Word: landed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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AMONG this singular people -the aborigines of the Mississippi Valley -the chief deities appear to have been Munnee and his wife Boshor. Their story is very obscure, but the most recent investigations seem to show that they came from the land of the rising sun, and found, in the country of the mound-builders, a hopelessly savage people. With the aid of the magic power which they drew from the sun, they gained complete control of the whole region, but they were at first unable to civilize the natives. The aboriginal race had sunk to such a depth of degradation...
From this godlike race the mound-builders were directly descended, and it is probable that the mounds were erected in the hope of attracting the attention of Munnee and Boshor, if they ever came sailing back, and of inducing them to land and to renovate the human race once more...
...brothers; and the elder was called Square, and the younger was called Cute. And Square arose, and said unto his brother, "I will go unto the shores of the great river, that I may mingle with men; and I will take with me of the fruit of the land, that I may barter it for gold and for gaudy raiment, and give praise unto the great parents, Munnee and Boshor. All men will I treat with fairness, that with fairness all men may treat me. And when I wax wealthy, I will come back and I will share my gains...
...steps to be taken would be to assemble a congress of "Pocos" in the Yard immediately, divest ourselves then of all foreign habiliments, deliver them over to those whose minds are fitted only for such shackles, and oblige them at once to remove what is given them from the land. Then let us collect in a large heap that peculiarly formed furniture which exerts such a debasing effect on the only great thing in us, set fire to the mass, and henceforth devote ourselves, body and soul, to our minds. By these rigorous methods, and by these methods only...
Sing, then, O, sing to me, where is thy land...