hostilities disclaimed--Surprised by a sudden attack--Indians defeated-- War proclaimed against England--Indians take sides--Unfavorable commencement--Different successes--Part taken by Red Jacket. _Captain Horatio Jones_, a favorite interpreter, has frequently declared,--_it is impossible to do Red Jacket justice_.
    keywords: british; brother; chiefs; children; col; colonel; council; country; day; father; footnote; fort; general; good; government; great; history; indians; influence; iroquois; jacket; jones; lands; life; man; men; morris; nation; new; occasion; orator; peace; people; point; present; president; red; right; river; senecas; speech; spirit; states; stone; thought; time; treaty; tribes; united; war; washington; way; west; white; years
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        item: #18 of 20
          id: 7783
      author: Owahyah
       title: Birch Bark Legends of Niagara
        date: None
       words: 11144
      flesch: 68
     summary: Seldom so many warriors met at one time on these quiet flats, and never contested champions more earnestly than did Black Snake and Grey Eagle on that day for the two prizes in one; never were spectators more enthusiastic. This unexpected movement produced attention and silence while he spoke: Black Snake sends a true arrow, but the Manitou guided Grey Eagle's.
    keywords: black; chief; eagle; father; fawn; grey; grey eagle; manitou; path; people; snake; thy; voice; war
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        item: #19 of 20
          id: 7978
      author: Johnson, Elias
       title: Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians
        date: None
       words: 76414
      flesch: 64
     summary: And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the public Treasurer to collect the money on said lands when they shall become due and hold the same subject to the order of the Tuscarora tribe of Indians; and whenever such order shall be presented, properly and duly authenticated, by said tribe or nation of Indians, it shall be his duty to pay the same over accordingly; Provided always that upon paying such monies, the Public Treasurer shall take from said Indians or agents, a full and complete release of all such claim, pretence of title, as they now make or ever may have to the aforesaid tract of lands. Beginning on the west line of the State of Missouri, at the northeast corner of the Cherokee tract, and running thence north along the west line of the State of Missouri twenty-seven miles to the southerly line of the Missouri lands: thence west so far as shall be necessary, by running a line at right angles and parallel to the west line aforesaid, to Osage lands; and thence easterly along the Osage and Cherokee lands to the place of beginning; to include one million eight hundred and twenty-four thousand acres of land, being three hundred and twenty acres for each soul of said Indians, as their numbers are at present computed.
    keywords: act; chiefs; children; commissioners; council; county; day; days; following; fort; friends; general; good; grand; head; home; house; indians; iroquois; john; johnson; lands; life; man; men; miss; nation; new; new york; north; number; people; persons; place; present; president; rev; right; river; school; seneca; society; spirit; states; temperance; time; treaty; tribes; tuscarora; tuscarora indians; united; war; warriors; west; white; women; year; york; york indians
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        item: #20 of 20
          id: 8567
      author: Hale, Horatio
       title: The Iroquois Book of Rites
        date: None
       words: 62833
      flesch: 71
     summary: Thatotarho_ is the passive voice and cislocative form of _otarho_, which is defined to grasp, or catch (_accrocher_) In singing this portion, as also in the following litany to the chiefs, the long-drawn exclamation of _hai_, or _haihhaih_, is frequently introduced.
    keywords: atotarho; bear; book; brothers; canienga; character; chief; clan; class; confederacy; council; councillors; day; dekanawidah; english; etho; evidence; fact; family; footnote; form; french; har; hiawatha; history; house; huron; indian; iroquois; ken; lake; language; league; list; man; meaning; members; missionaries; morgan; names; nations; near; nen; nene; new; number; onenh; onondaga; origin; people; place; present; quar; rites; river; ruler; senecas; son; speech; tar; thou; time; tortoise; towns; tribes; wampum; war; wen; wolf; word; work; yar; years
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