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Title: The wilderness trail; or, The ventures and adventures of the Pennsylvania traders on the Allegheny path, with some new annals of the Old West, and the records of some strong men and some bad ones
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Hanna, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1863-1950
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America
Publisher: New York, London, G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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re to refuse him hishead if he should demand it; for whatever labors he commands themto execute, they are forbidden to exact any wages. . . . One of theprincipal articles of their religion, and particularly for the servants ofthe Great Chief, is that of honoring his funeral rites by dying with him,that they may go to serve him in the other world. . . . They first puton all their finery, and repair to the place opposite to the Temple, whereall the people are assembled. After having danced and sung a sufri- xIf, from any cause, the fire became extinguished, it could only be relightedin one of two ways: from the Spirit, that is, from a tree set on fire by lightning: orwith blood; the latter meant, that an attendant at the Temple where the fire hadbecome extinguished, must journey to another Temple where the sacred fire was kept,and obtain some of it. Resistance was made, and blood had to be shed before asurrender of any of the fire was made.—Letter from Mr. F. S. Shaw, of Natchez,Miss.
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The Temple of the Natchez. A Paris view, from Lafitaus Mozurs des Sauvages, 1724, where it isdescribed as Mortuary rites of a chief or chieftainess of theNation of the Natchez, in Louisiana. The temple, all opened,permits a view of the interior, and shows the corpses of thechiefs which are there deposited. He to whom they renderthe last rites is exposed on one of the stones which are at theentrance of this temple. Two choirs, represented in the fore-ground, form a religious dance, during which they stranglethose whose duty it is to keep company with the deceased,and who go to serve him in the other world. The Ohio Valley before the White Man Came 113 ciently long time, they pass around their neck a cord of buffalo hair witha running knot, and immediately the ministers appointed for executionsof this kind come forward to strangle them, recommending them to go torejoin their master. . . . The same ceremony is observed in like manner on the death of thebrothers and sisters of the Great C

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