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Sabin 2 Distributed by Heritage History 2009 TABLE OF CONTENTS PISKARET THE ADIRONDACK CHAMPION (1644) ............. 4 PISKARET THE ADIRONDACK CHAMPION (1645–47) ....... 8 OPECHANCANOUGH OF THE PAMUNKEYS (1607–44) .... 12 KING PHILIP THE WAMPANOAG (1662–76) ................... 15 THE SQUAW SACHEM OF POCASSET (1675–76) ........ 22 THE BLOODY BELT OF PONTIAC (1760–63) .................. 27 THE BLOODY BELT OF PONTIAC (1763–69) .................. 32 Alas! for them, their day is o'er, LOGAN THE GREAT MINGO (1725–74) .......................... 36 Their fires are out on hill and shore; CORNSTALK LEADS THE WARRIORS (1774–77) ............ 40 No more for them the wild dear bounds, LITTLE TURTLE OF THE MIAMIS (1790–91) ................... 46 The plough is on their hunting grounds; The pale man's axe rings through their woods, LITTLE TURTLE FEARS THE BIG WIND (1792–1812) ..... 52 The pale man's sail skims o'er their floods, THE VOICE FROM THE OPEN DOOR(1805–11) ............... 55 Their pleasant springs are dry! BRIGADIER GENERAL TECUMSEH (1812–13) ................ 62 CHARLES SPRAGUE. THE RED STICKS AT HORSESHOE BEND (1813–14) ....... 68 BLACK-HAWK THE SAC PATRIOT (1831–38) ................ 74 THE BIRD-WOMAN GUIDE (1805–06) ........................... 83 THE LANCE OF MAHTOTOHPA (1822–37) ..................... 89 A SEARCH FOR THE BOOK OF HEAVEN (1832) .............. 94 A TRAVELER TO WASHINGTON,(1831–35) ................... 97 THE BLACKFEET DEFY THE CROWS (1834) ................. 101 THE STRONG MEDICINE OF KONATE (1839) ................ 105 RED CLOUD STANDS IN THE WAY (1865–1909) ......... 110 STANDING BEAR SEEKS A HOME (1877–80) ............... 118 SITTING BULL THE WAR MAKER (1876–81) ............... 122 CHIEF JOSEPH GOES TO WAR (1877) ........................... 130 GHOST DANCERS AND RED SOLDIERS (1889–90) ....... 139 Original Copyright 1918 by Edwin L. Sabin 3 Distributed by Heritage History 2009 CHAPTER I principal towns, fortified by ditches and log palisades. From here they carried war south clear to the Cherokees of Tennessee, west clear into the land of the Illinois, and north to PISKARET THE ADIRONDACK CHAMPION the Algonkins at Quebec of the lower St. Lawrence River. (1644) Twelve or fifteen thousand people they numbered. Mohawks, Senecas, Onondagas, Oneidas and Cayugas still HOW HE SCOUTED AGAINST THE IROQUOIS survive, as many as ever and ranking high among the civilized Indians of North America. It was in early spring, about the year 1644, that the The Hurons lived to the northwest, in a smaller country warrior Piskaret of the Adirondack tribe of the Algonkins set along the shores of Georgian Bay of southeastern Lake Huron, forth alone from the island Allumette in the Ottawa River, in Canada. Canada, to seek his enemies the Iroquois. "Hurons" they were called by the French, meaning For there long had been bitter, bitter war between the "bristly" or "savage haired," for they wore their coarse black vengeful Algonkins and the cruel Hurons on the one side, and hair in many fantastic cuts, but the favorite fashion was that of the proud, even crueler Five Nations of the Iroquois on the a stiff roach or mane extending from the forehead to the nape other side. At first the Adirondacks had driven the Mohawks of the neck, like the bristles of a wild boar's back or the comb out of lower Canada and into northern New York; but of late of a rooster. By the Algonkins they were called "serpents," all the Algonkins, all the Hurons, and the French garrisons also. Their own name for themselves was "Wendat," or their allies, had been unable to stem the tide of the fierce "People of the Peninsula"—a word which the English wrote as Iroquois, rolling back into Canada again. "Wyandot." "Iri-a-khoiw" was the Algonkin name for them, They were of the Iroquois family, but for seventy-five meaning "adder." The French termed them "Mingos," from years and more they had been at war with their cousins of the another Algonkin word meaning "stealthy." The English and south. They, too, had their principal fortified towns, and their Dutch colonists in America knew them as the Five Nations. league, of four independent nations and four protected nations, Their own title was "People of the Long House," as if the five numbering twenty thousand. Like those of the Iroquois, some nations were one family housed all together under one roof. of their bark houses were five hundred feet long, for twenty The Mohawks, the Senecas, the Onondagas, the families. Yet of this powerful people there remain today only Oneidas and the Cayugas—these composed the Iroquois about four hundred Hurons, near Quebec, and as many league of the Five Nations against the world of enemies. The Wyandots in Canada and the former Indian Territory of league rapidly spread in power, until the dreaded Iroquois Oklahoma. were styled the Romans of the West. The Algonkins lived farther north, along the Ottawa But nearly three hundred years ago they were only River, and the St. Lawrence to the east. "Place of spearing eel beginning to rise. Their home was in central New York, from and fish from a canoe," is the best that we may get from the the Mohawk country at the Hudson River west to the Seneca word "Algonkin." The "Raised Hair" people did the French country almost to Lake Erie. In this wide tract were their five first term them, because they wore their hair pompadoured. Original Copyright 1918 by Edwin L. Sabin 4 Distributed by Heritage History 2009 But Adirondack was a Mohawk word, "Hatirontaks," "Eaters cold, where hunger frequently stalked, where travel was by of Trees," accusing the Adirondacks of being so hungry in canoe on the noble St. Lawrence, the swift Ottawa, the winter that they ate bark. Richelieu, the lesser streams and lakes, and by snowshoe or In summer the men went naked; in winter they donned moccasin through the heavy forests; where the Indians rarely a fur cape. They were noted warriors, hunters and fishers, and failed to torture their captives in manner too horrid to relate; skillful in making shell ornaments.