[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] by Turtle Heart OP Aquarsqua, Wieween-the government by way of correction, and oghwa, Tedabajhsika, Lenapes of the these are the Six Nations, Shawanoes, Ohio, and Benavissica, Manykypusson, and Delawares. They are well acquainted Nanicksah, and Wabysequina, Shawanoes with'the defenseless state of the inhabit-of the Ohio. — Colonial History, vn, 738. ants who live on the frontiers, and think 2 Colonial History, vn, 958. Colonel they will ever have it in their power to Bradstreet, in his " Thoughts on Indian distress and plunder them, and never cease Affairs," gives a different view of the raising the jealousy of the Upper Nations policy of the tribes. He writes : " Of against us, by propagating amongst them 250 THE INDIAN TRIBES To appease their demands Johnson had proposed to them in 1765, to "make a line" which should be recognized alike by themselves and the English as a boundary beyond which neither should pass. The proposition was accepted, but its execution was delayed. Meanwhile the tribes remained morose and jeal ous and at times ready to take up the hatchet. Hostilities on the western border continued of frequent occurrence; the diffi culties in Pennsylvania, were kept alive by the constantly in creasing tide of European emigration. Connecticut determined to occupy the Wyoming valley, while the fanatics of the Ca-nestogo massacre shot and scalped with unrelenting zeal