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{Illustration: Frontispiece--Norman B. Wood.}



                      LIVES of FAMOUS
                       INDIAN CHIEFS

         FROM COFACHIQUI, THE INDIAN PRINCESS, AND
              POWHATAN; DOWN TO AND INCLUDING
               CHIEF  JOSEPH  AND  GERONIMO.

                    Also an answer, from the
                 latest research, of the query,

                   WHENCE CAME THE INDIAN?

                   Together with a number
                 of thrillingly interesting

           INDIAN STORIES AND ANECDOTES FROM HISTORY

                          * * * * *

           COPIOUSLY AND SPLENDIDLY ILLUSTRATED, IN PART,
                    BY OUR SPECIAL ARTIST.

                          * * * * *


                              By
                        NORMAN B. WOOD

Historian, Lecturer, and Author of "The White Side of a Black Subject" (out
   of print after twelve editions) and "A New <DW64> for a New Century,"
   which has reached a circulation of nearly a _hundred thousand copies._

{Illustration: Two Indians in a canoe.}

                         PUBLISHED BY

          AMERICAN  INDIAN HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY
                   Brady Block, Aurora, Ill.



    Copyrighted in 1906 by American  Indian  Historical Publishing Co.,
                        Aurora, Illinois.
                              * * * * *
                  All rights of every kind reserved.


{Illustration: seal.}



             PRINTING AND BINDING BY THE HENRY O. SHEPARD CO.
                   ENGRAVING BY THE INLAND-WALTON CO.
                             CHICAGO.



                               TO

                      THEODORE ROOSEVELT,

              PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,

        Who has observed closely and recorded justly the
        character of the Red Man, and who, in the words
        of Chief Quanah Parker, "is the Indian's President
        as well as the white man's," this volume is respectfully
        dedicated by


                          THE AUTHOR.



                            CONTENTS

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                                                               page
Introduction,                                                    11

                          CHAPTER  I.

Cofachiqui, The Indian Princess,                                 21

                          CHAPTER  II.

Powhatan, or Wah-Un-So-Na-Cook,                                  41

                          CHAPTER  III.

Massasoit, The Friend of the Puritans,                           65

                          CHAPTER  IV.

King Philip, or Metacomet, The Last of the Wampanoaghs,          85

                          CHAPTER   V.

Pontiac, The Red Napoleon, Head Chief of the Ottawas and
   Organizer of the First Great Indian Confederation,          121

                         CHAPTER  VI.

Logan, or Tal-Ga-Yee-Ta, The Cayuga (Mingo) Chief, Orator
   and Friend of the White Man. Also a Brief Sketch of
   Cornstalk,                                                  173

                         CHAPTER   VII.

Captain Joseph Brant, or Thay-En-Da-Ne-Gea, Principal
   Sachem of the Mohawks and Head Chief of the Iroquois
   Confederation,                                              191

                         CHAPTER  VIII.

Red Jacket, or Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, "The Keeper Awake." The
   Indian Demosthenes, Chief of the Senecas,                   237

                          CHAPTER IX.

Little Turtle, or Michikiniqua, War Chief of the Miamis, and
   Conqueror of Harmar and St. Clair,                          283

                           CHAPTER  X.

Tecumseh, or "The Shooting Star," Famous War-chief of the
   Shawnees, Organizer of the Second Great Indian Confederation
   and General in the British Army in the War of 1812,         317

                         CHAPTER  XI.

Black Hawk, or Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, and His War,         363

                         CHAPTER  XII.

Shabbona, or Built Like a Bear, The White Man's Friend, a
   Celebrated Pottawatomie Chief,                              401

                         CHAPTER  XIII.

Sitting Bull, or Tatanka Yotanka, The Great Sioux Chief and
   Medicine Man,                                               443

                          CHAPTER  XIV.

Chief Joseph, of the Nez Perces, or Hin-Mah-Too-Yah-Lat-Kekt,
   Thunder Rolling in the Mountains, The Modern Xenophon,      497

                         CHAPTER  XV.

Geronimo, or Go-Yat-Thlay, The  Yawner, The  Renowned
   Apache Chief and Medicine Man,                              529

                         CHAPTER  XVI.

Quanah Parker, Head Chief of the Comanches, With, an
   Account of the Captivity of His Mother, Cynthia Anne
   Parker, Known as "The White Comanche,"                      563

                        CHAPTER   XVII.

A Sheaf of Good Indian Stories From History,                   589

                         CHAPTER  XVIII.

Indian Anecdotes and Incidents, Humorous and Otherwise,        673

                         CHAPTER  XIX.

Whence Came the Aborigines of America?                         721



                    LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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                                                               page
 1 Frontispiece.
 2 Cofachiqui, The Indian Princess,                             19
 3 American Horse, Sioux Chief,                                 29
 4 Powhatan,                                                    39
 5 Captain Smith and Pocahontas,                                49
 6 Pocahontas, or Lady Rebecca,                                 59
 7 Ope-Chan-Ca-Nough,                                           69
 8 Massasoit and Pilgrims,                                      79
 9 Nellie Jumping Eagle,                                        89
10 King Philip, or Metacomet,                                   99
11 Philip Rejecting Elliot's Preaching,                        109
12 Pontiac, The Red Napoleon,                                  119
13 Montcalm  at Massacre of Quebec,                            129
14 Hollow-Horn Bear, Sioux Chief,                              139
15 Major Campbell and Pontiac,                                 149
16 Hollow  Horn,                                               159
17 Starved Rock,                                               169
18 Logan, The Mingo Orator,                                    179
19 Logan and the Two  Hunters,                                 189
20 Joseph Brant, Mohawk  Chief,                                199
21 King Hendrick, Mohawk  Chief,                               209
22 Sir William Johnson and the