[The Winning of the West, Volume Four by Theodore Roosevelt]@TWC D-Link bookThe Winning of the West, Volume Four CHAPTER I 30/74
139-170, 225-233, 477-482, etc.] Intimate Relations of the British and Indians. The intimate relations between the Indians and the British at the Lake Posts continued to perplex and anger the Americans.
While the frontiers were being mercilessly ravaged, the same Indians who were committing the ravages met in council with the British agent, Alexander McKee, at the Miami Rapids; the council being held in this neighborhood for the special benefit of the very towns which were most hostile to the Americans, and which had been partially destroyed by Harmar the preceding fall.
The Indian war was at its height, and the murderous forays never ceased throughout the spring and summer.
McKee came to Miami in April, and was forced to wait nearly three months, because of the absence of the Indian war parties, before the principal chiefs and headmen gathered to meet him.
At last, on July 1st, they were all assembled; not only the Shawnees, Delawares, Wyandots, Ottawas, Pottawatamies and others who had openly taken the hatchet against the Americans, but also representatives of the Six Nations, and tribes of savages from lands so remote that they carried no guns, but warred with bows, spears, and tomahawks, and were clad in buffalo-robes instead of blankets.
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