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Titre : Annual report of the Bureau of American ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian institution
Auteur : Bureau of American ethnology (Washington, D.C.). Auteur du texte
Éditeur : Government printing office (Washington)
Date d'édition : 1897
Contributeur : Powell, John Wesley (1834-1902). Directeur de publication
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Description : 1897
Description : 1897 (N19,PART1)-1898.
Description : Note : Index.
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and began to sing. Soon he heard a stealthy step coming through the bushes and gradually approaching the fire, until suddenly an enemy sprang out upon him from the darkness and boie him to the earth. But the Cherokee was watchfui, and putting up his hands he seized the other by the arms, and with a mighty effort threw him backward into the fire. The dazed Shawano lay there a moment squirming upon the coals, then boùnded to his feet and ran into the woods, howling with pain. There was an answering laugh from his comrades hidden in the bush, but although the Cherokee kept watch for some time the enemy made no further attack, probably led by the very boidness of the hunter to suspect some ambush. `.
On another occasion a small hunting party in the Smoky mountains heard the gobble of a turkey (in telling the story Swimmer gives a good imitation). Some eager young hunters were for going at once toward the game, but others, more cautious, suspected a ruse and advised a reconnaissance. Accordingly a hunter went around to the back or the ridge, and on coming up from the other side found a man posted in a large tree, making the gobble call to decoy the hunters within reach of a Shawano war party concealed behind some bushes midway between the tree and the camp. Keeping close to the grbund, the Cherokee crept up without being discovered until within gunshot, then springing to his feet he shot the man in thé tree, and shouting ~BjJl them ail," rushed upon the enemy, who, thinking that a strong force of Cherokee was upon them, fled down the mountain without attempting to make a stand.
Another tradition of these wars is that concerning Tunâ'î, a great warrior and medicine-man of old Itsâ'ti, on the Tennessee. In one hard fight with the Shawano, near the town, he overpowered his man and stabbed him through both arms. Running cords through the holes he tied his prisoner's arms and brought him thus into Itsâ'tï, where he was put to death by the women with such tortures that his courage broke and he begged them to kill him at once.
After retiring to the upper Ohio the Shawano were received into thé protection of the Delawares and their allies, and being thus strengthened felt encouraged to renew the war against thé Cherokee with increased vigor. The latter, however, proved themselves more than a match fortheir enemies, pursuing them evento their towns in western Pennsylvania, and accidentally killing there some Delawares who occupied the country jointly with the Shawano. This involvedthe Cherokee in a war with thé powerful Delawares, which continued until brought to an end in 1T68 at the request of the Cherokee, who made terms of friendship at the same time with the Iroquois. The Shawano being thus left alone, and being, moreover, roundly condpmned by their friends, the Delawares, as the cause of the whole trouble, had no heart to continue the war and were obliged to make final pea,ce/ iHeokeweYder, Indien Nations, p. 88, reprint ofl8T6.