The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-06-29
Lou N PEACE, ALTHOUGH MUCH
." .,r,,pNEss FORMERLY En-
d. -rrD BETWEEN THEM
,,yANDOTTfS AND StNfCAS

gov Of a NeighbOring Chief VINO
0 INJECTED to the Match Cause Of
Ritter Tribal Wars
m,,u Okla.-One of the many
...4rg influences of civilization is
in the case of two former saw
pot tribes of Indians, who were dead
&c 'l. n,ios now living side by side
ooo and quiet. These are the
Y po sottos and Senecas, and al
@r small in numbers they are the
lOn 't5ios+ strongest and most civil
'a of all the fast diminishing
.'Sos Of the former Five Nations.
l Trodition says that up to the mid
- the sixteenth century these two
/ ,,ons although never warning with
aob other, did not mix nor intermar-
az oran though they placed their
y! ',.s within calling distance OF
o+bnr However, at some period
fsing the first half of the sixteenth
4 .tnrr rupture took place between
braves of two of their villages
/ -. vicinity of Montreal on account
h chiefs daughter.
Tho chief of the Seneca tribe with
~ bis consent to the marriage OF
=, con TO the daughter of another
[biof of the same tribe. From that
|, mo Young brave after another was
ioo+od nv the maiden. Only on one
edition would she give her hand to
~ Of them and that was by Staying
] he chief who had turned her down.
Young Wyandotte warrior near
no of this visited the Indian girl. He
loomn1fod with the condition and be-
lcama her husband and avenger. The
su.boIn Seneca tribe was aroused and
Ienraged-the braves flew to arms to
svange the assassination of their chief
|bv DESTROYING the Wyandottes. The
latter who we're the weaker tribe,
sbroka Nd their villages and journeyed
Westward while the Senecas were
awaiting the return of a strong hunt
|ing Dartv which would join them in
khe contemplated determination OF
hbeir former neighbors. For some
lime the vengefu1 Senecas pursued
The retreating Wyandottes, but failed
No oyertake them.
The Wyandotte family reached the
Niagara and after a time, fearing the
Senecas would yet find them, they
sjourneyed to the shores of Lake HUI
|ron. This lake was named after the
BWyandotte tribe; they were called
IHurons, but Wyandottes is the prop
Ter name for them. In that region
they found game in abundance, and
they remained there for many years
In 1912 the Wyandottes began tc
collect in Ohio about where Upper
land Lower Sandusky is now situated
where they remained until 1843
when they again took up their line oil
march through the trackless forests
finally settling in Kansas.
Years later most of them moved tc
Indian Territory, where to their con
sternation they found their old enc
mics, the Senecas, in full possession
OF the best hunting grounds.
The Senecas had emigrated to this
region number of years before and
settled or camped on the banks Of
CoWskin river and gave it that name
Ior when they butchered their cattle
'ney would throw the hides into the
stream by which it came to be known
Oy the name it now bears.
however, when the Wyandottes
again ran across their former enc
mes the latter seemed to have for
8oIlen their hatred of the former
ana treaty was entered into, and
,ue "yandottes bought a tract of
land from the Senecas. They lived
'salh side by side in what was then
q noWling Wilderness" and it was
UNDERSTOOD among them that each
sUouia nave the privilege of hunting
~ one another's territory. 1t also
vas decided that the Wyandottes