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Identifier: youngnimrodsinno00knox (find matches)
Title: The young Nimrods in North America : a book for boys
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896
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Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers

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ad brought him to view, they ran aroundhim and examined him with the greatest apparent curiosity, as thoughsuch a being had never been seen before. A council of the oldest wolves was called, to determine what to dowith him. The Indian made a speech to the following effect: You have taken me from the spirit-land, where I was contented and ADVICE OF AN INDIAN COUNCIL. 211 happy, and brought me into this world, where I am a stranger, and Iknow not what I shall do for food and clothing. It is better you should O «/ place me back where you found me, otherwise I shall freeze and starve.The council deliberated on this proposal, and finally refused to puthim back where they found him. They advised him to gain his living inthe same way that the wolves did; he must go out into the wilderness,and live by robbing, killing, and stealing; but he must never build ahouse or cultivate the soil, as by so doing he would condemn himself tocertain death. Then they gave him a bow and arrows, and explained
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TIIK WOLF-DANCE OF THE TONKAWAS. that they were sufficient for supplying him with food and clothing, andwith this they retired from the lodge, and left him to shift for himself. The Tonkawas and other tribes claim that they have always obeyedthe injunction which is so closely connected with their origin. Most ofthe Indians of the Far West are opposed to living on reservations, andlearning to till the soil, and it is doubtless due to some of their traditionsthat they have such an aversion to the habits of civilized life. 16 242 THE YOUNG NIMRODS. CHAPTER XX. A CHANGE OF CAMP.—MORE HUNTING AND MORE INDIANS. rIMIE buffaloes were not disturbed on the day the camp was moved, as-*- Captain Bailey did not think it prudent to go out till something wasknown of the number of Indians in the neighborhood and their disposi-tion. There could be very little doubt of their unfriendly feeling, afterthe attack on the ambulance, and therefore an assault might be looked forwhenever the Indians felt str

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