Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-10-02


aware Indians is no more. With his
passing has disappeared the last YES
tige of what was once the greatest
tribe of Americas aboriginies. Khan
kia, descendant of a long line-only
he knew how long-of distinguished
in a little hut in secluded spot near
the shores of the Raritan river, half a
score of miles from Pennington, N. ].
Arthur Tenbroeck of New York, who
has spent many summers in the neigh
borhood of Pennington, and who made
the acquaintance of the aged chief of
an extinct tribe about three years
ago, superintended his burial and says
that his wishes-that he should be
laid away under the shadow of an an
cient elm where once his forefathers
sat in solmen council-were carried
out. Mr. Tenbroeck says that Kiankia
informed him some time before his
death that he was 95 years old.
1T was generally supposed" said
Mr.. TeHbroeck, in discussing the
death of the last of the Delawares,
that old Indian Anne, who died in
Mount Holly in 1894, was the last of
| the famous tribe, but it was not
known then that her brother Kiankia
was still alive"
Mr.. Tenbroeck said that the old
chief without tribe told him pa
thetic story of himself and tribe, that
| he had noted down the old mans
words, which were in substance as fol-
| lows:
| II am now going on go, and it is not
likely that those who are so close to
the grave should speak with false
tongue | am a direct descendant of
the once great tribe Lenape, whose
wigwams countless numbers of moons
ago stretched from the snow-clad for
ests to the sunny waters west of the
big river Mississippi. So powerful
were the Lenape in the early days
| that no tribe dared to arouse their
wrath for fear of determination.
Then came a day when two sons
were born to the great chief Winka-
pula. These succeeded their father
as chiefs in their own right. They di-
vided the tribe into two parts, one
going toward the setting sun and the
other toward the cradle of the morn
ing.
THAT part of the tribe which went
westward divided, split up, and inter
married with other tribes, until finally
its identity was lost altogether. Not
so with the east going tribe; it trav
eled toward what then was known as
the devouring great water, now called
the Delaware river. My forefathers
called this river the Lenapewhittuck
The tribe then called itself the Scha
yichbians, and by that name it was
known until the coming of the whites
I'm those long-gone days no man
white or red, knew the soil of that
tract of land called New Jersey, sc
the Schayichbians established many
collections of wigwams along the
banks of the various beautiful creeks
and rivers which veined the land
The Lenapes and later the Schayich
ians were known among other rec
men as the grandfather tribe, and wei
did they deserve the name, for in al
things were they superior to other In
dams.
The Six Nations.
Soon the days of peace were end
ed with the coming of the Six Nation:
the Iroquoise. A fierce and bloody
war was waged between the Iroquoist
and the Schayichbians, and many
brave warriors fell on both sides
Peace was hardly brought about by tn,
counsel of women-men considered
it beneath them to have aught to d.
with arranging terms of peace-wheI
the white man came. Lord De Ii
Ware changed the name of the Lena
pewhittuck to Delaware, and evel
since then has the Schayichian beer
known to white men as the Delaware
Indian. Then came the Dutch, bu
they were so few and so peaceabl,
that the red man smoked with then
the long pipe and clasped hands in ;
strong clasp of friendship.
CAS- time wore on the Delawarei
divided into many smaller tribes-th'
Raritans. the Navesinks. the Mingos
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Rancocas, the Beverlye. the Com
munipaws, and many others Thes
small bands left thebanks of the Ran
itan and settled in other parts of tn
land now known as New Jersey In
rest of the Delawares, still keepin
? that name, raised their wigwam
along the shores of the Raritan an
a Delaware rivers, and the many httl
creeks and estuaries flowing int
, these rivers.
The English Settlement.
+ When the English white man cam
5 and wanted all the lanu, the Dels
+ wares and little tribes sprung fror
the Delawares did not make thei
n bodies with war paint and sharpe
l. their tomahawks, hgit called counc
r of the old men of wisdom. who toll
/. them not to resist the white man. bu
d to sell to him the land which ha
e, been the white mans soil. The whit
z man bought all the land east of tn
J, Raritan and Delaware rivers and II
served to the Delawares portion {