Dover High School - Swirl Yearbook (Dover, OH)

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5U1 This Annual is an effort to preserve for you, and the students who will come after you, the precious memories and traditions of Nineteen Twenty Six. If at some distant time you find this book a charm which enables you to roll aside the years, reviving the memories of the happiest days of your life, those spent at •‘GOOD OLD DOVER HIGH” the earnest endeavors of the editors will not have been in vain.

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CRinSOD GR€Y HISTORY OF TUSCARAWAS COUNTY —INDIAN AFFAIRS— A century and a half ago the Ohio Valley was a vast wilderness. The silent night was interrupted only by the howl of the wolf, the melancholy moan of the owl or the shriek of the frightful panther. The day was possibly even more solitary than the night. The noise of the wild turkey, th ' croaking of the raven or the tapping of the woodpecker did not enliven the dreary scene. The Indians were the only human inhabitants: four tribes predominating within the limits of what is now known as the commonwealth of Ohio; namely-the Wyandottes, Delawares, Shawnees and Ottawas. The Wyandotes dwelled along the Sandusky and Miami rivers, the Delawares occupied the valleys of the Muskingum and Tuscaraws. The Shawnees lived in the region drained by the Scioto and Maumee rivers, and the Ottawas in the regions near the head waters of the Sandusky and Maumee rivers. The Ohio Indians were rather sojourners here than permanent inhabitants. Their chief occupation was hunting and fishing and was temporary in character. Their tribal nations were with the six nations of the Iroquois. All the tribes had practically the same tribal government though they differed in many details. In their social organizations generally there were four groups—the family, the gens, the tribe, and the phratry. The family was the household and comprised persons who occupied one lodge or wigwam. The gens were composed of kindred of the same blood in the female line. A tribe was a body of kindred and to be a member it was necessary to belong to some family. The phratry pertained to medical and religious rites and observances. The sachem of the tribe was chosen by the chiefs of the gentes, and presided at their grand councils in which the head of each household and all the leading men of the tribe took part. The wife or squaw had her separate property which consisted of everything in the wigwam except the implements of war and the chase. Each gens had a right to the services of all the available male members of the tribe in avenging wrongs committed against them and in supplying game. The chief crops cultivated and gathered from the forest consisted of corn, beans, peas, potatoes, nuts and berries. Their great annual occasion was the green corn festival. At this festival they feasted themselves with plenty and also made offerings and did homage to the great Spirit for his blessings. They also named their children that were born in that year. Indian names were always significant and indicated the totemic clan to which persons bearing the name belonged. None of the Indians had a written language but they had a name for everything they could see, hear, or feel. They conveyed their thoughts by symbols painted on prepared skins from the inner bark of the white-birch. The Tuscarawas valley was indeed an ideal possession for the Indian. It abounded in everything that made their hunting grounds attractive. The plains were sparsely timbered but in places the oak and hickory grew. The river valeys were wilder and contained a more luxurious growth. Paye six DOU€R 1926