Our Wild Indians
Thirty-three years’ personal experience among the Red Men of the Great West. A popular account of their life, religion, habits, traits, customs, exploits, etc. With thrilling adventures and experiences on the great plains and in the mountains of our wide frontier. By Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, United States Army. With an introduction by General Sherman. Fully illustrated with portraits on steel, full-page engravings on wood, and fine chromo-lithograph plates. 1883.
After reading this book I was left with an impression of what a different world we would be living in if the red humans had mixed with one million descendents of Adam and Eve, as ordained. As it turned out, the red race got nothing. Even so, they are known to be the most spiritual, having retained the concept of one God the longest, received the first Guardian Angel, and are the most moral sexually. They were the first to “leave home” in the Pakistan region and migrate to North America on foot, being chased out of China by the second ranking and following race, the yellow. The red race is marked on the page logo as the red “A”, with the violet “I” as the blood of Adam and Eve. If the reds got any violet blood they would have been the most formidable and awesome race imaginable.
“The tenacity of life of an Indian, the amount of lead he will carry off, indicates a nervous system so dull as to class him rather with brutes than with men. The shock or blow of a bullet will ordinarily paralyze so many nerves and muscles of a white man as to knock him down, even though not striking a vital part. The Indian gives no heed to such wounds, and to “drop him in his tracks,” the bullet must reach the brain, the heart, or the spine. I have myself seen an Indian go off with two bullets through his body, within an inch or two of the spine, the only effect of which was to cause him to change his gait from a run to a dignified walk.”
After reading this book I was left with an impression of what a different world we would be living in if the red humans had mixed with one million descendents of Adam and Eve, as ordained. As it turned out, the red race got nothing. Even so, they are known to be the most spiritual, having retained the concept of one God the longest, received the first Guardian Angel, and are the most moral sexually. They were the first to “leave home” in the Pakistan region and migrate to North America on foot, being chased out of China by the second ranking and following race, the yellow. The red race is marked on the page logo as the red “A”, with the violet “I” as the blood of Adam and Eve. If the reds got any violet blood they would have been the most formidable and awesome race imaginable.
“The tenacity of life of an Indian, the amount of lead he will carry off, indicates a nervous system so dull as to class him rather with brutes than with men. The shock or blow of a bullet will ordinarily paralyze so many nerves and muscles of a white man as to knock him down, even though not striking a vital part. The Indian gives no heed to such wounds, and to “drop him in his tracks,” the bullet must reach the brain, the heart, or the spine. I have myself seen an Indian go off with two bullets through his body, within an inch or two of the spine, the only effect of which was to cause him to change his gait from a run to a dignified walk.”