Identifier: indianhistoryfor00drak (find matches)
Title: Indian history for young folks
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel), 1828-1885 Dowd, Francis Joseph, 1876-
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America -- Wars
Publisher: New York London : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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LAKE ClIAMILAIN. This was the first time the Iroquois had heard the sound of fire-arms,by the mysterious power of which they were then easily vanquished.The French having allied themselves with the Adirondacks and Hurons,and given them arms and assistance, a spirit of hatred for them WMSaroused among the Iroquois that never ceased to burn until Canada was•wrested from them by the English. A year later another conflict took place near the mouth of the Riche-lieu, in which ( namplain again participated. One hundred Iroquois wereat bay behind a palisade surrounded by a horde of Algonkin warrior.-, THE IROQUOIS. 135 whose attack they had bloodily repulsed. When Cliampluin, with four ofhis men, approached, wild yells arose from the Algonkins in which weremingled the howl of the wolf, the whoop of the owl, and the scream ofthe cougar, to which a fierce response was made by the desperate Iroquois.
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ATTACK ON AN IROQUOIS FORT. A storm of arrows burst upon the French as they rushed on, wound-ing Champlain and one of his companions. When, however, the terribleweapons of their mysterious assailants were thrust through the crevicesof their barricade, dealing death among its defenders, they could not control their fear, and threw themselves flat on the ground. The allied In-dians now rushed in and levelled the barricade, while at the same time aboat-load of French fur-traders who had heard the firing joined in thefray, and helped to secure a complete victory. By the grace of God,writes Champlain, behold the victory won ! While journeying to the country of the Ilurons at a later period,Champlain suddenly encountered three hundred Indians, whom, from theirodd method of dressing their hair, he named the Cheveux 1615. Relevez. Not one of our courtiers, he says, takes so much pains in dressing his hair as these savages do. They were wholly 136 INDIAN HISTORY FOR YOUNG FOLKS. naked, their b

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