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Title: Sadlier's excelsior studies in the history of the United States, for schools
Year: 1907 (1900s)
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Publisher: New York, W. H. Sadlier
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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of the proposed march. cedar, and were then covered with pitch made from the gnm of trees. The largestof these canoes were about 80 ft. long; and each could carry ten or twelve Indians. * The snow-shoe consistetl of a maplewood frame, three or four feet long, curvedand tapering, and filled in with a net-work of deers hide. It was fastened by thongsto the foot, which was thus supported on the- surface of the snow. An Indiancould travel forty miles a day upon snow-sho^s, and could easily overtake the dee/and the moose, whose pointed hoofs cut through the enow crust. AMERICA PREVIOUS TO 1492. D by his Indian guides, on a piece of birch bark, to informtheir comrades that a party of fourteen whites and twoIndians had encamped at that place. 8. Woman was considered by them a degraded being, mfact, a slave. She did all the drudgery, raised the crops andcarried the burdens. Their luomen says Champlain,are their mules Here, as elsewhere, Christianity firstraised woman to her rightful position.
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KOETa ABTEBTCAK rPTDlANS. 9. Their religion was a species of devil-worship. Ftireunmixed devil-worship,^^ says John Gilmary Shea,* ^prevailedthroughout the leiigth and breadth of the land,^ No word inany Indian dialect had an equivalent for the word God. All * Shea* John Gilmai-y (1834-. ), a well-known American author, noted forhis researches into early American history. His best known works are History olthe Catholic Missions amonsj the Indian Iribes of the United States,* Discover*and Exploration of the Mississippi Valley, also a translation of Charlevoix N^Srance.* in ft volumes, vitti copions notes, 6 EXCELSIOR HISTORY.

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