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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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