A history of the United States of America; its people and its institutions . most ofwhich seem to have been used for burial, while others wereprobably fortifications and village enclosures. One en-closure at Newark, Ohio, has over two miles of earth ridgeor embankment, some of it twenty feet high. Some ofthese earth mounds are curious and interesting, as theyrepresent men or animals. One in Ohio represents a ser-pent one thousand feet long. Another is much like theelephant in form. These great images may have indicatedthe totems of tribes, while the very high mounds may havebeen crowned with t
A history of the United States of America; its people and its institutions . most ofwhich seem to have been used for burial, while others wereprobably fortifications and village enclosures. One en-closure at Newark, Ohio, has over two miles of earth ridgeor embankment, some of it twenty feet high. Some ofthese earth mounds are curious and interesting, as theyrepresent men or animals. One in Ohio represents a ser-pent one thousand feet long. Another is much like theelephant in form. These great images may have indicatedthe totems of tribes, while the very high mounds may havebeen crowned with temples. Contents of the Mounds.—More than two thousand ofthe small mounds have been opened and very many relics taken from them. These in-clude tools and weapons ofstone, water-jugs, kettles,carved stone pipes, and manyother objects. Pieces of cop-l)er are found, and this metalseems to have been minednear Lake Superior. It wasnot melted, but was shaped by hammering. Who Were the Mound-Builders ?—It was long supposedthat the Mound-Builders were a separate race, who had. Indian Implements of Shell. 38 DISCOVERY AND INHABITANTS OF AMERICA. been driven out or destroyed by more barbarous tribes. Itis now believed that they were the ancestors of the presentIndians. The Indians of the South, when first known, hadearth mounds still in use, on the larger of which templesand council-houses were built. These Indians had a higherorganization than those of the North, and were governedby a Mico, or head chief, who had almost despotic had a head war chief, a high-priest, and other Natchez tribe, on the Mississippi, were still more ad-vanced. These tribes were probably the descendants ofthe Mound-Builders, who may have been forced southwardby more savage invaders from the north or west. The Pueblo Indians.—The Indians of the Rocky Mountainand Pacific region differed greatly in character from thoseof the East. Some of them, like the Digger Indians of Cali-fornia,
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