CHAPTER V.
E A R L Y W A R S AN D PO L IT IC A L R E LA T IO N S 0F T H E
IROQUOIS W IT H T H E O T H E R 'N O R T H AM ER ICA N
T R IB E S .
W a r whp-h a n A n c ie n t P e o p l e q a lled A l l e g h Ans — 'L-e n Nq
: L e n a p e r s , or, D e l a w a r e s -A ^H E n'oKEESj t h e ir ’H is .t sJ&y
AND LANGFAGEJr -,'W2;ANI>OT^, 'AND -,T^IE CaJJ-SES, ,OE THEIR
Separation—E%ips—Adlrqndacr’s—Mojiegans ,a» d Mui*g
sees, Manhattans, a n p -B ^ tqagJL ^A ra.wawas,-A N iper-
cineans, or Algonquin's P roper—^Illiijois,'and- their
GENERS'—f-MlAMTS, IN THEIR T r IUNE 'iW lsV ^O F TRIBES —
Chippewa, or Odjtbwa Group, in ti^ ïR ^ ultip«,ie'd,B ands
AND SuB-TrIBES--- SHAWNEES— SirgQifEHAJSrNOCESi^PoWHAf'-
tan L eague o nthe^ Southern Atlantic Coasts—^Cata-
bas— Muscoqees and Appalachians— C h^ct^ w s— Mug-
QUAKEES AND SaUKS, AND MlNOR ALGONQUIN TRmE-S OE LATE
Origin— O wegungAs^ Abenakis, and1- Nfew ƒ Ë nglAnd
T ribes generally.
To detail the war$ of the Iroquois with the
other tribes and groups of tribes in North America,
would he to write the history of : the principal
nations who, since our knowledge of the country,
have been located east of the Rocky mouii-
tains, and north of the Gulf of Mexico, Nothing
of this kind is, in fact, thought of; but it appeared
proper, in adverting to the former power and position
of this warlike confederacy of tribes, who
have been, not inaptly,, termed the Romans of
thè now world, to give- a brief summary of the
chief tribes, who, from time to time, disputed
thëir supremacy, or incurred their ire.
Judging from the monumental remains, in the
shapê of forts and tumuli, left in the land, there
appear to have been extensive wars and com*
binations of tribes, who battled for supremacy,
both east and west of the Allèghanies, long anterior
to our earliest knowledge of the. country.
We should infer this from antiquarian evidence,
were there no traditions, of any kind, lingering
in “the minds .of the successors of these antique
confederacies, at the earliest recorded dates.
Such traditions were, however; to be found, in
early relations of several ôf the leading tribes,
north and south. One of the traditions of this
kind, Which appears to be entitled to general re-
spect, and is sanctioned by remaining names, in
the geography of the country, relatea to a powerful
and warlike nation, variously called, by
different tribes, but who* are best known, and
may be well distinguished,' among our antique
tribes, as Y'v-:Vi'' - v-.
AtleghanS.—-This is the term which Golden
preserves for them on the earliest map which
accompanied his history, and it has attached itself,
in one âf its modified forms, by early popular
usage; to the principal chain of mountains,
which traverses the IJnited States, east of the
Mississippi, from south to north. Lenapee tra