History of the United States . f agricultural implement of the Indian was a hoe madeof sharpened stone; this was left almost wholly to the women towield, as the warriors considered manual labor degrading. Thelatter, on the hunting trail or the war path, werearmed with rude stone hatchets or tomahawks,with which they brained their foes, or their vic-tims, as the case may have been. They also usedsharp pointed stones as arrow heads. In timethey learned to use the white mans firearms andother weapons. The religion of the Indian was very believed in a heaven, which he called the Happy Hu
History of the United States . f agricultural implement of the Indian was a hoe madeof sharpened stone; this was left almost wholly to the women towield, as the warriors considered manual labor degrading. Thelatter, on the hunting trail or the war path, werearmed with rude stone hatchets or tomahawks,with which they brained their foes, or their vic-tims, as the case may have been. They also usedsharp pointed stones as arrow heads. In timethey learned to use the white mans firearms andother weapons. The religion of the Indian was very believed in a heaven, which he called the Happy Hunting Ground, to which the spirits of all Indians would go after death. This heaven was not unlike theearth, but was free from its ills and pain. On earth he scalped hisfoes, with the hope that Indians so treated would not be receivedin the Happy Hunting Ground. On the same principle, he wouldrisk his life to preserve the scalp of a slain friend or chief. Gen-erally faithful to tribe, friend, or chief, he was terribly cruel to.
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