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Excerpts from Colden
Hanna (1) and Gallatin ("Synopsis of Indian Tribes") in: Colden.
pp. 158 (Hanna), 65 (Gallatin), 124 (Hanna).
Hanna 1:158
Onondago chief, Outreouate, told Gov. La Barre at Famine Bay in 1684, that one reason the Five Nations waged war against the Illinois and Miami (in 1680) was, that "they have engaged the Chaouanons [Shawnee] in their interest, and entertained them in their country."
Gallatin, Synopsis of Indian Tribes
In the year 1684, in answer to the complaint of the French, that they had attacked the Twightees or Miamis, the Five Nations assigned as one of the causes of war, that the Twightees had invited into their country the Satanas, in order to make war against them.* (*Satanas is the name given by the Five Nations to the Shawnoes. Colden, chap. V, pp. 69-70)
Hanna 1:124
La Houtan gives an account of a conference held by Gov. La Barre with the Onondagas near the south shore of Lake Ontario in 1684, at which these Iroquois gave as one of the reasons why they had fallen upon and eaten the Miamis and Illinois, that those nations "have brought the Satanas [Shawnees] into their country to take part with them, and armed them, after they had concerted ill designs against us." (Colden, chap. IV)
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