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• ISBN: 9780806125138 (pbk.)
• Physical Description: xii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Publisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma, c1977.

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"He remains a savage simply from lack of a code of morals" (1882) / Richard Irving Dodge -- "Jack, I haven't had an Indian to eat for a long time" (1886) / Jacob Piatt Dunn -- "Their music is fitter for hell than for earth" (1890) / John F. Finerty -- "Indians never spare anyone who is in their power" (1890) / Charles Alston Messiter -- "There are a great many Indians and a great many reservations" (1892) / Richard Harding Davis -- "He looked every inch a chief" (1903) / Andy Adams -- "Great warrior straightened up like an arrow" (1877) / Edward L. Wheeler -- "'It's my Injun, boys, ' he cried exultantly" (1881) / Prentiss Ingraham -- "Here is a picture of a helpless people!" (1881) / Helen Hunt Jackson -- "Squawman fought their battles" (1907) / James Willard Schultz -- "He was lazy and vicious, and never told the truth when a lie would serve better" (1891) / W. Fletcher Johnson -- "Shot was fired and carnage ensued" (1891) / Commissioner of Indian Affairs -- "They have moved majestically down the pathway of the ages" (1914) / Joseph Kossuth Dixon.

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Indians of North America > Great Plains > Public opinion.
Public opinion > United States.