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The Blackhawk War BY HENRY LITTLE, 1875
They regarded those white settlers on their lands as intruders, as robbers, as desecrators of their sacred shrines and of the honored graves of their fathers. They were willing and determined to risk and stake all for the accomplishment of that one great all-absorbing, soul-inspiring object. Are we to suppose that the Saukies would abandon their enterprise, which by them was more highly prized than all things else, and be persuaded to go in pursuit
of far-off, distant, and unknown objects, or to be deterred one moment in the prosecution of their work unless compelled by a superior opposing force ?
A part of the Potawattomie tribe of Indians were scattered over and occupied the northern part of Illinois. Another portion of the same tribe of Indians were dispersed over and occupied the seven southwestern counties of this territory. And immediately north of them and through the Grand river country was the Ottawa tribe of Indians.
Those two tribes had long been bound together by the strongest ties of confidence and friendship. The Pottawattomies spake of the Ottawas as their elder brothers, and considered it a great honor to receive their chiefs from the Ottawas. The British induced both tribes to serve as their allies during the war of 1812. Both tribes, with Noonday, chief of the Ottawas (whom we afterwards know very well), were present and participated in the- burning of Buffalo, 1ST, Y., which occurred December 13, 1813.
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