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Have We A King Among Us?

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Parent Issue
Day
3
Month
March
Year
1876
Copyright
Public Domain
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-Harriman, in his addresg before the Pioneer at Ypsilanti, on Wednesday, on "ïodiau Autii$ unies, said: "Our Michigan Inilians had another curious custom, whcn the aon of a chiof or head man died the iather win aocustomed to adopt some persou - sometimes a stranor - to fiü thO vacant place, and I consider it a diity as well as a pleasure to record the fact that the venerable preBident of this society was adopted half a century ago into the family of a Pottawatamie cbief, and given the royal name ot " Mamisno Oenmos," which makes hira the lineal and rightful heir to the throne of the Pottawatftinies."