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Title: Indian history for young folks
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel), 1828-1885 Dowd, Francis Joseph, 1876-
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America -- Wars
Publisher: New York London : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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SNOW-SHOE. The bark of the tree was stripped off whole and stretched over a light,white cedar frame. The edges were sewed with thongs, and then coveredwith gum. They varied in pattern, drew little water, and were oftengraceful in shape. The Iroquois used elm-bark, the Algonkins birch.The Pacific tribes made baskets, some of which were so skilfully wovenas to hold water. WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE AMERICAN INDIAN. 25 In bunting, the bow and arrow, and sometimes the dart or spear, wereused. The smaller animals were trapped. When game was plenty it wassometimes driven into an enclosure and killed. The southern tribes usedthe lasso and stone balls attached to hide ropes. Fish were taken in nets,and with bone hooks, or speared. Though the Indian believed his own way of life superior to all others,and in accordance with the design of the Great Spirit, and detested civil-ization, he has been unable to resist its progress. The gun has taken the
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CAN7OE AND HOUSE OF SOlTHEUN INDIANS. place of the bow and arrow, and his rude arts and implements have grad-ually been replaced by those of greater utility and simplicity. The print-ing-press is already employed by the Cherokees, who publish a newspaperin their own language at Tahlequah; another is issued at Caddo, in theCreek nation, in the Creek or Choctaw tongue. The plough is in verygeneral use among the tribes. Having no alphabet, the aborigines conveyed their ideas to the eye bymeans of rude pictures of visible objects engraved upon smooth stones or 26 INDIAN HISTORY FOR YOUNG FOLKS. the bark of trees, and sometimes drawn on the skins of animals. Theirrecords of treaties were kept by strings or belts of wampum made of shellsand beads, which was also in use as money. These beads were commonlyused for ornament. Ten thousand of them have been known to bewrouglir into a single war-belt four inches wide. The accompanying sketch was copied from a tree on the banks of theMuskingum Riv

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