Seven Hills High School - Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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The following essays represent a part of our research work about early Cincinnati. We print, with pride, the pupils' record of those heroic days. The writers are indebted to these ensuing Source Books: 'GThe Americanai' l .The Ohio Gateway, S .............................. D. E. Crouse MThe New Champlin Cyclopedia for Young Folksv I H B T Crista and Present of Mill creek Valleyv 5 ' ' gem HCreater Cincinnati, its People a Historyn ...... Lewis Alexander Leonard ullistory oi Hamilton County, Ohioi, .... .......... H enry A. Ford a'Domestic Manners of the Americansii . . .... Mrs. Frances Trollope 'Tlistorical Collection of Ohio ....... ................ H owe G'History of Cincinnatiii ..... .... ........ A . E. ,lones MHistory oi Cincinnati . . . ....... . . .Charles T. Creve The Citizen's Bookn I 6'Cincinnati-the Queen Cityi' P .... ..... C harles Goss HCentennial History of Cincinnatii' l uMusical Life in Early Cincinnatiii ................... Leonie C. Frank HVI7ho's Who on the Ohio River and its Tributariesw ......... Ethel Leahy uMy State Ohiow ............ George H. Crow A.M. and C. P. Smith A.B. -EDITOR Early Indian Tribes in Southwestern Ohio The Miami Indian Tribe was the branch of Algonquins which lived in the vicinity of Cincinnati. The tribes east of the Mississippi could be divided into three great families. The tribes were the Miamis, the Potawatomies, and the Eries. By the middle of the eighteenth century the Indians had been dispossessed of their homes and had settled in the Northwest Territory. The Miamis had been tenants of Ohio for a longer period than the other tribes and extended over Ohio as far as the two Miami Rivers. They did not have much of a government, but a simple democracy, if anything. Indian families of Algonquin stock possessed dialects which differed greatly. The Algonquins made as great an impression upon the White Man as any other tribe, and the Indians of Algonquin lineage appealed most to our historians, novelists, and dramatists. The Indian language is uholophrasticf' This means the compressing of a whole sentence into one word. In appearance the Indian has straight black hair, a broad face which gives the effect of high cheekbones, an aquiline nose, a slight slant oi the eye, and a scant beard. The Indian's skin has always been called red, but actually, the white manis W efifone, 193 9 I80l

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A Journey Through A Stamp Album I take many a trip To Europe, and Asia, And far-off China, To Egypt, land of pyramid and Sphinx. I travel on the Nile and wonder at the sights Of ancient ruins. I look into the past and see the faces Of persons long since gone, Austrian Franz-Josef, And the famous Frenchman, Cardinal Richelieu, Lincoln, our great President, And good Queen Victoria. Often to the nation of France I go, To Paris and Bordeaux, Marseilles and Cannes. I'm fascinated by Mont St. Michel, little town Of crowded, winding streets, and I see The Port de la Rochelle. And last to the isle of Great Britain I go, Where I visit London Town, Also I see King George, his Queen and Mother, Then to Scotland, the Highland country. . All this as I turn the pages Of a stamp album. ANNE Wooo RAMSEY, 1942 Wdafone, 193 Q I 791

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skin is more so than the Indian'sg the Indian,s skin is really brown, some- times very dark. The villages were usually grouped along rivers and the Indians led a carefree existence. They hunted buffalo, bear, deer, and tapped maple trees. At that time Ohio was almost entirely covered with forest. Through the dense woods, the paths which were the Indian highways, were worn by buffalo. These animal trails greatly infiuenced the location of the villages. The Indians of the Ohio built log shelters instead of tepees. These were made by laying logs, one upon the other and staking them in place. These were the sidewalls. There was a pitched roof of poles, thatched with linden bark. The ends of the structure were open or closed with animal skins. The white men have gotten some of their sports from the Indians. One of these sports is tobogganing. Another sport acquired from the Indians is La Cross. The Indians also gave white man canoeing in a large measure. The tapping of maple trees and the making of maple sugar was taught to the white man by the Indians. The Ohio River was called HOyo7, by the Indians. This was gotten from the spelling used on the plates which Celeron buried in the Ohio River banks. It can easily be seen that the name HOhio7' came from pronouncing uOyo.', The name of the Indian tribe, Miami, signifies umotherf, The settlers found this valley to be the forest home of the Indians with this tribal name, when they first came into it. The Algonquin territory extended from the Scioto River to the Wfabash and from the Ohio River to Lake Michigan. This territory was claimed for them by uLittle Turtle in the Greenville Treaty of 1795. uLittle Turtlei' was a distinguished chief and counselor. He was a dark man with a swarthy complexion and was called Mesh-e-ben-ogh-gua by the Indians. He com- manded at the defeat of General Harmar and later at St. Clair. He visited Col. Jared Mansfield in the Ludlow Mansion House in Cumminsville to talk concerning boundary lines between the two nations. The Indians had been very lucky in their battles and when the question of fighting General Wayne came up, Little Turtlev advised against it, saying that their luck would not last and that General Wayne was a man who was awake both day and night. One of the other chiefs called him a coward which name wounds the feelings of an Indian almost more than anything else. He joined the battle and fought well but the Indians were defeated showing HLittle Turtlen to be a better prophet than they had thought. uLittle Turtlew finally died of gout. The first settlement between the two Miamis was made by Major Stites, in mkafone, f 93 9 I81l