. A history of the United States of America, its people, and its institutions. great new continent which lay in the vast seas consequence, it is often spoken of as the New World. 2. THE INDIANS, THEIR CHARACTERISTICS AND CUSTOMS. The Red Men.—It is common to speak of the discoveryof America, but by this we mean only its discovery by the civilized people of Europe. It hadbeen discovered, or at least peopled, bymen long before, no one knows howlong, nor whence these people named them Indians,thinking them to be inhabitants ofIndia, in Asia. They are also fre-quently call
. A history of the United States of America, its people, and its institutions. great new continent which lay in the vast seas consequence, it is often spoken of as the New World. 2. THE INDIANS, THEIR CHARACTERISTICS AND CUSTOMS. The Red Men.—It is common to speak of the discoveryof America, but by this we mean only its discovery by the civilized people of Europe. It hadbeen discovered, or at least peopled, bymen long before, no one knows howlong, nor whence these people named them Indians,thinking them to be inhabitants ofIndia, in Asia. They are also fre-quently called red men, for they,were of a reddish or cinnamon had coarse hair, black andstraight, small black eyes, and butlittle beard. Their cheek-bones werehigh and their noses prominent. In these and other re-spects they differed from the people of Europe. Character of the Red Men.—The Indians occupied thewhole of North and South America. They were not allalike in appearance, and they differed greatly in customsand degree of development. The island people first seen. Indian Chief. * The captain of this vessel was rewarded by the King of Spain witha coat of arms, on which was represented a globe with the motto, You first sailed round me. THE INDIANS, CHARACTERISTICS AND CUSTOMS. 29 by Columbus were gentle and peaceful. This was not thecase with those on the mainland, most of whom werefierce and warlike. Many of them were in the savagestate; that is, they had only a few rude arts and littleorganization. Others were in what is known as the barba-rian state, while still others, like those of Mexico and Peru,had some degree of civihzation, and possessed many artsand industries. The Savage and Barbarian Indians.—The savage In-dians lived almost entirely by hunting and fishing, and hadno fixed places of habitation, but roamedfrom place to place with their tent-shapedwigwams or other simple dwellings. Theyhad few utensils and little or no who dwelt in the ea
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