An Introduction A Shining Light Observations The Power of the Pipe Laws of the Lodge Conversations "The land as it is, is my blood" Indian Prayers Love of Country A Perfect Man

slide 6 of 10 Abraham Lincoln while President said: “If I live, this accursed system of robbery and shame in our treatment of the Indians shall be reformed.” At every first meeting of Red men and Whites, the Whites were inferior in numbers, and yet were received with the utmost kindness, until they treacherously betrayed those who had helped and harbored them. Even Christopher Columbus, blind and burnt up with avarice as he was, and soul-poisoned with superstition and contempt for an alien race, yet had fairness to write home to his royal accomplices in crime, the King and Queen of Spain: “I swear to your Majesties that there is not a better people in the world than these; more affectionate, affable, or mild. They love their neighbors as themselves, and they always speak smilingly.”