HOME OF THE INDIAN [pg 142] ......The present boundary of Daviess County was first made the home of the pale-face in 1830. That year the first white man gave to civilization a habitation and a name within its border. At that time it was a part of Ray county, but still the home of the red men--a home with which they were loth to part, and which fir years after they continued to visit and occupy as a hunting ground. God had given them this beautiful valley of the Grand River as their home. It was a migratory field for the restless buffalo; the elk and the bear roamed it wooded hills; the deer and the wild turkey made it their home; the valleys and the uplands were filled with smaller game; fish sported in the cool, pellucid waters of her rivers and creeks; and in shady nooks and near bubbling springs the aborigines built their wigwams. It was a paradise for the hunter, and the red man was the lord of all........................... The Saxon and Gallie races had decreed that this should be their home and that of their posterity. They came as the leaves of the forest in number; they pressed forward, and the gallant, heroic, and vengeful struggle of the Indian for his home is written in letters of blood, in burning cabins and wide-spread desolation, but all gave way before the irresistible march of civilization. The cabins of the hardy pioneer took the place of the wigwams of the savate; the war-whoop and the war-dance gave way to the woodman's ax; the stealthy tread of the Indian hunter, to the sturdy walk of the pioneer; and civilization and Christianity walked arm in arm to the glorious future of today. let us drop a silent tear to the memory of the red man. He had a beautiful home and was despoiled of it; he had the hunting-ground of his father, it became his burial place. We can rejoice in the glory of our country, but the fate of the original possessors of the soil is a dark and bloody chapter in the record which gives the history of the onward march of civilization...............The remnants of the different tribes found here became the friends of the whites, and they roamed the country at will........... Lanita's note: The tribes listed were: Sacs, Foxes, Pottawattamies, and Musquakies.