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renegades, which sometimes were and sometimes 

 were not considered as portions of their larger 

 neighbors. Often, also, separate bands, which would 

 vaguely regard themselves as all one nation in one 

 generation, would in the next have lost even this 

 sense of loose tribal unity. 



The chief tribes, however, were well known and 

 occupied tolerably definite locations. The Dela- 

 wares or Leni-Lenappe, dwelt furthest east, lying 

 northwest of the upper Ohio, their lands adjoining 

 those of the Senecas, the largest and most west- 

 ernmost of the Six Nations. The Iroquois had been 

 their most relentless foes and oppressors in time 

 gone by; but on the eve of the Revolution all the 

 border tribes were forgetting their past differences 

 and were drawing together to make a stand against 

 the common foe. Thus it came about that parties of 

 young Seneca braves fought with the Delawares in 

 all their wars against us. 



Westward of the Delawares lay the Shawnee vil- 

 lages, along the Scioto and on the Pickaway plains ; 

 but it must be remembered that the Shawnees, Dela- 

 wares, and Wyandots were closely united and their 

 villages were often mixed in together. Still further 

 to the west, the Miamis or Twigtees, lived between 

 the Miami and the Wabash, together with other as- 

 sociated tribes, the Piankeshaws and the Weas or 

 Ouatinous. Further still, around the French vil- 

 lages, dwelt those scattered survivors of the Illinois 

 who had escaped the dire fate which befell their 

 fellow-tribesmen because they murdered Pontiac. 



