A history of the United States of America; its people and its institutions . ked uponas a separate family of language. Its special peculiarity isthat a single word is often equal to a whole sentence inEnglish. An Indian can say in one long word what wemay need ten or twenty short words to express. The Indians of To-day.—The wars of the Indians arenearly or quite at an end. They have been forced to keeppeace, and most of them have been settled on tracts of landcalled reservations, where they are looked after and tosome extent fed by the whites. Others, in the Indian Ter-ritory, have civilized g
A history of the United States of America; its people and its institutions . ked uponas a separate family of language. Its special peculiarity isthat a single word is often equal to a whole sentence inEnglish. An Indian can say in one long word what wemay need ten or twenty short words to express. The Indians of To-day.—The wars of the Indians arenearly or quite at an end. They have been forced to keeppeace, and most of them have been settled on tracts of landcalled reservations, where they are looked after and tosome extent fed by the whites. Others, in the Indian Ter-ritory, have civilized governments of their own. They aregradually taking up the habits and industries of civilization,and are increasing in numbers. The Mound-Builders.—Throughout the valley of theOhio and part of that of the Mississippi, and in the Gulf ^ This interesting record, or example of Indian picture-writing, isstill in existence, being among the treasures gathered l)y the HistoricalSociety of Pennsylvania, in whoso rooms it may he seen. THE INDIANS, CHARACTERISTICS AND CUSTOMS. 37. Indian Stone Implemknts. States, have been found traces of the earlier inhabitants ofthis country. Great numbers of mounds or artificial hillsexist in this region. Someof them are only a few feetwide and high, others arevery large. One of them, inIllinois, opposite St. Louis, isninety feet high and coverseight acres of ground. There are many thousands of mounds in Ohio alone, most ofwhich seem to have been used for burial, while others wereprobably fortifications and village enclosures. One en-closure at Newark, Ohio, has over two miles of earth ridgeor embankment, some of it twenty feet high. Some ofthese earth mounds are curious and interesting, as theyrepresent men or animals. One in Ohio represents a ser-pent one thousand feet long. Another is much like theelephant in form. These great images may have indicatedthe totems of tribes, while the very high mounds may havebeen crowned with temples. Contents of
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