A history of the United States for schools . §2- ANCIENT AMERICA. 2. The Savage Indians. Some of these Indians weremuch more savage than others. There were threeprincipal divisions among them: (i) savage, (2) bar-barous, and (3) half-civilized. In North America thesavage Indians lived to the west of Hudson Bay, and. SAVAGE INDIANS.! southwardly between the Rocky Mountains and thePacific coast, as far as the northern parts of Athabaskans, the Bannocks, and the Apaches were,and are, specimens of savage Indians. They had littleor no agriculture, but lived by catching fish or shootingbi


A history of the United States for schools . §2- ANCIENT AMERICA. 2. The Savage Indians. Some of these Indians weremuch more savage than others. There were threeprincipal divisions among them: (i) savage, (2) bar-barous, and (3) half-civilized. In North America thesavage Indians lived to the west of Hudson Bay, and. SAVAGE INDIANS.! southwardly between the Rocky Mountains and thePacific coast, as far as the northern parts of Athabaskans, the Bannocks, and the Apaches were,and are, specimens of savage Indians. They had littleor no agriculture, but lived by catching fish or shootingbirds or such game as antelopes and buffaloes. Theywere not settled in villages, but moved about from placeto place with very rude tent-like wigwams. They woveexcellent baskets, but did not bake pottery. 1 From Longfellows Hiawatha, illustrated by Frederic Remington, INTRODUCTORY. Ch. r. 3. The Barbarous Indians. All of NorthAmerica east of theRocky Mountains wasinhabited by the bar-barous Indians, whohad found out how toscratch the soil with astone hoe and raisecertain vegetables, soas not to be whollydependent upon hunt-ing and fishing. Go-ing eastward out of AREAS OF THE THREE GRADES OF INDIANS ^^^ raUgC 01 tnC DUI- IN NORTH AMERICA. f^j^ ^crds, onc would see more and more agricultural life. The most impor-


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