boins

XX THE BLACKFEET DEFY THE CROWS (1834)
"Come and Take Us!"

XXI THE STRONG MEDICINE OF KONATE (1839)
The Story of the Kiowa Magic Staff

XXII RED CLOUD STANDS IN THE WAY (1865-1909)
The Sioux Who Closed the Road of the Whites

XXIII STANDING BEAR SEEKS A HOME (1877-1880)
The Indian Who Won the White Man's Verdict

XXIV SITTING BULL THE WAR MAKER (1876-1881)
An Unconquered Leader

XXV CHIEF JOSEPH GOES TO WAR (1877)
And Out-Generals the United States Army

XXVI THE GHOST DANCERS AND THE RED SOLDIERS (1889-1890)
And Sitting Bull's Last Medicine

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Chief Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

King Philip (missing from book)

Pontiac, The Red Napoleon

An Indian Brave

Young Kiowa Girl (missing from book)

Red Cloud

Standing Bear

Sitting Bull

BOYS' BOOK OF INDIAN WARRIORS

CHAPTER I

PISKARET THE ADIRONDACK CHAMPION (1644)

HOW HE SCOUTED AGAINST THE IROQUOIS

It was in early spring, about the year 1644, that the warrior Piskaret
of the Adirondack tribe of the Algonkins set forth alone from the
island Allumette in the Ottawa River, Canada, to seek his enemies the
Iroquois.

For there long had been bitter, bitter war between the vengeful
Algonkins[1] and the cruel Hurons on the one side, and the proud, even
crueler Five Nations of the Iroquois on the other side. At first the
Adirondacks had driven the Mohawks out of lower Canada and into
northern New York; but of late all the Algonkins, all the Hurons, and
the French garrisons their allies, had been unable to stem the tide of
the fierce Iroquois, rolling back into Canada again.

"Iri-a-khoiw" was the Algonkin name for them, meaning "adder." The
French termed them "Mingos," from another Algonkin word meaning
"stealthy." The English and Dutch colonists in America knew them as
the Five Nations. Their own title was "People of the Long House," as
if the five nations were one family housed all together under one roof.

The Mohawks, the Senecas, the Onondagas, the Oneidas and the
Cayugas--these composed the Iroquois league of the Five Nations against
the world of enemies. The league rapidly spread in power, until the
dreaded Iroquois were styled the Romans of the West.

But nearly three hundred years ago they were only beginning to rise.
Their home was in central New York, from the Mohawk country at the
Hudso