. Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood . set up as a religious leader, with apretty fair religion of his own, but with no knowledge of McCoys invitation he visited Fort Wayne, and decided to adoptMcCoys religion. He went back with a promise from ^IcCoy to visithim. This was done in June, 1821; and McCoy was received with dis-tinguished honor, and protestations of friendship from all the Potawa-tomis in the vicinity. This was of importance for a treaty with thePotawatomis was to be held at Chicago in August. ]\IcCoy
. Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood . set up as a religious leader, with apretty fair religion of his own, but with no knowledge of McCoys invitation he visited Fort Wayne, and decided to adoptMcCoys religion. He went back with a promise from ^IcCoy to visithim. This was done in June, 1821; and McCoy was received with dis-tinguished honor, and protestations of friendship from all the Potawa-tomis in the vicinity. This was of importance for a treaty with thePotawatomis was to be held at Chicago in August. ]\IcCoy decided to 22 Polke Memoirs, in Ind. Mag. of Hist., 1914. 360 INDIANA AND INDIANANS accept the invitation of these Indians to locate among them, if satis-factory arrangements could be made. He confided his plans to Sena-tor Trimble, of Ohio, who visited the mission on his waj to the treaty,and secured the warm cooperation of this representative of the Govern-ment. At the treaty the Potawatomis agreed to give a section of landfor a school, and the Government agreed to pay $1,000 a year, for fifteen. Eliza McCoy years, for the support of a teacher and blacksmith. There was a momentof danger, when the interpreter represented that the Indians wanteda Catholic teacher, but one of the Indians understood English, and madea protest; and all of the Indians announced that they wanted ]\ school at Fort Wayne had grown to more than forty pupils, butin December, 1822, it was removed to the St. Josephs, near Niles, Michi-gan, and the Carey ]\Iission was established. It remained until 1828,when ]McCoy followed the Indians to the West. Thev were in sore need INDIANA AND INDIANANS ^ 361 during the rest of the winter, owing to the failure of supplies to arrive,but after that the mission prospered, and there was no serious physicaldiscomfort. In the course of his work, McCoy became satisfied that theonly hope for the Indians lay in separating them from contact with thewhites, and he evo
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