Sketches of Indian Character
- Subtitle
- Being a Brief Survey of the Principal Features of Character Exhibited by the North American Indians; Illustrating the Aphorism of the Socialists, that "Man is the creature of circumstances"
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1. Front matter2. SKETCHES OF INDIAN CHARACTER.3. Of the bodily constitution of the North American Indians, and of the measure of their intellectual faculties.4. Of the Political state and Institutions of the American Indians.5. Of the Military Tactics of the North American Indians.6. Of the Religion of the North American Indians.7. Of the mode in which the North American Indians educate their children.8. Further particulars respecting the Cruelty of the Indians, their Hospitality, their sense of Justice, and the mode in which the Whites have acted towards them.9. Of the attempts which have been made to civilize the American Indians.