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Manary gets no respect

Spokesrider — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 06:11:47 +0000

(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 [...]

Shawnee Colors

Spokesrider — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:01:54 +0000

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.

Greenville Treaty line to Loramie’s Store

Spokesrider — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:31:46 +0000

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 [...]