History, Manners
And Customs of
The Indian Nations
Who Once Inhabited
Pennsylvania and 
The Neighboring States
 
By Rev. John Heckwelder,  1881
450 pages, indexed, searchable
 
 
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“In the interval between 1765 and 1771, Mr. Heckewelder was, on several occasions, summoned from his cooper’s shop to do service for 
the mission. Thus, in the summer of the first mentioned year, he spent several months at Friedenshiitten, on the Susquehanna (Wyalusing, 
Bradford county, Pennsylvania), where the Moravian Indians had been recently settled in a body, after a series of most trying experiences,
 to which their residence on the frontiers and in the settlements of the Province subjected them, at a time when the inroads of the 
savages embittered the public mind indiscriminately against the entire race. This post he visited subsequently on several occasions, 
and also the town of Schechschiquanink (Sheshequin), some thirty miles north of Wyalusing, the seat of a second mission on 
the Susquehanna.
 
“A new period in the life of Mr. Heckewelder opened with the autumn of 1771, when he entered upon his actual career as an 
evangelist to the Indians, sharing the various fortunes of the Moravian mission among that people for fifteen years, than which 
none perhaps in its history were more eventful. The well-known missionary David Zeisberger, having in 1768 established a mission
 among a clan of Monseys on the Allegheny, within the limits of what is now Venango county, was induced in the spring of 
1770 to migrate with his charge to the Big Beaver, and to settle at a point within the jurisdiction of the Delawares of Kaskaskunk.”
 
PART I.
AN ACCOUNT OF THE HISTORY, MANNERS, AND CUSTOMS OF THE
INDIAN NATIONS WHO ONCE INHABITED PENNSYLVANIA AND
THE NEIGHBOURING STATES.
PAGE
INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITOR ..... vii
DEDICATION ............. xvii
INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR ......... xxiii
CHAPTER
I. HISTORICAL TRADITIONS OF THE INDIANS ..... 47
II. INDIAN ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST ARRIVAL OF THE DUTCH AT NEW
YORK ISLAND .......... 71
V lII. INDIAN RELATIONS OF THE CONDUCT OF THE EUROPEANS TOWARDS
THEM ............ 76 
IV. SUBSEQUENT FATE OF THE LENAPE AND THEIR KINDRED TRIBES . 83
V. THE IROQUOIS........... 95
GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE INDIANS ...... 100
VII. GowTfVMF.NT ........... IO7
VIII. EDUCATION ........... 113
IX. LANGUAGES ........... 118
X. SIGNS AND HIEROGLYPHICS ........ 128
XL ORATORY ............ 132
XII. METAPHORICAL EXPRESSIONS ........ 137
XIII. INDIAN NAMES ........... 141
XIV. INTERCOURSE WITH EACH OTHER ....... 145
XV. POLITICAL MANOEUVRES ......... 150
V XVI. MARRIAGE AND TREATMENT OF THEIR WIVES..... 154
XVII. RESPECT FOR THE AGED ......... 163
XVIII. PRIDE AND GREATNESS OF MIND ....... 170
XIX. WARS AND THE CAUSES WHICH LEAD TO THEM . . . . 175
XX. MANNER OF SURPRISING THEIR ENEMIES ...... 177
XXI. PEACE MESSENGERS .......... 181
XXII. TREATIES ............ 185
XIII. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE INDIANS ON THE WHITE PEOPLEV
XIV. FOOD AND COOKERY .........
XXV. DRESS AND ORNAMENTING OF THEIR PERSONS . . . .
XXVI. DANCES, SONGS, AND SACRIFICES.......
XVII. SCALPING WHOOPS OR YELLS PRISONERS . . . .
XVIII. BODILY CONSTITUTION AND DISEASES......
XXIX. REMEDIES ...........
 
XXX. PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS........
XXXI. DOCTORS OR JUGGLERS ........
XXXII. SUPERSTITION ..........
XXXIII. INITIATION OF BOYS .........
XXXIV. INDIAN MYTHOLOGY .........
XXXV. INSANITY SUICIDE .
XXXVI. DRUNKENNESS ..........
XXXVII. FUNERALS ...........
XXXVIII. FRIENDSHIP...........
VXXXIX. PREACHERS AND PROPHETS........
XL. SHORT NOTICE OF THE INDIAN CHIEFS TAMANEND AND TADEUSKUND
XLI. COMPUTATION OF TIME ASTRONOMICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL
KNOWLEDGE ..........
XLII. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS AND ANECDOTES .....
XLIII. ADVICE TO TRAVELLERS ........
XLIV. THE INDIANS AND THE WHITES COMPARED ....
CONCLUSION . ..........
 
PART II.
CORRESPONDENCE RESPECTING THE INDIAN LANGUAGES.
INTRODUCTION
LETTER
I. MR. DUPONCEAU TO MR. HECKEWELDER, QTH JANUARY, 1816
II. DR. C. WISTAR TO MR. HECKEWELDER (SAME DATE) . .
III. MR. HECKEWELDER TO DR. WISTAR, 24TH MARCH. . .
IV. THE SAME TO THE SAME, 30 APRIL
V. MR. DUPONCEAU TO DR. WISTAR, i4TH MAY
VI. DR. WISTAR TO MR. HECKEWELDER, 2isT MAY ...
VII. MR. HECKEWELDER TO MR. DUPONCEAU, 27 MAY . .
VIII. MR. DUPONCEAU TO MR. HECKEWELDER, IOTH JUNE . .
IX. THE SAME TO THE SAME, I3TH JUNE
X. MR. HECKEWELDER TO MR. DUPONCEAU, 20TH JUNE . .
XI. THE SAME TO THE SAME, 24 JUNE
XII. MR. DUPONCEAU TO MR. HECKEWELDER,
XIII. THE SAME TO THE SAME, i8TH JULY
XIV. MR. HECKEWELDER TO MR. DUPONCEAU,
XV. THE SAME TO THE SAME, 24 JULY
XVI. MR. DUPONCEAU TO MR. HECKEWELDER,
XVII. THE SAME TO THE SAME, 30 AUGUST
XVIIT. MR. HECKEWELDER TO MR. DUPONCEAU,
XIX. THE SAME TO THE SAME, 15 AUGUST.
XX. MR. DUPONCEAU TO MR. HECKEWELDER,
XXI. MR. HECKEWELDER TO MR. DUPONCEAU,
XXII. THE SAME TO THE SAME, 27TH AUGUST.
XXIII. MR. DUPONCEAU TO MR. HECKEWELDER,
XXIV. MR. HECKEWELDER TO MR. DUPONCEAU,
XXV. MR. DUPONCEAU TO MR. HECKEWELDER,
XXVI. MR. HECKEWELDER TO MR. DUPONCEAU,
 
PART III.
WORDS, PHRASES, AND SHORT DIALOGUES 437
 

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