Monday, April 10, 2017

The Potawatomi Indians were a kind and peaceful people with the exception of this one woman

Indian Tale from Lagrange County, Indiana


The Potawatomi Indians were a kind and peaceful people with the exception of this one woman.

This is related by eye-witnesses as having occurred on the east bank of Sweet Lake. Late one
 pleasant afternoon, while one of the squaws with along wooden paddle  was stirring a pot of
 hot mush, a little    Indian boy annoyed her to such a degree as to give her passion control of 
her better judgment. Snatching the mush- besmeared paddle from the pot, she severely chastised
 the little red boy. The effect of this hot mush poultice upon the little naked denizen of the forest 
can be better imagined than described. It created quite a commotion in the camp, and in a few
 minutes after the painful occurrence, the loud screams of the frantic little sufferer had
 brought a large assembly of both sexes, who became very much enraged and cried for
 summary vengeance on the cruel offender. Some were in favor of blows, while others, more
 merciful, suggested the application of a poultice of the hot mush. As the witnesses left
 previous to the settlement of the vexed question, it is not certainly known what disposition
 was made of the cruel female.