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… Redman. From his books I quote repeatedly. Concerning the Indian's rehgion, he says:
“The North American Indian is everywhere, in his native state, a highly moral and religious being, endowed by his Maker with an intuitive knowledge of some great Author of his being, and the Universe, in dread of whose displeasure he constantly lives, with the apprehension before him of a future state, where he expects to be rewarded or punished according to the merits he has gained or forfeited in this world.
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“Morality and virtue I venture to say the civilized world need not undertake to teach them.
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“I never saw any other people of any color who spend so much of their lives in humbling themselves before and worshipping the Great Spirit.” (Catlin's “N. A. Indian,” Vol. II., p. 243)
“We have been told of late years that there is no evidence that any tribe of Indians ever believed in one overruling power; yet, in the early part of the seventeenth century, Jesuits and Puritans alike testified that tribes which they had met, believed in a god, and it is certain that, at the present time, many tribes worship a Supreme Being who is the Ruler of the Universe.” (Grinnell's “Story of the Indian,” 1902, p. 214.)
“Love and adore the Good Spirit who made us all; who supplies our hunting-grounds, and keeps us alive.” (Teachings of Tshut-che-nau, Chief of the Kansas. J. D. Hunter's “Captivity Among the American Indians,” 1798–1816, p. 21).
And, again, Hunter says (p. 216):
“A day seldom passes with an elderly Indian, or others who are esteemed wise and good, in which a blessing is not asked, or thanks returned to the Giver of Life, sometimes audibly, but more generally in the devotional language of the heart.”
