sacrificed the best blood of their young men in their war against the
French. Some declared their intention of killing every white man they
could find in retaliation for such unprovoked murder; but the chief
Ottakullakulla calmly arose and addressed the excited assembly:

"Let us have consideration," said he, "for our white neighbors who are
not guilty of this deed. We must not violate our faith or the laws of
hospitality by imbruing our hands in the blood of those who are now in
our power. They came to us in the confidence of a pledged friendship;
let us conduct them safely back within their own confines before we take
up the hatchet!"

He carried his point to some extent, and himself saved Captain Stewart,
his friend, by giving up all of his property to ransom him. In
difficulties between the races since colonial times there has been an
unbroken record of heroic work in the rescue of missionaries and other
white persons resident among the Indians by their native converts and
friends. In the Minnesota Sioux outbreak of 1862 there were many notable
instances. A man named Arrow stood beside Mr. Spencer and dared the
infuriated warriors to touch him. There were over two hundred white
captives saved by friendly Indians and delivered to General Sibley at
Camp Release. During the following December some young Yanktonnais
Sioux voluntarily ransomed and delivered up two white women and four
children. I knew some of these men well; among them Fast Walking, who
carried one of the children on his back to safety, after giving his own
horse to redeem him. Seldom have such deeds been rewarded or even
appreciated. When these men became old and feeble an attempt was made to
have them recompensed by Congressional appropriation, but so far as I am
informed it has been unsuccessful.

I do not wish to disparage any one, but I do say that the virtues
claimed by "Christian civilization" are not peculiar to any culture or
religion. My people were very simple and unpractical--the modern
obstacle to the fulfilment of the Christ ideal. Their strength lay in
self-denial. Not only men, but women of the race have served the nation
at most opportune moments in the history of this country.

HISTORIC INDIAN WOMEN

It is remembered that Pocahontas saved the first Virginia colony from
utter destruction because of her love for Captain John Smith, who was
the heart and brain of the colony. It was the women of the Oneida and
Stockbridge Indians w