Indian Trader and Interpreter

Indian Trader/ Interpreter connection Paxton PA to Canada 1765       Margaret Powel - 75 ac 80 ps surveyed for warrant of 23 Aug 1765 for land across Powells Ck in Halifax Twp, Dauphin County. Parcel over the Blue Hills of Peters Mountain, near Forster’s Falls and near James Reed place including improvements made by John Powell while living 25 years on said property. This parcel on the eastside of Susquehanna R. Between land of Jacob Grebill to north and John Newbecker to the south; who acquired parcel in 1815. Application notes that she is widow of John Powel and acts for interest of herself and children. Originally the Powel parcel was 135 ac before lower half sold to Newbecker. 1765       Thomas McKee on 17 Oct, 1765 entered a Caveat (warning) with the Survey Office against the acceptance of a survey made for Margaret Powell in pursuance of her Application No. 608 of 23 Aug 1765 for 100 ac of land and imp...

Epic Shine Physical CDs $8.91 Qty: BUY NOW    Digital Album (MP3) $7.91   BUY NOW    A savings of $5.95 over buying the individual tracks Tracks Track Name Ringtone Download 1. Epic Shine $2.49  BUY $0.99  BUY    2. Desperate For a Dream.mp3 $2.49  BUY $0.99  BUY    3. A Smile On A Face.mp3 $2.49  BUY $0.99  BUY    4. Today is the Day.mp3 $2.49  BUY $0.99  BUY    5. I Couldnt Help Myself.mp3 $2.49  BUY $0.99  BUY    6. Silence is a Word Unspoken.mp3 $2.49  BUY $0.99  BUY    7. You Can't Put Walls Around Me.mp3 $2.49  BUY $0.99  BUY    8. If You Come This Way.mp3 $2.49  BUY $0.99  BUY    9. Save Me From The Flames of the Sun.mp3 $2.49  BUY $0.99  BUY    10. New Sunrise.mp3 $2.49  BUY $0.99  BUY    11. All Locked Up Insi...

In My Song "Renegade Soldier", I try and point out the Ambiguity in Simon Girty's story, and i find I may of added to it, but one thing is sure there are contrary accounts of him and in an effort to show my point i need to do future investigations, but the more i look the more questions i have, Simon Girty was called a Traitor to his country yet he was born in Indian country before the united States was born, Many of the fur traders had "country Wife's" Indian Brides, they bonded in this way , they also were tight amongst themselves and the Indian,  Many time young ones were adopted into the tribes and raised as one of them, as was Simon Girty, but there are  very complicated issues that culminated in this happening, what started out as a Drunken brawl between his father and and Indian Named the fish ended up in the vengeful death of his father and step father whom likewise avenged, but to complicate it further his second f...

Sell music on itunes at ReverbNation.com RENEGADE SOLDIER  with and Indian bride what made you go to there side Was it because you were one of them fight for freedom they say But they burn you out of house and home one day You can’t live with the red man trading furs on your land Even though your mom is one of them and you were raised the same They pick and choose in this game but you cant fool Simon Girty my friend He warned the rest of them the want your land there not your friend They do what they can they do what they did to me then they call you the enemy When you flee long black hair with black eyes your face on the side of Girtys cliff Was your home was you wish they took away even your pride They say you’re the worst man alive but when the six nations  Convened on the Maumee You were the only white man there to be  Renegade soldier with and Indian bride What made you go to there side

 Let me stop here for a second while the Author trashes this "renegade Indian"  he more or less says he's an enemy to the Indians even though in his own words  he admits that the image on Girty's rock is of an Indian, that his friend and  fellow renegade Alexander  McKee's was part Indian and that, pg. 117 bellow,  The "Great Council of all the north-western tribes convened on the Maumee he was the only White man admitted", further he goes on to call him one of  the "most desperate degenerate character in history" but in his own words describes his daring escapes and the fact that he was one of thee most capable people in Indian country. And on page 114 below where he saves a 18 year-old boys life, I guess that makes him a coward, Maybe just the fact that  when he was a boy he watched as the providential authorities burn down his house Da, don't you think . Kevin Lajiness, (be...

Peterson (1981:158) provides examples of what she typifies as three patterns of marriage among Great Lakes métis trade families: 1) a son first entered into a short-term “country” marriage with a native woman to ensure the trust of her band; 2) this was usually followed by a permanent second marriage to a prominent métis or French-Canadian creole woman of another trading family, and; 3) métis daughters generally married other métis or if members of the elite, to incoming Europeans. Such patterns resulted in what Peterson calls “trading dynasties" PRAX IS Research Associates, 1999: Historic Métis in Ontario - Wawa Page 25 http://www.metisnation.org/media/141020/ontario%20report%20-%20michipicoten.pdf