council-cabin

Updated: May 2, 2025

Then the youngest chief present took a coal from the fire, which flamed high in the centre of the council-cabin, and placed it on the beloved herb, which was made to smoke high. "Our tribe," said the chief, "are called Mengwe. We too have come from a distant country, and we also are bound to the land of the rising sun.

James Athearn Jones - Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2