. Stories of pioneer life, for young readers;. INDIAN WOMEN AT WORK. The Indians did not stay in their wigwams aswe do in our houses. They lived out of doorsmost of the time. The forest was their home. Often a whole Indian village would be the Indian women pulled up the wigwams,carried the poles and covering to the new camp-ing place, and set them up again. The Indian woman planted and tended the Stones of Pioneer Life. little patches of beans, corn, and melons. Ofcourse she did all the cooking. She knew howto bake before the fire a rough kind of cornbread,and how to cook corn and b
. Stories of pioneer life, for young readers;. INDIAN WOMEN AT WORK. The Indians did not stay in their wigwams aswe do in our houses. They lived out of doorsmost of the time. The forest was their home. Often a whole Indian village would be the Indian women pulled up the wigwams,carried the poles and covering to the new camp-ing place, and set them up again. The Indian woman planted and tended the Stones of Pioneer Life. little patches of beans, corn, and melons. Ofcourse she did all the cooking. She knew howto bake before the fire a rough kind of cornbread,and how to cook corn and beans. life. rW^:2*m^~ CARRYING THE WIGWAM. She could make soup in a wooden kettle. Shedid this by heating stones very hot and droppingthem into the soup. When these were cool, theywere taken out and more hot ones put in. This Our Land — Present and Past. 7 was done over and over till the meat and soupwere cooked. Besides all this the Indian womanhad to prepare the skins of animals for clothingand then make the clothing. Do you not think that she had much hardwork to do ? Yet she did not wish the Indianman to help her. She thought such work not fitfor him. IV. INDIAN MEN.
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