The Vanishing Race, M. Gidley

When the Spanish conquistators appeared on their horitzons in the sixteenth century, elders of the Hopi Indians advanced to greet the soldiers in the belief that the Spaniards were representatives of their long lost white brother. Contacts between whites and Indians like this - thogether with encounters which proved bloody from the start, such as with the Comanche - brought the North American Indian into the consciousness of Europeans who, through the formative experiences associated with migration across seas and settlement in strange lands, became Americans.