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Title: Indian Biography
Year: 1800 (1800s)
Authors: Thatcher, B.B. (Benjamin Bussy), 1809-1840
Subjects: Indians of North America
Publisher: Philadelphia : Bowen
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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A CHIPPEWAY CHIEF.
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A FLAT HEAD BOY. Luk^, Cxjl^ScFuilisheJ. ij J TBowen,, PhJ^d STUMANU. The Chinnooks are a tribe of Indians inhabiting the shores ofthe Columbia river, near the Pacific ocean. They practise thesavage custom of flattening the foreheads of their infants by meansof a board apphed to that part, whence they are called Flatheads bythe whites, as others are called Nez Perces, Pierced Nose Indians,although neither of these terms is used among themselves. Mostof those Indians who flatten the head also pierce the nose. Thesesingular customs were found, by the first discoverers, among thesavages on the shores of the Atlantic; but they seem to havebecome extinct in our country, except in the distant region of theColumbia. The name Flathead having been arbitrarily given,some explanation is necessary to avoid confusion. The term Flathead was formerly applied, vaguely, to all theIndians inhabiting the unexplored regions about the Rocky Moun-tains, except the Blackfeet; but as the country became bette

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