. A history of the United States . bes were more civilized and built more substantialdwellings. As the Indian men disdained to work, nearly allthe manual labor fell upon the women. It is possible that this condition of the hunter stage re-maining so long unchanged was due in a great degree to theabsence of native animals which could be domesticated, aswas remarkably the case in the Mississippi valley and on theAtlantic slope. The turkey is the only domestic animalNorth America has furnished ; for though the horse existedat one time in America, it was not known to the Indian. Farther to the sou
. A history of the United States . bes were more civilized and built more substantialdwellings. As the Indian men disdained to work, nearly allthe manual labor fell upon the women. It is possible that this condition of the hunter stage re-maining so long unchanged was due in a great degree to theabsence of native animals which could be domesticated, aswas remarkably the case in the Mississippi valley and on theAtlantic slope. The turkey is the only domestic animalNorth America has furnished ; for though the horse existedat one time in America, it was not known to the Indian. Farther to the south, on the borders of Mexico and withinits bounds, and also in Central America, there were menshowing a considerable degree of civilization, but with them THE INDIANS. 3 the Indian of the central portions of the continent seems tohave had little if any intercourse. In Ohio and in some of the western states many remainsin the form of mounds and enclosures have been found, andthe implements and ornaments discovered in these have led. AN INDIAN VILLAGE. some to believe that a race superior to the Indians inhabitedthis continent centuries before its discovery by Europeans;but recent investigations show that the Mound Builders, asthey have been called, were probably Indians. 2. The Indians. (1492.) —At the time of the discovery ofthe continent, the present territory of the United States was 4 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. occupied by a race which has been divided into four principalgroups based upon language: — (1) The Algonkins, the most numerous, who held thelarger part of the country from South Carolina and Tennesseeto the Great Lakes, and from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mis-sissippi River. They were very rude and warlike. (2) The Iroquois, who were chiefly found in what is nowcentral and western New York and in North Carolina. Thosein New York were the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayu-gas, and Senecas, and were known by the name of the FiveNations. When those who lived in No
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