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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: The Red Man's Rebuke - -Author: Simon Pokagon - -Release Date: October 18, 2021 [eBook #66563] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -Produced by: Mary Glenn Krause, Smithsonian Libraries and the Online - Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This - file was produced from images generously made available by The - Internet Archive) - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE RED MAN'S REBUKE *** - - - - - - Copyright 1893 - BY - SIMON POKAGON. - - Address all Orders to - C. H. ENGLE, PUBLISHER, - Hartford, Mich. - - - - -[Illustration: CHIEF SIMON POKAGON, HARTFORD, MICH.] - - - - - To the memory of - William Penn, Roger Williams, - the late lamented - Helen Hunt Jackson, - and many others now in Heaven, - Who conceived that Noble spirit of Justice - Which recognizes the Brotherhood of the - Red Man, and to all others now living - Defenders of our race, - I most gratefully dedicate this tribute of the forest. - - CHIEF POKAGON. - - - - -By The Author - - -My object in publishing the “Red Man’s Rebuke” on the bark of the -white birch tree, is out of loyalty to my own people, and gratitude to -the Great Spirit, who in his wisdom provided for our use for untold -generations, this most remarkable tree with manifold bark used by us -instead of paper, being of greater value to us as it could not be injured -by sun or water. - -Out of the bark of this wonderful tree were made hats, caps, and dishes -for domestic use, while our maidens tied with it the knot that sealed -their marriage vow; wigwams were made of it, as well as large canoes that -outrode the violent storms on lake and sea; it was also used for light -and fuel at our war councils and spirit dances. Originally the shore of -our northern lakes and streams were fringed with it and evergreen, and -the white charmingly contrasted with the green mirrored from the water -was indeed beautiful, but like the red man this tree is vanishing from -our forests. - - “Alas for us; our day is o’er - Our fires are out from shore to shore; - No more for us the wild deer bounds— - The plow is on our hunting grounds. - The pale man’s ax rings through our woods, - The pale man’s sail skims o’er floods; - Our pleasant springs are dry. - Our children—look by power oppressed, - Beyond the mountains of the west— - Our children go—to die.” - - - - -[Illustration: CHICAGO IN MY GRANDFATHER’S DAYS.—BY CHIEF POKAGON.] - - - - -THE RED MAN’S REBUKE. - -BY SIMON POKAGON - -_Pottawattamie Chief._ - - - “Shall not one line lament our forest race, - For you struck out from wild creation’s face? - Freedom—the selfsame freedom you adore, - Bade us defend our violated shore.” - -In behalf of my people, the American Indians, I hereby declare to you, -the pale-faced race that has usurped our lands and homes, that we have no -spirit to celebrate with you the Great Columbian Fair now being held in -this Chicago city, the wonder of the world. - -No; sooner would we hold high joy-day over the graves of our departed -fathers, than to celebrate our own funeral, the discovery of America. And -while you who are strangers, and you who live here, bring the offerings -of the handiwork of your own lands, and your hearts in admiration -rejoice over the beauty and grandeur of this young republic, and you say, -“Behold the wonders wrought by our children in this foreign land,” do not -forget that this success has been at the sacrifice of _our_ homes and a -once happy race. - -Where these great Columbian show-buildings stretch skyward, and where -stands this “Queen City of the West,” _once_ stood the red man’s -wigwam; here met their old men, young men, and maidens; here blazed -their council-fires. But now the eagle’s eye can find no trace of them. -Here was the center of their wide-spread hunting-grounds; stretching -far eastward, and to the great salt Gulf southward, and to the lofty -Rocky Mountain chain westward; and all about and beyond the Great Lakes -northward roamed vast herds of buffalo that no man could number, while -moose, deer, and elk were found from ocean to ocean; pigeons, ducks, and -geese in near bow-shot moved in great clouds through the air, while fish -swarmed our streams, lakes, and seas close to shore. All were provided -by the Great Spirit for our use; we destroyed none except for food and -dress; had plenty and were contented and happy. - -But alas! the pale-faces came by chance to our shores, many times very -needy and hungry. We nursed and fed them,—fed the ravens that were soon -to pluck out our eyes, and the eyes of our children; for no sooner had -the news reached the Old World that a new continent had been found, -peopled with another race of men, than, locust-like, they swarmed on -all our coasts; and, like the carrion crows in spring, that in circles -wheel and clamor long and loud, and will not cease until they find and -feast upon the dead, so these strangers from the East long circuits made, -and turkey-like they gobbled in our ears, “Give us gold, give us gold;” -“Where find you gold? Where find you gold?” - -We gave for promises and “gewgaws” all the