“PALE FACE” is not the only name by which the “white man” is known to the “red.” When the race of man now called by the rest of the World “Indians,” “Redskins,” etc., first saw Europeans, not every tribe, nor every individual in each tribe, perceived them in quite the same light; and in naming them, therefore, considerable variety obtained, due to peculiarities of personal appearance, difference in dress, characteristic movements and actions, manner of arrival, incidents accompanying or seeming to accompany their advent, etc. Some of these suggested rather commonplace reactions, while others associated the newcomers with the mythological past or future of the Indians themselves. The Algonquians Ojibwas, Miamis, Delawares, the Iroquoi
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