TRAITS

OF

INDIAN CHARACTER.

VOL. I.

Vol. I.-A

AS GENERALLY APPLICABLE TO THE ABORIGINES

OF NORTH AMERICA.

DRAWN FROM VARIOUS SOURCES;

-PARTLY FROM PERSONAL OBSER-
VATION OF THE WRITER.

BY G. TURNER,

MEMBER OF SEVERAL LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETIES IN

EUROPE AND AMERICA.

“ The Red Men are melting like snow before the sun, (to borrow the express-
ive metaphor of one of their Chiefs); and we should be anxious, before it is
too late, to copy the evanescent features of their character, and perpetuate
them on the page of History.”—New York Hist. Soc.

IN TWO VOLS.- VOL. 1:

Philadelphia:

KEY & BIDDLE, 23 MINOR STREET.

1836.

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