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"The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity."
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"The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity."
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"There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy."
"The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character."
"Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning."
"In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees."
"The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe."
"The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand."
"No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people."
"The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old."
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