A Narrative of the Life of Mary Jemison: De-he-wä-mis, the White Woman of the GeneseeG. P. Putnam, 1898 - 300 sivua |
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Allen army arrived attended brother Buffalo Creek Buffalo Creek Reservation Buffalo Tom buried called Canandaigua Lake Caneadea captive Cattaraugus Cattaraugus reservations ceremony CHAPTER chiefs Clute Colonel commenced continued corn council Crawford daughter death deed dians Ebenezer Allen enemies English escape father fear feet fire flats Fort Niagara friends Gardeau gave Genesee River Genishau George Jemison grave ground Gurty hand head Hiokatoo HOLLAND PURCHASE husband INDIAN NAME Iroquois Jesse John killed kind labor Lake land Little Beard's Town lived married Mary Jemison miles Mohawk mother Mount Morris murdered Nauwahneu never Niagara night Ohio Oneida party peace prisoner quarrel received Reservation resided returned sachems scalps Seneca Seneca language Shongo Signification lost sisters Six Nations soon Spirit squaw Squawky Hill taken Thomas Jemison tion told tomahawk Tonawanda took tribe village wampum warrior White Woman whole woods
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Sivu 121 - When those rebels had drove us from the fields of our fathers to seek out new homes, it was you who could dare to step forth as their pilot, and conduct them even to the doors of our wigwams, to butcher our children and put us to death! No crime can be greater! — But though you have merited death and shall die on this spot, my hands shall not be stained in the blood of a brother! Who will strike?
Sivu 58 - Our brother, our brother, alas! he is gone! But why do we grieve for his loss? In the strength of a warrior, undaunted he left us, to fight by the side of the Chiefs! His war-whoop was shrill! His rifle well aimed laid his enemies low: his tomahawk drank of their blood: and his knife flayed their scalps while yet covered with gore! And why do we mourn? Though he fell on the field of the slain, with glory he fell, and his spirit went up to the land of his fathers in war! Then why do we mourn? With...
Sivu 73 - ... all the means that can be used for their cultivation in the sciences and arts. One thing only marred my happiness, while I lived with them on the Ohio; and that was the recollection that I had once had tender parents and a home that I loved. Aside from that consideration, or, if I had been taken in infancy, I should have been contented in my situation. Notwithstanding all that has been said against the Indians, in consequence of their cruelties to their enemies — cruelties that I have witnessed,...
Sivu 69 - I had then been with the Indians four summers and four winters, and had become so far accustomed to their mode of living, habits and dispositions, that my anxiety to get away, to be set at liberty, and leave them, had almost subsided. With them was my home; my family was there, and there I had many friends to whom I was warmly attached in consideration of the favors, affection and friendship with which they had uniformly treated me, from the time of my adoption.
Sivu 60 - ... to supply their loss. It is a custom of the Indians, when one of their number is slain or taken prisoner in battle, to give to the nearest relative to the dead or absent, a prisoner, if they have chanced to take one, and if not, to give him the scalp of an enemy. On the return of the Indians from conquest, which is always announced by peculiar shoutings, demonstrations of joy, and the exhibition of some trophy of victory, the mourners come forward and make their claims. If they receive a prisoner,...
Sivu 67 - The idea of spending my days with him, at first seemed perfectly irreconcilable to my feelings: but his good nature, generosity, tenderness, and friendship towards me, soon gained my affection; and, strange as it may seem, I loved him! — To me he was ever kind in sickness, and always treated me with gentleness; in fact, he was an agreeable husband, and a comfortable companion.
Sivu 128 - If you now choose to follow the fortunes of your yellow son and to live with our people, I will cherish your old age with plenty of venison, and you shall live easy. But if it is your choice to return to your fields and live with your white children, I will send a party of trusty young men to conduct you back in safety. I respect you, my father. You have been friendly to Indians, and they are your friends.
Sivu 70 - Notwithstanding the Indian women have all the fuel and bread to procure, and the cooking to perform, their task is probably not harder than that of white women, who have those articles provided for them; and their cares certainly are not half as numerous, nor as great.
Sivu 108 - French war, our tribe had nothing to trouble it till the commencement of the Revolution. For twelve or fifteen years the use of the implements of war was not known, nor the war-whoop heard, save on days of festivity, when the achievements of former times were commemorated in a kind of mimic warfare, in which the chiefs and warriors displayed their prowess, and illustrated their former adroitness, by laying the ambuscade, surprizing their enemies, and performing many accurate manoeuvres with the tomahawk...
Sivu 70 - We pursued our farming business according to the general custom of Indian women, which is as follows: In order to expedite their business, and at the same time enjoy each other's company, they all work together in one field, or at whatever job they may have on hand. In the spring, they choose an old active squaw to be their driver and overseer, when at labor, for the ensuing year. She accepts the honor, and they consider themselves bound to obey her.