The North American Indians: A Selection of Photographs by Edward S. CurtisIt is thus near to Nature that much of the life of the Indian still is; hence its story, rather than being replete with statistics of commercial conquests, is a record of the Indian's relations with and his dependence on the phenomena of the universe the trees and shrubs, the sun and stars, the lightning and rain for these to him are animate creatures. Even more than that, they are deified, therefore are revered and propitiated, since upon them man