Illustrations of the manners, customs, & condition of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 2): With letters and notes, written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existingCatlin, George
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Illustrations of the manners, customs, & condition of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 2): With letters and notes, written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existing
Catlin, George
Indians of North America
+MO-HEE-CON-NEUHS, or MOHEGANS (the good canoemen).+
There are 400 of this once powerful and still famous tribe, residing
near Green Bay, on a rich tract of land given to them by the
Government, in the territory of Wisconsin, near Winnebago lake—on
which they are living very comfortably; having brought with them from
their former country, in the state of Massachusetts, a knowledge of
agriculture, which they had there effectually learned and practiced.
This tribe are the remains, and all that are left, of the once powerful
and celebrated tribe of Pequots of Massachusetts. History tells us,
that in their wars and dissensions with the whites, a considerable
portion of the tribe moved off under the command of a rival chief,
and established a separate tribe or band, and took the name of
Mo-hee-con-neuhs, which they have preserved until the present day; the
rest of the tribe having long since been extinct.
The chief of this tribe, _Ee-tow-o-kaum_ (both sides of the river,
+plate+ 199), which I have painted at full length, with a psalm-book
in one hand, and a cane in the other, is a very shrewd and intelligent
man, and a professed, and I think, sincere Christian. _Waun-naw-con_
(the dish), John W. Quinney (+plate+ 200), in civilized dress, is a
civilized Indian, well-educated—speaking good English—is a Baptist
missionary preacher, and a very plausible and eloquent speaker.
O-NEI-DA’S.
The remnant of a numerous tribe that have been destroyed by wars with
the whites—by whiskey and small-pox, numbering at present but five or
six hundred, and living in the most miserable poverty, on their reserve
in the state of New York, near Utica and the banks of the Mohawk river.
This tribe was one of the confederacy, called the Six Nations, and much
distinguished in the early history of New York. The present chief is
known by the name of _Bread_ (+plate+ 201). He is a shrewd and talented
man, well educated,—speaking good English—is handsome, and a polite and
gentlemanly man in his deportment.
TUS-KA-RO-RA’S.
Another of the tribes in the confederacy of the Six Nations, once
numerous, but reduced at present to the number of 500. This little
tribe are living on their reserve, a fine tract of land, near Buffalo,
in the state of New York, and surrounded by civilized settlements.
Many of them are good farmers, raising abundant and fine crops.
The chief of the tribe is a very dignified man, by the name of
_Cu-sick_, and his son, of the same name, whom I have painted (+plate+
202), is a very talented man—has been educated for the pulpit in some
one of our public institutions, and is now a Baptist preacher, and I am
told a very eloquent speaker.
SEN-E-CA’S.
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