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  INDIAN 
  LINGUISTIC 
  FAMILIES. 
  

  

  found 
  the 
  banks 
  of 
  the 
  river 
  from 
  Quebec 
  to 
  Montreal 
  occupied 
  by 
  

   an 
  Iroquoian 
  people. 
  From 
  statements 
  of 
  Champlain 
  and 
  other 
  

   early 
  explorers 
  it 
  seems 
  probable 
  that 
  the 
  Wyandot 
  once 
  occupied 
  

   the 
  country 
  along 
  the 
  northern 
  shore 
  of 
  Lake 
  Ontario. 
  

  

  The 
  Conestoga, 
  and 
  perhaps 
  some 
  allied 
  tribes, 
  occupied 
  the 
  coun- 
  

   try 
  about 
  the 
  Lower 
  Susquehanna, 
  in 
  Pennsylvania 
  and 
  Maryland, 
  

   and 
  have 
  commonly 
  been 
  regarded 
  as 
  an 
  isolated 
  body, 
  but 
  it 
  seems 
  

   probable 
  that 
  their 
  territory 
  was 
  contiguous 
  to 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  Five 
  

   Nations 
  on 
  the 
  north 
  before 
  the 
  Delaware 
  began 
  their 
  westward 
  

   movement. 
  

  

  As 
  the 
  Cherokee 
  were 
  the 
  principal 
  tribe 
  on 
  the 
  borders 
  of 
  the 
  

   southern 
  colonies 
  and 
  occupied 
  the 
  leading 
  place 
  in 
  all 
  the 
  treaty 
  

   negotiations, 
  they 
  came 
  to 
  be 
  considered 
  as 
  the 
  owners 
  of 
  a 
  large 
  

   territory 
  to 
  which 
  they 
  had 
  no 
  real 
  claim. 
  Their 
  first 
  sale, 
  in 
  1721, 
  

   embraced 
  a 
  tract 
  in 
  South 
  Carolina, 
  between 
  the 
  Congaree 
  and 
  the 
  

   South 
  Fork 
  of 
  the 
  Edisto,' 
  but 
  about 
  one-half 
  of 
  this 
  tract, 
  form- 
  

   ing 
  the 
  present 
  Lexington 
  County, 
  belonging 
  to 
  the 
  Congaree. 
  2 
  In 
  

   1755 
  they 
  sold 
  a 
  second 
  tract 
  aliove 
  the 
  first 
  and 
  extending 
  across 
  

   South 
  Carolina 
  from 
  the 
  Savannah 
  to 
  the 
  Catawba 
  (or 
  Wateree), 
  3 
  

   but 
  all 
  of 
  this 
  tract 
  east 
  of 
  Broad 
  River 
  belonged 
  to 
  other 
  tribes. 
  

   The 
  lower 
  part, 
  between 
  the 
  Congaree 
  and 
  the 
  Wateree, 
  had 
  been 
  

   sold 
  20 
  years 
  before, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  upper 
  part 
  the 
  Broad 
  River 
  was 
  

   acknowledged 
  as 
  the 
  western 
  Catawba 
  boundary. 
  4 
  In 
  1770 
  they 
  

   sold 
  a 
  tract, 
  principally 
  in 
  Virginia 
  and 
  West 
  Virginia, 
  bounded 
  east 
  

   by 
  the 
  Great 
  Kanawha, 
  5 
  but 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  claimed 
  by 
  conquest 
  all 
  of 
  

   this 
  tract 
  northwest 
  of 
  the 
  main 
  ridge 
  of 
  the 
  Alleghany 
  and 
  Cum- 
  

   berland 
  Mountains, 
  and 
  extending 
  at 
  least 
  to 
  the 
  Kentucky 
  River, 
  6 
  

   and 
  two 
  years 
  previously 
  they 
  had 
  made 
  a 
  treaty 
  with 
  Sir 
  William 
  

   Johnson 
  by 
  which 
  they 
  were 
  recognized 
  asthe 
  owners 
  of 
  all 
  between 
  

   Cumberland 
  Mountains 
  and 
  the 
  Ohio 
  down 
  to 
  the 
  Tennessee.' 
  The 
  

   Cumberland 
  River 
  basin 
  was 
  the 
  only 
  part 
  of 
  this 
  tract 
  to 
  which 
  

   the 
  Cherokee 
  had 
  any 
  real 
  title, 
  having 
  driven 
  out 
  the 
  former 
  

   ox-upants, 
  the 
  Shawnee, 
  about 
  1721." 
  The 
  Cherokee 
  had 
  no 
  vil- 
  

   lages 
  north 
  of 
  the 
  Tennessee 
  (this 
  probably 
  includes 
  the 
  Holston 
  as 
  

   its 
  upper 
  part), 
  and 
  at 
  a 
  conference 
  at 
  Albany 
  the 
  Cherokee 
  delegates 
  

   presented 
  to 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  the 
  skin 
  of 
  a 
  deer, 
  which 
  they 
  said 
  belonged 
  

   to 
  the 
  Iroquois, 
  as 
  the 
  animal 
  had 
  been 
  killed 
  north 
  of 
  the 
  Tennes- 
  

   see.' 
  In 
  1805, 
  1800, 
  and 
  1817 
  they 
  sold 
  several 
  tracts, 
  mainly 
  in 
  

  

  1 
  ( 
  Vssion 
  No. 
  1, 
  on 
  Royce's 
  Cherokee 
  map, 
  1884. 
  

  

  8 
  Howe 
  in 
  Schoolcraft, 
  Ind. 
  Tribes. 
  1854, 
  vol. 
  4, 
  p. 
  163. 
  

  

  3 
  Cession 
  2, 
  on 
  Royce's 
  Cherokee 
  map, 
  1884. 
  

  

  4 
  Howe 
  in 
  Schoolcraft, 
  Ind. 
  Tribes, 
  1854, 
  vol. 
  4, 
  pp. 
  155-159. 
  

  

  5 
  Cession 
  4, 
  on 
  Royce's 
  Cherokee 
  map, 
  1*84. 
  

  

  * 
  Sir 
  William 
  Johnson 
  in 
  Parkman's 
  Conspiracy 
  of 
  Pontiac, 
  app. 
  

   ■ 
  Bancroft, 
  Hist. 
  U.S. 
  

  

  * 
  Ramsey, 
  Annals 
  of 
  Tennessee, 
  1853. 
  

  

  9 
  Ramsey, 
  Annals 
  of 
  Tennessee, 
  1853. 
  

  

  