gold we had, and showed them -where to dig for more; to repay us, they robbed our homes of fathers, -mothers, sons, and daughters; some were forced across the sea for slaves -in Spain, while multitudes were dragged into the mines to dig for gold, -and held in slavery there until all who escaped not, died under the lash -of the cruel task-master. It finally passed into their history that, “the -red man of the West, unlike the black man of the East, will die before -he’ll be a slave.” Our hearts were crushed by such base ingratitude; and, -as the United States has now decreed, “No Chinaman shall land on our -shores,” so we then felt that no such barbarians as they, should land on -_ours_. - -In those days that tried our fathers’ souls, tradition says: “A crippled, -grey-haired sire told his tribe that in the visions of the night he was -lifted high above the earth, and in great wonder beheld a vast spider-web -spread out over the land from the Atlantic Ocean toward the setting sun. -Its net-work was made of rods of iron; along its lines in all directions -rushed monstrous spiders, greater in strength, and larger far than any -beast of earth, clad in brass and iron, dragging after them long rows of -wigwams with families therein, out-stripping in their course the flight -of birds that fled before them. Hissing from their nostrils came forth -fire and smoke, striking terror to both fowl and beast. The red men hid -themselves in fear, or fled away, while the white men trained these -monsters for the war path, as warriors for battle.” - -The old man who saw the vision claimed it meant that the Indian race -would surely pass away before the pale-faced strangers. He died a martyr -to his belief. Centuries have passed since that time, and we now behold -in the vision as in a mirror, the present net-work of railroads, and the -monstrous engines with their fire, smoke, and hissing steam, with cars -attached, as they go sweeping through the land. - -The cyclone of civilization rolled westward; the forests of untold -centuries were swept away; streams dried up; lakes fell back from -their ancient bounds; and all our fathers once loved to gaze upon was -destroyed, defaced, or marred, except the sun, moon, and starry skies -above, which the Great Spirit in his wisdom hung beyond their reach. - -Still on the storm-cloud rolled, while before its lightning and thunder -the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air withered like grass -before the flame—were shot for love of power to kill alone, and left -to spoil upon the plains. Their bleaching bones now scattered far and -near, in shame declare the wanton cruelty of pale-faced men. The storm -unsatisfied on land swept our lakes and streams, while before its clouds -of hooks, nets, and glistening spears the fish vanished from our waters -like the morning dew before the rising sun. Thus our inheritance was cut -off, and we were driven and scattered as sheep before the wolves. - -Nor was this all. They brought among us fatal diseases our fathers knew -not of; our medicine-men tried in vain to check the deadly plague; but -they themselves died, and our people fell as fall the leaves before the -autumn’s blast. To be just, we must acknowledge there were some good -men with these strangers, who gave their lives for ours, and in great -kindness taught us the revealed will of the Great Spirit through his Son -Jesus, the mediator between God and man. But while we were being taught -to love the Lord our God with all our heart, mind, and strength, and our -neighbors as ourselves, and our children were taught to lisp, “Our Father -who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name,” bad men of the same race, whom -we thought of the same belief, shocked our faith in the revealed will -of the Father, as they came among us with bitter oaths upon their lips, -something we had never heard before, and cups of “fire-water” in their -hands, something we had never seen before. They pressed the sparkling -glasses to our lips and said, “Drink, and you will be happy.” We drank -thereof, we and our children, but alas! like the serpent that charms to -kill, the drink-habit coiled about the heart-strings of its victims, -shocking onto death, friendship, love, honor, manhood—all that makes -men good and noble; crushing out all ambition, and leaving naught but a -culprit vagabond in the place of a man. - -Now as we have been taught to believe that our first parents ate of the -forbidden fruit, and fell, so we as fully believe this fire-water is -the hard-cider of the white man’s devil, made from the fruit of that -tree that brought death into the world, and all our woes. The arrow, the -scalping-knife, and the tomahawk used on the war-path were _merciful_ -compared with it; _they_ were used in our defense, but the accursed -drink came like the serpent in the form of a dove. Many of our people -partook of it without mistrust, as children pluck the flowers and clutch -a scorpion in their grasp; only when they feel the sting, they let the -flowers fall. But Nature’s children had no such power; for when the -viper’s fangs they felt, they only hugged the reptile the more closely -to their breasts, while