[174] Loskiel,âpé _Geschichte der Mission, etc._, s. 161-2.
[175] Wm. Henry Harrison, _A Discourse on the Aborigines of the Valley of the Ohio_, pp. 24, 25 (Cincinnati, 1838).
[176] Gallatin, _Trans. Amer. Antiq. Soc._, Vol. II, p. 46.
[177] Horatio Hale, _The Iroquois Book of Rites_, p. 92.
[178] Edmund de Schweinitz, _Life and Times of David Zeisberger_, p. 46.
[179] Heckewelder, _Indian Nations_, pp. xxxii and 60.
[180] _Narrative of Hendrick Aupaumut, Mems. Hist. Soc. Pa._, Vol. II, pp. 76-77. Wenaumeen for Unami, the Mohegan form of the name. This seems to limit the peace making power to that gens. He may mean, "Those of the Delawares who are called the Unamis are our Grandfathers," etc.
The Chipeways, Ottawas, Shawnees, Pottawattomies, Sacs, Foxes and Kikapoos, all called the Delawares "Grandfather", J. Morse, _Report on Indian Affairs_, pp. 122, 123, 142. The term was not intended in a genealogical, but solely in a political, sense. Its origin and precise meaning are alike obscure.
[181] _History of the Indians_, MS., quoted by Bishop Schweinitz, _Life of Zeisberger_, p. 444, note.
[182] The words are those of George Croghan, Esq., at the treaty of Pittsburgh, 1759, with the Six Nations and Wyandots. _History of Western Penna._, App. p. 135.
[183] _Records of the Council at Easton_, 1756, in Lib. Amer. Philos. Soc.
[184] Smith, _History of New Jersey_, p. 451 (2d ed.)
[185] See the _Narrative of the Long Walk_, by John Watson, father and son, in Hazard's _Register of Penna_, 1830, reprinted in Beach's _Indian Miscellany_, pp 90-94; also the able discussion of the question in Dr. Charles Thompson's _Inquiry into the Causes of the Alienation of the Delaware and Shawnee Indians_, pp. 30-34 and 42-46. (London, 1759.)
[186] _Relations des Jesuites_, 1660, p. 6. Some confusion has arisen in this matter, from confounding the Susquehannocks with the Iroquois, both of whom were called "Mengwe" by the Delawares, corrupted into "Mingoes." Thus, a writer in the first half of the 17th century says of the "Mingoes" that the river tribes "are afraid of them, so that they dare not stir, much less go to war against them." Thomas Campanius, _Description of the Province of New Sweden_, p. 158.