Andrews University - Cardinal Yearbook (Berrien Springs, MI)

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The Heritage of E. M. C. NDIANS, feathered head-dress, the faintest lapping of water, canoes ply- ing up and down the St. joseph River! This is what we should have seen from our campus two hundred sixty years ago. Not many young people who come to E. M. C. realize what a wealth of history lies hidden about the College campus. Before the days of the pale-faces, there lived in the St. Joseph valley Indian nations of whom we may well be proud. The Potawatomies and Miamis held domain over southwestern Michigan. In the forests that covered this land the Indians hunted the bear. the deer, and the otter. They fished in the river and gathered clams from its shores. Every want was supplied by a land that was capable of supporting Indian life. Indian villages. irregularly built, were scattered 'throughout this valley. The houses were of various shapes and styles. Some were round, some cone- shaped, while others looked like tubs on posts. Some were covered with clay. Doors were suspended from above, and holes in the roof gave egress to the smoke. A few of the villages were surrounded with palisades. The mothers in these homes gave their children careful training, and early in life they were taught the use of the bow and arrow. To inspire their children with honor was the duty of every mother. For centuries lived these red-skins. happy and content in their native land, not knowing that the day would come when it would no longer be theirs in which to roam, fish, and hunt. Not far from the college buildings, on the bluffs overlooking the St. Joseph River, stands a Highland 'White Oak. Could this silent sentinel be given the power of speech. he could tell us of the days when Indians gathered in council under his shady branches at the same time that George Wlash- ington took command of the Continental Army. These Indians at that time were laying plans to defend themselves against the mighty Iroquois of the East. How grateful they were for the means of defense which the lead mine on the present College farm afforded them. They did not want to lose their homes nor their river. , It is difficult to tell who was the first white 111311 to see the shores of Michigan and the exact year when he came, but it was doubtless .Iean Nicolet, a Frenchman who lived for many years among the Indians and who knew their language and customs. Few other localities on the American continent can boast of the fact that their territory has-been governed by three of the largest and most powerful nations of the world before the fourth Hag, the Stars and Stripes, came to be its permanent ensign. The French were the first to enter this locality and take possession of it. For almost two centuries before the coming of the white settler, the present C01IfflIIlCd 011' page 92. lI'age Sixl

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