| My name is Luksi Humma, I am Choctaw or,
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| | years.Log Cabins were abundant in the
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| Chahta, our name in reality. I am a
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| | Village of Kethtipikanuck, about 120 log
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| builder of people and log cabins.
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| | structures as some writers saw it. Shake
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| Although, I live in our present time, I
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| | roof shingles adorned the cabins, of
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| talk to many people who come to Historic
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| | those lucky folks who knew how to, and,
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| Prophetstown, in Battle Ground, Indiana,
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| | had the man power to build these brutish
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| about the way the Old Ones lived, and
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| | structures. Forged from the wilderness,
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| died.Misconceptions, are a part of most
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| | these people were powerful and relentless
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| Americans ideal in regards to Native
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| | in their will to make life come forth,
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| American People. It is my job to inform
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| | from a forboding entity, that the
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| the uninformed, about the Love, Respect,
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| | wilderness posed. This was, after all,
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| Honor, and Dignity the American Indians
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| | the Northwest Territories. The end of the
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| had for their Families, Lives and the
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| | continent for most people who struck out
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| Land.How did the People live along the
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| | on their own.This wonderous village had
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| Wabash? They lived well, commerce
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| | many Wigwams, smoke filling the air on
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| continued to flow throughout the region
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| | the flats at the mouth of that river.
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| as our People
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| | Trade items coming in, and leaving, in
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| moved forward into an age that would
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| | boats of every description, dugouts,
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| eventually swallow them up, swirling them
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| | birchbark, heavy river tugs. One should
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| into the Great Melting Pot of these
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| | try to imagine this commerce, it is
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| United States. This motion inexorably
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| | pleasing to see it in the mind.Eleven
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| changed the Ways of our People, both, in
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| | years of good life came to an end, as the
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| their thought processess, and in their
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| | wood of their cabins and wigwams lost
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| Hearts.The Europeans who lived with the
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| | their battle with the crucible of fire,
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| Indian People would change
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| | which the American Army brought with
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| significantly, daily movements, personal
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| | them, to eradicate their way of life
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| contacts, language, lifestyles and much
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| | forever.This is but the beginning of
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| more. Pressures of being humans, finding
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| | their story, I will write more of this
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| a much easier way to cook, kill, stay
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| | facinating historical drama, played out
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| warm, communicate,
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| | on the banks of the Wabash. Prophetstown,
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| travel and live, ate away at the
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| | looming in the future awaits the telling
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| Traditions of ten thousand
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| | of its story in another time, but now I
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| generations.Robust in their spirits,
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| | am tired and must rest.Luksi Humma
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| Native People adapted rapidly, and found
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| | messenger of the People.I am a humble
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| value in their trapping of Beaver, and
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| | teacher of Indian People, travelling to
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| other furbearing animals. Trading these
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| | bring the Ways of our Ancestors to those
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| hides, for durable goods, gave the Indian
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| | who can least afford it, and desire it
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| People an opportunity to live more
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| | the most. My hands and mind belong to the
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| comfortably, amidst the French, English,
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| | People who came before us, and it is they
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| and some Americans, who became their
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| | whom I serve.
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| trading partners in this region, for many
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