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Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers

CHAPTER X
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There are many stories still current of their former prowess and traits of hospitality and generosity, and of the skill of their old seers, and divining-men, _i.e.Jossakeeds_.

Its present Indian population is reduced to forty-six souls, of whom ten are men, sixteen women, and twenty children.

Of the men, nine are married, one of whom has two wives, and there are two widows.
Of this band the Star family, so called, have long possessed the chieftainship, and are remarkable on several accounts.

There are eleven children of them now living, five of whom are males, all by one mother, who is still living.

Sabboo is the principal man.


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