LEGENDS, TRADITIONS, AND LAWS OF THE

IROQUOIS, OR SIX NATIONS

AND

HISTORY OF THE TUSCARORA INDIANS

BY

ELIAS JOHNSON,

A NATIVE TUSCARORA CHIEF.







INTRODUCTION.

"A book about Indians!"--who cares anything about them?

This will probably be the exclamation of many who glance on my little
page. To those who know nothing concerning them, a whole book about
Indians will seem a very prosy affair, to whom I can answer nothing, for
they will not proceed as far as my Preface to see what reasons I can
render for the seeming folly.