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but it is certainly true that on more thorough study The Indians 
of this people a more satisfactory history could be 
written now than in, say, a hundred years, when mere 
shadows of this perished race will be moving among 
us. The United States owe it to themselves and to 
this expelled race, to collect as soon as may be all that 
is worthy of preservation as to this people, and trans- 
mit it as a momento mori to posterity. 
The Indians differ in so many bodily qualities from 
the rest of human kind, that they have been assigned 
a place among the five human races into which nat- 
uralists have divided the mammalian family, man. 
Here is not the place to consider whether these five 
races are aboriginal, or whether we are descended 
from a common stock, from which the five races were 
gradually developed. As little can I decide whether, 
in the former case, the Indians are to be considered 
really aboriginal, or descendents of the Mongolian 
race, emigrating from Northern Asia to America. 
Passing this by, the characteristic differences, on ac- 
count of which they are designated as a separate race, 
the American, are as follows: The skin of the In- 
dian is brown-red, generally tan color, cinnamon 
brown, or dark copper red, but sometimes bronze 
colored. His hair black, straight and coarse. The 
face is broad, but not flattened. The features are 
strongly marked. The eyes are deep-seated and rath- 
er horizontal. The forehead is not high, but com- 
pressed from the sides. The facial angle is about 
eighty degrees. The nose is rather broad and promi- 
