Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-19

would scatter for time on the uplands to hunt,
preparatory for the winter; and often when they
succeeded in killing deer they knew no other
means of transport than to tie 1t to the tail OF
docile pony and thus lazily drag it into the camp
In the summer of 1880 was held on this ground
a great dance. Here were collected 1000
warriors Sacs Foxes, Wnnebagoes, and Potta-
watomies, with the renowned Black Hawk as their
leader.
Black Hawk at this time making an effort
to unite all of these tribes explaining to them that
if they did not join him and prevent the white
people from settling there, they would soon lose
their home and their happy hunting grounds.
At this dance they were dressed to repre-
sent many of the different kinds of animals and
birds, especially the eagle and buzzard, crudely
painted in all the different coors they could COM
mand from earthly ochers to the brilliant pigment
of the pokeberry, while some represented in more
crude the sun, moon and stars, as II to in
woke celestial aid in these weird incantattons
This dance lasted for three days and the noise
made by their strange pow-wow could be heard
for miles, keeping the hearts of the few white
settlers filled with dread and terror
This lurid event. even for these children OF ma
ture, was an unusually wild and brilliant affair,
heralding the return of Black Hawk and his band
of braves from Canada, where they had been to
receive their annual allowance of blankets and
ammunition from the British government
Black Hawk was very anxious, and very per-
sstent in trying to get these tribes to unite with
him. but only few of the younger and more dar-
ing braves did so; for through the influence OF
the patriarcha cheftain, Shabbona, the peace
party prevailed. Shabboha claimed to be an
ottawa Indian but in his youth he fell in love
with beautiful spuaw-so the story goes-the
daughter of a Pottawatomie chief. This made
him quite influential person on the several
allied tribes to which he and his wife were re-
lated, and Black Hawk wanted his aid and infu-
ence, but it refused; instead of helping him
Shabbona left the Indian council and secretly
went around to notify the white settlers of their
danger thus saving the lives of many a family;
but for this kindly act Black Hawk and his In
dams were angrily calling him squaw and
traitor though to the last of his days he remained
friendly to the white settlers
Between the years of 1881 and 1885 under the
pressure of civilization the Pottawatomies grad
ually left this home and hunting grounds for
lands assigned to them by the United States
Government beyond the Mississippi river, the
white settlers coming in about this time eagerly
selecting for themselves this beautiful val
ley, where so recently had been the Indian vii
lage of the Pottawatomes; and chiefly tradition
preserves its memory.
The name Indiantown chung to it for long
time, though the ardent white settlers called
the town by the queenly English name of
Windsor, and to induce of their friends to
locate here it was laid out in typical and-boomer
town lots, and no place far or near for long
period made better showing more pretensons
paper than did Windsor. This must have been
the sire if not the grandsire, perhaps more
remote ancestor of the the modern town site pro-
moter; let examine this plan closely: here we
find a County square, Market square, Liberty
square, Judicial square and Pleasant square, evil
IDENTIFY intending that the vast and rapidly coming
population should be impressed with the desire
for plenty of Gods sunshine and fresh air; res
ervations for churches were provided, and large
grounds for Seminary, showing their religious
and literary inclinations and aspirations. There
irregular roads leading off in all directions
from these symmetrical squares, following the
valleys between the bluffs, connecting with the
then remote distributing points. Passing directly
through the town the marked course of