By the Dawn’s Early Light

Description

In the year of 1492| when Christopher Columbus first set foot on the soil of “THE NEW WORLD|” there were an approximated| though unconfirmed| six million Native Indians| of differing tribal cultures| and systems| spread all across what is now America| and Canada. By the years end of 1890| when the rifle and cannon had fallen silent| and the sabres safely sheathed| and the bow| lance| and tomahawk were finally thrown to the ground in defeat. That figure had been reduced to a mere| staggering| two hundred and fifty thousand souls. Many| many of their number had died between the years of 1860 and 1890| the period covered within these pages. Most of these souls| drawing their final breath| under a false belief| that to live in a land no longer their own| and to adopt a culture totally alien to them| would| after all their suffering| be of immense value to them. Those Indians voices| that had helped the first settlers to survive their first winter in “the new world| had| by the year of 1890| been reduced from a roar| to a mere whisper on the wind. In the year of 1492| when Christopher Columbus first set foot on the soil of “THE NEW WORLD|” there were an approximated| though unconfirmed| six million Native Indians| of differing tribal cultures| and systems| spread all across what is now America| and Canada. By the years end of 1890| when the rifle and cannon had fallen silent| and the sabres safely sheathed| and the bow| lance| and tomahawk were finally thrown to the ground in defeat. that figure had been reduced to a mere| staggering| two hundred and fifty thousand souls. Many| many of their number had died between the years of 1860 and 1890| the period covered within these pages. Most of these souls| drawing their final breath| under a forced but false belief| that to live in a land no longer their own| and to adopt a culture totally alien to them| would| after all their suffering| be of immense value to them. Those Indians voices| that had helped the first settlers to survive their first winter in “the new world| had| by the year of 1890| been reduced from a roar| to a mere whisper on the wind.