Auburn High School - Follies Yearbook (Auburn, IN)

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Wi ■ p - 1 Prologue cmc chose for The t ' olties of rj}2 a thi tcrin about the aborigines of this region of norfy- casterii Indiana, the Poiiteoiiataniis — as tbcy , M . C-A- - ' «i». easiern inaiana, loe I ' onreoiiaraniis — as r ' jcy ucr .« —- tiy y t v - — called by the French. Because they left no iiTJJ-fcil ' - l - it . t t annals of their race, we knoiv little of their earlier La £P J Z. ' ' existence, except that they were a nomadic, cannibal- Ly - Cy istic )iation, p( wcrful in war, cleier hunters, and shrewd traders. They first inhabited northern Mich- igan, later migrated to our own section, and spread as far west as Lake Michigan — called Machihiganing by them. They were the first to fall under Pere Marquette, and remained dei out Christians thereafter. Because of their hostility to the United States in the War of 1812, much of their land was taken from them, and those Poffaicatomis known as the St. Joseph band were forcibly driven west of the Missis- sippi by Federal troops, only a few being allowed to remain. Through the efforts of their lenerable chief, Pokagon, they later received payment for their lands from the government. But too late, as was too often the case in our relations with the true Americans, tuberculosis had thinned their once mighty ranks to the paltry number of two hundred and seventy. Because we wished to bring this remembrance of the first Hoosiers to you, and because we could not make the mistake the Pottawafomis did in compelling posterity to hazard guesses as to their true existence, the members of the class of 19 2 produced this book. X X Three rr