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- Carlisle, Indian School at, 628.
- Cartier, Jacques, 130, 174, 277, 278.
- Catlin, George, his opinion of the endowment and character of the Indian, 99, 100.
- Champlain, Samuel de, French voyager and colonizer, 277; visits Mass. Bay, 277, — and Canada, 279; his great influence over the Indians, 280; employs tribe against tribe, 281, 282.
- Charters and Patents of the American colonists, instructions of, regarding treatment of the Indians, 22-25.
- Chinese, the, question of their ethnical relation to this country stated, 8,9.
- Christendom, its view of heathendom, and of what should be the relations of Christians with all other men and women, 53, 54, 59, 60, 63, 64, 69, 227, 228; nature of the doctrines its missionaries presented to the savages, 137, 138, 375, 377, 378; quotes Scriptural authority for its dispossession of the Indians, 237.
- Christianity, What is it? 371.
- Christians, their treatment of each other outmatches in cruelty their treatment of the Indian, 19, 20; their missionary efforts, some general remarks on, 368 et seq.; their disputes among themselves as to the nature of their religion, 371—374; their discordant teachings to the Indians, 373-375, 377.
- Civilization, product and process of, 90; difficulty of drawing a sharp line between, and barbarism, 91; a state of non-conformity to Nature and natural surroundings, 143; assumed prerogatives of, as towards barbarism, 231, 589, 590, — the subject considered, 232 et seq.; easy lapse from, in many cases of our early colonists, 363-365; Salvation and, 375; some objections to, 589; indispensable conditions of, 591; arbitrary definition of, 592, 593; European form of, 593; not all gain and blessing, 597; what the savage sees in, 598, 600-602; different degrees of, as presented in the white man's progress here, 601, 602; indispensable conditions of, for the Indian, 626.
- Clay, Henry, his forecast of the fate of the red men on this continent, 532, 533.
- Colonization of the American continent, its earliest conditions and opportunities, 216, 218,219; safety of the colonists lay in the inter-tribal warfare of the natives, and in making alliance with one tribe against another, 217, 221; methods of the different colonists, 218-220; plea of the colonists in justification of their course towards the natives, 220, 221; theory of discovery under which Europeans took possession of the continent, 226, 227; claim of the colonists that the natives were their rightful subjects, 228-230; the white man's reasons for dispossessing the Indians, 239, 240; feeble beginnings but rapid advance of, 251-253.
- Columbus, his theory of the globe, its size, etc., 2, 3; his desire to find a short passage to the Indies the great motive of his Western voyages, 2, 3 ; his first discovery of San Salvador, 40; his impression of the natives, 40, 41; his kindly treatment, in the first instance, of the savages, 41, 42; first blood shed between his men and the natives of Hispaniola, 42; builds a fort and establishes a colony at Hispaniola, 43; his second voyage to the New World, 43-45; establishes a colony at Isabella, 45; sends natives to Spain to be sold as slaves, 45; incites natives against natives in his conflicts with them, 47; his description of the natives of Hispaniola, 49; imports Spanish convicts to America, 62; sanctions the enslaving of the natives, 62, 63, 67 ; his final discovery of the American continent, 67.
- Communal Indian life, 87.
- "Conquest," word chosen by historians to define the method of the Spaniards in obtaining mastery
