Copyright 1893
by
Simon Pokagon.

Address all Orders to
C. H. ENGLE, Publisher,
Hartford, Mich.

Chief Simon Pokagon, Hartford, Mich.

Transcriber’s Note: The illustrations bear the traces of the original birchbark publication, and have deliberately not been edited to remove these markings.

To the memory of
William Penn, Roger Williams,
the late lamented
Helen Hunt Jackson,
and many others now in Heaven,
Who conceived that Noble spirit of Justice
Which recognizes the Brotherhood of the
Red Man, and to all others now living
Defenders of our race,
I most gratefully dedicate this tribute of the forest.

Chief Pokagon.

By The Author

My object in publishing the “Red Man’s Rebuke” on the bark of the white birchtree, is out of loyalty to my own people, and gratitude to the Great Spirit, who in hiswisdom provided for our use for untold generations, this most remarkable tree withmanifold bark used by us instead of paper, being of greater value to us as it couldnot be injured by sun or water.

Out of the bark of this wonderful tree were made hats, caps, and dishes for domesticuse, while our maidens tied with it the knot that sealed their marriage vow;wigwams were made of it, as well as large canoes that outrode the violent storms onlake and sea; it was also used for light and fuel at our war councils and spirit dances.Originally the shore of our northern lakes and streams were fringed with it and evergreen,and the white charmingly contrasted with the green mirrored from the waterwas indeed beautiful, but like the red man this tree is vanishing from our forests.

“Alas for us; our day is o’er
Our fires are out from shore to shore;
No more for us the wild deer bounds—
The plow is on our hunting grounds.
The pale man’s ax rings through our woods,
The pale man’s sail skims o’er floods;
Our pleasant springs are dry.
Our children—look by power oppressed,
Beyond the mountains of the west—
Our children go—to die.”

Chicago in my Grandfather’s Days.—ByChief Pokagon.

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THE RED MAN’S REBUKE.

BY SIMON POKAGON

Pottawattamie Ch

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