Stories of pioneer life, for young readers; . as set slanting in the ground. The polepointed in the direction in which the party hadgone. Three notches were cut in it to show thatthe party would travel for three days. The letter itself tells of their three camp-firesof the night before, and of the prairie hen and lO Stories of Pioneer Life. turtle that they had cooked. The men without hats are Indian guides, and the others are white men. Would not that seem to us a queer way to write a Sometimes such writing was put upon rocks or skins of ani-mals. An Indian wrote akind of history in
Stories of pioneer life, for young readers; . as set slanting in the ground. The polepointed in the direction in which the party hadgone. Three notches were cut in it to show thatthe party would travel for three days. The letter itself tells of their three camp-firesof the night before, and of the prairie hen and lO Stories of Pioneer Life. turtle that they had cooked. The men without hats are Indian guides, and the others are white men. Would not that seem to us a queer way to write a Sometimes such writing was put upon rocks or skins of ani-mals. An Indian wrote akind of history in this picture was made toshow something that hap-pened each year. I am sure that we shouldnot like such books andletters so well as we doour own. V. HUNTING. Indians spent much timein fishing and did not hunt for sport,but because they neededthe animals for food andtheir skins for clothing. Itwas sometimes hard to se-cure the game, for before the white man camethe Indians had only clubs and bows and arrowsto use in INDIAN WEAPONS. Our Land—Present and Past. II In winter the Indian sometimes wore snow-shoes when he went hunting. These held himup on the soft snow so thathe could run many miles ina day. He could easily bringdown a deer, for it could notrun so fast, as its feet sankinto the snow. When the Indians couldnot catch game or fish,there were often days whenthey had very little to did not know how tokeep food, and to providefor all times, as we do. You see why the Indiansroamed about. They could not always find gamein one place. They must go where it could befound. No one Indian owned a certain amount of theland as your fathers do. A great part of thecountry belonged to a tribe of Indians, and theyroamed over it as they pleased. No one could buyor sell any of it, but all might hunt or camp on it. Some parts of the country seemed to belong tono one tribe. As many different tribes huntedthere, bloody battles were often fought
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