Young folks' history of the United States . y descending the Mississippi River toOur limited its mouth. But wc know neither whence they came norof them. ^^ whither they went. Very few human bones have beenfound among the mounds; and those found had almostcrumbled into dust. We only know that the Mound-Builders came, and built wonderful works, and thenmade way for another race, of whose origin we knowalmost as little. CHAPTER 111 THE AMERICAN INDIANS. WHEN the first European explorers visited the Appear-Atlantic coast of North America, they found ^^^it occupied byroving tribes ofmen very unlike
Young folks' history of the United States . y descending the Mississippi River toOur limited its mouth. But wc know neither whence they came norof them. ^^ whither they went. Very few human bones have beenfound among the mounds; and those found had almostcrumbled into dust. We only know that the Mound-Builders came, and built wonderful works, and thenmade way for another race, of whose origin we knowalmost as little. CHAPTER 111 THE AMERICAN INDIANS. WHEN the first European explorers visited the Appear-Atlantic coast of North America, they found ^^^it occupied byroving tribes ofmen very unlikeEuropeans inaspect. Theywere of a cop-per-color, withhigh cheek-bones, smallblack eyes, andstraight blackhair. Theycalled them-selves by vari-ous names indifferent parts of the country, such as Mohegans, Pequots, Massachu- Namee ofsetts, Narragansetts, Hurons, and Wampanoags. But *^^^they almost all belonged to two great families, the Al-gonquins and the Iroquois; these last being commonlycalled the Six Nations. The Europeans named them 13. INDIAN WIGWAMS. 14 YOUNG FOLKS UNITED STATES. all Indians/ because all the first explorers supposedthat North America was only the eastern part of India. Manner of Thcse tribcs of nativcs differed very much in somerespects as to their mode of life. Some were warlike,others peaceful. Some lived only by hunting, othershad fields of waving corn, and raised also beans, pump-kins, tobacco, American hemp, and sunflowers, — these Dwellings, last for the oil in the seeds. Some had only little tentsof skin or bark, called wigwams ; others built perma-nent villages, with streets, and rows of houses. Thesehouses were sometimes thirty feet high, and two hun-dred and forty feet long, and contained as many astwenty families. They were built of bark, supportedby wooden posts; they had a slit, about a foot wide,the whole length of the roof, to let the light in, and thesmoke out. The fires were built on the ground, in arow, under the long opening. Roying^d
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