friends before them stood pleading with prayers -and tears that they would let the deadly serpent drop. But all in vain. -Although they promised so to do, yet with laughing grin and steps -uncertain like the fool, they still more frequently guzzled down this -hellish drug. Finally conscience ceased to give alarm, and, led by deep -despair to life’s last brink, and goaded by demons on every side, they -cursed themselves, they cursed their friends, they cursed their beggar -babes and wives, they cursed their God, and died. - -You say of us that we are treacherous, vindictive, and cruel; in answer -to the charge, we declare to all the world with our hands uplifted before -high Heaven, that before the white man came upon us, we were kind, -outspoken, and forgiving. Our real character has been misunderstood -because we have resented the breaking of treaties made with the United -States, as we honestly understood them. The few of our children who -are permitted to attend your schools, in great pride tell us that they -read in your own histories, how William Penn, a Quaker, and a good man, -made treaties with nineteen tribes of Indians, and that neither he nor -they ever broke them; and further, that during seventy years, while -Pennsylvania was controlled by the Quakers, not a drop of blood was shed -nor a war-whoop sounded by our people. Your own historians, and our -traditions, show that for nearly two hundred years, different Eastern -powers were striving for the mastery in the new world, and that our -people were persuaded by the different factions to take the war-path, -being generally led by white men who had been discharged from prisons for -crimes committed in the Old World. - -Read the following, left on record by Peter Martyr who visited our -forefathers in the day of Columbus. - - “It is certain that the land among these people is as common - as the sun and water, and that ‘mine and thine,’ the seed of - all misery, have no place with them. They are content with - so little, that in so large a country they have rather a - superfluity than a scarceness: so that they seem to live in - the golden world without toil, living in open gardens not - intrenched with dykes, not divided with hedges, nor divided - with walls. They deal truly one with another, without laws, - without books, without judges. They take him for an evil - and mischievous man, who taketh pleasure in doing hurt to - another, and albeit they delight not in superfluities, yet they - make provision for the increase of such roots whereof they - make bread, content with such simple diet whereof health is - preserved and disease is avoided.” - -Your own histories show that Columbus on his first visit to our shores, -in a message to the king and queen of Spain, paid our forefathers this -beautiful tribute:— - - “They are loving, uncovetous people: so docile in all things - that I swear to your majesties there is not in the world - a better race or more delightful country. They love their - neighbors as themselves, and their talk is ever sweet and - gentle, accompanied with smiles; and though they be naked, yet - their manners are decorous and praiseworthy.” - -But a few years passed away, and your historians left to be perused with -shame, the following facts:— - - “On the islands of the Atlantic Coast and in the populous - empires of Mexico and Peru, the Spaniards, through pretense - of friendship and religion, gained audience with chiefs and - kings, their families and attendants. They were received - with great kindness and courtesy but in return they most - treacherously seized and bound in chains the unsuspecting - natives; and as a ransom for their release, demanded large sums - of gold which were soon given by their subjects. But instead of - granting them freedom as promised, they were put to death in - a most shocking manner. Their subjects were then hunted down - like wild beasts, with bloodhounds, robbed and enslaved; while - under pretext to convert them to Christianity, the rack, the - scourge, and the fagot were used. Some were burned alive in - their thickets and fastnesses for refusing to work the mines as - slaves.” - -Tradition says these acts of base ingratitude were communicated from -tribe to tribe throughout the continent, and that a universal wail as one -voice went up from all the tribes of the unbroken wilderness: “We must -beat back these strangers from our shores before they seize our lands and -homes, or slavery or death are ours.” - -Reader, pause here, close your eyes, shut out from your heart all -prejudice against our race, and honestly consider the above records -penned by the pale-faced historians centuries ago; and tell us in the -name of eternal truth, and by all that is sacred and dear to mankind, -was there ever a people without the slightest reason of offense, more -treacherously imprisoned and scourged than we have been? And tell us, -have crime, despotism, violence, and slavery ever been dealt out in a -more wicked manner to crush out life and liberty; or was ever a people -more mortally offended than our forefathers were? - -Almighty Spirit of humanity, let thy arms of compassion embrace and -shield us from the charge of