PUBLICATIONS OF THE BUFFALO HISTORICAL SOCIETY VOLUME VI EDITED BY FRANK H. SEVERANCE SECRETARY OF THE SOCIETY BUFFALO, NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY THE BUFFALO HISTORICAL SOCIETY The Mayor of Buffalo, the Corporation Counsel, the Comptroller, Superintendent of Education, President of the Board of Park Commissioners, and President of the Common Council, are also ex-officio members of the Board of Managers of the Buffalo Historical Society. Succeeds George W. Townsend, died Oct. 24, 1902. † Succeeds Hon. Wilson S. Bissell, died Oct. 6, 1903. M38261 spent. The last rays of the setting sun have cast their light upon the gaudy feathers of their head-dresses, upon their bright necklaces and their buckskin suits. The ancient music is hushed; the tam-tams and the rattles are no more heard. The laughter of the children does not ring through the silent forest; the voices of the wild animals do not resound. The howl of the wolf, the hoot of the owl, the croaking of the frog in the swamp and the tree-toad among the leaves, the call of the squirrel-all these native voices that the Indian so well loved, all are still, they are part of the silent past. No more is there a Keeper of the Wampum, for the Confederacy of the Great League is broken; the council fires are kindled no more; the runners have delivered their last message. The only traces of them left are what Mother Earth revealeth. Here, at the Western Door, and on the banks of the Sken-dyuhgwa-dih, the people of the Great League gave up their worldly customs to join their now spiritual forefathers. It is to their memoryto the memory of the HO-DE-NOH-SAU-NEE-that the tablet is en |