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Historical Clippings Book - Indians (HC-15-16) (191 pages)

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>) EARLY INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA I PREVIEW OF UNIT A. Foreword The history of America does not begin with the landing of Columbus nov with the coming of the Norsemen. There are chapters, many, many of them, in the early history of America which are little known and little thought of, but which have a large share in the making of this nation. The Indians were living in America thousands of years pefore the coming of Columbus; from the most primitive stages of civilization they had undergone a gradual process of evolution and development. Although stil] uncivilized and barbaric they were able to contribute certain elements of culture which have formed a part in the development of American life. To understand and appreciate these contributions, we must study the life and customs of the Indian, the very first Amevican.B. Origin of the Indian Pifteen thousand years or more ago our country lay under a great glacier. Slowly throughout thousands of years the ice receded, the earth warmed, and vegetation grew. About ten thousand years ago, man for the first time entered the New World, coming from Asia across the Behring Strait; then on to the United States, and finding the country to the south warmer and more abundant in vegetation am/game, he settled and multiplied until he had practically covered the two American continents. The Indians belong to the Mongoloid race from which the Chinese and Japanese branched thousands of years earlier. Being separated from his original stock and influenced by the climatic conditions of his new home, he soon developed habits and characteristics peculiarly his own. C. Discovered by Columbus Columbus, thinking he had reached India, and little dreaming that he had found a new continent and a new people, called the natives Indians. D. Traditions and Legends According to their own traditions, Owayneo (the Creator) planted five handfuls of ved seeds and from them grew the five Iroquois nations Mohawks, Oneidas, Senecas, Cayugas, Onondagas. Some of the Western Indians believe that they descended from the coyote, or wolf; the Osages say that the first man came out of a shell; the Mandans maintain that they originally lived underground and climbed to earth on the roots of a grapevine; the Chickasaws declared that they first lived in the West and traveled eastward with a pole as their guide, each night planting their pole in the grotnd and the next moming traveling in the direction in which it leaned. Whatever their traditional origin, all the tribes honored what they believed to be / J.