The wandering savage appealed to his totem, and was entitled to the hospitality of the wigwam which bore the corresponding em blem. They had other and various uses, but the most important was the representation which they made of the tribe or family to which they The belonged or were made the emblems. Iroquois had nine, forming two divisions, one of four tribes and the other of five. Of the first division the emblems were

the Wolf, the Bear, and the Beaver. The second division, and subordinate to the first, were the Deer, the

the Tortoise,

Potatoe, the Great Plover, the Little Plover, and the Eagle. The Mohawks were represented by the totem of the Bear. 1

The Lenni Lenapes had three totemic tribes

The Mohawk sachems who presented

their condolence at Albany, in 1690, the taking of Schenectady, said : "

on

We

are all of the race of the bear,

and the

:

the Turtle, or

bear you know never yields while one must all be drop of blood is left.

We

bears."

Schoolcraft.

THE INDIAN TRIBES

Unami ; * the Turkey, or Unalachto, and the Wolf,

or Minsi.

The totems of the Mabicans were the Bear, 2 the Wolf, and the The Turkey and Turtle tribes occupied the seaTurtle. coast and the

south-western shore of the Hudson, while the

Wolf or Minsi, being much the most warlike of the three, served as a sort of shield to their more peaceful brethren, and watched the movements of the Mengwe or Iroquois. Their to the head territory extended from the Katskill mountains waters of the Delaware and Susquehanna rivers, and was bounded on the east by the Hudson their council-fire was The Turkey tribe joined the Mlnsi on lighted at Minisink. ;