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CONTENTS
PONTIAC'S DECLINE AND FALL.
Pages 510 - 520.....Pontiac and the Illinois Tribes--Fort Chartres--The French Commandant--Pontiac appeals to the Illinois Tribes--Asks the French to assist him--Sends an Embassy to the Indian Villages and to New Orleans--Repulse of Major Loftus--Interview of Pontiac's Ambassadors with the French Governor--George Croghan with a party Sent West--Attack near the Wabash--Croghan and his Men captured--Croghan's Interview with Pontiac--French Forts Surrendered to the English--Pontiac Offers the Calumet of Peace--Great council at Detroit--Pontiac's Speech--He retires to the Maumee--Visits Sir William Johnson at Oswego--Great Peace Council--Pontiac Goes to St. Louis--Attends a Meeting of Indians at Cahokia--A Grand Feast--Slain by a Hired Assassin of the Kaskaskia Tribe--Pontiac's Friends Avenge his Death.
Pages 521 - 527.....A Teton Sioux--Student of Father De Smet--Hatred of the Whites--Accused of Inciting Trouble at Fort Buford--Gen. Morrow--One of Sitting Bull's Men Killed--Determines to Avenge his Death--Reconciled by Presents--Assumes a Bolder Attitude--Gathers a Powerful Band--Scorns being Confined to a Reservation--Siege against Fort Pease--A Perilous Journey--Relief of Fort Pease--War against Sitting Bull--Battle of Little Big Horn- -Annihilation of Custer's Command--Gen. Miles Chastises the Indians--Sitting Bull's Escape to British Territory--Reduced to Starvation--His Daughter Elopes--Final Surrender--Indian Woman's Speech--Personal Characteristics .
Pages 528 - 539.....Relating to the Musquakies of Iowa.
Pages 540 - 000.....Treaty of 1836 -- Account by an Eye-witness..
(Not included in the original text) INDEX
Chapter One
Previous Pages:
Introductory Page|
Portrait of MA-KA-TAI-ME-SHE-KIA-KIAH (Black Hawk)|
Title Page|
Page 2
Preface (pages 3 - 6)|
Illustrations (page 7)
Contents, page 9 (Chapters 1, 2)
Contents, page 10 (Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6)
Contents, page 11 (Chapters 7, 8, 9, 10)
Contents, page 12 (Chapters 11, 12, 13)
Contents, page 13 (Chapters 14, 15, 16, 17)
Contents, page 14 (Chapters 18, 19, 20)
Contents, page 15 (Chapters 21, 22, 23, 24)
Contents, page 16 (Appendix - Pontiac's War, Etc., Chapters 1, 2)
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