Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1812-01-27

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reason, why they are so few and SO lean.
You complain, that the animals are few
on the earth. How can it be otherwise,
when you destroy them yourselves. You
take only their skins and leave their DO
dies to rot. When I pass by and see them
thus, I take diem back, that they come no
more to you again.
.Wy Children! You must not dress Ike
the Whites but pIuck out your halr, as
in former times; and wear the feather OF
the eagle on your head. And, when 1t IS
not too cold you must go naked, Except
Ing your breech cloth) with your bodies
painted Gel When see you thus, | am
well pleased.
Conrts7,ip, Marriage, &c.
Here the Prophet goes on to prescribe
rules to be observed in Courtship and Ma
trimony. He forbids their women to live
with White man, unless they are lawful
" married. " But adds he Sc this
dislike" Let the Whites marry only
Whites, and let Indians marry Indians
Because made you to be too distinct peo-
pile. When they marry, they must be OF
mature years and of nearly equal age.
.Maitezcai--or Medicine Feast.
TThey are told, that their Medicine is
bad that they must. therefore, throw a
way their Medicine Bags and collect nezo
.Medicine, in the spring when the flowers
are in blossom That they must make
no .Natezcai. or Medicine Fcasts, to the
bad spirits Of the earth, but only to the
good spirits Of the air, lest they be punish
ed after death by Sc wailing in the woods
and approaching the good spirits of the
air, who are not to blame, because your
medicine is bad" During this feast, they
are to dance four days--to drink only ten
bottles of rum. ('' Pure spirits'') and
the old men only are to drink They
ere all to perform certain rites of purif-
cation, or addition for sir, at certain
period in the spring, by bathing tenmor,s-
ings in succession, with certain cercmo-
MES. They may repeat crime Gas steal
ing. getting drank, Sc four times and
be forgiven but for The fifth offence the
Great Spirit threatens death.
.Ny Children When you dance you are
not to dance the Ouabanno, nor the Poigdn
or pipe dance [sociai dances]. did not
place you on the earth to dance these
dance. When you dance. you are to be
naked. and painted, with your feather on
yaur hapd ord -s~-.--- -----~.., yourselves
holding the P0igGmaugan, war club or
some other club in your hands; and thenI
Sh.Ji IooI, an with n!eacure
My Children i! You are to make for
yourselves PAKAToUANACs Cor Cr0sses,)
which you are always to carry with you
as it pleases me to see you play at the
game. Your women must have handsome
Pasap,anacs. that they may play also
for Z made you to amuse yourselves.
You are not to beat your wives. If you
strike them with your fists, or kick them,
the part which touches them. will be want
ing to you, when you are gone from this
life. If you punish them, use small
switch, and have pity.
He directs them to keep but one dog
each, because by keeping too many they
starve them. At their. feasts and councils,
they must not use fire porcured from flint
and steel but as they formerly did [pro-
badly by frietiom] And they are stritcly
forbidden to fight and kill each other but
enjoined to cultivate friendship and union
among their several tribes and, on no occa-
sion, to smoke pure tobacco.
,Ny Children Every Indian that sells
yau rum sins he makes himself rich but |
when he dies, re becomes very mis- cradle. !!
When you bury him. you put with him
every thing valuable that he has; and as
he goes along the path of the dead it falls
from him. He stops to take it up, and it
becomes dust. He arrives almost at the
place Of rest. and crumbIes into dust him |
self. But those. who hy their lahnur.