Boys’ Book of Indian Warriors: And Heroic Indian Women (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Boys’ Book of Indian Warriors: And Heroic Indian Women
When the white race came into the country of the red race, the red race long had had their own ways of living and their own code of right and wrong. They were red, but they were thinking men and women, not mere animals.
The white people brought their ways, which were different from the Indians’ ways. So the two races could not live together.
To the white people, many methods of the Indians were wrong; to the Indians, many of the white people’s methods were wrong. The white people won the rulership, because they had upon their side a civilization stronger than the loose civilization of the red people, and were able to carry out their plans.
The white Americans formed one nation, with one language; the red Americans formed many nations, with many languages.
The Indian fought as he had always fought, and ninety-nine times out of one hundred he firmly believed that he was enforcing the right. The white man fought after his own custom and sometimes after the Indian’s custom also; and not infrequently he knew that he was enforcing a wrong.
Had the Indians been enabled to act all together, they would have held their land, just as the Americans of today would hold their land against the invader.
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