AMERICAN NATIVE RACES OF MEN 



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the coast. Their language is about the same in differ- 

 ent tribes ; their cheek bones are high, the Ups thick, 

 stature short, complexion yellow. They have no particular 

 government, no head chiefs, and war to them is unknown. 

 As a whole they are an interesting race that has become 

 innured to a most disagreeable and extraordinary mode of 

 life which many races would consider a Hving death. 



Fig. 197. — The American Indian. 



The people known as Indians rank much higher and were 

 formerly scattered over the entire continent ; the various 

 tribes differ much in language and habit. These tribes 

 fought against the white horde that overran them. With 

 the coming of the whites it was a struggle for home and 

 country. They were the true Americans, the original 

 owners of the soil who went down before the stronger and 

 more intellectual whites who have swept the land and 



