. The Indians' secrets of health : or, What the white race may learn from the Indian . ile, and animal. He knoWS all the signs of theweather. He is a past-master in woodcraft, andknows more of the habits of plants and animal lifethan all of our trained naturalists put together. Heis a poet, too, withal, and an orator, using the knowl-edge he has of nature in his thought and sj^eech. Nowriter that ever lived knew the real Indian so well as 68 THE INDIAN AND OUT-OF-DOOR LIFE Fenimore Cooper, and we all know the dignifiedand poetical speech of his Indian characters. I knowscores and hundreds of d
. The Indians' secrets of health : or, What the white race may learn from the Indian . ile, and animal. He knoWS all the signs of theweather. He is a past-master in woodcraft, andknows more of the habits of plants and animal lifethan all of our trained naturalists put together. Heis a poet, too, withal, and an orator, using the knowl-edge he has of nature in his thought and sj^eech. Nowriter that ever lived knew the real Indian so well as 68 THE INDIAN AND OUT-OF-DOOR LIFE Fenimore Cooper, and we all know the dignifiedand poetical speech of his Indian characters. I knowscores and hundreds of dusky-skinned Henry and John Burroughses, John Muirs andElizabeth Grinnells and Olive Thorne Millers. Indeed,to get an Indian once started upon his lore of plant,tree, insect, bird, or animal, is to open up a flood-gatewhich will deluge any but the one who knows what toexpect. 69 CHArTER VTHE INDIAN AND SLEEPING OUT OF DOORS S I have already intimated, the Indian is practically an oiit-of-door sleeper. I say practically,for there are exceptions to the general rule. The A^. .Cz TERRACED HOUSES OF THE HOPIS, ALLOWING SLEEPING OUT OF DOORS. Hopis of northern Arizona have houses. In thecold winter months they sleep indoors wheneverthey can. The Navahos, Apaches, Havasupais, andother tribes have their hogans and hawas in 7C INDIAN AND SLEEPING OUT OF DOORS which they sleep in the very cold weather. But inthe summer the invariable rule is for all to sleep outof doors. And even in the winter, if duty calls themaway from home and they have to camp out, theysleep in the cold, on the snow, in the rain, as uncon-cerned for their health as if they were well protectedindoors. It is this latter feature that so much com-mends itself to me. It is just as natural to them tohave to sleep out of doors as it is to sleep think no more of it, do not regard it as an un-usual and dangerous experience, or one to be accept it without a murmur or complaint, andwithout
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