The Spokesrider

(More from Labor Day weekend, 2008.)   As stated in the previous post, this marker for the Manary House is just outside of Bellefontaine.   One source says Manary had a trading post here, even before the war broke out.   James Manary’s home and farm were near Bourneville in Ross County, a hundred miles to the [...]

Or is it? Did Johnston know what he was talking about? When I was at the museum I picked up a little book which I can’t seem to lay my hands on right now, which contained some of Johnston’s writings and a Shawnee word list (as well as a Wyandot one). I wondered what Johnston knew about the Shawnee word for white (or dawn, or light). But it was interesting to see that although Johnston provided words for the names of animals and a great many other things, he didn’t even list color words. That was a strange omission, I thought, because of the importance of those words in so many persons’ names.

Three years ago I did a ride to Logan County, Ohio, purposely routing it to a couple of small pieces of road that follow the line of the Greenville Treaty of 1795. On Saturday I rode from Wapakoneta to Fort Loramie to Piqua, this time not so much crossing the Greenville Treaty line but following [...]