Identifier: iroquoisorbright00john (find matches)
Title: The Iroquois : or, the bright side of Indian character
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Johnson, Anna C. (Anna Cummings), 1818-1892
Subjects: Iroquois Indians
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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dy of gain, was something which they couldnot comprehend. In many of their villages there was a Strangers Home—a house for strangers, where they were placed, while theold men went about collecting skins for them to sleepupon, and food for them to eat, expecting no reward. They called it very rude for people to stare at them,as they passed in the streets, and said that they had asmuch curiosity as white people, but they did not gratifyit by intruding upon them and examining them. Theywould sometimes hide behind trees, in order to look atstrangers, but never stood openly and gazed at them. Theirrespectful attention to missionaries was often the result oftheir rules of politeness, as it is a part of the Indianscode, that every person should have a respectful hearing.Their councils are eminent for decorum, and no person isinterrupted during a speech. Some Indians, after respect-fully listening to a missionary, thought they would relateto bim some of their legends. But the good man could
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