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Title: A history of the United States for schools
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Fiske, John, 1842-1901 Hill, Frank Alpine, 1841-1901
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Publisher: Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ur people first came into contact, andagainst whom we had first to fight while the red manspower was still formidable. These Indians were dividedIndian ^^° thrcc stocks Or races, with languages quiteraces east distinct. First, there were the Maskoki, spread of the Mis- \ sissippi. over the country south of Tennessee and fromthe Mississippi River into Florida. The prin-cipal tribes of Maskoki were the Chickasaws, Choctaws,Creeks, and Seminoles. Secondly, there were the Iro-quois, consisting chiefly of the Hurons northroquois. ^^ Lake Erie, the Fries south of that lake, theFive Nations of central New York, the Susquehannocksof Pennsylvania, the Tuscaroras of North Carolina, andthe Cherokees in the valley of the Tennessee. Thirdly,all the other tribes between the Atlantic and the Missis-sippi, and from the Carolinas up to Labrador, wereAlgonquins. There were also scattered Algon-gonquins. ^^j^^ tribes as far west as the Rocky Mountains.The most famous Algonquin tribes were the Powhatans
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§§ 6, 7- ANCIENT AMERICA. of Virginia, the Lenape of Delaware, the Mohegans(including the Pequots) and Narragansetts of New Eng-land, the Shawnees of the Ohio valley, and the Pottawa-tomies, Ottawas,Chippewas, andSacs-and-Foxes ofthe country aboutthe upper GreatLakes. Of all these bar-barous tribes theleast advanced outof savagery wasthe Algonquintribe of Chippe-was (sometimescalled Ojibwas) ;the most advancedwere the Iroquoistribes in NewYork, known asthe Five Nations.Among certainIndian tribes be-fore the whitemen came, confed-eracies had begun to be formed, in order to insure peace within the confed-eration, and to present a united front against all confedera-enemies. The most famous of these confed- ^^•eracies was that of the Five Nations, and we shall meetwith it more than once in this history. 7. The Half-Civilized Indians. In order to complete ^ From a painting by Julian Scott.

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