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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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uisiana and Place and divi- Arkansas. Within these sionsoftheAp- .. ., . palachians. limits were the strongestraces intellectually and the most ad-vanced physically of any of the nativepeoples of the oldUnited States. Herewere the Creeks, orMuskogees, of Ala-bama. This terri-tory was regardedas central to thewhole Appalachianrange of nations.Here also were theChickasaws,of Miss-issippi, and the Mo-biles, of Florida. On the Lo w e rMississippi theChoctaws had theirdomain, while theAppalaches spreadout through Geor-gia toward SouthCarolina. Equallygreat in fame werethe Natchez, of theLower Mississippi;the Seminoles, ofFlorida and South-ern Alabama; andthe Cherokees, ofthe western Appa-lachian mountains.In South Carolinathe Catawbas hadtheir lodges, withthe tradition that they were the kinsmenof the Eries of the North. Many of these interesting and pro-gressive peoples have perished underthe pressure of the White race. Somehave wasted to a handful. The great M I! mill rm jiB lit i jiikKl
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524 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. representatives of the Appalachianstock are the Cherokees, the Creeks, andPeoples of mid- the Choctaws, occupying die South; Cher- t) eastern parts of OUr okees, Creeks, r Choctaws. Indian Territory. Next to them on the west is the Chickasawnation, and to the north a division ofthose Osages of whom we have alreadyspoken. Still further west in the sameTerritory are the Kiowas, the Coman-ches, and the Apaches, lying on theleft bank of the Red river. In thenorthwestern part of the Indian Terri-tory are the broad domains of the Chey-ennes and the Arapahoes. In the eastern part of the TerritoryIndian civilization has made its best dis-play. Governments have been organ-ized, laws established, schools providedfor, and institutions founded. Land- Indian civiliza-lliendable inroads On the tion in the Ter-ritory. ownership has become a recognized fact,and agriculture is the principal pursuit.Education has made corn-onoriginal barbaric estate.Letters these nations bro

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