LAST OF THE PO 1 rOWATl OMIES 



had fish to last thein until the weather moderated 

 One old snapping turtle that came out was so 

 large that when they dressed and cooked it. it 

 made soup enough to last them a week. The 

 ice did not break up that Spring until away in 

 April. Some hunters crossed the river on the ice 

 seventeenth of April thai Spring. I will tell you 

 now of some of the Indians that were left on 

 the Kankakee and what became of little A\ingo. 

 the Indian boy. /Aingo was the last Pottowat- 

 tomie on the Kankakee, lie had been captured 

 by the Sioux and carried away to the Northwest. 

 The old chief, the father of Niagara, did not like 

 /'\ingo and was not inclined to confer the honor 

 on him he had so fairly made, Niagara was 

 his favorite child and she must be the wife of 

 some distinguished personage. But the old 

 chief was doomed to be outwitted by his daugh- 

 ter as many a father is in matters of this kind. 

 At a time when the chief was absent holding a 

 council with a neighborhood tribes of Sioux, 

 A\ingo picked out two of the chief's best horses 



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