[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] stitute either of clothing or ammunition. Therefore, we desire our father to order the tap or crane to be shut, and to prohibit the selling of rum, for as long as the Christians will sell rum luThe Oneidas, the proprietors of that a Schooler of t\ Notes on the Iroyuots, 104, country, gave you a settlement then out etc. Gallatin, 82, 83. of kindness." — Johnson to Seth, chief of 3 Colonial History, v, 563. the Tuscaroras at Oghkivaga. „ 4 Said to have been chief of an island in the Hudson. 192 THE INDIAN TRIBES our people will drink it. We acknowledge that our father is very much in the right to tell us that we squander away our Indian corn, but one great cause of it is that many of our people are obliged to hire land of the Christians at a very dear rate, and to give half the corn for rent, and the other half they are tempted by rum to sell, and so the corn goes, and the poor women and children are left to shift as well as they can." And he might have added, that the land which they called their own was not unfrequently mortgaged to those who had furnished them corn, after defrauding them of that which they had produced, and the mortgages very promptly foreclosed. With