Identifier: storyofmontana00foga_0 (find matches)
Title: The story of Montana
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Fogarty, Kate Hammond, -1936
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Publisher: New York and Chicago, The A. S. Barnes company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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tled life. They still went aboutfrom one place to another, but they were not oftenfar from their home valleys. One long expeditionthey took every year. That was into the Yellowstonefor buffalo. This valley was a long one and was fullof buffalo, so there was plenty of room and game forall the tribes. When a tribe went out on the hunt,practically the whole village went along. The bravesall had to go to hunt and to protect the expedition,the women had to go to prepare the meat and skins,of course they had to take the youngest children, andthat left only the old men and women, and the childrenwho were old enough to be left behind. Sometimesa village would go and return without meeting any 40 THE INDIANS other Indians, but oftener they would meet two orthree different parties. If they should meet a partywhich was going along peacefully as they were,bound only for the hunt, then there would be notrouble; but if they should meet a horse-stealingparty, then they would have to watch very care-
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The Buffaloes were T.i^ie fully to see that the strangers did not have a chanceto run off with their horses; and if they chancedto meet a war party then there was apt to be veryserious trouble. The Indians had the reputation for being veryfond of war. They undoubtedly were, especiallywhen they were out on the war-path and well pre-pared for battle; but to the village it was a greatdread. It meant the destruction of their homes, WHAT THE EXPLORERS LEARNED 41 the murder or capture of the women and children,and the death or torture of the braves. Villageswere sometimes entirely destroyed; those not killedwere carried into captivity, there to be either tor-tured or made slaves. Still they were fearless andnever hesitated to pursue an enemy to avenge thedeath of members of their villages, or to secure forthemselves stores of which they were in need and ofw^hich the enemy had a plentiful supply. 2. What the Explorers Learned aboutTHE IndiansAt the Mandan Village. — When Lewis and Clarkwer

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