OUR ABORIGINAL PREDECESSORS: ON THE ORIGIN AND RELATION OF THE VARIOUS INDIAN TRIBES OF NORTH AMERICA. Where the Indians came from and how they happened to become dwellers in the land beyond Atlantis, on the shores of the Occident, has been a subject of investigation and speculation since Indian

Title: The Indian town site at Washington Boro. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Chartier, Martin, d. 1718. Shawnee Indians. Indians of North America--Funeral customs and rites. French Americans--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History. Washington Boro (Pa.)--History. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa

pres- ent in the spring of 1748, but claimed that the gift was so small that not even half the Indians could be adequately supplied. He there- fore added £224/5/0 from his own funds and bought powder, lead, knives and flints to be included among the gifts, so the Indians could ". . . kill themselves

news to Lasse Cock, the Indian interpreter, of an attack some distance up the river by a band of about twenty "tauetawas" (Twightwees or Miami Indians) who had scalped a woman and carried off her husband. Moreover, only three days before the Indian messenger left Conestoga a party of seven Mohawk