INDIAN'S LAMENT FOR HIS RACE; HE MOURNS FOR THEIR VANISHED DAYS OF HAPPINESS. A Chippewa Talks Familiarly of the Former Customs of His Tribe -- How They Punished Crime.
From The Chicago Interior. ();
August 03, 1895,
, Section , Page 6, Column , words
" Before the white men came we were men," said a Chippewa friend. These people look back upon their past as upon a lost paradise, in which there were happiness and innocence. They repudiate the descriptions of them written by white historians, as the work of enemies, seeking to justify cruelties and wrongs.
August 03, 1895
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