Some account of the conduct of the Religious Society of Friends towards the Indian tribes in the settlement of the colonies of East and West Jersey and Pennsylvania: with a brief narrative of their labours for the civilization and Christian instruction of the Indians, from the time of their settlement in America, to the year 1843 / Published by the Aborigines' Committee of the Meeting for Sufferings.

  • London Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends). Aborigines' Committee.
Date:
1844
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Credit: Some account of the conduct of the Religious Society of Friends towards the Indian tribes in the settlement of the colonies of East and West Jersey and Pennsylvania: with a brief narrative of their labours for the civilization and Christian instruction of the Indians, from the time of their settlement in America, to the year 1843 / Published by the Aborigines' Committee of the Meeting for Sufferings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Vll have preserved an account. “ My forefather,” said Little Turtle, the Miami Chief at Greenville, “ kindled the first fire at Detroit ; from thence he extended his lines to the head- waters of Scotia; from thence to its mouth ; from thence down the Ohio to the mouth of the Wabash, and from thence to Chicago, on Lake Michigan. These are the boundaries within which the prints of my ancestor’s houses are every- where to be seen.” The Ottawas, from the basin of the river that bears their name, wandered to the bay of Saginam, and took possession of the whole north of the peninsula. The Illinois, who were kindred to the Miamis, had their country between the Wabash, the Ohio, and the Mississippi. The Potawatomies, who were a branch of the great Chip- pewayan nation, and came from the islands about the en- trance of Green Bay, in the early part of the eighteenth cen- tury, by encroaching upon the Miamis settled at Chicago. The Chippewas inhabited the land from the mouth of Green Bay to the head-waters of Lake Superior. The Menomonies, a distinct Algonquin tribe, were found near Green Bay, as early as 1669. The Sacs and Foxes occupied the country south-west of the Menomonies, from Green Bay and Fox River to the Mis- sissippi, and hunted over the land between the Winconsin and upper branches of the Illinois. The Shawnese are said to have an affinity with this nation, and also the Kiekapoos, who established themselves by conquest in the north of Illinois. So numerous were the Algonquin tribes, that it is supposed they constituted one half of the native population east of the Mississippi, and south of the St. Lawrence. II. N orth-west of the Sacs and Foxes, west of the Chip- pewas, tribes of the Sioux or Dahcota Indians occupied the prairies east of the Mississippi, from the head-waters of Lake Superior to the falls of St. Anthony. The Winnebagoes, a little community of the Dahcotas, had penetrated into the territory of the Algonquins, and dwelt between Green Bay and Winnebagoe Lake.