OHIO
Archaeological and Historical
PUBLICATIONS.
THE
INDIAN TRIBES OF
OHIO -HISTORICALLY
CONSIDERED.
A PRELIMINARY PAPER BY WARREN KING
MOOREHEAD,
MEMBER OF THE VICTORIA INSTITUTE.
PREFACE.
In looking through a large number of
historical and ethno-
logical books recently, I was impressed
by the fact that we have
no single work devoted exclusively to
Ohio Indians, and that the
student of the tribes of the Ohio Valley
in historic times must
peruse numerous volumes and pamphlets in
order to gain a com-
prehensive knowledge of them from 1600
down to 1840. The
State Archaeological and Historical
Society has published much
upon archaeology and history, but it has
not written the record
of the Indians and their relations
toward each other and toward
the whites.
I have thought to assume the preparation
of a history of
the Ohio Indians, and therefore offer
these pages as a prelim-
inary paper, or a condensation of the
subject. It is not possible,
in fact, to present the matter properly
and in such form as its
importance demands in less than three or
four volumes.
This paper, while a compilation - as all
American Indian
histories must be - is the result of an
endeavor to bring into
compact form for the student and general
reader, nearly all that
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