Indian Biography (1800) (14763325855)

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Title: Indian Biography

Year: 1800 (1800s)

Authors: Thatcher, B.B. (Benjamin Bussy), 1809-1840

Subjects: Indians of North America

Publisher: Philadelphia : Bowen

Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System

Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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A FmmiiE CHI El-. LitJi^Col- & P,j6I^f,^ by JT Bov>rtn-. PAiJa^d. BIOGRAPHY EED JACKET. The Seneca tribe was the most important of the celebrated con-federacy, known in the early history of the American colonies, asthe Iroquois, or Five Nations. They were a powerful and warlikepeople, and acquired a great ascendency over the surrounding tribes,as well by their prowess, as by the systematic skill with which theiraffairs seem to have been conducted. Their hunting grounds, andprincipal residence, were in the fertile lands, now embraced in thewestern limits of the State of New York—a country whose prolificsoil, and majestic forests, whose limpid streams, and chains of pic-turesque lakes, and whose vicinity to the shores of Erie and Onta-rio, must have rendered it in its savage state, the paradise of thenative hunter. Surrounded by all that could render the wildernessattractive, by the greatest luxuriance of nature, and by the mostpleasing, as well as the most sublime scenery, and

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