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Traditional History of the Wyandotts, And ORIGIN AND TRADITIONAL HISTORY OF THE WYANDOTTS, AND SKETCHES OF OTHER INDIAN TRIBES OF NORTH AMERICA TRUE TRADITIONAL STORIES OF TECUMSEH AND HIS LEAGUE, IN THE YEARS 1811 AND 1812. By Peter D. Clarke Toronto: HUNTER, ROSE & CO., 86 KING STREET WEST. 1870. PREFACE. THE lapse of ages has rendered it difficult to trace the origin of the Wyandotts. Nothing now remains to tell whence they came, but a tradition that lives only in the memory of a few among the remnant of this tribe. Of this I will endeavour to give a sketch as I had it from the lips of such, and from some of the tribe who have since passed away. My sketch reaches back about three centuries and a half, and commences from what is now Montreal. A remnant of the Hurons or Wyandotts are still living at their ancient homes, within the vicinity of Quebec, and whose ancestors were among the inhabitants of the country along the St. Lawrence, when it was first discovered by the French in the year 1535. Beyond that period all trace of them has been engulphed in the tide of oblivion. It was in the year 1701 that the first colony of Europeans pitched their tents on the bank of Detroit river, where the city of Detroit now stands, and they were the first French colony the Wyandotts ever met with in this part of the country. It is no easy task to write a work of this kind, having no chronological guide during the first and second iv PREFACE. hundred years. I had to grope my way through the “dark ages,” whilst in quest of the connecting links of this part of the work. All writers of the early history of this country have, more or less, depended on traditional accounts. It was like emerging from chaos and darkness when the light of civilization first flashed before me, as I was nearing the place (now city of Detroit), where the Wyandotts I was tracing first met with the colony of Europeans. To some this work may appear rather strange and new-fledged; but whilst poising over uncertainty before the public, it may have sufficient wings to sustain itself — dodge the missile of the critic who may attempt to knock it into oblivion. It is a mystery (and always has been, from the first discovery of America), how the red man first found his way over from the other side of the “big waters.” Some historians have endeavored to prove their assertion (from mere supposition), and satisfy the inquiring mind that the Indians of this continent descended from some of the “ten lost tribes of Israel,” who wandered around from Asia to Behring’s Straits and passed over to this continent, about where the “Wandering Jew’s” track was seen many centuries afterwards, which he had made with his iron-shod soled brogans, leaving the “print of a cross” as Eugene Sue says, on the eternal hard frozen snows of that cold and dismal region. So intense is the cold that larch trees frequently PREFACE. v burst all to atoms! There, he says, a woman appeared at the American side of the Straits to the Wandering Jew, and both were seen viewing each other through the snowy haze; but Behring’s Straits seemed to have separated them “to all eternity!” Ask the red man, in his primeval nature, to what part of the world (besides this continent), can he trace his ancestors, or whether he believes, when told by the white man, that he sprung from some of the lost or scattered tribes of Israel, and he will return you this answer: “the Great and Good Spirit made us, and placed us here.” To the educated Indian, this history may suddenly appear like some phantom from the past, and who may find fault with it. To such, I would say, well then, why don’t you write a history of your nation, yourself? Here, by dint of repeated efforts, I have snatched some traditional accounts from the tide of oblivion, in order to make out some semblance of a history of the Wyandotts, and a desultory sketch of other tribes. Among the Indian chiefs who took an active part on the side of the British during the war of 1812, was the noted war chief Tecumseh, who will be a subject of notice in different parts of this work. The hostile feeling which he still cherished towards the whites, who were rapidly advancing and spreading over his territory, and that of his kindred race around him, blazed up anew within him, on hearing the news of the declaration of war between England and the United States, and vi PREFACE. forthwith made strenous efforts to renew his league of 1811, in Indiana, and joined the British in Canada. Some years ago there was a sketch of Tecumseh’s life written in Canada. But some incidents of his life will be noticed in this work that has never been published. Before the close of the war of 1812, the United States Government redoubled its efforts to wrest from the hands of England, not only Canada, but the whole of British North America. The different Indian tribes who once inhabited this part of North America to the Mississippi (with the exception of a remnant here and there), have all faded away like shadows of clouds passing over the earth, and the story of their fate has passed into the great history of the world, reminding us of the irresistible fate of nations. And for what purpose was the red man created here or guided over by the hand of Providence from the other side of the “big waters” to this continent to multiply, then to give place to another race of people from the Old World, and vanish before the march of civilization, the Almighty Ruler of the universe only knows. PETER DOOYENTATE CLARKE. January, 1870. Chapter I. AT some period during the first quarter of the sixteenth century, a rupture took place between the Wyandotts and Senecas, while they were peaceably sojourning together (in separate villages), within the vicinity of what is now Montreal. There are conflicting traditional accounts of what caused the two nations to become hostile toward each other. Some say that it commenced about a Seneca maiden and a Chief’s son. If women, in olden times, have caused war between civilized nations (or by being connected with an affair that brought about a warfare), why not among savages? “If such things can be done in a green tree, why not in the dry?” Here is one story how the rupture between the Wyandotts and Senecas occurred; — A Seneca maiden caused a Chief of her tribe to be slain for withholding his consent from his son taking her for wife. Other young men, afterwards, were rejected. Only on one condition would she give her hand to any one of them, and that was, by slaying the Chief who wronged her. A young Wyandott warrior hearing of this, visited the maiden; he complied with her condition, and he became her avenger and husband. The whole Seneca village were enraged — the men flew to arms, to avenge the assassination of their Chief, by destroying the Wyandotts. 2 TRADITIONAL HISTORY OF THE WYANDOTTS, AND The latter broke up their villages, and journeyed westward, while the former were waiting for the return of some of their nation from the hunting ground, to join them in this warfare. But, for some unknown reason, they did not, at that time, pursue the Wyandotts, who continued their wanderings, westward, until they reached the banks of the Niagara. The roar of the cataract sounded in their cars, like the distant sound of a tornado — awestruck! when they came in sight they stood at some distance, viewing the great falls, and the frightful chasm through which flowed the turbulent waters at their feet. Here we will leave the Wyandotts at the falls, and return to the St. Lawrence. The Algonquins, Hurons, or Wyandotts, and some of the Five Nations* or Iroquois, as they are called by some historians, first met with the French, on the St. Lawrence, in 1835. At that time, and back to an unknown period, the Iroquois and Wyandotts had always dwelt in the same region, where the abode and hunting grounds of each were conterminous But, whatever has been the main source of strife among them, the other four nations of the Iroquois joined the Senecas in their warfare against the Wyandotts, who remained on the St. Lawrence, and which was witnessed by the French, during the 16th and 17th centuries. And the same exterminating malice was cherished by the Iroquois towards the Wyandotts, after the latter had migrated to Western Canada. *The Tuscaroras, from South Carolina, joined the Iroquois in 1713, or thereabouts, and from that time forward they were called and considered as one of the Six Nations. SKETCHES OF OTHER INDIAN TRIBES OF N. A. 3 At some time during the latter part of the 16th century, the Wyandotts at Niagara migrated northward, to where the city of Toronto now stands. There they roamed the primeval forest in peace and security. In those days they were happy and free — free from the white man’s vices and immorality — they were unacquainted with the fiery liquid manufactured by the ingenuity of the white man. At this time, some of the Iroquois, or Five Nations, were inhabiting the banks of the Hudson, about where now stands the cities of Troy and Albany, in N.
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