Origin and Traditional History of the Wyandotts; And Sketches of Other Indian Tribes of North America

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ... Compter VII. TJRING this decade (between the years 1800 and 1811), and thereafter, the Indian title to the lands in Ohio was rapidly becoming extinguished, and each tribe's possessions dwindling down to a few sections in tracts called reserve, and these reserved lands, were, before the middle of the nineteenth century all gobbled up (figuratively speaking) by "Uncle Sam," and all the Indians removed to the west of the Mississippi into Kansas, now one of the United States of America, where the remnants of the different tribes were removed to, from Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri and Iowa, and these were the Sacs, Foxes, Potawatamies, Kickapoos, Miamis, Peorias, Osages, Iowas, Delawares, Muncies, Shawnees and other tribes; a mixed band of Ottawas and Chippewas, and a band of Senecas. Lastly, the Wyandotts of Ohio ; and all these Indian possessions (including the original, or remnants of the different tribes of that country), are now being again, piece by piece, gobbled up by "Uncle Sam" (United States), as the white population increases around them. The tide of emigration from the "Old World" seem to be fast crowding the "white native American" out of the old States, and the latter is now crowding and scattering the Indians throughout Kansas. From there the whites are spreading over, and "spoiling the hunting grounds" of the wild Indians throughout the vast regions, to the Rocky Mountains. The Cherokees were removed from Georgia to the southeastern part of Kansas territory, and on the north side of Arkansas river, the Choctaws to the opposite side, the Creaks D* and Siminoles, from Florida, to the west of the Choctaw nation. The Cherokees, as a nation, was rapidly advancing in civilization, when they were compelled by the...