Archives of aboriginal knowledgeContaining all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States . gion of the Upper Lakes. He was a warmfriend of the French during their supremacy in the Canadas; and an actor in thescenes of peril that preceded, and followed the fall of Quebec, in 1759. He had beenone of the assailants at the memorable capture of old Fort Michilimackinac, in 1763,and is mentioned by the name of Le Grand Sable, as one of the most sanguinar
Archives of aboriginal knowledgeContaining all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States . gion of the Upper Lakes. He was a warmfriend of the French during their supremacy in the Canadas; and an actor in thescenes of peril that preceded, and followed the fall of Quebec, in 1759. He had beenone of the assailants at the memorable capture of old Fort Michilimackinac, in 1763,and is mentioned by the name of Le Grand Sable, as one of the most sanguinaryactors on that occasion. He lived many years afterwards, shifting his tent as theseasons changed, from the open shores of Lakes Huron and Michigan, to the thickwoods which are the shelter of the natives from the wintry winds. Eighty years andupwards had now whitened the locks of the aged chief, and he felt that his continuancein these scenes must be short, when he accompanied his relatives for the last time,during the month of March, from the borders of the water, to those forests whichyield the acer saccharinum, or sugar-maple. This is a season of enjoyment with the Travels of Alesandcr Henry, p. 124; 1 vol., 8vo., N. Y., 1809 X. MANNERS AND CUSTOMS. .49 Indians, and they usually remain at their sugar-camps until the sap assumes too muchacidity to be longer capable of being made into syrup, and the trees Ijegin to put forthleaves. In the mean time, the days of the enfeebled patriarch, who had pitched histent in a hundred forests, approached their close. It was found that, when they hadpacked up their effects to return to the open lake, he was unable to sustain the daughter, Nodowdqua, the wife of Saganash, determined to carry him on hershoulders, that he might, for the last time, be permitted to witness those refreshingshores. For this purpose, as soon as the carriers were ready to move, she took her longand stout deer-skin apecun, or head-strap, and fastening it
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