It is certainly the greatest nation of Indians ever yet found. Not above two thousand of them were ever armed with fire-arms, the rest depending entirely on bows and arrows, which they use with more skill than any other Indian nation in America. Journal of Proceedings - Page 28by Wisconsin. Legislature. Senate - 1855Full view - About this book
| Frederick Webb Hodge - Indians of North America - 1907 - 1002 pages
...Wis. Hist. Soc. Coll., i, 36, 1855) : " This day, 12 warriors of the Sous came here [Green Bay, Wis.]. It is certainly the greatest nation of Indians ever yet found. Not above 2,000 of them were ever armed with fire-arms, the rest depending entirel von bows and arrows and darts,... | |
| Henry Anson Castle - Saint Paul (Minn.) - 1912 - 504 pages
...receive English traders. Lieutenant Gorell, who was the first Englishman to describe the Sioux, wrote: "It is certainly the greatest nation of Indians ever...ever armed with firearms, the rest depending entirely upon bows and arrows. They can shoot the wildest and largest beasts in the woods at seventy and one... | |
| Henry Anson Castle - Minnesota - 1915 - 758 pages
...receive English traders. Lieutenant Gorell, who was the first Englishman to describe the Sioux, wrote: "It is certainly the greatest nation of Indians ever...ever armed with firearms, the rest depending entirely upon bows and arrows. They can shoot the wildest and largest beasts in the woods at seventy and one... | |
| Roy Willard Meyer - History - 1993 - 532 pages
...their slaves or dogs." Gorrell was much impressed by what he saw and heard of the Sioux and wrote : It is certainly the greatest nation of Indians ever...were ever armed with fire-arms, the rest depending entlrely on bows and arrows and darts, which they use with more skill than any other Indian nation... | |
| Thomas E. Mails - Dakato Indians - 1998 - 360 pages
...this regard as late as 1763: "This day, 12 warriors of the Sioux came here [Green Bay, Wisconsin]. It is certainly the greatest nation of Indians ever yet found. Not above 2,000 of them were ever armed with fire-arms, the rest depending entirely on bows and arrows and darts,... | |
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