[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] More sinned against than sinning, they left behind them evidences of great wrongs suffered, their enemies being the witnesses. 34 THE INDIAN TRIBES CHAPTER III. * NATIONAL AND TRIBAL ORGANIZATIONS, TOTEMIC CLASSI FICATIONS, POLITICAL RELATIONS, ETC. HE names and location of the Indian tribes were not ascertained with clearness by the early Dutch writers. Wassenaar states that at the time of the discovery, and for some years after occupation by the Dutch, the Maikans or Mabicans, held twenty-five * miles on both sides of the river in the vicinity of Fort Orange; that the Maquas, or Mohawks, resided in the interior; that ' Fort Orange was erected on the lands of the Mahicans, whose castle was on the opposite (east) side of the river. De Laet writes in 1625, that the Maquas held the west shore, and Wassenaar concludes with a similar statement; but if it is considered that the history of the latter was written at different periods extending from 1621 to 1632, his account will be