nd could follow a trail
as well.

The red men lived mostly in little huts covered with skins or bark,
which they called wigwams. Some of the tribes lived in villages, where
there were large bark houses. But they did not stay much in their
houses, for they liked better to be in the open air. Now they were
hunting deer in the woods, now fishing or paddling their bark canoes in
the streams, now smoking their pipes in front of their huts, now dancing
their war dances or getting ready to fight.

The men did nothing except hunting and fighting. The women had to do all
other work, such as cooking, planting and gathering corn, building
wigwams, and the like. They did some weaving of cloth, but most of their
clothes were made of the skins of wild animals.

In war times the warriors tried to make themselves as ugly as they
could, painting their faces in a horrid fashion and sticking feathers in
their hair. They seemed to think they could scare their enemies by ugly
faces.

I have spoken of the tribes of the Indians. Some of these tribes were
quite large, and were made up of a great number of men and women who
lived together and spoke the same language. Each tribe was divided up
into clans, or small family-like groups, and each clan had its sachem,
or peace-chief. There were war-chiefs, also, who led them to battle. The
sachems and chiefs governed the tribes and made such laws as they had.

Every clan had some animal which it called its totem, such as the wolf,
bear, or fox. They were proud of their totems, and the form of the
animal was tattooed on their breast; that is, it was picked into the
skin with needles. All the Indians were fond of dancing, and their war
dances were as fierce and wild as they could make them.

The tribes in the south were not as savage as those in the north. They
did more farming, and had large and well-built villages. Some of them
had temples and priests, and looked upon the sun as a god. They kept a
fire always burning in the temple, and seemed to think this fire was a
part of their sun-god. They had a great chief who ruled over the tribe,
and also a head war-chief, a high-priest, and other rulers.

In the far west were Indians who built houses that were almost like
towns, for they had hundreds of rooms. A whole tribe could live in one
of these great houses, sometimes as many as three thousand people. Other
tribes lived in holes in the sides of steep rocks, where their enemies
could not easily