Memoirs Official And Personal With Sketches of Travels Among the Northern And
Memoirs Official And Personal With Sketches of Travels Among the Northern And
Thomas Loraine Mckenney
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, &c. 169 Mr. Kingsbury, the principal of the mission. Wrote to the Secretary of War, as the reader will see, in the Appendix, (E. ) a more full account of the proceedings at the Chick- asaw council, and its results, &c. It was somewhere in this district that I had a most in- teresting interview with a Choctaw " rain-maker" This country is remarkable for its long droughts ; and this cir- cumstance, it is supposed, set the wits of some cunning rogue of a fellow to work, to find out how to profit... by it. And so, from earliest times, there have been " rain-makers" among, at least, the Choctaws. I had seen an Indian far off, west from my position, who seemed to be pow-wow- ing ; his peculiar costume, combining with his motions, sa- tisfied me that he was at work with some of the mysteries of the juggling art. On inquiring who he was, and what he was about, I received for answer, " He is a rain-maker, and is engaged with the Great Spirit, to procure his con- sent to give the people rain.
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