of Brant y
Gallatin, 50, 51, 68.
11,
308, etc.;
THE INDIAN TRIBES
resolved to leave our bones in this small space, to which we are
now consigned." Thirteen tribes, the Lenapes^ Shawanoes, Minsis^ Mahicans, of the Delaware, Nanticokes and Conoys, the seven nations of
Canada, the Wyandots, Miamis, Chippeways and Pottawattamies^ and the Senecas of the Glaize, signed the declaration, and on the thirtieth of June following, sealed it with the blood of their bravest
warriors in battle against General Wayne on the ground where St. Clair had been so disastrously
defeated in I79I. 1
From that
they retired crushed and broken, while fire and sword fol lowed them in their retreat, and blazing villages and ruined field
fields convinced
a limit
to
their
them that however just their cause, there was Ruined in estate, and powers of resistance.
deserted by their English
allies,
with
whom the United States
had finally concluded definite treaty, they came up to a confer ence with Wayne, at Greenville, on the third of August, 1795,
and accepted the terms of their conquerors. 2 Full of interest as are the details of this struggle, they do not
,
purpose of this work, the general facts the events attending the retreating foot sufficiently indicating the once of powerful occupants of the western valley of steps strictly pertain
the Hudson.
to the
Leaving the Lenapes and
the banks of the
their grandchildren on the of the Six Nations, warriors Mississippi,
who, in small number, had participated in the contest, returned which had been set apart for them by the of New York, which in part they still occupy. 3 legislature From their ancient dominions the Mahicans at Westenhuck removed, in 1785, on the invitation of the Qneidas, to a tract six miles square in the present towns of Augusta, Oneida county, and Stockbridge, Madison county.