A RED INDIAN

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 10, 12 January 1929, Page 15

A RED INDIAN

There was once a Bed Indian, sou of a long line of chiefs, and ho was called Hondrick Aupanut. ' . He was bora in 1757 in Massachusetts, when America was youug and struggling, very different from the powerful States of -to-day. Hendriek went to school like a white boy, and when he grew up enlisted in the Ameri-. can Army and fought in the. AVar of Independence. .. He appears to have been a remarkable man-—a born leader. Ho was always being mentioned in despatches. Hundreds of references to Hondrick, Aupanut come in the manuscripts of letters, reports, and despatches which form the basis of the • history of that war. After one occasion in which he bore himself remarkably, well Hendrick was given a sword by, George Washington. Washington spoke, .of him often, and called him bis friend. Captain Aupauut found after the war that his life-work was .just begun. i'Ho was a man who must be busy about somethiug. He set about trying to,heal the differences between : the hostile Indian tribes and the white men. In Madison County, New York, he made a colony for his tribe, and for many years ruled ov.er it. and dispensed justice. Time went by. The.Tridian chief was out on a journey 'to the West in ISI2 when he had another great, idea.. -Ho must form another-Indian colony in the spacious country near the groat lakes. A plot of some 600 acres near Green Bay on lake Michigan was bought, clearings made, log cabins and a saw mill built, and small farms begun.' Church and school wore presently set UP- . .:.'''. ■.'.'.'■■: '.V■ : ' ■ . ' The- Indians from.., various; parts trekkod across country and .settled very happily in .their new. colony,- watched over by Aupanut as hie came and -went, in his endless missions.'. When, he, was old he went and settled at Kaukaunay and there he died in 1829: ' Thore are ' only' 12 known graves of tho ..Revolutionary soldiers; in that State, and Aupanut's is' one of them. A society of American women who remember their country's past have been watching over that grave... They have remembered what'a great.man the old Indian chief was, and* how he went about doing good,; making .peace,* building homes.::'. They lpbw how easily such men are forgotten! Kow. they;'have unveiled a tablet .to him, so that the children of a now America, may -liot forget. •.. ' ••';■• ■