Chapter 12The Story of Yourowquains:
Return to August, 1792
“The first thing I can remember as a child was a big festival. There was a long line of people, women and children, with sticks, and clubs. The white people were being made to run between the lines and they would be beaten. Some fell to the ground; others made it through.”
“I had to run the gauntlet myself when I was captured at 14,” Hicks added, “but I didn’t think of it as torture. Instead I felt it showed I had made myself worthy to join the Wyandots.”
“When it was my time to run, a woman came forth and put her hands on me, and pulled me back. I later learned it was Ronyouquains, Chief Tarhe’s wife. She could choose who did not have to run the gauntlet. I was then taken into their lodge and raised as their own. I was
