ence, dictated the policy and controlled all of active force that As a nation they never remained among their ancient brethren.

Power and territory

again appeared in the field as contestants. alike fell from their grasp at Fort Stanwix.

Brighter was the record of the Lenapes, and their grand-child ren, the Shawanoes and Mahicans of the west, judged from the

En standpoint of the success which had crowned their efforts. " poor women" striking their op tering upon the struggle as

with " billets of wood," they emerged from it u increased in interest and respect," in the opinion of their " their conduct restored them to the rank of

pressors

enemies,

It is said that

having

Johnson had not less

than one hundred children

by squaws,

vii,

N.

Johnson. 957.

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T.

Colonial

History,

THE INDIAN TRIBES

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"

to them an influence not only very exten in the but destined future to embalm their names as the sive," most formidable of the original Indian nations of Hudson's

men," and given

Their prowess vindicated

river.

in the field, their diplomacy

triumphant in council, their manhood wrung from the unwilling hands of civilized and uncivilized foes, they gave to the conflicts of the west an impetus which made their name national, and upon the politics and history of their native

grafted it forever land.

Not lost to the records of this eventful period were the Mabicansand Wappingers of the Hudson.

from

their ranks

found

While floating fragments

new homes among the Mohawks and