A history of the United States . nt of civilization were theCherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, and Seminoles.^ West of the Mississippi ranged thewandering Dakotahs or Sioux,fierce fighters, whose descend-ants have given trouble downto our own day. Of the infe-rior tribes living in the extremenorth of the continent, we needtake no special account, PRE-COLUMBIAN DISCOV-ERERS. 4. The Northmen. — While Columbus and his followerswere the real discoverers ofAmerica in the sense that theyfirst made it generally knownto Europe, it is practically cer-tain that they were not thefirst Europeans to set foot
A history of the United States . nt of civilization were theCherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, and Seminoles.^ West of the Mississippi ranged thewandering Dakotahs or Sioux,fierce fighters, whose descend-ants have given trouble downto our own day. Of the infe-rior tribes living in the extremenorth of the continent, we needtake no special account, PRE-COLUMBIAN DISCOV-ERERS. 4. The Northmen. — While Columbus and his followerswere the real discoverers ofAmerica in the sense that theyfirst made it generally knownto Europe, it is practically cer-tain that they were not thefirst Europeans to set foot onthe new continent. It is pos-sible that seamen from Franceand England pi-eceded Colum-bus, but there is much betterreason to believe that Scandi-navians from Iceland, havingfirst discovered Greenland,visited the North Americanmainland as early as the year1000. Evidence to this effect is found in the so-calledSagas of the Northmen, poetic chronicles based on traditionand dating from about two centuries after the events which. Cliif Dwkllings on the RioMancos. iSeminoles means wanderers; the tribe was made up of refugeesfrom other tribes, notably from the Creeks. §4] PRE-COLUMBIAN DISCOVERERS. they recorded. According to these stories, navigators weredriven south from Greenland to a strange shore about the year
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