| 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 those
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| talk to many people who come to Historic
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| | lucky folks who knew how to, and, had the
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| Prophetstown, in Battle Ground, Indiana,
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| | 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, the
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| Honor, and Dignity the American Indians
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| | 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 the
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| continued to flow throughout the region as
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| | flats at the mouth of that river. Trade
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| our People
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| | items coming in, and leaving, in boats of
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| moved forward into an age that would
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| | every description, dugouts, birchbark,
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| eventually swallow them up, swirling them
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| | heavy river tugs. One should try to
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| into the Great Melting Pot of these United
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| | imagine this commerce, it is pleasing to
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| States. This motion inexorably changed the
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| | see it in the mind.Eleven years of good
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| Ways of our People, both, in their thought
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| | life came to an end, as the wood of their
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| processess, and in their Hearts.The
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| | cabins and wigwams lost their battle with
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| Europeans who lived with the Indian People
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| | the crucible of fire, which the American
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| would change significantly, daily
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| | Army brought with them, to eradicate their
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| movements, personal contacts, language,
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| | way of life forever.This is but the
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| lifestyles and much more. Pressures of
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| | beginning of their story, I will write
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| being humans, finding a much easier way to
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| | more of this facinating historical drama,
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| cook, kill, stay warm, communicate,
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| | played out on the banks of the Wabash.
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| travel and live, ate away at the
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| | Prophetstown, looming in the future awaits
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| Traditions of ten thousand
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| | the telling of its story in another time,
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| generations.Robust in their spirits,
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| | but now I am tired and must rest.Luksi
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| Native People adapted rapidly, and found
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| | Humma messenger of the People.I am a
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| value in their trapping of Beaver, and
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| | humble teacher of Indian People,
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| other furbearing animals. Trading these
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| | travelling to bring the Ways of our
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| hides, for durable goods, gave the Indian
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| | Ancestors to those who can least afford
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| People an opportunity to live more
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| | it, and desire it the most. My hands and
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| comfortably, amidst the French, English,
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| | mind belong to the People who came before
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| and some Americans, who became their
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| | us, and it is they whom I serve.
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| trading partners in this region, for many
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