Excerpt from In the Bend of the Estataue: Or the Indian's Story in the White Man's Words Having been born in Kentucky, reared amid the scenes of former struggles for possession of the Dark and Bloody Ground, attended school with Indians from the reservation and spent some time in Carolina, where this story begins, right on the site of a one time Indian home, I have been more and more impressed with the vastness of the misunderstanding between the red and the white man, which has caused so much suffer ing and woe. It is yet the part of civilized Christians to break down this great wall which keeps us from understanding each other better and to give to them such ideas of life as will attract them from the hut and the chase. May we narrow this breach from year to year till our God - their Moneto - shall smile upon us both as His dear children of earth, lovingly help ing each other. S. J. S. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.