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Title: Indian Biography
Year: 1800 (1800s)
Authors: Thatcher, B.B. (Benjamin Bussy), 1809-1840
Subjects: Indians of North America
Publisher: Philadelphia : Bowen
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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icco was amiable in his family relations, and broughtup his children with care, giving them the best advantages inpoint of education, which the country afforded. His sons werebred to tlie pursuits of civilized men. One of his daughters,named Lotti Yoholo, married a chief of the Eufalo town, and,following the example of her father, gave her children liberaleducations. This chief visited Washington in 1826, as one of the delegatesfrom his nation. He afterwards consented to remove to Arkansas,and fell a victim to the fatigues attending the emigration, in hisfiftieth year, while on his way to the land of promise. His memoryis honored by the Indians, who, in common with all who knew thisexcellent person, speak of him as one of the best of men. The word Micco signifies king or chief, and will be foundforming a part of the names of many of the southern chiefs, whileYoholo, which signifies the possession of royal blood, is an aristo-cratic adjunct to the names of those who are well descended.
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MH^Trinpip)!!)^. ZuA-^Col^&.FuMljshed by J TBowerL,rhUad- MISTirPEE. This is a son of Yoholo Micco, who bears a name, the orimn ofwhich would be discovered with difficulty by the most cunningetymologist; and we are happy to have it in our power to solve aproblem, which might else, at some far distant day, cause aninfinite waste of valuable time and curious learning. The parentsof this youth, having decided on rearing him after the fashions oftheir white neighbors, bestowed upon him the very ancient andrespectable appellation of Benjamin, from which soon arose theusual abbreviation of Ben and Benny, which the young chief boreduring the halcyon days of infancy. To this familiar name,respect for his family soon prefixed the title of Mr.; and, in themouths of the Indians, Mr. Ben soon became Mistiben, and finallyMistippee—the original Benjamin being lost in the superioreuphony of that very harmonious word mister. It is not improbable that the individual who bore this namewhen his po

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