Stories of pioneer life, for young readers; . INDIAN WEAPONS. Our Land—Present and Past. II In winter the Indian sometimes wore snow-shoes when he went hunting. These held himup on the soft snow so thathe could run many miles ina day. He could easily bringdown a deer, for it could notrun so fast, as its feet sankinto the snow. When the Indians couldnot catch game or fish,there were often days whenthey had very little to did not know how tokeep food, and to providefor all times, as we do. You see why the Indiansroamed about. They could not always find gamein one place. They must go whe
Stories of pioneer life, for young readers; . INDIAN WEAPONS. Our Land—Present and Past. II In winter the Indian sometimes wore snow-shoes when he went hunting. These held himup on the soft snow so thathe could run many miles ina day. He could easily bringdown a deer, for it could notrun so fast, as its feet sankinto the snow. When the Indians couldnot catch game or fish,there were often days whenthey had very little to did not know how tokeep food, and to providefor all times, as we do. You see why the Indiansroamed about. They could not always find gamein one place. They must go where it could befound. No one Indian owned a certain amount of theland as your fathers do. A great part of thecountry belonged to a tribe of Indians, and theyroamed over it as they pleased. No one could buyor sell any of it, but all might hunt or camp on it. Some parts of the country seemed to belong tono one tribe. As many different tribes huntedthere, bloody battles were often fought. INDIAN WITH SNOW-SHOES. 12 Stories of Pioneer Life. You can see why the Indians did not want thewhite man to come into this country to live. The white man took the land for his game was soon killed off, and the Indian losthis hunting ground. The Coming of the White Man. I. INDIANS AND THE WHITE MAN. Do you wonder how the Indians felt whenthey first saw white men ? Here is a story tell-ing of some Indians who had never before seenor heard of a white man. Several Indians were one day going throughthe woods, when they came to some trees thatwere cut in a strange way. At first they thoughtit must be the work of beavers, but they saw thatthis could not be so, for the chips were too large. A beaver could not open his mouth wideenough to cut such big chips. At last they said, Some great under-water animal must have doneit. They saw a place where a tree trunk had beencut down and dragged away. They followed thispath or trail, and soon found footprints of ananimal. The footprints did n
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