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