Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1807-08-08

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Gar, but j: must be by measure znd' ~
weigh. !,
IA Children, on are indebted @ the
white traders, but you must pay them no
more than half their credits, because they
have cheated you. You must pay them ~
skins, gums, canoes. &c. but not IN meat.
csrn, or sugar. You mustnot dress ike
the whites, nor wear hats like them. but
pluck Out your hair, as in ancient times,
aud wear the feather Of the eagle OF, your
heads; and when the weather Is not Sc,
we're you must 90 naked, excepting me
breach cloth and;when yen are cioatned,
it mas. be in skins orleather of yorr o9n'
dressing.
M Children, You complain that tbs AMI.
mails of The fores. are few and scattered
How should it be otherwise! You destroy
then yourselves, for their skins only, and
leave their bodies to rot, or give the sbest
pieces TO The whites. I am displeased when
I see.shis. and them back to the earth,
that they nay not come to you again. u on
must kill 90 more animals than are neccs.
sary to feed and clothe you; and you are
TO keep blu, one dog because, by keeping
too many you starvs them.
ny Children, Your women must not
live with the traders, or other white men.
unless they are lawfully married. Bot
do net like7ey this; because nay zvhite
and red children were thus marked, with
different coloss that they might be sepa.
rats people.
There follow certain regulations respect.
ing courtship and marriage; as also re
spsc,ing the publication of women at Ger.
tain periods, which are too infinitely de.
tailed ,obe repeated. The Great. Spirit
also directs them all to battle at certain. pc
RODS, to zvash azvay their sins, upon the
observance of which regulations they are
to be pardonrd four times fer the same Of.
fence such as stealing. getting drunk, or
the like but the fifth time, says hcsCreas
Spirit, "you shall surety de-"
Your wise men For conjurors] have bad
medicine in their bags. They must throw
away their medicine bags, aud when the
medicine is in blossom, collect it fresh asd
pure. You must make no teasts TO the
evil spirits Of the earth; / but only to the
good spirits of the air. You are 40 more
to dance the wABANo. nor the PoIGAN, or
bitssdancc didnot put you 90 tns Garth
10 dance those dances, bat you are TO dance
a,akcI. with your bodies paintea, and with
the Rogamaxg9n war club IN your hands.
You must all have this weapon aud never
leave it behind you. When on dance
thus. shall al1oays leak on Nth pleasure.
You ase to make yourselves Paka I ouae
acs Ter crosses( which you must always
carry with you, and amase yourselves Of
ten with that game. A kind of That ball
common among the sssagss, which re.
quirrs greas agility Your women must
have also handsome passa qnaneksS that
they may also; For |. made you to smuse
yourselves, aud am dsligh,ed when
see you happy. You are, however, never
to go to war agains, each other, but TO eul-
,iva,e peace between your different tribes,
that they may become one great psopse.
HI Childres-No Indian mastever sell
rom 10 Indians. II makes him rich, hu,
when he dies he becomes very wre,ched.
You bury him with all his wealth and orna
Femen,s about him.. and as he goes along the
path Of the dead, they fall from him; he
steps to take them. Up, aud they become
duet. -efie a. ias.a,rives almost at the place
OF rest, and then trumbles into dust him
self. hut those, who by their labor fur.
nishthemse!ves with necessaries only, when
they die are happy aud. when they ar
rive a. the land of the dead, will find their
wiswau furnished with every thing they
had or earth.
THIS far The Great Spinll
Now. my children, said The first caNec
|. man; listen wha, am about 10 add. The
Grea, Spirit then opened doer, shelving