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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: such a procession always made Jim shiver. The singing, praying and preaching
they heard unmoved. No emotion was visible on their bronzed faces; nothing
changed their unalterable mien. Had they not moved, or gazed with burning
eyes, they would have been statues. When these chieftains looked at the
converted Indians, some of whom were braves of their nations, the contempt in
their glances betrayed that they now regarded these Christian Indians as
belonging to an alien race.
Among the chiefs Glickhican pointed out to Jim were Wingenund, the Delaware;
Tellane, the Half-King; Shingiss and Kotoxen--all of the Wolf tribe of the
Delawares.
Glickhican was careful to explain that the Delaware nation had been divided
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