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... Indians : b . Kaskaskia , Ill . , 1767 ; d . near Fort Des Moines , 3 Oct. 1838. He was made chief of the Sacs in 1788 ; and in 1804 repudiated the first agree- ment made by the Sacs and Foxes with the United States to give up their ...
... Indians : b . Kaskaskia , Ill . , 1767 ; d . near Fort Des Moines , 3 Oct. 1838. He was made chief of the Sacs in 1788 ; and in 1804 repudiated the first agree- ment made by the Sacs and Foxes with the United States to give up their ...
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... Indians , a tribe of Indians in- habiting the United States and Canada from the Yellowstone to Hudson Bay . They received this name from the fact that the first ones seen by white men wore leggings blackened by traveling over the burnt ...
... Indians , a tribe of Indians in- habiting the United States and Canada from the Yellowstone to Hudson Bay . They received this name from the fact that the first ones seen by white men wore leggings blackened by traveling over the burnt ...
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... Indian Cobra de Capello has the meaning " blacksnake . " Consult : Cope , ' Snakes of North America . ' Blackstock Hill , South Carolina , a locality where , on 20 Nov. 1780 , the patriots of the State , under Gen. Sumter defeated ...
... Indian Cobra de Capello has the meaning " blacksnake . " Consult : Cope , ' Snakes of North America . ' Blackstock Hill , South Carolina , a locality where , on 20 Nov. 1780 , the patriots of the State , under Gen. Sumter defeated ...
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... Indians . His work is very striking on account of its harmonious color - schemes . His studio is in New York . Blakesley , Joseph Williams , English clergy- man : b . London , 6 March 1808 ; d . Lincoln , 18 April 1885. He graduated at ...
... Indians . His work is very striking on account of its harmonious color - schemes . His studio is in New York . Blakesley , Joseph Williams , English clergy- man : b . London , 6 March 1808 ; d . Lincoln , 18 April 1885. He graduated at ...
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... Indian domestic manufacture , especially among the quite civilized Navajos ( q.v. ) , whose rough hand looms and ... Indians . But competition had so glutted the market that in 1878 a great auction was held in New York to clear them ...
... Indian domestic manufacture , especially among the quite civilized Navajos ( q.v. ) , whose rough hand looms and ... Indians . But competition had so glutted the market that in 1878 a great auction was held in New York to clear them ...
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Page 106 - The Family Shakspeare ; in which nothing is added to the Original Text ; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud.
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