Chapter VIII: The Shawnees

First emigrant tribe in Kansas.--Ancient home of the
nation.--Defeat by the Iroquois.--Flight
southward.--Return.--Settlement near Cape Girardeau.--Removal to
Kansas.--Removal to the Indian Territory.--Shawnees of Algonquin
stock.--Gypsies of the wilderness.--Creation theory.--Doctrine of
pre-natal existence.--An incident of war with the Pawnees.--Belief
in descent from one of the lost tribes of Israel.--Holy of
Holies.--Language.--Adventures of a trader.--Maune, the Chippewa
Girl.--A Fragment of History from the War of the Races.--Chinwa,
the White Warrior.--The Tragic Death of the Son of Chief
Lay-law-she-kaw. 167

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Scene in the Kansas Valley Frontispiece

A Pawnee Buffalo Hunt 40

Pit-a-le-shar'-u 64

Ta-ton-ka-I-yo-ton-ka (Sitting Bull) 80

Sioux Infant 88

Wa-hon-ga-shee (No Fool) 96

Ni-co-man 114

Tecumseh 190

The Shawnee Prophet 202

Che-la-tha 210

"Ye whose hearts are fresh and simple,
Who have faith in God and Nature,
Who believe, that in all ages,
Every human heart is human,
That in even savage bosoms,
There are longings, yearnings, strivings,
For the good they comprehend not,
That the feeble hands and helpless,
Groping blindly in the darkness,
Touch God's right hand in that darkness,
And are lifted up and strengthened;--
Listen to this simple story."

--_Longfellow._