The American Nations, Vol. I.: Or, Outlines of a National History of the Ancient and Modern Nations of North and South AmericaRafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel)
History
The American Nations, Vol. I.: Or, Outlines of a National History of the Ancient and Modern Nations of North and South America
Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel)
Indians; Indians -- Origin; Taino Indians; Taino language
51 The symbolic glyph for this event is nearly the same as for the
arrival of _Wapsi_ or Eric. A sea, a boat, with mast, sail, and
cross over it. Every nation is denoted by a peculiar sign on the
head in these annals. 1. _Jinwis_ and his wife by an aureole, 2. the
_Ako_ or snakes by a forked tongue or 2 horns, 3. the _Jins_ by a
crown of rays, 4. the _Owinis_ by a feather, 5. the kings by 3
feathers, the medial longer, 6. the Esquimaux by a T, 7. the
Talamatans by the same reversed T, 8. the Talegas by a bar pointing
to the right, 9. the Nentegos by a hook, 10. the Europeans by a
cross. This evinces a kind of systematic symbolic plan, like the
Mexican; but the symbols are very seldom similar.
_ 52 Mattanikum_ appears to be both the _Tinikum_ and _Mattahorn_ of the
Swedes and Holm. Horn is not a Linapi word, but Swedish, so as to
translate half the name. He was king in 1645.
53 Holm says the Renapis called the Swedes, Akhoures, which in dialect
Linapi would be _Akoli_, meaning _ugly_ or _snake-looking_; the
prefix _Win_, means either _the beings_ or snow, or may refer to
Winaki.
54 The assertion that no land was ever sold to the colonists is
singular. They thought to buy land with trifling presents; but the
natives understood all the while the permission to dwell with them.
55 This is a third Tamanend, the great king of the whole nation
dwelling at the forks of the Delaware, which appears in Penn’s
treaties, and came in great pomp in 1697. The other chiefs mentioned
in deeds, were only his vassals: he is also called Taminy; but is
very different from _Tatami_ who was king till 1748 at Welakamika or
Nazareth, where he was killed by an Irish settler. Hekewelder
mentions him; but has many blunders on Tamanend, having mixt the
three into one.
56 Netawatwis was king in the west from 1748 till 1776. Alimi or
Coquetha-gekton (Heck.) was regent of his grandson _Unamiwi_ till
1780, after him Gelelelund was regent till 1782 when the boy
_Unamiwi_ was killed by the Bigknives.—(Heck.) this was the cause of
the wars till 1795.
57 General Wayne was compared to their old foes, and called Black
Snake, because he beat the allied nations.
58 These are the chiefs of the two united tribes, that appear in the
last treaty with the United States.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Elsewhere in the archive
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account