1883.] 7 (Hale. 
ket, Miantanomah, Pontiac, and Tecumseh, to the ingenious and versatile 
Greeks, capable of heroism, but incapable of political union, or of long-sus- 
tained effort. A not less notable resemblance might be found between the 
wild and wandering Scythians of old, and the wild and wandering tribes 
of the great, Dakotan stock. Reckless and rapacious, untamable and fickle, 
fond of the chase and the fight, and no less eager for the dance and the 
feast, the modern Dakotas present all the traits which the Greek historians 
and travelers remarked in the barbarous nomads who roamed along their 
northern and eastern frontiers. 
The Tuteloes, far from the main body of their race, and encircled by 
tribes of Algonkin and Iroquois lineage, showed all the distinctive charac- 
teristics of the stock to which they belonged. The tall, robust huntsmen 
of Lawson, chasers of the elk and the deer, had apparently degenerated, 
half a century later, into a ‘‘remnant of thieves and drunkards,’’ at 
least as seen in the hurried view of a passing missionary. But. -it 
would seem that their red-skinned neighbors saw in them some qualities 
which gained their respect and liking. Five years after Zeisberger’s visit, 
the Iroquois, who had held them hitherto under a species of tutelage, de- 
cided to admit them, together with their fellow-refugees, the Algonkin 
Nanticokes from the Eastern Shore of Maryland, to the full honors of the 
confederacy. The step received the commendation of so shrewd a judge as 
Jolonel (afterwards Sir William) Johnson. Ata great council of the Six 
Nations, held at Onondaga in September, 17538, Colonel Johnson congratu- 
lated the Cayugas on the resolution they had formed of ‘strengthening their 
sastle’’ by taking in the Tedarighroones.* At about the same time a band 
of Delawares was received into the League. When a great council was to 
be convened in 1756, to confer with Colonel Johnson on the subject of the 
French war,’ wampum belts were sent to nine ‘‘nations’’ of the 
confederacy.| From this time the chiefs of the Tuteloes, as well as o 
the Nanticokes and the Delawares, took their seats in the Council of the 
League, a position which they still hold in the Canadian branch of the con- 
federacy, though the tribes whom they represent have ceased to exist as 
such, and have become absorbed in the larger nations, 
It would seem, however, that their removal from their lands on the Sus- 
quehanna to the proper territory of the Six Nations did not take place im- 
mediately after their reception into the League, and perhaps was never 
wholly completed. In an ‘account of the location of the Indian tribes,’”’ 
prepared by Sir William Johnson in November, 1763, the four small tribes 
of “Nanticokes, Conoys, Tutecoes [an evident misprint] and Saponeys,”’ 
are bracketed together in the list as mustering in all two hundred men, and 
are described as ‘fa people removed from the southward, and settled on or 
about the Susquehanna, on lands allotted by the Six Nations.’’ | 
Though the Tuteloes were thus recognized as one of the nations of the 
*N, Y. Hist, Col. Vol. vi, p. 811. 
{+ Stone’s Life of Sir William Johnson, Vol. i, p. 484, 
t Zbid., Vol, ll, p. 487. 
