A first book in American history with European beginnings . bow and arrow. The little girlslearned such housework as the Indiansthought necessary and helped their moth-ers in the garden. Among some of the Indian tribes thewomen held a high place and were oftenconsulted in matters of war and of the Indian women were kind andgentle, but the men were usually very cruel. An Indian warriors bravery was judgedby the number of human scalps that hungfrom his belt. This prize trophy was cutfrom the head of each victim, sometimeseven before he was dead. Because of thiscustom of cutting off sc
A first book in American history with European beginnings . bow and arrow. The little girlslearned such housework as the Indiansthought necessary and helped their moth-ers in the garden. Among some of the Indian tribes thewomen held a high place and were oftenconsulted in matters of war and of the Indian women were kind andgentle, but the men were usually very cruel. An Indian warriors bravery was judgedby the number of human scalps that hungfrom his belt. This prize trophy was cutfrom the head of each victim, sometimeseven before he was dead. Because of thiscustom of cutting off scalps, the Indianwarriors adopted a strange way of wearingtheir hair. Most likely it was partly to show that theydid not fear death and partly as a challenge to their ene-mies to come and take their scalps if they could. Be thatas it may, an Indian warrior had his hair cut short excepton the top of his head. Here grew one long lock—thescalp lock. If an enemy was taken alive, he could be pretty surethat sooner or later he must die by torture. His only 97. Calumet, or Indian Peace Pipe. A FIRST BOOK IN AMERICAN HISTORY Indian WarClub. hope was that some member of his captorstribe might ask that his life be spared. Ifthis should happen, the prisoner would beadopted as a member of the victorioustribe. A favorite method of putting a prisonerto death was by burning him alive. He wastied to a stump, and fagots were piled aroundhim and set on fire. The delight of the In-dians at this awfui sight was often so greatthat they would dance and howl like fiendsaround the poor victim. The war implements of the Indians weretomahawks, bows and arrows, and war tomahawk looked much like a hatchet,but was made of stone. Later when theIndian saw the white mans weapons, hewanted to obtain them. For a long time gunpowder wasa mystery to the savages. They thought that it grewfrom the ground. One of the Indian tribes sowed somein the spring, hoping that by autumn theywould have a fine harves
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