A young people's history of Virginia and Virginians .. . ians.—The settlers at Jamestown, as did thoseat Roanoke and elsewhere in the New World, found the countryinhabit-ed by arace very ^M^ %M j^^ ^^f<<^ different from anyof , thepeople ofthe OldWorld. This race Columbus hadcalled Indians, because he supposed theland he had discovered was a part of theEast Indies, and by this name they haveever since been Origin of the Indians.—How they gothere, or when, or w^hence they came, nobody^ ^- f knows; their origin is, and probably foreverIf y will be, unknown, for they had no writte
A young people's history of Virginia and Virginians .. . ians.—The settlers at Jamestown, as did thoseat Roanoke and elsewhere in the New World, found the countryinhabit-ed by arace very ^M^ %M j^^ ^^f<<^ different from anyof , thepeople ofthe OldWorld. This race Columbus hadcalled Indians, because he supposed theland he had discovered was a part of theEast Indies, and by this name they haveever since been Origin of the Indians.—How they gothere, or when, or w^hence they came, nobody^ ^- f knows; their origin is, and probably foreverIf y will be, unknown, for they had no written his- / ^^ tory, and one of their traditions taught that-they had sprung fromthe earth. Some thinkthey reached America from Eastern Asia, crossing Behr- indian mound in west Straits, where the distance between the continentsis least; but, if so, it must have been many centuriesbefore the coming of the white men; and the Indianmounds found in many parts of the country, out of whichhave been dug pottery, bricks, and many articles of f V. 26 History of Virginia and Virginians. household use unknown to the Indians, show that a racefar more advanced in the arts of civilized life had occupiedthis country hefore them. The Virginia Indians.—The Indians found in Virginiaby the English belonged to the Algonquin family, one ofthe three great families which occupied the vast countrysouth of the Great Lakes and east of the Mississippi River;the others being the Iroquois, on the north, near the GreatLakes, whom the English called the Five Nations (andafterwards, when joined by the Tuscaroras from NorthCarolina, the Six Nations), and the Mobilians or Mas-kokis, near the Gulf of Mexico and on the lower Missis-sippi. These were scattered over the country at wideintervals and were not very numerous, it being nowthought that the number east of the Mississippi did notexceed 200,000. Their Subdivisions.—These families were composed ofclans, every member of which was related by
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