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Indians la l)slcke*» L'ouctj, New l ark.Applcid»,» JontialTbe day of ibe Indian baa passed, and that of the railroad and telegraph hast;ome; but wc do not need Urre to ride orwalk far from oar dully UuunU to find a few mixed deaceodenia of the first own-ere of tbc soil. These are tnainly offiboots from the Pequods, They huTclived for a long lime in a narrow Talleyadjacent to oure, where a little ilretn and a Iarore one unite, a spot which they named, as Mr. Lowing tells us, Pish-gach-ti-gock—the meeting of the waters.”This name on white lips got corrupted to Bcaghlicook, and the Indians bee ante thereafter, to all the neighborhood, the Scaghtksook Indians during a former generation these wards of civilisationused to freven* all our country,peddling the puiuied baskets ana small wares which they knew■o well how to make and gaining a lively-hood of as much thrift as they care toenjoy. They were always natural wanderers, and somelimrs strolled two hundred in lies away; for a drop of Indian blood — it be only one drop—when it gala in llie veins, means vagrancy, aud the restlessness of the Wandering Jew.I think the last full-blood Indian of this tribe—now reduced ton mere handful, mixed with negro and white—was the locallv-famous Eunice Mauwee. She
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Plymouth Marshall County Republican
Plymouth, Indiana, US
Thu, Mar 29, 1877
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