| My name is Luksi Humma, I am Choctaw or, | | | | partners in this region, for many years.Log |
| Chahta, our name in reality. I am a builder | | | | Cabins were abundant in the Village of |
| of people and log cabins. Although, I live in | | | | Kethtipikanuck, about 120 log structures as |
| our present time, I talk to many people who | | | | some writers saw it. Shake roof shingles |
| come to Historic Prophetstown, in Battle | | | | adorned the cabins, of those lucky folks who |
| Ground, Indiana, about the way the Old Ones | | | | knew how to, and, had the man power to build |
| lived, and died.Misconceptions, are a part of | | | | these brutish structures. Forged from the |
| most Americans ideal in regards to Native | | | | wilderness, these people were powerful and |
| American People. It is my job to inform the | | | | relentless in their will to make life come |
| uninformed, about the Love, Respect, Honor, | | | | forth, from a forboding entity, that the |
| and Dignity the American Indians had for | | | | wilderness posed. This was, after all, the |
| their Families, Lives and the Land.How did | | | | Northwest Territories. The end of the |
| the People live along the Wabash? They lived | | | | continent for most people who struck out on |
| well, commerce continued to flow throughout | | | | their own.This wonderous village had many |
| the region as our People | | | | Wigwams, smoke filling the air on the flats |
| | | | at the mouth of that river. Trade items |
| moved forward into an age that would | | | | coming in, and leaving, in boats of every |
| eventually swallow them up, swirling them | | | | description, dugouts, birchbark, heavy river |
| into the Great Melting Pot of these United | | | | tugs. One should try to imagine this |
| States. This motion inexorably changed the | | | | commerce, it is pleasing to see it in the |
| Ways of our People, both, in their thought | | | | mind.Eleven years of good life came to an |
| processess, and in their Hearts.The Europeans | | | | end, as the wood of their cabins and wigwams |
| who lived with the Indian People would change | | | | lost their battle with the crucible of fire, |
| significantly, daily movements, personal | | | | which the American Army brought with them, to |
| contacts, language, lifestyles and much more. | | | | eradicate their way of life forever.This is |
| Pressures of being humans, finding a much | | | | but the beginning of their story, I will |
| easier way to cook, kill, stay warm, | | | | write more of this facinating historical |
| communicate, | | | | drama, played out on the banks of the Wabash. |
| | | | Prophetstown, looming in the future awaits |
| travel and live, ate away at the Traditions | | | | the telling of its story in another time, but |
| of ten thousand generations.Robust in their | | | | now I am tired and must rest.Luksi Humma |
| spirits, Native People adapted rapidly, and | | | | messenger of the People.I am a humble teacher |
| found value in their trapping of Beaver, and | | | | of Indian People, travelling to bring the |
| other furbearing animals. Trading these | | | | Ways of our Ancestors to those who can least |
| hides, for durable goods, gave the Indian | | | | afford it, and desire it the most. My hands |
| People an opportunity to live more | | | | and mind belong to the People who came before |
| comfortably, amidst the French, English, and | | | | us, and it is they whom I serve. |
| some Americans, who became their trading | | | | |