North-american-indians Sentence Examples

From early times up to the present day Friends have laboured for the welfare of the North American Indians.

A summary account is here given of the American aborigines, who are discussed in more detail under North American Indians.

Among the Caribs a like social order prevailed; indeed, their family system is identical with the totem system of North American Indians.

Among the North American Indians scalping was always in the nature of a rite.

The North American Indians fear lest their venerated rattlesnake should incite its kinsfolk to avenge any injury done to it, and when the Seminole Indians begged an English traveller to rid them of one of these troublesome intruders, they scratched him-as a matter of formin order to appease the spirit of the dead snake.

Among the North American Indians ecstatic fasting is regularly practised.