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hfn8IQ\riIndians la Dnlckets County, New lark.Appleton,* JuatitlThe day of the Indian has passed, and that of the railroad and telegraph hast;ome; but wc do nut need here to ride t»r tiwalk far from oar daily baunta to And a a| few mixed descendenl* of the firat own- j gJ era of the toll. These are mainly off shooU from ibe Pequoda, They haTelived for a lone time in a narrow Talleyadjacent to ours, where a little stream and a large one urite, a spot which they named, as Mr. Leasing tells ua, Piab-gach-ti-gock—the meeting of the waters. This name on white Ups got corrupted toBcaghiicook, and the mdinos became thereafter, to all the neighborhood, the Scaghticuok Indiana during a funner generation these wards of cirilitsliooused to frevenl all oar country,peddling the painted has-tela and small wares which they knew K well how to make and gaining a lively-hood of aa much thrift a« they care toenjoy. They were always natural wanderers, and sometimes strolled two hundred miles away; for a drop of Indian blood—It be only one drop—at hen it gels in Llie veins, means vagrancy, and the restlessness of the Wandering Jew.I think the last full-blood Indian of this tribe—now reduced to a mere handful, mixed with negro and while—was tb* locally famous Eunice Mauwee. Hiteaubtlt;dwVPntiae
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Plymouth Marshall County Republican
Plymouth, Indiana, US
Thu, Mar 29, 1877
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