Identifier: historyofuniteds00fran (find matches)
Title: A history of the United States for Catholic schools
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Franciscan Sisters of the Perpetual Adoration (La Crosse, Wis.)
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Publisher: New York, Scott, Foresman and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ilies. The Indians of our country weredivided into several hundred tribes, which were again sub-divided by relationship into clans. Each tribe had for itsname that of some animal. The turtle, bear, and w^olf werespecial favorites. The picture of this animal became theemblem of the tribe and was called totem. The Indian tribes located east of the Mississippi River weredivided into three great families: (a) the Maskokis, or Mobilians, living south of the Tennessee River;(&) the Iroquois, or Six Nations, occupying central New York, parts of North Carolina, and the country north and south of Lake Erie;(c) tlie Algonquins, inhabiting the rest of the territory north of the Ohio River, and also the larger part of Canada. 6. Degrees of Civilization. The early Indians may be dividedinto three grades—savage, barbarous, and semi-civilized. The savage Indians occupied the country west of Hudson Bayand west of the Rocky Mountains as far south as the northern 18 A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
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ibution of Indian the Mississippi ~ THE INDIANS 19 part of Mexico. They did not till the soil, or settle in villages,but lived on fish and game. The barbarous Indians inhabited all of North America southof Hudson Bay and east of the Rocky Mountains. Rudelytilling tlie soil, they raised such plants as maize, or Indiancorn, tobacco, pumpkins, squashes, beans, tomatoes, and sun-flowers. They settled in villages consisting of houses of barkor sunburnt clay and movable tepees. (See page 16.) Theycomprised chiefly the three great families living east of theMississippi River. These Indians played a conspicuous part in the history ofthe United States, for with them our people flrst came into con-tact, and with them they had first to fight. The semi-civilized Indians lived chiefly in the mountainouscountry from New Mexico southward as far as Chili. Theytilled and irrigated the soil and built houses and fortresses fouror five stories high. Their dwellings, frequently grouped invillages, were ca

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