treachery, vindictiveness, and cruelty, and -save us from further oppression! And may the great chief of the United -States appoint no more broken-down or disappointed politicians as agents -to deal with us, but may he select good men that are tried and true, men -who fear not to do the right. This is our prayer. What would remain for -us if we were not allowed to pray? All else we acknowledge to be in the -hands of this great republic. - -It is clear that for years after the discovery of this country, we stood -before the coming strangers, as a block of marble before the sculptor -ready to be shaped into a statue of grace and beauty; but in their greed -for gold, the block was hacked to pieces and destroyed. Child-like we -trusted in them with all our hearts; and as the young nestling while yet -blind, swallows each morsel given by the parent bird, so we drank in -all they said. They showed us the compass that guided them across the -trackless deep, and as its needle swung to and fro only resting to the -north, we looked upon it as a thing of life from the eternal world. We -could not understand the lightning and thunder of their guns, believing -they were weapons of the gods; nor could we fathom their wisdom in -knowing and telling us the exact time in which the sun or moon should be -darkened; hence we looked upon them as divine; we revered them—yes, we -trusted in them, as infants trust in the arms of their mothers. - -But again and again was our confidence betrayed, until we were compelled -to know that greed for gold was all the balance-wheel they had. The -remnant of the beasts are now wild and keep beyond the arrow’s reach, the -fowls fly high in air, the fish hide themselves in deep waters. We have -been driven from the homes of our childhood and from the burial places of -our kindred and friends, and scattered far westward into desert places, -where multitudes have died from homesickness, cold, and hunger, and are -suffering and dying still for want of food and blankets. - -As the hunted deer close chased all day long, when night comes on, weary -and tired, lies down to rest, mourning for companions of the morning -herd, all scattered, dead, and gone, so we through weary years have tried -to find some place to safely rest. But all in vain! Our throbbing hearts -unceasing say, “The hounds are howling on our tracks.” Our sad history -has been told by weeping parents to their children from generation to -generation; and as the fear of the fox in the duckling is hatched, so the -wrongs we have suffered are transmitted to our children, and they look -upon the white man with distrust as soon as they are born. Hence our -worst acts of cruelty should be viewed by all the world with Christian -charity, as being but the echo of bad treatment dealt out to us. - -Therefore we pray our critics everywhere to be not like the thoughtless -boy who condemns the toiling bees wherever found, as vindictive and -cruel, because in robbing their homes he once received the poisoned darts -that nature gave for their defense. Our strongest defense against the -onward marching hordes, we fully realize is as useless as the struggles -of a lamb borne high in air, pierced to its heart, in the talons of the -eagle. - -We never shall be happy here any more; we gaze into the faces of our -little ones, for smiles of infancy to please, and into the faces of our -young men and maidens, for joys of youth to cheer advancing age, but -alas! instead of smiles of joy we find but looks of sadness there. Then -we fully realize in the anguish of our souls that their young and tender -hearts, in keenest sympathy with ours, have drank in the sorrows we have -felt, and their sad faces reflect it back to us again. No rainbow of -promise spans the dark cloud of our afflictions; no cheering hopes are -painted on our midnight sky. We only stand with folded arms and watch and -wait to see the future deal with us no better than the past. No cheer -of sympathy is given us; but in answer to our complaints we are told -the triumphal march of the Eastern race westward is by the unalterable -decree of nature, termed by them “survival of the fittest.” And so we -stand as upon the sea-shore, chained hand and foot, while the incoming -tide of the great ocean of civilization rises slowly but surely to -overwhelm us. - -But a few more generations and the last child of the forest will have -passed into the world beyond—into that kingdom where Tche-ban-yot-booz, -the Great Spirit, dwelleth, who loveth justice and mercy, and hateth -evil; who has declared the “fittest” in his kingdom shall be those alone -that hear and aid his children when they cry, and that love him and keep -his commandments. In that kingdom many of our people in faith believe he -will summon the pale-faced spirits to take position on his left, and the -red spirits upon his right, and that he will say, “Sons and daughters of -the forest, your prayers for deliverance from the iron heel of oppression -through centuries past are recorded in this book now open before me, made -from the bark of the white birch, a tree under which for generations -past you have mourned and wept. On its pages silently has been recorded -your sad history. It