Excerpt from Indian Wars of the United States Blome, Adair, and Boudinot, have thought them the descendants of the ten tribes of Israel; others have imagined them the offspring of the Canaanites expelled by Joshua; Grotius, adopting the opinion of Martyr, the companion of Columbus, believed part at least of America to have been peopled by Ethiopians and Christians; and the late ingenious De Witt Clinton, go vernor of the state of New York, maintained that the American Indians are of Tartar origin; and that, in ages past, they overcame and exterminated a prior race of inhabitants, who had made greater progress in civilization than themselves. But, whatever may be the difficulty of accounting for the ancient fortifications to which this learned writer refers, his Opinion seems to rest on no solid foundation; for there is no appearance that, before their intercourse with the Europeans, the Indians had-ever seen a people who had attained any considerable degree of improvement. 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.