The Indians of North America / [Anon].

  • George Mogridge
Date:
[1843?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Indians of North America / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    or been beaten. And they do not write truth, for they only put down a part of the people they have lost. They would do to j)(^ddle a canoe, but not to steer it. They fight like braves, but they are not fit to be chiefs, and to lead war parties. “ I found my wife well, and my children, and would have been quiet in my lodge ; for, while I was away, Kee-o-kuk had been made a chief: but I had to revenge the death of the son of my old friend. I told my friend so when he was dying. Why should Black Hawk speak a lie ? I took with me thirty braves, and went to Fort Madison ; but the American pale faces had gone. I was glad, but still followed them down the Mississippi. I went on their trail. I shot the chief of the party with whom we fought. We returned home, bringing two scalps. Black Hawk had done what he said. “ Many things happened. Old Wash-e-own, one of the Potowatemies, was shot dead by a war chief. I gave Wash-e-own’s relations two horses and my rifles, to keep the peace. A party of soldiers built a fort at Prairie du Chien. They were friendly to us, but the British came and took the fort. We joined them ; we followed the boats and shot fire-arrows, and the sails of one boat was burned, and we took it. “ We found in the boats we had taken, barrels of whiskey: this was bad medicine. We knocked in the heads of the barrels, and emptied them of the bad medicine. We found bottles and packages, which we flung into the river, as bad medicine too. We found
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