will I be buried."
The privations
which the patriots suffered, they shared without a murmur their devotion they never wearied.
;
in
When the tattered banners
of the struggle were folded away, they returned to their ancient seats, and at the
head waters of the Hudson again met the white
men, now their brothers by a holier covenant, as they had met them in 1609, the sole representatives of the Indian tribes of Hudson's river.
By the treaty of peace between the United States and Great which was without stipulation in regard to the Indian " the ancient of the latter government country of the Six Nations, the residence of their ancestors from the time far Britain allies
beyond their
earliest traditions,
aries granted to the
in
their
social
and
Americans." political
was included within the bound Nor was this their only loss ;
condition
sufferers by their unfortunate alliance.
they had
been great
The great body of the
Oneldas and Tuscaroras had been severed from the confederacy ; " " had been broken of their cc Long House
the " eastern door
and its ancient keepers, the Mohawks, made fugitives from the seats of their fathers ; the alliance of the four tribes with
in
the crown had divested them of the respect of the victors ; their
towns had been destroyed and their fields wasted by the scourg When the war closed, the Oneidas and ing army of Sullivan. Tuscaroras returned to their possessions, assured of the protec tion of their American allies ; the Mohawks, after brooding