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Title: Advanced Geography
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Alexis Everett Frye
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Publisher: Ginn & Company
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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The number of people in the black race is about 150,000,000,—one tenth of the people on the earth. oth Kaffir Girl. THE AMERICAN OR RED RACE. /<8e 86. The American or Red Race. This group is made up of Indians,—the native tribesof America. Most of the Indians have high cheek-bones and straightblack hair. Their skin is reddish-brown or copper color. 101 See col- The Indiansstreaks of brightAmerica calledwhite men pale- often paint their faces and bodies inred, and the early white settlers in Norththem red men. The Indians called thefaces. At one time the red-brown savagesroamed over nearly all parts of theUnited States, but most of them were
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in the eastern half of thecountry, where game wasabundant and where corncould easily be raised. Thewomen planted gardens ofcorn, and the men spenttheir time hunting deer,bison and other animals. The Indian taught theearly white settler how tomake soft shoes of deer-skin, and canoes of birch bark. From the savage thewhite man learned also how to make Indian corn grow in a forest.Rings of bark were cut from the trunks of the trees, or the barkwas burned off, so that the sap could not flow. The trees soondied, and the corn could then ripen in the hot sunshine. It is thought that about 250,000 Indians lived in this countrywhen the first white settlers came to its shores. The number nowremains about the same, with perhaps a slight increase. Nearly- all the Indians in the United States, are nowupon reservations. These are large tracls of land setapart as homes for the tribes. Only a few small tribesdwell east of the Mississippi j river. The most thrifty tribes are now living in the Indian T

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