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into his poclvct and has prized it ever since. The Indian, in like 

 manner, found the ulunsu'ti where the white man had thrown it. He 

 picked it up and has kept it since as his talisman, as money is (he 

 talismanic power of the white man. This story is quite general and 

 is probably older than others of its class. 



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 When Seciuoya. tiie in\(>ntor of tlie Cherokee alpliabet. was trying 



to introduce it ainoiiu- Ids people, about iSiill, some of them opposed it 

 upon the ground that Indians had no business with reading. They 

 said that when the Indian and the white man were created, th(> Indian, 

 being the elder, was given a book, whih' the white man receivetl a bow 

 and arrows. Each was instructed to take good care of his gift and 

 make the l)est use of it. but the Indian was so negl(>ctful of his book 

 that the white man soon stole it from him. leaving the ))ow in its place, 

 so that liooks and reading now belong of light to the white man. 

 while the Indian ought to be satisfied to iaint for a living; — Cherokee 

 Advocate. October 21). lsi4. 



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Tlie negro made the tirst locomotive for a toy and put it on a 

 wooden track and was liaving great fiui witli it wlien a white man 

 came along, watched until lie saw liow to run it, and then killed the 

 negro and took the lot'omotive for himself. This. also, although 

 plainl}' of very recent origin, was heard from several informants. 



89. THE IROQUOIS WARS 



Long wars were waged between tlie Cherokee and their remote 

 northern relatives, the Iroquois, with both of whom tlie recollection, 

 now nearly faded, was a vivid tradition tifty years ago. The (Seneca) 

 Iro(piois know the Cherokee as ()vada"gi'"orinon, a name rather freely 

 rendered "cave people." The latter call the Iroquois, or rather their 

 largest and most aggressive tribe, tli(> Seneca. Nuiidawe'gi. Ani'-Nun- 

 diiwe'gi, or Ani'-Se'nika. tlie tirst forms being deiived from Nundawa'ga 

 or Nundawa'-ono, '"people of the great hills." the name by which the 

 Seneca know themselves. According tt) authorities (|uoted by School- 

 craft, the Seneca claim to have at one time had a settlenn'iit, from 

 which they were afterward driven, at Seneca. Soutii Carolina, known 

 in history as one of the jirincijial towns of the Lower Cherokee. 



The league of the Iroquois was probal)ly fouiuled about the middle 

 of the sixteenth century. Before 1680 they had cotKiuered or exter- 

 minated all the tribes upon their immediate liordcrs and had turned 

 their arms against the more distant Illinois, Catawl)a, and Cherokee. 

 According to Iroquois tradition, the Cherokee were the aggressors, 

 having attacked and jiluiidered a Seneca hunting |)arty somewhere in 

 the west, while in another story they arc; represented as having 

 violated a peace treaty- by the murder of the Iroquois delegates. 



