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                      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.