Stories About Indians

Stories About Indians by an anonymous author is a collection of vignettes of Native American culture from the perspective of a white colonist. Published in the mid-19th century, this pamphlet yields an accurate portrayal of the presumptions about Native Americans. Excerpt: «ON his return home to his hut one day, an Indian discovered that his venison which had been hung up to dry, had been stolen After going some distance, he met some persons, of whom he inquired if they had seen a little, old, white man, with a short gun, and accompanied by a small dog with a bobtail. They replied in the affirmative; and upon the Indian's assuring them that the man thus described had stolen his venison, they desired to be informed how he was able to give such a minute description of a person whom he had not seen. The Indian answered thus…»