His continuing seated was, how ever, out of respect to the Indian chief. to whom he paid the utmost deference on all occasions, although it was mingled with the rough manner of a hunter.
What you have told your children, they will remember, and be good.” He paused a moment, and then, elevating himself with the grandeur of an Indian chief, he added: “If Chingachgook lives to travel toward the setting sun, after his tribe, and the Great Spirit carries him over the lakes and mountains with the breath of his body, he will tell his people the good talk he has heard; and they will believe him; for who can say that Mohegan has ever lied?”
The Connecticut settlers, assisted by a celebrated
Indian chief named Uncas, bore the brunt of this war, with but little aid from Massachusetts.
It might be palace without, but it was wigwam within; so that, between the stateliness of his mansion and the squalidness of his furniture, the gallant White Plume presented some such whimsical incongruity as we see in the gala equipments of an
Indian chief on a treaty-making embassy at Washington, who has been generously decked out in cocked hat and military coat, in contrast to his breech-clout and leathern legging; being grand officer at top, and ragged Indian at bottom.
"To make a necklace for playing
Indian Chief," explained Davy, climbing upon Anne's lap.
He well knew that the authority of an
Indian chief was so little conventional, that it was oftener maintained by physical superiority than by any moral supremacy he might possess.
He had a neat little cart, painted green, with a box of cigars depicted on each side panel, and an
Indian chief, holding a pipe and a golden tobacco stalk, on the rear.
One of his productions, an
Indian chief, gilded all over, stood during the better part of a century on the cupola of the Province House, bedazzling the eyes of those who looked upward, like an angel of the sun.
The idea of the story had suggested itself to him, we are told, before he had finished its immediate forerunner, "The Last of the Mohicans." He chose entirely new scenes for it, "resolved to cross the Mississippi and wander over the desolate wastes of the remote Western prairies." He had been taking every chance that came of making a personal acquaintance with the
Indian chiefs of the western tribes who were to be encountered about this period on their way in the frequent Indian embassies to Washington.
He was one of the first among the
Indian chiefs on the Missouri to deal with the white traders, and showed great sagacity in levying his royal dues.
Yet no writer can be more secure of a permanent place in our literature than the biographer of the
Indian chiefs. His subject, as referring to tribes which have mostly vanished from the earth, gives him a right to be placed on a classic shelf, apart from the merits which will sustain him there.
The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) failed to achieve its objective when it launched a counter-attack on February 27 through the Nowshera sector in Jammu,
Indian Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa said on Monday, addressing a seminar in New Delhi organised to mark the birth centenary of Marshal of Air Force Arjan Singh.Indian Air Force earlier claimed to strike a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) training camp in Balakot, killing an unspecified number of terrorists.
Indian chief - the leader of a group of Native Americans