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Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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o cure sickpeople by rapping on rude drums or shakingrattles night and day beside them. They did allsorts of silly things, too, in time of famine, tobring food. The General often talked to Antonioand told him that there were good white peoplewho lived far away in the East and that someday they would send a good man to live amongthe Pimas. He would not want their land or theirmoney, but would come because he loved theIndians and wanted to do them good. What hetold them would be the truth, and Antonio couldtrust him when he came. The chief listened. Hebelieved and waited for the great teacher to come. Three years went by, and then Mr. Cook, aChristian missionary, was sent to help the Indi- FAMOUS INDIAN CHIEFS 335 ans. The Indian agent built a small school-house After this good man had learned to speak thefor him, and here he began to teach the Indian Indian language he talked to the older Indians,children. Louis, one of the boys, could speak The chief had been waiting for the coming of
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LOOK ON THE MAN YOU KILLED IN BATTLE MANY SUNS AGO, HE SAID. Spanish, and with his help the children taught thePima language to their teacher. Mr. Cook workedhard till he could speak Pima, while the Indianboys and girls soon learned to speak English. just such a teacher, and he listened to what hetaught and profited by it. In 1872 some bad white men went to live onthe banks of the Gila River, above where the 336 FAMOUS INDIAN CHIEFS Indians had their homes. They dug deep ditchesand drew away a large part of the river. Ofcourse, their fields and gardens were well wateredin this way, but they cut off a great deal of waterfrom the Indians, who depended upon water fromthe river to make things grow in that dry coun-try, where hardly any rain falls. More than halfthe crops of grain and vegetables were lost inconsequence, and the fruit-trees were nearly deadand could not bear fruit. Before these whitemen came the farms had been watered by ditchesfrom the river, which took water far up on tot

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