that

sensible that

you are much

deal of harm.

in the

We approve of all

point, but the matter is

this,

when our

people come from hunting to the town or plantations and ac quaint the traders and people that we want powder and shot and clothing, they first give us a large cup of rum, and after we get the taste of it we crave for more, so that in fine all the beaver

and peltry we have hunted goes for drink, and we are left de stitute either of clothing or ammunition. Therefore, we desire our father to order the tap or crane to be shut, and to prohibit the selling of rum, for as long as the Christians will sell rum lu

The Oneidas, the proprietors of that country, gave you a settlement then out of kindness." Johnson to Seth, chief of the

Tuscaroras at Oghkivaga.

a

etc.

Schooler oft\ Notes on the Iroyuots, 104,

Gallatin, 82, 83. Colonial History, v, 563. Said to have been chief of

in the Hudson.

an island

THE INDIAN TRIBES

our people will

drink

it.

We acknowledge that our father

very much in the right to tell us that our Indian corn, but one great cause of is

we squander away is that many of

it

our people are obliged to hire land of the Christians at a very dear rate, and to give half the corn for rent, and the other half they are tempted by rum to

sell,

and so the corn goes, and the