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Northward of this scanty people lived the Sacs and 

 Foxes, and around the upper Great Lakes the nu- 

 merous and powerful Pottawattamies, Ottawas, and 

 Chippewas ; fierce and treacherous warriors, who did 

 not till the soil, and were hunters and fishers only, 

 more savage even than the tribes that lay southeast 

 of them. 1 In the works of the early travelers we 

 read the names of many other Indian nations; but 

 whether these were indeed separate peoples, or 

 branches of some of those already mentioned, or 

 whether the different travelers spelled the Indian 

 names in widely different ways, we can not say. All 

 that is certain is that there were many tribes and 

 sub-tribes, who roamed and warred and hunted over 

 the fair lands now forming the heart of our mighty 

 nation, that to some of these tribes the whites gave 

 names and to some they did not, and that the named 

 and the nameless alike were swept down to the same 

 inevitable doom. 



Moreover, there were bands of renegades or dis- 

 contented Indians, who for some cause had severed 

 their tribal connections. Two of the most promi- 

 nent of these bands were the Cherokees and Mingos, 

 both being noted for their predatory and murderous 

 nature and their incessant raids on the frontier set- 

 tlers. The Cherokees were fugitives from the rest 

 of their nation, who had fled north, beyond the Ohio, 

 and dwelt in the land shared by the Delawares and 



1 See papers by Stephen D. Peet, on the northwestern 

 tribes, read before the State Archaeological Society of Ohio, 



1878. 



