The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-09-25

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mostly of the Seneca and Cayuga
tribes. 1t was of the Mingoes that
Tahgahjute John Logan became
chief after he came to Ohio and
turned drunkard.
Along the Sandusky River and as
far south as the Scioto and near the
junction of the Tuscarawas and Wal.
hending rivers was the Wyandottt
state.
Along the Muskingum and Sciotc
and near the Ohio rivers the Shaw.
nees lived. West of them, from
the Wabash to the Little and Great
Miami rivers were the Twightwees
an offshoot of the Miami tribes
the Piankeshaws and the Weas
Many Delawares were scattered
among the Mingoes, Shawnees and
Wyandottes, though their own coun,
try was along the Muskingum river
Red Men Troubled Whites
1t was the Shawnees, Delawares
and Wyandottes, along the Scioto
Sandusky and Muskingum rivers anC
the Miamis, near the Ohio, thai
gave the white men so much trouble
in their settlement of Ohio.
In the north was the country Of
the most powerful Indian organiza
tion of all-the Iroquois. This was
the name designating the Five Ma.
tions which comprised the Mohawks
Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas anc
Senecas. In TIA the Tuscareras
joined the union, thus making it the
Six Nations.
The foregoing, with the Hurons
Eries and Andastes, south of Lake
Erie, comprised the Indian states
which covered Ohio at the coming
of the whites. All three of the
latter tribes later were conquered by
the Iroquois and became a part OF
the Six Nations.
The Miamis never were conquered
by the Six Nations, though through
conquest that confederation claimed
all the land north of the Ohio River
and as far west as the Mississippi
Great Council House
Though each member tribe or state
had its own councils, chiefs ant
sachems and was a separate organi
zatoin, all matters of foreign policy
were deliberated and decided in tht
general assembly at the great council
house in the Onendaga valley. L
was the capitol building of tn,
Indian united states of Ohio.
First Ohio settlers were met will
Indian friendliness. 1t only wa
after scattered Indians had been at
tackled and killed by the white in
vaders that the red men grew vic
lent and resorted to murder, tortur,
and fire in defense of their country
Their tactics were exactly those o.
the Colonial army in repelling thu
British during their victorious wa,
for independence.
When the whites came there onl,
were about 5000 Indians in Ohio ant
approximately 10000 in what nov
is the United States-just about the
number here when America wa.
discovered in 1892.
That about 10000 Indians are still
living in America is evidence that
the race has not died out and has
been little depleted. If Columbus
had come as far as Ohio he might
have taken few mound builders
along with the Indians he carried
to Spain to show the queen what
sort of people lived in the new land
They were here for a century after
Columbus first came.
The foregoing account is from
scattered Indian lore, legend and
tradition which covers much that is
untouched by white historians. Some
of it is difficult for the whites, to
understand and appears fantastic. In
cidentially legend of the Delawares
(first men) relates that the tribe, in
the beginning, came up out of the
ground. The story is hard to believe
until one remembers that the tribe
might have descended from the cave
dwellers-who really did live under
ground.