Identifier: indianhistoryfor00drak (find matches)
Title: Indian history for young folks
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel), 1828-1885 Dowd, Francis Joseph, 1876-
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America -- Wars
Publisher: New York London : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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-, PONTIACS WAR. 267 in token of war, to the different tribes. Those of the west accepted hismessage and pledged themselves to take part in the war. With the ex-ception of the Senecas, the Iroquois confederacy was kept neutral by thestrenuous exertions of Sir William Johnson. Up to the very moment ofthe outbreak the Indians succeeded in concealing their design. They con-tinued, meanwhile, to hang around the posts, begging, as usual, for tobacco,gunpowder, and whiskey. Detroit, near which were the villages of the Wyandots, Potawatomies,and Ottawas, was founded by the French as an Indian trading-post in1701, and had at this time two thousand five hundred French inhabitants,dwelling on productive farms on both sides of the river. The fort was inthe centre of the settlement, on the western margin of the river, and con-tained about one hundred houses, surrounded by a palisade twenty-fivefeet high and about one thousand two hundred yards in circumference; awooden bastion stood at each corne

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