Canku Ota - May 17, 2003 - Early Life Among the Indians - Table of Contents

	Canku Ota
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	An Online Newsletter Celebrating Native America
	May 17, 2003 - Issue 87


	Early Life Among the Indians Reminiscences From the Life Of Benj. G. Armstrong __________ Treaties Of 1835, 1837, 1842 and 1854 Habits and Customs of the Red Men of the Forest Incidents, Biographical Sketches, Battles & c. Dictated to and written by Thomas P. Wentworth, Ashland, Wisconsin 1892 Press of A.W. Bowron Ashland, Wis.
	COPYRIGHTED JANUARY 1891 B. G. ARMSTRONG AND T. P. WENTWORTH ASHLAND, WIS.
	credits: submitted by Timm Severud (Ondamitag)

CONTENTS:
Preface
Biographical Sketch

CHAPTER	I		The Removal Order. - Treaties of 1837 and 1848. - Off For Washington. - In New York with Only One Dime
CHAPTER	II		In Washington. - Told to Go Home. -. The "Great Father." - Reversal of the Removal Order - Treaty of 1854 and the Reservations
CHAPTER	III		Tidal Wave of Immigration. - Sharp Practices. - An Indian Shot. - President Lincoln's Promises
CHAPTER	IV		First Payment Under Treaty of 1854. - Death of Buffalo. - An Indian Tradition. - The First Log Cabin
CHAPTER	V		Early Settlers - Battle of the Brule. - The Scalp Lock. - The Sioux Revenge
CHAPTER	VI		The American Fur Co. - An Indian Law. - The Choice of a Wife. - Indian Courtship and Marriage
CHAPTER	VII		The Indians As They Were In the Old Days. - Birch Bark and Its' Uses
CHAPTER	VIII		The Influence of Whiskey. - Stay and Departure of the Traders. - Annuity Payments.
CHAPTER	IX		Origin of the Chippewa Tribes. - Early Missionaries. - Black Hawk's Capture
CHAPTER	X		Excitement Among Whites and Indians - The Ghost Dance - The Headwaters of' the Mississippi
CHAPTER	XI		Source of the Great River. - The Indians There in 1842. -" Don't Eat Moose Till You Catch Him"
CHAPTER	XII		Two Languages. - Religious Beliefs. - A Secret Order. - The Mysterious River. - 'Happy Hunting Grounds
CHAPTER	XIII		Prominent Chippewa Chiefs. - Buffalo as a Chief. - A Chief's Daughter
CHAPTER	XIV		Father Baraga. - Source of the Chippewa Religion. - The Chippewa Church.
CHAPTER	XV		King of the Apostle Islands.' - Organization of Ashland County. - Up a Tree
CHAPTER	XVI		The Chippewa Valley. - Pioneer Settlers and Early Lumbermen. - Justice in the Early Days
CHAPTER	XVII		A Mysterious Disappearance. - An Introduction to the Family of Mr. Bruin
CHAPTER	XVIII		The Beginning of the Indian Troubles and Their Causes. - Spiritualism and Its Origin
CHAPTER	XIX		The Chippewa Language

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