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Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I

O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849. 276 words

The Kickapous, formerly their allies, may be eighty men. They bear for device the Pheasant

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and the Otter, The Maskoutin has for armorial device the Wolf and the Stag. sixty men,

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This nation is estimated at

River St. Joseph, south of Lake Michigan.

The Potte8atamies, who call themselves the Governor's eldest sons, compose the village of St. Joseph, to the number of one hundred warriors, The principal families have for device the Golden Carp, the Frog, the Crab, the Tortoise.

THE IROQUOIS AND OTHER INDIAN TRIBES.

There are in the village about ten Miamis who bear in their arms, a Crane, Eight Illinois Kaskakias are also included whose device is a feather of an arrow,

--^^p^-sEs-- notched

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x ) or two arrows supported one against the other in

saltier (like a St. Andrew's cross.

These are the nations best known to us as well along the great river of the Outawas as north and south of Lakes Superior and Michigan. I propose now proceeding again from Montreal by way of the Lakes to Missilimakinak. From Montreal on the Lake route, I spoke of Sault St. Louis, on the first sheet. Toniata.

Some Iroquois, to the number of eight or ten men have retired to tills quarter. Their device is without doubt, like that of the village from which issue the Deer, the Plover, &c, as hereafter,

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Lake Ontario, or south of Frontenac. There are no more Iroquois settled.

The Mississagues are dispersed along this lake, some at Kente, others at the River Toronto, and finally at the head of the Lake, to the number of one hundred and fifty in all,