Maryland; stories of her people and of her history . MONUMENT TO LEONARD CALVERT SITE OF ST. Marys MARYLAND The Indian women came to the houses of the colonistsand taught the English women how to cook hominy andto make corn pone. You must remember that Dick andBetty had never tasted corn bread before. At first theywere not sure they liked it, but two or three mouthfulstaught them how good it was. Cecilius Calvert, Lord Baltimore, it was who had sentthis company of settlers to the New World. We shalllearn something more about him in another story. TheKing of England had given him the country, w
Maryland; stories of her people and of her history . MONUMENT TO LEONARD CALVERT SITE OF ST. Marys MARYLAND The Indian women came to the houses of the colonistsand taught the English women how to cook hominy andto make corn pone. You must remember that Dick andBetty had never tasted corn bread before. At first theywere not sure they liked it, but two or three mouthfulstaught them how good it was. Cecilius Calvert, Lord Baltimore, it was who had sentthis company of settlers to the New World. We shalllearn something more about him in another story. TheKing of England had given him the country, which henamed Maryland after the Queen, for his own, to settleand to rule over, and if you would see how he succeededyou need only look around you. The State of Maryland with its fisheries, its farms, itsmines and railroads and ships, with its thriving townsand beautiful cities, and with its more than a millioninhabitants, has all grown from that first little settlementmade nearly three hundred years 28 II THE INDIANS IF a canoe full of Indians had paddled across theAtlan-tic Ocean three hundred years ago they would havefound different peoples on the various parts of thecoast of Europe. To the north they would have foundDutchmen. To the south of these were the still farther south w^ere the Spaniards. Just so the settlers who sailed then to the eastern coastof North America found three great stocks or families ofIndians there. They were called the Algonquins, theMuscogees and the Iroquois. Each of these families wasdivided up into tribes having many different tribes were divided into clans. The clans were often named after some animal. Therewas the Wolf clan, the Turtle clan, and the clan of theEagle. The picture of this animal was called a totem,and was a sort of coat-of-arms of the clan. The Indiansof a clan thought that they were all descended from theirparticular animal. , They believed that, ages before, aturtle or an eagle had been the animal from
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