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From a camp a few miles above the Platte, where the party remained for several days, messengers were sent to the villages of the Pawnees and Otoes, fifty miles to the westward, bearing gifts, with an invitation to a council. Through wars and other disasters, the Otoes were then much reduced in numbers, as in almost every item of the savage code of efficiency and independence.
The remnant of the once powerful tribe then found shelter and a home with the Otoes, finally becoming merged in that tribe.
... "They promised to make peace with the Otoes and Missouris, the only nations with whom they are now at war.
Such cases of elopement are not very frequent; but after a much longer absence the parties generally become silently reconciled, if necessary, through the arrangement of friends. I-e-tan said, however, that it was not only a personal insult and injury, but an evidence of defiance of his power, and that he would live or die the chief of the Otoes.
He told them that he had come to bring them a message from the King, his master, who was the Great Chief of all the nations of the earth, and whose will it was that the Comanches should live in peace with his other children, the Missouris, Osages, Kansas, Otoes, Omahas, and Pawnees, with whom they had long been at war; that the chiefs of these tribes were now present, ready to renounce their old enmities; that the Comanches should henceforth regard them as friends, share with them the blessing of alliance and trade with the French, and give to these last free passage through their country to trade with the Spaniards of New Mexico.
But the insolence with which he burst in proves that the criminal is not a genuine Egyptian." "Who art thou?" asked Ramses. "I am Bakura, a laborer in the regiment of diggers in Sochem. We have no work now, so the nomarch Otoes commanded us." "He is a drunkard and a madman!" whispered the excited Sofra. "How dares he speak to thee, lord."
Operations under the Indian Department during the year 1834. Measures have been adopted for the execution of the several treaties with the Cherokees, Creeks, Seminoles, Appalachicolas, Quapaws, the united bands of Otoes and Missourias of the river Platte, and the four confederated bands of Pawnees of the Platte and the Loup Fork, all of which were ratified at the last session of Congress.
The river is very shallow, and for that reason was called by the Otoes, whose country embraced the region at its mouth, the Ne-bras-ka, and re-christened the Platte by the French trappers, a term synonymous to that given by the Indians. The Platte River, nearly three-quarters of a century ago, was called by Washington Irving, The most magnificent and most useless of streams.
"Therefore it is proper," continued the prince, "that I should ask men of experience and that Thou shouldst give me knowledge." "I will show thee all, and give every explanation," said Otoes. "But we should go to a place where there is no uproar." In fact, in the palace which the prince occupied as many people thronged in the inner and outer court as at a fair.
Here and there were visible swampy places covered with water plants and reeds in which were teeming wild geese, ducks, doves, storks, pelicans, and ibises. "Behold, lord," said Otoes, "a picture of our country, Quench, Egypt. Osiris fell in love with this strip of laud in the midst of deserts; he covered it with plants and living creatures, so as to have from them profit.
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