Life of Tecumseh and of His Brother the Prophet: With a Historical Sketch of the Shawanoe Indians (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Drake, Benjamin

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ISBN 10: 1331287030 ISBN 13: 9781331287032

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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The origmal seats of the Shawanoes have been placed in different sections of the country. This has doubtless been owing to their very erratic disposition. Of their history, prior to the year 1680, but little is known. The earliest mention of them by any writer whose work has fallen under our observation, was in the beginning of the seventeenth century. Mr. Jetfer son, in his Notes on Virginia, says that when captain John Smith first arrived in America, a fierce war was 1aging against the allied Mohicans, residing on Long Island, and the Shawanoes on the Susquehanna, and to the westward of that river, by the Iroquois. Cap tain Smith first landed on this continent in April, 1607. In the following year, 1608, he penetrated down the Susquehanna to the mouth of it, where he met six or seven of;.their canoes, filled with warriors, about to attack their enemy in the rear. De La'et, in 1632, in his enumeration, of the different tribes, on either side of the Delaware river, mentions the,shawanoes. Charlevoix speaks of them under the name of Cha; ouanons, as neighbors and allies in 1672, of the Ah dastes, an Iroquois tribe, living south of the Senecas. \vhether any of the Shawanoes were present at the treaty* made in 1682, under the celebrated Kensington elm, between William Penn and the Indians, does not positively appear from any authorities before us; that such, however, was the fact, may be fairly inferred, from the circumstance that at a conference between the Indians and governor Keith, in 1722, the Shawa noes exhibited a copy of this treaty' written on parch ment.

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There Is a tradition among the Shawanoes, In re gard to their origin, which is said to be peculiar to that tribe. While most of the aborigines of this country believe that their respective races came out of holes in the earth at different places on this continent, the Shaw anoes alone claim, that their ancestors once inhabited a foreign land; but having determined to leave it, they assembled their people and marched to the sea shore. Here, under the guidance of a leader of the Turtle tribe, one of their twelve original subdivisions, they walked into the sea, the waters of which immediately parted, and they passed in safety along the bottom of the ocean, until they reached this island?

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1331287030
• ISBN 13: 9781331287032
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240