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his Indian grammar, extract from, 451; his various works of translation, 454; final appearance of his complete translation of the Bible, 455, 456; his zeal for his "Praying Indians" in their hard experience during King Philip's War, 462, 463; some of his successors, 471.
- England, its illustration of the disposition of the strong against the weak, 69, 70; her common cause with the Indians against us, 257; has she been more just and wise toward them than has our own Government? 477; how she gained dominion on this continent, 478, 479; she has intrigued to set the Indians against us, 480; her relations with the Indians different from ours, 481, 482; employs Indians against us in both of our wars with her, 495, 496, 500, 501, 504, 508; her heartless manner of abandoning them after the war, 505, 506; on the whole, her policy toward the Indians hardly a magnanimous one, 509, — some further illustrations of the truth of this judgment, 510, 511; her system of government regulations of the Indians similar to ours, 512; her dangers ahead with her savage subjects, 513.
- English, the, third settlers in the New World, but outlasting their predecessors, the Spanish and French, in the permanency of their occupation, 16; their estimate of Indian character and capacity, 102, 103, 333, 620, 622; made themselves less agreeable and conformed to the red men than the French, 292-294, 319, 320; began to colonize in the New World under no royal patronage, 304; founded here a democracy, 305; effect of their different re- ligion from that of the French in America, 306; conflicts with the French, 307-310; their colonies in America: the great strain and cost upon them to get established, 326-328, — preamble to their confederation, 332, — their purchases of Indian land, 335-338, — their various wars with the Indians, 324, 340, 341, 344, 345, — their union for defence, 347, — their rivalry with the French culminating in the French and Indian War, 347 et seq.; accession of, to Western territory, 349; their forest strong-holds and garrisons, and their
efforts to maintain them, 350-353.
- "Evangeline," Longfellow's, 307.
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- Festivals, Indian, 187.
- Fire-water, reason of the name, 489.
- Franciscan Friars, the, rivalry of, with the Jesuits, in their Canadian missions, 298-300; their missionary labors in Canada, 389, 390. French, the, first visitors to America after the Spaniards, 3, 266; their fishing voyages to the New World, 265, 266; basis of their claim to the possession of the continent, 266, 288-290; in some respects more agreeable to the natives than were the Spaniards, 266, 267; their disastrous attempts at colonization in Florida, 270-273; they colonize in Acadia and Canada, 276 et seq.; kidnap Indians in Canada, 277, 278; settle in Alabama and Louisiana, 283-286; no vestige remaining now, except in names of lakes and rivers, etc., of their former hold on the continent, 286, 287; their work as explorers, 289; their influence over the savages, 290, 317; their voyageurs and coureurs, 291; their easy conformity to the ways and customs of the red men, 292, 293; half-breeds, 301; motives, agencies, and principles of, compared with those of the English, 302, 303, 305; their treatment of the Iroquois, 303, 304; conflicts with the English, 307-310, — cession of territory to, 308, 310, 317, 348.
- Friars, the Dominican, beginning of their work in the New World, 71-73.
