Identifier: indianhistoryfor00drak (find matches)
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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ber that, like them, our British ancestors were savages,who painted their bodies, clothed themselves in the skins of wild beasts,and lived in rude huts in a country covered with forests and swamps. The folly and wickedness of most of our Indian wars is only too apparent when we reflect that the injury the Indian could inflict upon theinnocent settlers on our border was many times greater than we couldpossibly inflict upon him, and that simple justice and honesty in our deal-ings with him would have prevented them altogether. It was a blunder—the first of a long series in our dealings with them—to call the natives Indians. On discovering America, Columbus sup-posed he had reached India, the object of his voyage. Indeed, the greatnavigator died in ignorance of the fact that he had discovered a new con-tinent. To this day the lands he first saw are known as the West Indies. It is supposed that this country was inhabited by an earlier race of WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE AMERICAN INDIAN. 15
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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. men called Mound Builders from the earthworks of various forms andsizes found in the valley of the Mississippi and elsewhere. In Wisconsin many of these mounds are in the form of giganticanimals. The builders must have been familiar with the mastodon, orelephant, judging from the Big Elephant mound found a few milesbelow the mouth of the Wisconsin River. It is 135 feet long, and wellproportioned. One in Adams County, Ohio, represents a serpent 1000 16 INDIAN HISTORY FOR YOUNG FOLKS. feet long, its body gracefully curved, and its open jaws about to swallowa figure shaped like an egg. The great mound of Cahokia, opposite St. Louis, is 90 feet in heightand 700 feet in length. Unity of design and mathematical precision ofconstruction appear in all those works, most of which arc of a defensivecharacter, and in which arc represented the square, the circle, the octagon,and the rhomb. They have gate-ways, parallel lines, and outlooks; and it-is evident that they are the

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