Grand-Ranger,
Granted, not all Native American Tribes were outrightly hostile, but you have to take into consideration the the Pawnee had a reputation long before the white man came around for being hostile to other Indians!
Pawnee History
Another great read is "The Frontiersmen" for more
historical-based tale of how the midwest was settled by Daniel Boone, Jacob Greathouse and others...
Exerpts from Chapter 5
I grew up on the Little Miami River and near
Fort Ancient where there was nothing left of the native peoples but arrowheads easily found (thirty-five years ago at least) in the freshly tilled fields every spring along with shards of pottery, artifacts taken from the areas around The Great Serpent Mound
(Photo) , and memories of white people's struggles to "survive" there documented in books relating to this nation's history...never mind the fact that other nations had a history here centuries before the white man came along.
Another fantastic book is Sakajawea, (sometimes spelled Sacajawea or Sacagawea, but I believe the book I speak of uses the "k" by Hanna Halperin-Goldstein), another historic-based fictional tale that tells the story of the Shoshoni woman's travels with her husband, an interpreter for the Lewis and Clark expedition. It is a big book, but well worth the story.
Check out this site with 19th century photos of Shoshonis and exerpts from the Lewis & Clark journals of their expedition that explain how Sacagawea went
From Captive To Indian Interpreter
No apologies necessary though...really.
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[This message has been edited by Moni (edited 08-31-2001).]