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Excerpt from Americana, Vol. 17: American Historical Magazine; January, 1923-December, 1923 Thus perished the pride and glory of my people. His efforts to resist the advance of civilization among the Iroquois sprang from a mistaken patriotism. He knew not the irresistible power that impels its progress. The stalwart oak with its hundred arms could not. Hope to beat back the fierce tempest. He lived to see the power and glory of the confederate Iroquois culminate. He saw their friend ship courted by the French and English monarchies, when those gigantic powers were grappling in a desperate struggle for suprem acy in the new world. He lived to see his nation decline; its power, its inuence, its numbers wasting away like spring snows on verdant hill-sides. 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.