Source:

History, Manners and Customs of the Indian Nations who Once Inhabited Pennsylvania and the Neighboring States

By

Reverend John Heckewelder

1876

Chapter XXXIII

General Observations of the Indians on the White People

Page 192

 

“…They also make a distinction between a warrior and a murderer, which, as they explain it, is not much to our advantage.  It is not, say they, the number of scalps alone which a man brings with him that prove him to be a brave warrior.  Cowards have been known to return, and bring scalps home, which they had taken where they knew was no danger, where no attack was expected and no opposition made.  Such was the case with those Christian Indians on the Muskingum, the friendly Indians near Pittsburg, and a great number of scattered, peaceable men of our nation, who were all murdered by cowards.  It is not thus that the Black Snake, the great General Wayne acted; he was a true warrior and a brave man; he was equal to any of our chiefs that we have, equal to any that we have ever had…”

 

 

 

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