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In ancient times, there was a kind of unclear Prophets or Doctors, which was called in the Miami? language Powees. It was their duty or custom to visit the home or lodg of each family in the village every morning at sun rise, and state to them, his opinions reflecting? the course they should unclear during that day.

  Those unclear injured persons, generally act as Doctors, and it is not uncommon for
                     from the body or joint of their patients 

them to extract a ^ a hair ball, or the beard or the whisker of some wild animal, or the whisker or beard of a Panther, ear? or woolf?; (or at heart make their believe so).

   At this period of life, those Doctors are not so numerous as in former years; nor are they so much reflected by the Indians generally, 
   The pursuit unclear Prophet, strike-through brother to the unclear nor chief Tecumseh is the only Indian of the above unclear that is at this day, venerated or reflected by the Indians.