Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 12, 2025
They had stolen the horses of the Shawanoes and Miamis, and had treacherously shot, not only the warriors, but the squaws and papooses, when they lay asleep by their camp-fires. Arorara said he had been sent by his people to follow across the river, and punish them for their many crimes.
They then applied to the Delawares for some territory on which to reside. When granted, a council was held to consider the propriety of accepting the offer of the Delawares. On this question the Shawanoes divided part of them remained on the Wabash, the others, composing chiefly the Piqua tribe, formed a settlement in the forks of the Delaware.
He assembled the Shawanoes, Wyandots and Ottawas, who were under his command, and declared his intention to them.
The Wyandots emigrated first from lake Ontario, and subsequently from lake Huron the Delawares from Pennsylvania and Maryland the Shawanoes from Georgia the Kickapoos and Potawatamies from the country between lake Michigan and the Mississippi and the Ottawas and Chippewas from the peninsula formed by lakes Michigan, Huron and St Clair, and the strait connecting the latter with Erie.
In 1714 young Charles Charleville accompanied an old trader from Crozat's colony on the gulf to the great salt-springs on the Cumberland, where a post for trading with the Shawanoes had already been established by the French. But the British were preparing to capture this trade as early as 1694, when Tonti warned Villermont that Carolinians were already established on a branch of the Ohio.
Their neighbors and former confederates, the Shawanoes, who are tolerable farmers, are in a prosperous condition; but the Delawares dwindle every year, from the number of men lost in their warlike expeditions. Soon after leaving this party, we saw, stretching on the right, the forests that follow the course of the Missouri, and the deep woody channel through which at this point it runs.
The two Shawanoes who suddenly became aware of their danger, did not see all that has been described, for Deerfoot utilized the shelter so far as he could. Most of his body was carefully protected, and, though the bow was slanted, the lowermost point scarcely showed on the opposite side of the tree from the top of the weapon.
The Shawanoes supposed that the missionary was in pursuit of their lands; and a party of them determined to assassinate him privately, for fear of exciting other Indians to hostility. The attempt upon his life was made, but strangely defeated.
After they had amused themselves by making Boone caper about with a horse bell on his neck, while they jeered at him in broken English, "Steal horse, eh?" the Shawanoes turned north again, this time taking the two unfortunate hunters with them. Boone and Stewart escaped, one day on the march, by a plunge into the thick tall canebrake.
But it showed that a camp-fire was burning beneath, though it may have been kindled many hours before, and those who started it possibly were miles away in the depths of the forest. "Suppose they are Shawanoes or Miamis?" remarked Jack. "They are not Shawanoes," said Deerfoot quietly. "Miamis then?" "Deerfoot thinks they are not Miamis, but he cannot be sure till he sees the camp."
Word Of The Day
Others Looking