Indian Biography (1800) (14760156961)

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Title: Indian Biography
Year: 1800 (1800s)
Authors: Thatcher, B.B. (Benjamin Bussy), 1809-1840
Subjects: Indians of North America
Publisher: Philadelphia : Bowen
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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we have describedin our sketch of the life of Opothle Yoholo. The dance beingfinished, they feast upon boiled corn, the first fruits of the year;and the singing, dancing, and eating are kept up for several days.Should a culprit, whose life has been forfeited, have escapedpunishment until this festive season, and be so fortunate or sodexterous as to make his way into the square during the dance,he is considered as being under the protection of the Great Spirit,to whose agency they attribute the circumstances of his previousescape and present appearance among them, and his pardon issecured. 76 BIOGRAPHY. Of Mistippee there is little to tell. When at Washington, in18-26, he was a remarkably handsome boy, and in all respectsprepossessing. His father gave him unusual advantages in regardto education, which he is supposed to have improved. When atmaturity he wedded a comely woman of the Hillabee towns, andsoon after emigrated to the new home provided for his people, westof the Mississippi.
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A SF.MINC)1,R CHIKI ZitM Col^A PuhUTuid ly JT Bov^en. PJul^ NEAMATHLA The war between the United States and the Florida Indianshaving given an increased interest to the history of those tribes,we propose to treat that portion of our subject with some degreeof minuteness, should we succeed in procuring the requisitematerials. Our information in regard to them is not sufficientlyprecise to enable us to attempt this at present, and in presentingthe valuable portrait which accompanies this sketch, we shallconfine ourselves to a few general remarks. The Spanish conquerors and discoverers, if we may place anyconfidence in their reports, encountered numerous and warliketribes in the regions which they were pleased to describe as theland of flowers; but they may have indulged in the poetic licenseas greatly in regard to the number of inhabitants as in referenceto the luxuries of the soil and climate. It is certain that but fewof the ancient inhabitants remain; and these are divided intosmall