The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-12
Difference Between the Cherokees and thes
Creeks aass i Boy Saw Them Foshatch-i|
fixico and the Death Arkeechee 49,
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10y ~ a sort OF loud screanln !, 4 Tor ms
stance i5 M ;is gf gtS II
,They used the sign Language freely Vi. u
lexpressively, iinipressivey and gracefully ";
A stranger not knowing a word OF y TIL irg
spoken language would nderstand every
Sign. q s4 a N a iS y Ri
Willie we Oh ildrenB played toge thersasi
With the utmost comrndesh hip ana the cont
plete approval OF our elders, the ,gro His.s
up whites and indians d.dn' mix 1,tcfi.s
THE truth Is that + they were nut II III
afraid Every ono knows how the syy iteS5l
pioneers, everywhe ere, feared the IN dia r5.IS
We children knew that the Indians had 4;
equal fear OF the ites.S u M t5s3a.
Il, "1n5 Alabama. In the s., few Of TIN, a
whites tried to Chrlstianize or educat -
tho Indians; only. to get them ava an
to take possession Of their lands but \
the white and Indians boys were al vi
shunky' and friendly together. m "
a5 ts,As j remember them, the Indians werS Il
disposed to be religious. They " or-.
shipped God as they understood him.
always, never the devil or the evil one.8;
as some savages do. They worshtped
honor as they Understood It. They were 1
were great robbers. That Is. they never;
took things not belonging to them in 4
times 81 penoe, but when they got into 4
80. village with whose inhabitants they
were at odds, they would take everything (
in 81 sight, ana what they collldn take !
way they would destroy. "a B
s 'sThose who broke a ny of the rules OF +
the Indian code OF s. morality were pun n
Slshed Swithout fear or favor, and. Il sen q
fenced to punishment and sentence wa I
deferred ,a would always appear exactly
wien expected for the execution ~ the 4
sentence, even II It were death. Un--S}'
chnstity was almost aunKno wn there was
no double standard, as among the whites,
and offenders were Wig rous,ys punished
rho women were BOD wives from ron the ne /
Indian point 81 view pat tent, industr "a
and never bickerin g. They we're any,
thing but shrews or 3scolds WI RI
Sending the Indians Away q
$.The 4 whites came Il In \ rapi dly IN the 4
6thirties not soSrapidly as they have gone
Into Oklahoma and otler5 res erva tons IN
later years, but$with astonishing spe 60, 1
considering MI the circum stances
There were no rai lroad 3 N there q On,
and some OF the settlers reached Alabama
lin ali sorts Of primitive 81 way AN i. few
ca me lrl8wa CONS, m ore on fhors eback, ana
still more on foot md they all wanted 4
the land whichst the 1nd ians held .s
eve q boys used to- hear and talk 9 5000
deal about sTecun,s et ], the B great Indian
chief who wa s. at the tottom q the ms
dams enmity# toward " the whlte pee
and who undoubt teddy put the Creeks INT 1
the aoksor1 had Ato i'l press.
~ on ecumseht Il went to It allassee, M on n the
nlipoosn. We EIe had learned, I'll und oub tedly$
from the fish, tha ii an eel pse 81 the
sun would take Il lace ION a certain da te:$
He told the Greeks that the Great spi!r1its
he'd VI them to war wi tn IL the hltes,
d would tell them to begin do rkeI !'$
ling the sun. Il the sur were not SdaE M
ened on 81 the day predi cted that tWoulltd 1
prove that Tecumseh had not spok KEN th ls
truth. AS the cell seF arrive on sche dulet
time, the Creeks declared wa r as = ecurl vi
ST,,1t vas in some ID egree the Tea on the
IA IT Of the whites when . wa sS q boy
$that the Creeks would make 81 troubl LEI
ii, but more the desire of the whites
to- get tho Indians, lands, which LED & TO-
their removal TO Ind Ian Te rrltory the
middle thirtles, y, az
Il ca sure. They made no reststa Ice, hoSS'-5
ever, for Il ey II knew would be us 2 y
he ss Any holding bac ok w uld have be %,
an forced 4 at the poin n OF the bay onet aor 5
With the bullet The Ind ian knew Oil
Tor armed troops were ther in force
n 80 one day the MGR Ion was beg un,8
the government ding horses morse Y e. g.
CONS and drivers q Or the &conv eyance 81
/ the women and children, while the melt -
rode 81 their own pom les. g TO the white3
and Indian boys who had played .together3
and 81 between whom oh ildlsh " friend ships
had sprung up, those were pretty n ne
choly n days. do not remember that
there was any trouble whatever; the aau-3
SSthorities 4 we're h wisely patient and COM
iderate, hurryng no one unduly. and As
took them about year to get rid of the,
people whose forefathers Tor ages had
ma de Alabama their hons. III rs
CAT the end OF that time, however, they
had all been taken away; not one Tas
left to dispute possessio OF the. soil With
the white men 5 $sat 81
s (copyrigh 1866. BY Dexter MArshan>