. History of Missouri in words of one syllable . ve them all of good in life. But there was no sin in the fun they had. Oldand young just put on some odd style of dress tomake folks laugh, then they went from house tohouse to sing and dance. This was the Guig-no-lee,or good-cheer sport for the New Year. CHAPTER HI. THE RED MEN AND THE MOUND-BUILDERS. You must not think that these first French folkshad things all their own way when they came Red man had his home North, South, East,and West; so the white man found him here as well. Just bear this fact in mind, that the Red mandid not ma
. History of Missouri in words of one syllable . ve them all of good in life. But there was no sin in the fun they had. Oldand young just put on some odd style of dress tomake folks laugh, then they went from house tohouse to sing and dance. This was the Guig-no-lee,or good-cheer sport for the New Year. CHAPTER HI. THE RED MEN AND THE MOUND-BUILDERS. You must not think that these first French folkshad things all their own way when they came Red man had his home North, South, East,and West; so the white man found him here as well. Just bear this fact in mind, that the Red mandid not make war on the whites till the tricks andfalse ways of the whites put them on their guard,and taught them they must fight and act if they didnot wish to see the whites spread step by step, robthem of their game, and at last drive them fromtheir own soil. The Red Men and the Monnd-biiildejs. zz But the French were good friends to the tribesthey found here, and the time came when their kindacts to these tried souls brouo^ht them aid in times ^^^^^. CEN-TRAL HIGH SCHOOL, ST. LOU-ISo when harm would have come to the whites but for these In-dians, who gave good deeds for good deeds. A tribe known as Cha-wa-nous, who had their 34 History of JMissoiiri. towns here, were more like white men in their modeof hfe than most of the Red men in this land. They did not live in wig-wams, but in big hutsmade of logs, and built so that storms could not beatthrough. They knew of the art of self help in case of warwith bad tribes that at tmies came to break in on
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