Chamblee [Shabonee], Aid to Tecumseh.
ME-TEE-A; A SIGNER OF THE TREATY OF 1821.
[APPENDIX I.]
FAREWELL WAR-DANCE OF THE INDIANS.
EARLY in 1833 Indians to the number of five thousand or more, assembled at Chicago, around the fort, the village, the rivers and the portage, to treat for the sale of their entire remaining possessions in Illinois and Wisconsin. John Joseph Latrobe, in his "Rambles in North America," gives the following realistic sketch of the state of things hereabouts just sixty years ago: