A history of the Juniata Valley and its people; . He says it was four inches thick by eight incheswide, and adds: The tribe regarded this stone with superstitiousveneration, and a tradition is said to have existed among them thatif the stone should be taken away the tribe would be dispersed, butthat so long as it should stand they would prosper. The souveniredition of Historic Huntingdon, published in 1909, says: Archingaround a tall, slim pillar of stone covered with hieroglyphics, were wig-wams or lodges of the browned sons of the forest. . The stonereferred to, which was supposed to bear in
A history of the Juniata Valley and its people; . He says it was four inches thick by eight incheswide, and adds: The tribe regarded this stone with superstitiousveneration, and a tradition is said to have existed among them thatif the stone should be taken away the tribe would be dispersed, butthat so long as it should stand they would prosper. The souveniredition of Historic Huntingdon, published in 1909, says: Archingaround a tall, slim pillar of stone covered with hieroglyphics, were wig-wams or lodges of the browned sons of the forest. . The stonereferred to, which was supposed to bear in its cabalistic inscriptionsa record of the history and achievements of the tribe, was regardedwith great veneration by the natives, and its conspicuous position andappearance led the white visitors to designate the locality by the nameStanding Stone. This stone stood above Second street between thePennsylvania railroad and the river, on or near No. 208 Alleghenystreet, etc. The real history of the original standing stone will probably never. STAXDIXG STONE. FROM A PAINTING BV JOHN CHAPLIN. HISTORY OF THE JUXIATA VALLEY 21 be known. Years before the white man came to the Juniata valley, thetribe who erected it had been overthrown by the Five Nations. Thereis no well authenticated account of the conquest, but the journals ofthe Jesuit missionaries among the Hurons and Iroquois tell of expedi-tions of great war parties to the southward and that they returned withmany prisoners. No doubt these prisoners were Juniatas and that thetribe was annihilated by the Iroquois confederacy. For half a centuryor more the entire Juniata region then remained without a residenttribe and was used by the conquerors as a hunting ground. Then theTuscaroras were permitted to settle there and later the Shawnees and,Delawares were allowed to dwell there for a time. Heckewelder, amissionary among the latter Indians, in speaking of the Juniata river,says: This word is of the Six Nations. The Delawares say
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