Early History of Waupaca, Wisconsin

              64 THE  INDIAN CHILlL
l)ack that night, but it was coltl, and I asktal Mr Partridge to keci> them tliat night, and bring them over lo my house next morning; he did SO; he, himself^ then requoted me lo ask the Indian if ?lie wouh^ sell the child; I said I had done so f>nce, and he dul nf)t insist; 1 am sufficiently acquainletl wiih the chiltl tokntiw that il is the Indian's; it has always been claimed by her; I know positively, il is the same cliild 1 knew in 1848.
Sho nah-a-nee (Catholic) called—(Air. Win. Johnson was here sworn as interpreler for the Indians.) Am acquainted wilh the Indian woman who claims this child ;. she \^ my child, or my brother's, Avhich is the same thing; I amchief of the band tv) whicli siie belongs; iiave known the bfiy since he was born—was born at Lake Poygan, she has lived with me since that lime; he is going on eight; the band, woman aiul child have lived in AVinneconne since its birth; I have no doubt it IS her child, why should I doubt it; do not remember children of like age with this are in my b:ind ; I am not blind, tht^ woman is my child, of course I can see her—have seen her nearly every day since the child was born; the mother made sugar, spring before last at Poygan, on the ludian, or west side of Wolf River, about tvvenly-one miles from Rat River; the woman and child were on the west side f>f AVolf River, at Pt)ygan, Ihe entire time of spring before last; she did not make sugar at any t>ther place that spring. O-ali-ka- hali is the child's name; il is a name after tht; thunder; Ihc marl..:, on tlie corners ol his moutli were made by small-pox; the marks on his breast by another disease, and that on his fof)t by the cut of a knife.:: no fither scars on the child: Pi-ah-wa-lah, ils father, a full blooded Indian, is dead; Nah-kom, is a full blf)f)dcd Menomf)nee; the fat Ihu was sick with consumption, at Payment; died in the winter; al the next Payment, at Pfiygan, the diild was born ; Nahkom has hatl no fdiildren die; the child was sick but a short lime, with small pox; I know it was that disease because I saw it, and had it the same time; 1 cannot talk English ; Ihe child is too yoa n g to talk il—at his age he could not learn to talk it so quick: he is my grand-child : I saw him wlien his fool wa'J cut; have liad him in my arms and kissed him; why should I not know my grand-child^
W. T. W^ebster called—Have been acquainted wilh this v.'oman  aud child since 1845; she lived at Pf.ygan aud Wiunccounc;  have  known