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Conspiracy of Pontiac
The Seige of Detriot
They met their father, and the Blackbird, who was Pontiac's principal aide-de-camp, commenced a speech, holding in his hand the speech bag, from which he was about to draw a belt of white wampum, when LaButte stepped up to him, seized the bag, drew forth a war belt, painted red, and on the spot accused him of his treacherous designs. The Indians denied the assertion, but they were immediately escorted to the gate by a guard, and dismissed. At the gates the chiefs met their warriors and having consulted a few minutes they rushed back on the common to the house of an old woman who made butter and cheese, and they massacred the whole family.
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