30 MUXSEES. OTTAAVA3. 



MUNSEES. 



39. 



JIM GRAY. 



(Painted 1843.) 



PRINCIPAL Chief of the Munsees, a small tribe residing with the 

 Eelawares. 



OTTAWAS. 



40. 



SHAB-A-NEE. 



(Painted 1843.) 



AN Ottawa Chief. This man is well known throughout the north 

 ern part of Michigan and Illinois, his people having formerly occu 

 pied and owned the soil in that region. During the late war he was 

 one of the most prominent actors, and one of Tecumseh s counsellors 

 and aides-de-camp. He says he was near Tecumseh when he fell, 

 and represents him as having been stabbed through the body with 

 a bayonet, by a soldier : he seized the gun with his left hand, raised 

 his tomahawk, and was about to despatch him, when an officer, wear 

 ing a chapeau and riding a white horse, approached him, drew a 

 pistol from his holster, and shot him. He and the remaining few of 

 his people reside with the Potowatomies, near Council Bluffs, on the 

 Missouri 



