The making of the Ohio Valley states, 1660-1837 . also, were sullen, butunsubdued. This feeling was artfully kept alive by theFrench traders,^ who often secretly hinted that Englishrule would soon come to an end. Fickle as these savages Avere, habit had strongly at-tached them to the French. Many spoke the had been baptized. Others had intermarried withthe traders or bush-rangers, so that there had come to bein most villages a distinct body of half-breeds, whomight be described as uniting the worst qualities of bothraces. Not unfrequently these strangers had been adoptedinto the
The making of the Ohio Valley states, 1660-1837 . also, were sullen, butunsubdued. This feeling was artfully kept alive by theFrench traders,^ who often secretly hinted that Englishrule would soon come to an end. Fickle as these savages Avere, habit had strongly at-tached them to the French. Many spoke the had been baptized. Others had intermarried withthe traders or bush-rangers, so that there had come to bein most villages a distinct body of half-breeds, whomight be described as uniting the worst qualities of bothraces. Not unfrequently these strangers had been adoptedinto the tribes, and sometimes even made chiefs. Suchbonds as these, it is plain, could not be sundered in a day. PONTIAO S WAR, 1763 81 When the Indians were told that they would shortlysee themselves turned out of their hunting-grounds, theybelieved it. Savage though he was, the Indian couldnot fail to read the signs of the times in the history ofhis race. Within the memory of their old men his peoplehad been pushed over the Endless Mountains ^ by the. SCALP-DANCE (AFTER CAXMN). ever-advancing whites, who also drove back the game, sothat every year the range grew less and less. Their wisemen said that either the white men must be turned back,or the Indians all turn women and hoe corn for the Eng-lishman. A hundred years before, Philip,-^ the great Wampan-oag, had fought for this very same idea on the shores of6 82 PONTIACS WAE, 1763 the Atlantic, and lost. Pontiac,^ an Ojibway chief, nowstood forth to do battle in the same cause. Briefly told, Pontiacs war arose from jealousy of Eng-lish rule. Detroit was occupied by an English garrison,November 29, 1760, along with other western was Pontiacs home. From that moment heschemed and toiled to bring all the nations of theWest into one great league against the English. Toeach he allotted its own particular work in the rising,reserving for himself the capture of Detroit, strongest ofall the posts to be attacked. It was all done
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