Travels Amongst American Indians

Download or read book Travels Amongst American Indians written by Lindesay Brine and published by General Books. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Indian Reservations.?Lake Superior.?Beavers and their works. ?The Forest.?Houghton.?Ancient Indian mining pits and trenches.?An Indian battle ground.?The Glacial Drift.?Note regarding the Dauphin. From Damariscotta I went up the valley of the St. Lawrence, and visited the reservation lands of the Algonquins, Hurons, and other tribes that had originally held possession of that part of the country. The most important assemblage of Indians was placed upon a large tract of land near the banks of the Grand river in Upper Canada. There I saw, dwelling in their separate villages, the descendants of the once powerful confederacy of the Iroquois, who had been our faithful allies in our wars. Nearly three thousand Indians were gathered together belonging to the tribes of the Senecaa, Onondagas, Mohawks, Cayugas, Oneidas and Tus- caroras. Some of them had been converted, but many still maintained their ancient faiths and performed their customary Pagan ceremonies. It was extraordinary to observe how unavailing had been the influence of European civilisation in advancing the intellectual capacities of the tribes. The French missionaries at Lorette, Oka, and St. Regis, many of whom were well acquainted with the LAKE SUPERIOR. language of the converts put under their care, told me that all their efforts were useless, and that the Aabours of nearly three centuries were absolutely without any practical result. After having passed a few weeks in the vicinity of the lakes, for the purpose of seeing the condition of various remnants of certain North American Indian Plan of the Lixke Superior Iron mid Copper region. tribes placed upon reservations, I reached the shores of the Georgian bay, and then proceeded to the port of Marquette in Michigan. My ...