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Aboriginal America is a classic Native American history text by Jacob Abbott. The condition America's native peoples anterior to its occupation by white men, and the character and condition of the native tribes which then inhabited it, will be the subject of this volume of Native American history and contains the following excerpt: The first step to be taken in studying the history of our country is to form some clear and proper conception of the characteristics and condition of the territory which is now occupied by the American people, as it existed when first discovered and explored by Europeans. The aboriginal condition of the country, therefore, anterior to its occupation by white men, and the character and condition of the native tribes which then inhabited it, will be the subject of this volume.

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Jacob Abbott (November 14, 1803 - October 31, 1879) was an American writer of children's books On November 14, 1803, Abbott was born in Hallowell, Maine. He attended the Hallowell Academy. From 1825 to 1829 was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Amherst College;[2] was licensed to preach by the Hampshire Association in 1826; founded the Mount Vernon School for Young Ladies in Boston in 1829, and was principal of it in 1829-1833;[2] was pastor of Eliot Congregational Church (which he founded), at Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1834-1835; and was, with his brothers, a founder, and in 1843-1851 a principal of Abbott's Institute, and in 1845-1848 of the Mount Vernon School for Boys, in New York City.[4] He was a prolific author, writing juvenile fiction, brief histories, biographies, religious books for the general reader, and a few works in popular science. He wrote 180 books and was a coauthor or editor of 31 more.[2] He died in Farmington, Maine, where he had spent part of his time after 1839, and where his brother, Samuel Phillips Abbott, founded the Abbott School.

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