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The Vanishing Race
Joseph Kossuth Dixon
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While men are off in search of game the women make bead work of a most bewitching order, meanwhile watching the pappoose, fastened completely in its wooden bead-covered cradle, only the head protruding. The cradle is hung from a lodge pole or the bough of a tree, rattles and bells playing in the breeze. Other women gather in the shade and play the game of plum stone, a gambling game. They use the stones of the wild plum, which they colour with fanciful devices, and toss them up in a wooden bowl.
The Flower of the WigwamThe wooing of Indian lovers varies with the tribes. One pair of lovers seal their vows by standing a little removed from the parental lodge, with a blanket covering their heads. In another tribe the negotiations are made entirely through [pg 34] the parents, when the transaction resolves itself into a barter, so many ponies for a bride; while in . . . Read More
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Community Reviews
The Indians accept their fate. That is the message of this collection of thoughts; I would not call it a book except in format. The Indians are vanishing, they know it, and they go along with it. The focus of the expeditions was focused on the high plains Indians; it does not cover all Indians as th
Different choice of historical reading for me. Loved it. Unusually , ended up discussing it with friends and family. The front cover is a fantastic picture.
John wilson.
The first part of this book was a fascinating account of the history and lifestyle of the Native American tribes. The second part of the book, told mostly in the words of the tribal chiefs who attended what is referred to as "the last great Indian council" just made me sad. It was full of the chiefs
I got this book from my grandmother and nearly started bawling the last time I picked it up some years ago. It is about the disappearance of the American Indian tribes and their culture. An important book if poignant and soul wrenching.
i find it hard to believe that in a community of bibliophiles there is so few people who have read this book.
this isn't a book that one reads for the joy of it this is a book written in 1914 that recounts the final chapters of the assimilation of the native cultures that once lived on this continen
Narratives from a gathering of the last of the Indian chiefs. It could have been so much more. It records the remarks of the chiefs and some of their stories, but as a record of "the vanishing race" it leaves out so much. I learned something here. Of course the white settlers killed off the buffalo