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The first man and woman were new; also the family saved in the ark were new. The rid people therefore are the real people, as their names, yuwiya, indicate. They had once a great ancestor who had twelve sons, from whom came the twelve tribes, or great families. Nutsawi. Long ago the Indians travelled through a great distance. When they came to a great water, (or after they crossed, he is not certain which) they divided a part went to the North & a part rather to the South. Those who went to the North settled in two towns called Ka mo was gi & Nu ta gi. These were called Matugi kayu li, i e. the old town, because they took the lead in their journey, and were considered as the grandfathers of all the other Indians The name of this tribe is A quu ni ku, (supposed to be the the same as the Delawares). Nettle & Thomas Smith All the Indians came from