East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1866-03-21

Our people wonder what has brought fur FROM
your homes" ."g,i'iah a'F p i.la ~ sl' t spi
"Your young men have invited and light tho
Council We the pipe of peace, but
to sell lands. Our American Father hem Our
English Father better lie has asked for them.
Your people respass upon hunting grounds You Aock
shores lOur grow Our lard mets like
cake Of ice Our possessions grow smaller and smaller The
of the white rolls upon and melts
Our reproach u.s. Our children homes Shall
sell from under them the spot where they spread their bankets'
We called you We with you the pipe Of
peace" .9 s,ai, ~ @''l' t'H
To this the Commissioner replied with earneness repovng
the speaker for arrogant assumption that their Great Father
Washington had just closed which he had whipped their
Father the English King and the Indians too their lands
forfeited in fact by the rules of but that he did not
propose take them without rendering back equivalent
whstanding their of hostility that and
children should have reserved them ample tribal
which they could live, unmoesed by their white neghbor
where they could spread their blankets be aided and
struced in agriculture ;, .. :g ;
The Council for the day closed The Commissioner with his
of and devoted assistants composed of gentlemen
distinguished Indian Councils Whmore Knagg known
the natives Oke-dag bendon and beloved by Henry
Conner know them Wah-be -shen,dp meaning literally
whitehead significant Of the color of his hair Col Beauae
G. Godfrey, sub agent John Harson and other gentlemen Of
deserved influence with the Chppewa all retired their odg
ngs disappointed and anxious while the Chiefs and head
of the natives retired to their wgwams in ulen dignity unaI
proaehabe and unappeased. Certainly very unpropous
opening of the great and important undertaking and which
General Cass had in hand. ir3s1g, ,iIa.5 ,ii.,lg.
The uncure critical one, and for full appreciation of
it brief ausion the relative of the who
about to become contracting parties to the treaty. but whose
minds had yet met becomes pardonabe if necessary
The proposition for session of the Indian title from
yet perfect For any lawles vindove
upon treaty ground would have been immunity
immediate punishment and probably ultimate escape The
whites comparatively, few in number. The military
pany board of the schooner anchored in the quite
inadequate successful against organized and
general outbreak
Sufficient had elapsed wash bitter
of border feuds of faned real wrong Footprints vet
upon path. The
passed had closed which had low many
Chippewa warriors Our and his assistants
had placed themselves voluntarily within their strong hold upon
the Saginaw which pale face had throughout
that formidable struggle unless pnoned and aredepessed
capve with the exception of the single memorable instance of
the daring trader Smith, from captivity the children OF
the Boyer family who had been taken cave with their father
from their homes upon Clinton river, Mount Clemens
Here within half dozen previous, they had drilled
martial exercise trained themselves warke as and pre-
pared deadly frontier settlements
and for those formidable engagements where disciplined
vaor called upon breast their wild charge. After the
bloody raid this valley they looked stnes and to it
returned with their captives and streaming trophies.
And here had been for generations their simple altar
the npruned forests festivals called by without refer.
their significance their Dances where thanks
up the Great Spirit for the yearly of the
blessings of fruitful season. following to its source with direct
purpose and thankful hearts, the ray which gave them
the tase of the and perfected their slender harvest
Neoe the chief of largest bands of the Chppewas,
occupied and assumed control the most souther portion
, their then national domain 'r flt
river with nortferly auen BY the line
the treaty of 1907 left little north Of the border in full Indian
possession 1t called by the natives Pew0-nuk
meaning literally of Flint and by the early French
traders La Pene the principal fodng crossing place
of that river called by them Grand Tave few rols below
the Flint City bridge By the Chppswas the site Of that city
called Muscu wa-ingh meaning tho open plain burnt
over .,sis y.I.rl ,.3fe.95at fir<
That river after leaving the northery part Of Lapee County
bears southey the Grand Traverse iyof FIn
curves nortery the Saginaw the crescent Which tins
describes lying upon the southern border nearly of wlu
the home possessions intact and unaffected i prevu
treaties of those bands of Chppewas whose chiefs aud eadcn
met General Cass in Council at Saginaw is l.uni
Well beaten trails upon Flint tributaries reaching
their head waters and upon all the auents of the Saginaw
all conyergng the main river the centre, forming
work Of communication which might ap bo compared
open FAM with the handle resting upon the treaty ground
gave the Chppewas upon the banks of those srea
well by upon the rivers the
missioner in Council The advancing of white settlements
had already approached and in instances had wisou
authority encroaced upon the souhery border til
$ Of trails upon the Flint. ais o1 arirr
In point of location geographically Ne and his powerful
band stood at the door, the threshold of the large body
land which Government through its faithful and
Commissioner wanted. To any standing at Detroit aud
Hooking northery the beautiful belt of land lying westerly
the river ST. Clair and Lake Huron it plain that