THE OHIO VALLEY-GREAT LAKES ETHNOHISTORY ARCHIVES: THE MIAMI COLLECTION
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Schoolcraft, Information 5: 191-196
(p. 194) "A whole town of the Miamis were severly punished for a disregard to this rule: they raised an immense crop, and hid it under ground, and packed a great quantity for immediate use, in bags; but the crop was so great that the Miami young men and youths were regardless of it, for many ears of corn remained on the stalks; the young men commenced playing with the shelled cobs and stalks, and played with them in like manner as with the cobs. After this, the whole of the Miami made preparations to quit their village, in order to see winter where game was in abundance: they loaded their canoes with corn, and moved to their hunting- grounds and encamped; all the men who were capable of pursuing game went out to hunt, as deer seemed to abound, and when the Indians returned in the evening, they brought no game; not proving successful, these hunting excursions were repeated from day to day, but still unavailingly."
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