has touched my heart with pity and I will have -compassion.” - -Then turning to his left he will say, “Sons and daughters of the East, -all hear and give heed unto my words. While on Earth I did great and -marvelous things for you—I gave my only Son, who declared unto you my -will, and as you had freely received, to so freely give, and declare the -gospel unto all people. A few of you have kept the faith; and through -opposition and great tribulation have labored hard and honestly for the -redemption of mankind regardless of race or color. To all such I now -give divine power to fly on lightning wings throughout my universe. Now, -therefore, listen; and when the great drum beats, let all try their -powers to fly. Only those can rise who acted well their part on earth to -redeem and save the fallen.” - -The drum will be sounded, and the innumerable multitude will appear like -some vast sea of wounded birds struggling to rise. We shall behold it, -and shall hear their fluttering as the rumbling of an earthquake, and to -our surprise shall see but a scattering few in triumph rise, and hear -their songs re-echo through the vault of heaven as they sing, “Glory to -the highest who hath redeemed and saved us.” - -Then the Great Spirit will speak with a voice of thunder to the remaining -shame-faced multitude: “Hear ye: it is through great mercy that you have -been permitted to enter these happy hunting-grounds. Therefore I charge -you in presence of these red men that you are guilty of having tyrannized -over them in many and strange ways. I find you guilty of having made -wanton wholesale butchery of their game and fish, I find you guilty of -using tobacco, a poisonous weed made only to kill parasites on plants and -lice on man and beast. You found it with the red men, who used it only -in smoking the pipe of peace, to confirm their contracts, in place of a -seal. But you multiplied its use, not only in smoking, but in chewing, -snuffing, thus forming unhealthy, filthy habits, and by cigarettes, the -abomination of abominations, learned little children to hunger and thirst -after the father and mother of palsy and cancers. - -“I find you guilty of tagging after the pay agents sent out by the -great chief of the United States, among the Indians, to pay off their -birth-right claims to home, and liberty, and native lands, and then -sneaking about their agencies by deceit and trickery, cheating and -robbing them of their money and goods, thus leaving them poor and naked. -I also find you guilty of following the trail of Christian missionaries -into the wilderness among the natives, and when they had set up my -altars, and the great work of redemption had just begun, and some in -faith believed, you then and there most wickedly set up the idol of -man-tchi-man-in-to (the devil), and there stuck out your sign, SAMPLE -ROOMS. You then dealt out to the sons of the forest a most damnable drug, -fitly termed on earth by Christian women, ‘a beverage of hell,’ which -destroyed both body and soul, taking therefore, all their money and -blankets, and scrupling not to take in pawn the Bibles given them by my -servants. - -“Therefore know ye, this much-abused race shall enjoy the liberties of -these happy hunting-grounds, while I teach them my will, which you were -in duty bound to do while on earth. But instead, you blocked up the -highway that led to heaven, that the car of salvation might not pass -over. Had you done your duty, they as well as you would now be rejoicing -in glory with my saints with whom you, fluttering, tried this day in vain -to rise. But now I say unto you, Stand back! you shall not tread upon the -heels of my people, nor tyrannize over them any more. Neither shall you -with gatling-gun or otherwise disturb or break up their prayer-meetings -in camp any more. Neither shall you practice with weapons of lightning -and thunder any more. Neither shall you use tobacco in any shape, way, -or manner. Neither shall you touch, taste, handle, make, buy, or sell -anything that can intoxicate any more. And know ye, ye cannot buy out -the law or skulk by justice here; and if any attempt is made on your -part to break these commandments, I shall forthwith grant these red men -of America great power, and delegate them to cast you out of Paradise, -and hurl you headlong through its outer gates into the endless abyss -beneath—far beyond, where darkness meets with light, there to dwell, and -thus shut you out from my presence and the presence of angels and the -light of heaven forever and ever.” - -[Illustration: “And as the young nestling while yet blind, swallows each -morsel given by the parent bird, so we drank in all they said.”] - -[Illustration: “As the hunted deer close chased all day long, when night -comes on, weary and tired, lies down to rest.”] - -[Illustration: “As the fear of the fox in the duckling is hatched, so the -wrongs we have suffered are transmitted to our children.”] - -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE RED MAN'S REBUKE *** - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the -United States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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