{"product_id":"2940013213777","title":"The People Of The Plains","description":"THERE are at the present time several old Indians who believe that their forefathers, many years ago, came to this from some other continent; that they crossed a large body of water, landing at several different islands on their voyage; that they travelled towards the rising sun, and were stopped in their journey by unfriendly tribes. These hostile Indians forced them to settle upon the prairies, where they have dwelt for hundreds of years. A different language was spoken by their forefathers, and the country they came from was warmer than this part of the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey insist that the Great Spirit had guided them to this land, and had given it to them, with all its vast expanses teeming with game, from which they derived their sustenance. While they were the sole inhabitants of these territories they were wealthy; they had everything they could desire for their happiness, and they were proud of being what they were—the children of Kichie Manitou. When the white men came misfortunes came with them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese ideas are mere shadows of dreams, the remnants of legends referring to migrations which are recent compared with the incalculable age of the race. The earliest explorers found established languages, tribes firmly fixed in their traditional territories, formalized manners and habits. But ages upon ages had passed in which the form of the continent had changed, and again changed, before these peoples had become differentiated. Where was the cradle of the race; drifting from what plateau or valley came the progenitors of the tribes who were in possession when the Northmen and Columbus first touched the shore? The answer to the question takes the form of conjecture and suggestion, but investigation of this interesting ethnological problem has proceeded so far that all the unscientific theories of the last hundred years have been abandoned and a working hypothesis established which may be varied, modified or strengthened, but which, a hundred years from this, may have been firmly established by evidence which is not now available. The theory that they were the descendants of the \" ten lost tribes\" of Israel has had its day, and that which traces their coming to an easterly migration by way of Behring Straits or the Aleutian Islands is slowly passing.","brand":"tbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121068163312,"sku":"2940013213777","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013213777","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}