The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-08-11
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1s"c tTeaVfS, OetUEIS GOSr EdTe cNcafc6 ron.
You mutt pay them ia ikins guns, canoes, SC.
but not IN nea', corn or fugar. You mutt not
drefs like the srbitsJ, nor wear hats like them.
bit PLUCK out Your tai', rs in ancient times, &
wear the feather of the eagle on your heads and
whsn the weather is not !evero, you mua go
naked, excepting the breach cloth and when
you are cioathed, /, NUT be in ikins, or leather
OF your own drefing.
| MY C5i'dren-You complain that the ami.
mails or the feref are few and fcattcred. How
mould 1t be otherwiie You defroy them
yourfcives, tor their kins only, and leave their
bodies to rot, or give the beit pieces to the
svhne5. Z am dip'eoffd ev6enI ZEE tbi5, and
take them back TO sbe EARTH, that they may not
cor'e to you again. You mnft kill no more a.
p'ma's than arc neceiary to feed & clothe you ;
ana you are TO keep but one dog, becaufe, by
keeping too many, you ftarve them.
| ny CbiIdren-Your women mut not live
win the traders, or other white men, uu'eis
they are lawfully married. But ! do not like
even tins; becduie my qvbite 0n9 red children
were TINS marked, with different colours, that
they might be ieparsts people.
| Here follow certain regulations refpset;ne
c"uftinip and marriage AS alio respecting The
| purhcation OF momeB at certain periods, which
are too minutely detailed to be repeated. The
Great Spirit alto dire6s them all to battle at
CERTAIN periods, TO avaG a.vay their fins, upon
tue obiervance of which reg ulation., they arc
10 DC Pardoned four times for the fame offence {;
iuch as Healing, getting drunk. or the like but
the h'ih time, lays the Great Spirit, "yow HaN
/aTety die."1
Your vile men or eonjnror5l have bad me-
dicne in their bags. They mutt throw away
their medcire BAGS, and when the medicine is
IN bioiiom, cul e6t it frelh and pure. You muft
make no ieats to the evil iprits of the earth
but only to the good fpirils ,f the air. You
are no more to dance the Wabauo, nor the Po-
tsan, or bite dance. did not put you on the
earth to dance thole dances, but you are to
dance naked, with your bodies painted, and
win the Piogamaugam war club in your
hands. You muft ali have this weapon and ne
yer leave it behind you. When you dance thus,
iJbaH alRvoJ5 look sa svitb p!tajfvr. You are
10 make YourieiveS PHSa o1snoc5, Cor croGes)
winch you mutt always carry with you, and a.
mute yourie!ves often with that game. "A kind
oil That ball common among the favapes, which
require great agility Your women mufi have
aiio handiome peDa quanackJ9 that they may
play aio for lmade you to amufe yourfelves
and am delighted when fee you happy. You
are, however never 10 go 10 zvar QgainR each o
fbsr:, out 10 cultivate peace between your diff
fersnt tribes, that they may become one ;ereat
people,
Ny CbilIren-No Indian NUT ever Eel run,
TO Indians. II makes him rich, but when he
dies be becomes very wretched. You bury
him with all his wealth and ornaments about
HIM, and as he goes along the path OF the dead
they fall from him; he tops to take them up,
and they become duff. He at leaf arrives al
mott at the place of reft. and then crumbles m.
to duit bimfelf. But thofe, who by their la.
ounr furniih themielves with necefaries only,
when they die are happy; and, when they ar.
rive at the land ct the dead, will find their wig
wan iurniihed with every thing they had on
earth.
(T,bnS far The Great Spirit
20 Now my children, faid the fre created man,
htten what | am about TO add. The Great
Spirit then opened door, fhcwing me a bear
and deer, both very imall, and very lean, and
laid: look here, my lon thele are the animals
that are now on the earth the Red People
nave lpoicd them by killing then too young
ana giving their meat TO the qvbiie5, and alto by
greahng themfelves with their fat, which is We
ry wrong. The women, when they CREATE their
bodies, or their hair, !hoult. do it only with the
rat OF the fma!icr animals: of racoons, of Of
ters' OF fnakes, &c. The Great Spirit then o.
Pehed another door, and ihewed me bear and
oeer extremely tat, and OF :. very extraordinary
NE, laying, " look here my fon Thofe are
the animals placed ON The earth when Great.
&c you"
Now, my children, liiten to what fay, and
let 1t link into your eaiS-it is the orders of the
Great Spirit.
NY CbilArsn-1'oG muR not Ibeak Of tits tax
10 the sO6i!cJ. mgR be bidden from tbem. II
am now OH the earth feat by the Great Spirit 10
Intruct you. Each village NUT lend me two or
more Principal CGietJ to reprefrnt to you that
you may be taught. The bearer Of this talk
Will point out to you the path TO my wigwam,
could not come myfelf to I4rEre Croebe, be-
caIie the world is changed from what il was
1t is broken, and leans down and as i, declines
the Ch'PPewas and all beyond will fall off and
die; therefore you mutt come fee me ard
be initrutted, in order to prevent it. Thofe vi
lagos which do not liien TO this talk, and fend
me two deputies eOiN be CIT off from tie face Of
tbeeartb.
Vat quantities of Indian corn are raifed by
the Indians OF Ar6re Croebe, a village ten miles
IN length, lying on Lake Michigan, at the diff
lance OF nre leagues from Mich,limAkinac. 1t
Is purchaied by Tue traders, and is the princi-
pal food OF their men Employed in the fur trade.
+ Sugar is alto made by them in great album
daHce. Jingle family makes from 10 to 80
mokoks las they call tbem) containing All ave.
rage OF about 25Ibs. each. 1t is fold TO the ira
deri, and rs worth from o 10 l2 cents III. IL
is often fuperior in whitenefs to the beft Mu(co-
vado fugar.
The fame game at which they were play
her old q Il